As Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, I am proud to present the excellent research of our 2018 research graduates across the law and law schools. On behalf of the faculty, I congratulate our graduates and wish them success in their future endeavors as they transition from study to work.
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The Responsive Regulation Theory is applied to an investigation into the Promoter Penalty Laws, which are intended to combat the promotion of tax avoidance and tax evasion. These laws are examined in terms of their legislative design, the way in which the Australian Taxation Office applies them and the views on them expressed in professional tax publications.
William Battaglene
The thesis attempted to reconcile two theories that offered conflicting predictions about how multiple consecutive decisions affect charitable giving. A large number of choices in a row, such as grocery shopping, has been found to increase donations.
Kellie Crow
This thesis contributes to the under-researched phenomenon of Internet-enabled internationalization in international entrepreneurial firms. Failure in next-generation firms: Examining the impact of business failure within international entrepreneurial internationalization.
Sarah Dillon
A case study of an innovative project in a project-based organization (PBO) was conducted to define the relationship between KM and the innovation process. The qualitative analysis provided empirical evidence for a proposed framework to advance understanding of how a PBO could manage knowledge for successful innovation.
Lee Anne Foster
The impact of big data on relationships between advertising agencies and clients is explored from a planning perspective. But those who know how to combine this meaningfully with big data will create a winning edge for both clients and agencies.
Scott Gibson
This dissertation addresses this gap by examining how and why mining companies collaborate with universities through an exploration of mining companies' involvement with universities in Chile. This thesis reveals the complexity of mining companies' involvement with universities, as well as the geographical dimensions of this involvement.
Carla Marijanka Gonzalez
Academic literature focuses on understanding the definition of mining companies and stakeholder management, with a focus on indigenous and local communities and NGOs. The purpose of this research is to understand the implications of the current framing of responsibility for fisheries degradation and restoration in management policy.
Kieran Gregory
This thesis uses mixed methods to explore how coaching informed by Intentional Change Theory (ICT) (Boyatzis) can improve leader effectiveness. Grounded in complexity theory, ICT is proposed as an evidence-based framework for coaching, which aligns well with the demands of the current complex environment in which leaders operate.
Anne Marie Halton
This dissertation examines the use of evaluation as a means to increase accountability to beneficiaries within nonprofit organizations. As a stakeholder group often marginalized by traditional accounting practices, beneficiary participation within a nonprofit's accountability structure is presented as a means to increase social justice.
Kylie Kingston
The research found that accountability to beneficiaries can be enhanced through beneficiary participation in evaluation if attention is paid to the specific time frame of beneficiary engagement within each organization. The research design used multiple case studies of two nonprofit organizations, examining documents and interviews in three.
Elissa Lewis
This study examines value co-creation outcomes for service workers using in-depth semi-structured interviews with artists and managers within DeepBlue, a successful mainstream innovative arts organization. The findings show that employees experience fluctuations in economic, social, hedonic, altruistic, and connection value, with different types of value co-creation opportunities yielding different levels and types of value that are diverted or destroyed for employees.
Sophie Loades
Despite being a widespread organizational strategy, little is known about the impact of increased consumer participation in services on service employees. In order to understand the characteristics of relationships and their response to the presence of market fluctuations, this study examined the impact of good and bad news.
Xinyuan Ma
This research used the monthly returns of Chinese industrial sectors, which capture China's economic status, to investigate the relationship between the returns of individual industrial indices and the market portfolio. Factors such as market value and market capitalization were included to capture investor expectations of individual industries.
Jacquie McGraw
As Australian workplace laws have evolved over the past century, the legal principles that apply to the nature of. This thesis identifies a theoretical framework from which to draw some insight that can help churches adopt appropriate methods of appointing clergy consistent with their theological convictions while anticipating the direction of the law.
Christopher Mills
This thesis represents a single case study that sheds light on the importance of developing shared understandings of employee green behavior within a large school-based setting. Encouraging environmental organizational citizenship behavior: Employee green behavior in a school-based setting.
