Thesis
Tell me about your thesis
In our final tell me about your thesis for 2018 I am joined by Dr Raewyne Bary - who has investigated the plight of what she terms 'lost children' at daycare centres. Those are the under-threes she… Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Kathryn Rivai's doctoral thesis came out of her work setting up education centres for disadvantaged children in Malaysia. Audio, Gallery
Tell me about your thesis
Wendy Sweet completed her thesis this year, on healthy ageing, specifically women of the baby boomer generation, and their attitudes to exercise. Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Susette Goldsmith did her PhD in Museum and heritage studies - and she looked at tree heritage in New Zealand - officially titled Rethinking Arboreal Heritage for Twenty-First-Century Aotearoa New… Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Caleb Harris did his masters thesis at the National University of Colombia, in Bogotá on the topic - Sharing and becoming aware, as a society, of grief, mourning, pain and death through the… Audio, Gallery
Tell me about your thesis: Simulations for medical training
Raewyn Lesa did her PhD thesis at the University of Otago whether simulated situations can help with medical training. She explains what was involved. Audio
Tell me about your thesis
For her PhD thesis, Kate Meyer developed a framework called Planetary Accounting which allows people, businesses, and governments to quantify how to stay within a "fair share" of environmental limits
…Tell me about your thesis: Disruptive Knitting
New Zealander Sue Green has just been awarded her PhD at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, it is about how knitters are changing the world. Audio, Gallery
Tell me about your thesis
Maru Nihoniho's masters thesis involved launching the on-line game, Takaro. The word means play in Te Reo, and the game focuses on STEM subjects. Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Dinah Vincent graduated with a PhD from Massey University with her thesis 'Dressmaking: How a clothing practice made girls in New Zealand, 1945 to 1965'. Audio
Tell me about your thesis: Art and Ethnicity
Peter McIntyre's thesis - which he calls an exhibition - is an exploration of the nature of culture, identity, and ethnicity. The idea was to create an ethnicity out of an artwork. Video, Audio
Tell me about your thesis: NZ's native bees
New Zealand has around thirty different species of native bees, which pollinate of wild and cultivated plants. Summer is a time that they appear and a time when spraying can easily wipe out an entire… Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Sunnette Kennard did her Masters of Design Management thesis more than 10 years ago, titled Organisational Change Communication Strategies: A Holistic Approach. Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Rachel Brown tells us about her thesis which looked the impact of serious childhood illness on Maori and Pacific families - in particular - navigating New Zealand's health system. Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Sally Grace tells us about her PHd thesis on body dysmorphic disorder. Audio
Tell me about your thesis: Tui Vocalisations
Miriam Ludbrook tells us about her thesis on avian acoustic communication - namely, how urban noise affects how Tui's sing. Audio, Gallery
Tell me about your thesis
Marta Rychert's thesis looks at the Psychoactive Substances Act from 2013 - which was introduced in response to the prolific use of legal highs in New Zealand Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Rosalie Hosking joins us from Japan, where she is doing a post doctoral fellowship. She specialises in the mathematical problems placed on wooden tablets and hung in shrines and temples during… Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Dr Quentin Allan from AUT tells us about his thesis looking at gay men coming out later in life. Audio
Tell me about your thesis
Rob Barton-Howes tells us about his thesis for his Master of International Relations, which discusses whether NATO's 1999 aerial bombing campaign (Operation Allied Force) against Yugoslavia was… Audio