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Negotiating the Transition: Parents' Experience of their Oldest Child's Transition to School

Woodhams, Maureen Catherine Stockman (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study follows the lived experience of parents within six families during their oldest child's transition from early childhood centre to school. The aim was to understand the transition to school from a parent perspective ...
The negotiator's assembly line

Lee, Victor (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores how a weaker negotiating party may be able to effectively manage information as a tool to leverage power imbalances in negotiations. Although these imbalances may never be completely resolved, the ...
Neither Here nor There: The Writing of Wystan Curnow 1961-1984

Sleigh, Thomasin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis addresses the writing of Wystan Curnow from 1961 to 1984. Curnow has written a great deal throughout his life, and the challenge of this thesis has been to select an appropriate time frame and important texts ...
"Neither staunch friends nor confirmed foes": New Zealand's defence diplomacy in Asia

Fris, Justin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Read a recent Defence White Paper of any number of countries or look at the range of foreign relations one country has with others in the contemporary age, and one is likely to come across the term 'defence diplomacy'. The ...
The Neogene seismic stratigraphy and uplift history of the Otago Shelf, New Zealand

Clark, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The Otago continental shelf is a prospective petroleum area on the east side of the South Island New Zealand. During the Neogene it evolved from a post-rift to passive margin as giant progrades extended eastward across the ...
Neoliberalism, political action on climate change and the youth of Aotearoa New Zealand: a space for radical activism

Moon, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Climate change exists both as a symptom and as a cause of many social ills. It is as urgent as it is complex. Climate change is being addressed internationally through mechanisms heavily influenced by neoliberal globalisation ...
Neotectonics and Paleoseismicity of a Major Junction Between Two Strands of the Awatere Fault, South Island, New Zealand

Mason, Dougal P M (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

In northeastern South Island, New Zealand, obliquely-convergent relative motion between the Pacific and Australian plates is accommodated by slip across active dextral-oblique faults in the Marlborough fault system. The ...
Neotectonics, Kinematics, and Evolution of the Vernon, Awatere, and Cloudy Faults of the Marlborough Fault System, New Zealand

Bartholomew, Timothy David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The coastal Awatere, Vernon, and Cloudy faults are bent and mutually intersecting, forming a complexly deforming dextral-oblique fault network. To try to explain the kinematic, paleoseismic and evolutionary complexities ...
Nephrology Nursing: Early Intervention in Chronic Kidney Disease

McLaughlin, Kay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

The early diagnosis of a patient with chronic kidney failure presents enormous opportunities for the nephrology health care team. Current research has identified that appropriate and timely education and management during ...
The Nest: A community for the homeless

Martin, Selena (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Homelessness is a problem that occurs all around the world, and the lack of support from the government means that the amount of people becoming homeless is increasing. There is a lack of knowledge around the homeless as ...
A Network Perspective of Value Co-Creation in Cross-Border Relationships: Changing from 'One of Them' to 'One of Us'

Sun, Ruoyi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

For SME exporters, developing an effective value co-creation strategy appears to be a good way to overcome resource constraints and other market structural barriers in internationalisation. As an emerging topic in the ...
Neural Indices of Emotional Distraction

Hewitt, Kelly (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Emotional stimuli capture our attention. The preferential processing of emotional information is an adaptive mechanism that when relevant to our goal highlights potentially important aspects in the environment. However, ...
Neuroadaptive Changes in 5-HT1A Autoreceptor Sensitivity Following High-Dose MDMA Treatment

Fisher, Simon David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Rationale: There is evidence that the serotonin (5-HT) deficits and related cognitive and mood impairments caused by +/-3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) may be mediated by neuroadaptations of the 5-HT1A ...
The Neuroscience of Gender Bias within Organisations: Implicit and Explicit Influences

Wicks, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

It has been 30 years since the metaphor of a ‘glass ceiling’ was introduced, yet progress to address gender bias in organisations has been slow. Within a context in which employment is rapidly changing and technologies are ...
Never let me go? A case study of deaccessioning and disposal undertaken at Museum of Wellington City and Sea

Loud, Rebecca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

In the current economic climate museums are increasingly being asked to do more with less. For museums that hold collections, this poses a unique challenge. With the cost of collections being relentlessly accumulative, ...
New Agoraphobia: Reclaiming Controllability in a Society of Total Surveillance

Tchernov, Aleksei Sergueevich (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Increasingly ubiquitous forms of surveillance networks and methods are becoming commonplace in today’s societies. While their application is rational and for the most part beneficial their presence effects the perception ...
A New Approach to Conservation: A Critical Analysis of DOC’s Commercial Partnership Strategy

Stantiall, Ben (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The complex range of challenges facing the environment has prompted the conservation movement to evolve and incorporate new concepts, attitudes and strategies. A prominent approach that has attracted scholarly attention ...
Newcomers as Accessories: A Study of Basque and Catalan Autonomy Campaigns through Immigrant Integration Strategies

Davies, Danielle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis examines the political autonomy campaigns of subnational entities. Subnational entities may be defined as political entities located below the state level whose members are connected through historic territories ...
The New Eastside: Re-populating East Christchurch Through Diverse, Contextualised, Medium Density Housing

Wines, Brett (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

At the conclusion of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes more than 5100 homes had been deemed unsafe for habitation. The land and buildings of these were labelled “red zoned” and are too badly damaged for remediation. ...
A New Heart for East Porirua, Waitangirua

Shilling, Phoebe (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Waitangirua is a vital piece of the puzzle when completing the Porirua Regeneration Scheme and The Transmission Gully Motorway. Waitangirua is a small suburb of 4020 residents located in the East of Porirua City. The ...