Dominic Piacun
The results reveal that Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards the Environment (OCBE) is the dominant form of green behavior in the organization and that eco-initiatives are the most performed OCBE. In addition, a common understanding of what green behavior in the workplace means should be clearly formulated and improve buy-in from.
Elizabeth Pyle
The policies, programs and perspectives of political actors involved in Indigenous Australian affairs were interrogated through the themes of discourses based on deficit and power. This thesis presents two quantitative studies that support the idea that the perceived humanness of a chatbot matters to consumers.
Benjamin Sheehan
However, Native Advertising has also drawn criticism for being potentially misleading, deceptive and difficult to regulate. Using the power-responsibility balance theory, this study examines native advertising from a stakeholder's perspective by examining ethical, regulatory and risk considerations.
Chelsea Smallwood
Native advertising has the ability to incorporate brand messages into content that is relevant and interesting to consumers, and as such has become an important element of digital marketing. The findings suggest that there are different levels of power and responsibility in the development of native advertising content and that risk is a factor that contributes to balancing or disrupting the balance of power and responsibility.
Georgia Swalwell
This project investigated how deviant consumer behavior occurs on social media and examined the impact of deviant consumer behavior on role outcomes for social media managers. Critical incident technique was used to interview fifteen social media managers. Deviant consumer behavior was found to directly affect role burnout, turnover, workload and role satisfaction among social media managers.
James Tarbit
The study explores perceptions of bribery versus gifts among senior public servants within Papua New Guinea (PNG) government departments. The findings show that most public servants acknowledged that bribery exists in PNG's public sector.
Samson Tiki
Increased regulation of governance transparency has expanded its role, according to the company's research. Responsibilities within the boardroom: an examination of the role of the corporate secretary in contemporary boards of directors.
Robyn Trubshaw
This thesis examines the role construction and challenges of company secretaries supporting contemporary Australian boards. The study developed a valid and reliable measure of repatriation adjustment to examine repatriation adjustment profiles and their antecedents and impact on proxy outcomes.
Abdulrahman Al Shimai
This thesis examines the process of overseas officials moving home following the completion of their assignment. The framework has become highly influential in determining corporate governance structure and has been widely used in sector-specific case research and international development organizations.
The first study examines the impact of human capital on recently developed direct measures of technology adoption. The second study examines qualitative measures of human capital from a microeconomic perspective by analyzing the composition and determinants of human capital inequality.
Zainab Asif
It indicates that the type of human capital formed via the learning-by-doing mechanism may be the most important determinant of technological diffusion, followed by qualitative determinants such as cognitive skills and quantitative or other measures. The research reported the levels at which ownership concentration significantly affects the effectiveness of board monitoring and creditor monitoring.
Minh Tam Bui Thi
This study concluded that the Anglo-Saxon governance model is unlikely to be appropriate in countries where ownership concentration dominates and where a dual board structure is present, and argues for the need. Using a sample of Korean family business groups (chaebols) during the 2006-2011 period, I study the mechanism of support through related party transactions after the 2008 financial crisis, and its effects on firm performance and investments.
Myungsub Choi
This thesis is an exploration of the contractual (non-employment) tripartite relationship between recruitment agents, hosts and technical clerks in Australia's mining, technical, consultancy and construction sectors. The results reveal confusion regarding the roles and responsibilities of agents, hosts and contractors.
Bill Dalby
This thesis examines the challenges associated with managing the tripartite relationship by using the theoretical lenses of agency, psychological contract and power to examine the perspectives of the three groups within the relationship. Yet there is a lack of understanding about the extent to which new media such as social media influence destination branding from the consumer's perspective.
June Dam
The objectives of this study are to investigate (i) the relationship between governance practices and earnings quality (EQ) in family firms; (ii) the relationship between family culture and EQ in family firms; and (iii) moderation of governance practices in the relationship between EQ and family culture. Regarding the first two objectives, the findings show that the adoption of recommended practices of governance and family culture regarding family involvement in management, ownership and social factors tends to increase EQ in family firms.
