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Within the Circle of Care: the Patient's Lived Experience of Receiving Palliative Care

McKinlay, Eileen (Victoria University of Wellington, 1998)

I am a Registered Comprehensive Nurse with dual practice interests in the care of terminally ill people, and in quality improvement. This research study originates from my experience of working in a hospice as a clinical ...
A Woman to Rule the World: Rome Personified in the Roman Republic

Orchard, Campbell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Revitalised by Mussolini in the early twentieth century as a symbol of the ‘New Roman Empire’, Roma has endured a long history of national representation. Traditionally the figure of Roma is on the one side associated by ...
Women Album Makers from the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, 1890-1910, and Their Photographic Practices

Hearnshaw, Victoria Annabel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis examines the photograph albums created by fifteen women born during the reign of Queen Victoria living in the Canterbury region of New Zealand between the years 1890-1910. It will investigate how it was that ...
Women and Poverty: Insights from Adult Education and Pākehā Women in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cochrane, Lynette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis analyses the issues of women, poverty and education. Education is viewed as a key factor enabling women to move out of poverty. This view is well established in the developing world where education plays a key ...
Women only? an Exploration of the Place of Men within Nursing

Entwistle, Mark (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

This dissertation came out of my wondering why there are still so few men going into nursing especially when one considers that the history of nursing reveals men have been a part of nursing for a long time. In New Zealand ...
Women's Perception of their Forest Resources in Espiritu Santo (Vanuatu)

Brikke, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Women's perceptions of their environment in two remote communities (Monxhill and Butmas, in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu) were explored, as their perception is though to guide their involvement in environmental education. ...
Women’s Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development in Rural Sialkot, Pakistan

Munawar-Ishfaq, Sadia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Sustainable development has become a global imperative in recent times that needs to be taken seriously more than ever before. While it is globally acknowledged that sustainable development is indispensible to holistic ...
Women who inject drugs: barriers to their access of Needle Exchange services, and gendered experiences

Gibson, Kirsten Mary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis examines the gendered experiences of women who inject drugs, and barriers they face when accessing needle exchange services. Globally, studies suggest women access needle exchange services less than men. In New ...
Wonderful Worth & Worthy Wonder: The revival of a forgotten concept to strike a balance in technological exhibition design

Langridge, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

As museums develop their roles as social and political forces, the role of the exhibition designer has evolved and become more complex. The new role demands increased consideration as new technologies impact the demand for ...
Word Form Retrieval in Spoken Word Production

Singh, Sunita Balbir (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

In the auditory picture-word interference task, participants name pictures whilst ignoring auditory distractor words. Previous studies have reported faster naming latencies when distractors are phonologically related to ...
Words and Faces on Left and Right: Perceptual Asymmetries as a Marker for SSRI Responsiveness

Walsh, Amy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Vulnerability to depression has been associated with greater relative right hemisphere frontal activity, as measured by EEG recordings of alpha activity. However, there is much heterogeneity in the patterns of hemispheric ...
Working towards an ideal inclusive education model for refugee background people with disabilities in New Zealand

Croft, Lucy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

New Zealand accepts up to 750 refugees per annum, with a category for refugees with disabilities, as part of its quota obligation under the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1957) (Immigration ...
Worn Out or Worn In?

Stevens, Ross Ernest (2006)

Worn out or worn in started with the creation of a building. For an industrial designer, this was unfamiliar territory. Through working with a specific site came the recognition of the potential of weathering to add a ...
Woven Threads: A Case Study of Chemotherapy Nursing Practice in a Rural New Zealand Setting

James, Glynnis Geraldine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This descriptive case study was undertaken to provide an account of chemotherapy practice in a nurse-led clinic located within a rural New Zealand area. The researcher, an oncology nurse specialist, worked along side ...
The Writer, the Text and the Reader: An Exploration of Identity in Second Language Academic Writing

Reid, Kirsten (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

Students studying in university contexts often find learning to write English for academic purposes especially challenging. Some of the challenges reside in acquiring the necessary skills and strategies to be successful ...
Writing the Colony: Walter Edward Gudgeon in the Cook Islands, 1898-1909

Whimp, Graeme (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Recent decades have witnessed a number of challenges from a variety of perspectives to long-standing depictions of the processes and relationships of colonisation. In particular, questions have been raised about its ...
Written Feedback In Second Language Writing: Perceptions Of Vietnamese Teachers And Students

Nguyen, Phuong Anh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

Writing can be very challenging for ESL students since they need to overcome the changes associated with academic writing styles and their mechanics in order to improve their writing skills (Hyland & Hyland, 2006). In ...
The Wrong Side of the Tracks

Wiesen, Jorle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Christchurch was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on the 22 February 2011. The quake devastated the city, taking lives and causing widespread damage to the inner city and suburban homes. The central city lost over half ...
XYZ: Customized Complexity

Stewart, Earl (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The digital revolution described by Neil Gershenfeld is bringing about the age of Personal Fabrication, where manufacturing is becoming personal, enabling new creative freedom to design objects that are specifi c to the ...
YA Literature: A Genre on the Rise. Challenges and Strategies in Translating the Imaginary World of Elizabeth Knox’s Southland Saga

Bell, Florencia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Young Adult (YA) literature has taken the publishing industry by storm since J.K. Rowling published the first novel of her Harry Potter saga (1997-2007). From then on, the genre has exponentially grown expanding to other ...