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Family members’ experiences of caring for a person with dementia at end-of-life

Nunns, Lucy Hester (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Dementia is now recognised as a progressive terminal illness causing significant health-care needs for people with dementia and challenges to their family member caregivers. The purpose of this study was to understand the ...
Family Violence Risk Assessment: An Early Study of Police Officers' Experiences at the Frontline

Grant, Stephanie Christine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The key notion of a police organisational culture unique to frontline police officers explains why police services are resilient to reform, as past attempts by police management to change the traditions of the street-cop ...
Fan Identity and Identification Drivers: Stoking the Flames of the Phoenix

Ruehl, Markus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Fans are of highest importance for the financial success of sports clubs (van Leeuwen, Quick, & Daniel, 2002). However, the nature of fandom and the meaning that fans place upon their relationship with a sports club varies ...
A Fascinating Folly: Making-place through the thickness of time

Hamilton, Anna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The design research narrates an architectural inquiry into shifting mainstream practices surrounding Aotearoa’s historic architecture. The proposal intertwines current architectural approaches to tangible facets of history ...
Fear Deciding Fate: How Fear Influences Moral Decision-Making

Strojny, Sophia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Moral dilemmas require individuals to make a life-altering choice. Due to the severity of the choice, we argue that there is a degree of fear in moral decision-making. We aimed to see how prevailing fears in each individual ...
The feasibility of 'Building Performance Sketching' within the building design process

Braasch, Elzine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This study investigated the question of whether or not the distributed model method (DMM) could be perceived by the New Zealand building industry’s architects and engineers as overcoming barriers which prevent them from ...
Feasibility Study Examining the Association between Gut Microbiota and Immune Response to Seasonal Influenza Vaccination in Healthy Adults

Shortt, Nicholas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Research into the effect of the gut microbiota on host immune response is continuing to shed new light on the underappreciated role of the microbiota in human health. Recent research using mice has shown that the microbiota ...
The February 2004 Landslide Event in Geomorphic Perspective

Wright, Kim C (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

In February 2004 a severe storm impacted the lower half of the North Island, New Zealand. Intense rainfall during the storm triggered extensive landsliding throughout the Tertiary hill country of Wanganui, Manawatu, and ...
Feedback in New Zealand Classrooms: Do Students Get the Message?

Vercauteren, Deidre Carol (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

There is increasing evidence that feedback is a key factor in successful teaching and learning. It is also clear that there are effective and less effective forms of feedback. To be most effective, feedback should ...
Feeling the Fear and Doing It Anyway: A Case Study of CHRS-City, an Intervention for Adolescent Mental Health

Thompson, Lisa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Provision for adolescent mental health in New Zealand is in its infancy. CRHS-City is the first Ministry of Education funded initiative that addresses adolescent mental health and transition back to school in New Zealand. ...
Feeling Their Way: Four Men Talk About Fatherhood in Valparaiso, Chile

Evans, Monica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

In this study, I explore the experiences and understandings of fatherhood of four men in Valparaiso, Chile, who became fathers between the ages of 16 and 19 and lived geographically, but not emotionally, distant from ...
The Female Künstlerroman in the Writing of Virginia Woolf

Galbraith, Rebekah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The defining features of the female Künstlerroman in Virginia Woolf’s writing suggest a revision of the narrative form to accommodate, navigate, and interrogate the artist’s gender and origins of her creativity. This thesis ...
Female Reproductive Strategies and the Ovarian Cycle in Hamadryas Baboons

Tobler, R. E. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis examines the relationship between sexual behaviour and the ovarian cycle in a group-living primate, Papio h. hamadryas. Of particular interest is whether females modify their ovarian cycle ...
Female Scarcity and Natal Dispersal Differences Between Sexes Among Bellbirds (Anthornis melanura)

Cresko, Hilary Misha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Sex ratio imbalances in wild bird populations have been a challenge for wildlife managers for decades. Differences between sexes during natal dispersal has long been thought to promote sex ratio imbalances. Natal dispersal ...
Feminist Critiques of the Multiculturalism and the Case of South Korea: Marriage Migrants, Patriarchy, and Nation-Building

Ku, Sun A (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Feminist critiques of multiculturalism have largely focused on group rights by looking at multicultural societies that are based on pluralism. However, in some countries of new immigration, such as South Korea, multiculturalism ...
Fetishism and the Moral Marketplace: How Abolitionist Sugar Boycotts in the 1790s Defined British Consumers and the West Indian "Other"

Carmichael, Laurel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

In the early 1790s more than 300,000 Britons boycotted West Indian sugar in one of the most impressive displays of public mobilisation against the slave trade. Many of those who abstained were inspired by William Fox’s ...
A few words to church builders: Threshold

Dombroski, Gerard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Throughout history churches have been concerned with the sharing of the gospel to those who do not know of the salvation received through Jesus Christ. Through history many churches have innovated liturgical operation using ...
Field of Intimacy: Explorations of interiority within the landscape

Hall, Michelle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Interior Architecture cannot be bound by the confines of a building, it is not the catalyst of architectural intervention, in fact we can have interior experiences within the landscape. As a discipline Interior Architecture ...
Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Northern European Prints at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Sippel, Annika (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis examines the collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German, Dutch and Flemish prints at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Beginning with the donation of Bishop Monrad in 1869, prints from the ...
File-to-Factory: Transferring Design Intent to Manufacture

Robinson, Maya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Digital fabrication has become a common way of producing and constructing designs more efficiently, challenging the traditional methods of construction, and the way we design. Despite the new technologies used to enhance ...