Chalermlok Dejsakultorn
The first part of my thesis studies how valuable information is collected and used in a risky environment. The second part of my thesis studies how relative performance feedback affects behavior in competitions.
Ambroise David Damian Descamps
This study focuses on what facilitates or hinders the adaptation of business model (BM) concept elements in new companies. The combination of these elements with external (technological and international) contexts revealed more nuanced explanations of what facilitates or hinders BM adaptation in new companies.
Antonio Dottore
This dissertation conducts a qualitative investigation into the dynamics of family business conflicts in Indonesia. The dynamics of conflict in family businesses: the underlying factors, parties' conflict behavior and the role of non-family directors in Indonesia.
Komala Inggarwati Efendy
It is assumed that they contribute significantly to the economic and social development of emerging economies. The thesis contributes to the advancement of knowledge about these actors and their potential contribution to the development of emerging economies.
Jan Gruenhagen
Positive deviance is a form of endogenous innovation that produces exceptional outcomes through non-normative behavior. The thesis contributes to practice and academia by expanding current understanding of how norms influence both the outcome and acceptance of positive deviance.
Lani Guy
It examines the economic and environmental performance of different coffee farming systems, including monoculture versus diversified coffee systems and certified sustainability versus non-certified farm groups. Certified coffee farms perform better than non-certified farms, but there is a convergence of the two groups over time.
Thong Ho
The thesis investigates the use of representations of the relevant properties of the system domain, often called conceptual models, during the analysis and planning of information systems. Through numerous studies, this dissertation provides an empirical understanding of the combined use of conceptual models in practice and the extensions and contingencies of existing theories that explain how and why practitioners use model combinations.
Mohammad Jabbari Sabegh
The thesis analyzes the preferences and attitudes of farmers towards the adaptation of agriculture to climate change in Nepal. The second part offers a new perspective on climate change adaptation evaluation using a choice experiment framework where farmers' preferences for planned adaptations are assessed.
Uttam Khanal
This thesis examines the effect of fund tournaments on style drift and its immediate effect on funds' active returns (volatility). Examining the performance effect of style drift shows that style shifts do not create value for investors.
Meinanda Kurniawan
I also document evidence of tournament-induced style drift, where funds in the top (bottom) of the mid-year tournament rankings reduce (increase) style drift in the latter half of the year. In this thesis through published papers, the dimensions of a reward system in a large Australian financial and insurance.
Melinda K Laundon
It examines the relationship between efficiency and systemic risk, market power and liquidity risk, and diversification and liquidity risk. Banks were exposed to systemic risk and liquidity risk during the last financial crisis.
Quang Le
My results show a dark side of efficiency and market power, as they per se explain factors for the systemic and liquidity risk, but a bright side of diversification. The findings support the view that regulators should control efficiency level and market power to promote stability and can relax diversification.
Muhammad Ariono Margiono
Social entrepreneurship and social venturing are important to the survival of many transforming nonprofit organizations (NPOs). In this dissertation, the aim is to address this research gap by establishing a typology of business model configurations for social enterprises, based on the characteristics and effective types of business model configurations that transformative NPOs in developing countries can adopt, by examining the construct validity of the characteristics in developing countries to establish. the typology, and by further empirically testing the typology using a taxonomic analysis.
Kim Morrison
In this thesis, a mixed methods research design is used to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationships between servant leadership and employee task performance and citizenship behavior. Across both studies, servant leaders were funded to work effectively to influence subordinates' task performance and citizenship behaviors.
Mohammad Nisar
The research, conducted in a South Asian context, includes two studies using a mixed-methods sequential research design. This thesis explored this topic focusing on organizational routine, innovation capability and servicescape.
Emiko Nozu
However, little is known about how higher education providers can best respond to the changes brought about by this inevitable digital evolution. The study found no evidence of conflict when subjects hold opposite sets of statuses in two different hierarchies.
Gevorg Ordyan
Social media has opened up new avenues for organizations to innovate, both internally through the use of social media and externally through the use of social media. This thesis examines the case of a global retailer that has adopted social media strategies both internally and externally for innovation.
Joanne Patroni
The results show that employees must be open-minded, collaborative and competitive to use corporate social media for their innovative and routine work practices. The results also show that consumers are using social media for their retail practices and provide an internal process for organizations to listen to and filter autonomously provided consumer-generated content for organizational innovation.
Azadeh Rezvani
This dissertation examines the effects of consumer control over ad intrusiveness on the ad brand for two intrusive ad types: banner and pop-up ads. Investigating the effects of different levels of consumer control over advertising intrusiveness on the advertising brand.
Aimee Riedel
Using readability as a proxy for the extent of disclosure in patent documents, this thesis examines whether patent applicants can strategically choose the level of disclosure for their patents and how the level of disclosure would affect patent acquisitions and patent examination. The thesis introduces a new method in the quantitative economic analysis of patents and generates research results with important implications for patent policy and practice.
Shupeng Sun
This thesis aims to explore and demonstrate the use of computational linguistic analysis to measure the 'readability' of patent documents. Food choices can have significant short- and long-term consequences for the individual decision-maker, as well as macroeconomic consequences for society.
Stephen Whyte
This thesis examines the reputational loss of companies that violate securities laws in China, where the legal system is imperfect and enforcement is weak. I find that loss of reputation plays an important role in disciplining fraudulent Chinese companies, even in state-owned enterprises.
Suichen Xu
This dissertation presents policy makers and related stakeholders with a broader perspective on the future development of car sharing services. Impacts of Car Sharing and Shared Autonomous Vehicles on Urban Mobility: Towards a Sustainable Future.
Fan Zhou
Car sharing has the potential to significantly disrupt the personal mobility market, especially in the early days of self-driving cars. Studies in this thesis aim to predict the prevalence of car sharing, to investigate whether car sharing affects consumers' decision about vehicle ownership, and to investigate the effects of car sharing on household choice of transport mode.
Kaitlin Bell
This research investigated talent identification and development in ballet in the Australian context, through the unique application of the Foundation, Talent, Elite, Mastery (FTEM) framework originally developed for application within a sporting context. This project examines the complex factors that led to the sensational dissemination and yet subsequent denial of the September 11 attacks.
Aaron Butt
Despite the visibility of the attacks in mainstream media and the subsequent use of paradigmatic phrases such as 'post-9/11 art and aesthetics', there is a distinct lack of visual artworks that openly respond to the events. The outcome of the project is research product or artefact, a work of fiction entitled 'Swansong'.
Claire Byrnes
In response to this challenge, this study observes how customers regularly use the meal set service through design and service dominant logic concepts. The findings identify that customers will draw on both their personal network and the meal kit service to achieve their personal dining values.
Brett Camilleri
This difficulty is captured by the meal kit service model, which must determine how to accommodate the numerous customer food values with a limited product range. In order for artists to identify potential opportunities, they must rethink their current business strategies and resulting business model.
Michelle Carter
This study explores how employees at multiple levels of a large financial services company are becoming aware of and recognizing the potential of design thinking and its potential link to driving innovative practices. Recommendations are made for large organizations that want to use the Design Thinking methodology to deliver human-centered solutions for their customers and achieve true transformative innovation.
Sonya Close-Debais
The purpose is to understand how employees without a design background view design and innovation, how design thinking is used and the relationship between design thinking and innovation. This project involved practice-led research to examine the role of the album in music production today.
Dylan Crawfoot
This project is a qualitative study that examines how best practices in multimedia learning can benefit students using text-based and picture-based books. Drawing on data from six undergraduate audio engineering students, elements of instructional design that are appropriate for improving critical listening skills are presented.
Stephane Elmosnino
The importance of making full-length albums has been questioned in light of recent changes in the music industry, and there have been varying responses from artists and labels. Many of these responses were very specific and may not lend themselves to effective scaling or innovative ways to rethink the relationship between artists and fans.
Lucinda Hearn
This dissertation offers a revised understanding of cultural heritage through the application of archival methodologies to a personal archive. Through the use of archival methods, a more nuanced history of popular music and its cultural significance is presented.
Hamish Hill
This practice-led research explores the implications of creating a form for a solo performer of a eurythmy poem Zwoelf Stimmungen (Twelve Moods) that was originally moved by a group. The nature of the poem and the current situation of eurythmy make this creation relevant.
Maria Hoffmann
In their capacity as one of the main forms of historical adaptation for the public, they suggest new ways of understanding and representing the past. This thesis looks beyond questions of historical accuracy and political context to determine how the epic genre recreates historical worlds on screen from a sensory perspective.
Maryline Kassab
Epic films are an integral part of the experience and interpretation of history, beyond the boundaries of traditional research. The theoretical basis of the project was based on concepts and terms related to the Chinese literary landscape tradition, as expressed in the writings of François Jullien.
Duncan King-Smith
The thesis explored how these strategies were perceived by music consumers and industry professionals in the area, identifying ways in which these strategies could be used to create a musical brand identity. Finding the gimmick: Identifying brand identities and creative marketing strategies in Brisbane's independent music market.
Christina Langham
This is a practice-driven project that explores how contemporary art can respond to the limitations of traditional language forms in the representation of trauma, loss and grief.
Annie Macindoe
This thesis presents a historical account of sports and stadiums in the work of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier. It reveals the importance of sport in Le Corbusier's urban theories, as well as a largely untold history of sport and stadiums in Le Corbusier's work.
Toby Mackay
It examines the theoretical and political frameworks surrounding sport and stadiums, beginning with his large urban plans Ville Contemporaine (1922), Plan Voisin (1925) and Ville Radieuse (1930), followed by his stadium proposals Stade de 100,000 Places (1936) and Stade de Bagdad (1956-73). Digging Deep: Material Investigations of the Intangible Aspects of Landscape Places Towards a Holistic Representation of Place in Creative Practice.
Wendy McGrath
This thesis examines the experiences of gamers playing as multiple first-person video game protagonists in Halo 3: ODST. Explore the experiences of gamers playing as multiple first-person video game protagonists in Halo 3: ODST's single-player narrative.
Richard Meyers
The aim of the study was to develop an understanding of the gaming experience, especially for the benefit of developers in the gaming industry, where a large number of modern video games have multiple playable characters. This project, ZOOMBREAK, is an alternate reality game (ARG) designed as an alternative to traditional university orientation events, especially in the context of China.
Juexiao Mo
This thesis uses the concept of "zoeira", specifically a Brazilian form of humor, to undertake a cultural analysis of Brazilian internet memes and their role in contemporary culture. Through a detailed textual analysis of three memes, he details how the memes represent specific aspects of Brazilian culture and how Brazilian meme culture relates to the broader popular culture of the Internet.
Gabriela Monteiro Lunardi
Giving and Telling brings together research, practice and reflection to generate new understandings about the changing nature of giving in Australia and storytelling techniques available to journalists interested in facilitating public discussion about these social changes. Giving and telling: How journalists can use features journalism to reshape philanthropy in Australian society.
Rosanne J Peach
The Way of the Warrior, Realizing the Mythic Warrior Hero in the Action Genre and in Australian Cinema, is creative practice research that pursues detailed analysis of the warrior hero in Australian and action genre cinema narratives. The way of the warrior: Realization of the mythical warrior hero in the action genre and in Australian cinema.
Craig William Proudley
Education, employers and governments focus on creativity as a crucial attribute in the development of young people. Making Futures: The role of agency and possibility thinking in the creative lives of young people.
Megan Schroder
Using Craft's framework of 'small c' creativity and 'possibility thinking', this study examines how schools foster creative attributes in senior school students. Queensland senior school students to discover how young people apply a 'possibility thinking' approach to life.
Meaghan Shelton
Art historical research has shown that women's experiences have largely been underrepresented in the fine arts. Exemplified in the development of a new performance piece ('Spectate'), the term 'embodied metafiction' is proposed as a way of understanding the effect of emphasizing an audience's presence and participation in the theatrical experience.
Nathan Sibthorpe
This study attempts to define a particular sub-genre of contemporary performance where self-awareness is a significant factor in the audience's experience. This study explores how improvisational Sound Art performance, focused through the practice of 'Deep Listening', can promote new insights into society's understanding of 'waste'.
Amanda Terry
This thesis is a history of ABC television sports broadcasting, focusing on Test cricket coverage up to the 1970s and ABC's reinvention of sport after World Series Cricket (WSC). The thesis confronts the received wisdom of a WSC "revolution" with ABC production and audience analysis.
Michael Ward
This thesis investigates how Sri Lankan designers are prepared by higher education and the garment industry to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills that can contribute to the development of the industry. The thesis identifies the collaborative approach of developing Sri Lankan fashion designers through higher education and the apparel industry forming a Fashion Education Ecosystem.
Sumith Chandra Gopura Ranathunga Arachchilage
The export apparel industry in Sri Lanka seeks to develop higher value fashion products and services for overseas consumers with the support of locally trained fashion designers. This study showed that the proposed low power electric wall washing system improves the appearance of the window effectively and also mitigates problematic interventions in lighting conditions that lead to increased energy consumption in buildings.
Mehdi Amirkhani
This practice-led research project extrapolates the role of the author through the design of a complex narrative into a virtual reality experience. Complex Narratives: Extrapolating the Role of the Author through the Design of a Virtual Reality Experience.
Moya Baldry
The project uses cybernetics and the complexity sciences to embed narrative in the age of complexity. Small-scale fashion designer businesses are emerging in many places, including in cities not known as fashion hubs, such as Brisbane.
Hilde Bennett Heim
While interactions with technology are rapidly evolving, an understanding of the current generation of older people is not. This research advances existing knowledge by providing a deeper understanding of the complex relationship older people have with everyday technology.
Claire Brophy
The significance of this research is its challenge to stereotypical assumptions of older technology users and how "older". This research presents new avenues for research and design for older people—perspectives that focus on the postwar generation's unique sociocultural factors and significance.
Lindy Osborne Burton
This Publication Thesis concludes with a proposition of a case for engaging, exuberant learning environments and invites a transformative way of conceiving contemporary issues. The Architect of Forking Paths examines the creative writing process involved in producing interactive narratives.
Benjamin Carey
Using a combination of textual analysis, interviews and focus groups, she explores how fictional representations inform audiences' understandings of political PR professionals and their practices. The findings suggest that fictional representations are important cultural reference points for audiences in negotiating their understanding of political PR.
Ella Chorazy
This thesis argues that these representations raise public awareness and encourage critical consideration of political communication. This is the first comprehensive study of social dancing in the Australian colonies in the period between 1788 and 1840.
Heather Clarke
It showed that dancing was an important factor in the lives of the "lower orders" and convicts in the early colony. This practice-led research has revealed important insights into the meaning of dance in the past, present and future.
Sarah Collyer
Research on barriers to PEV adoption often identifies cost and lack of infrastructure as key barriers, but the consumer purchase experience plays a key role in technology adoption. This research will help the PEV industry and governments understand how critical the consumer purchase experience is to overall market success.
Alina Dini
Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are a new technology that holds the promise of transportation sustainability and improving energy efficiency. By exploring the role organizational integrity plays in responses to pressures, this thesis expands understanding of how organizations balance change and inertia.
Sara Ekberg
This thesis examines new spatial relationships in music production caused by the proliferation of low-cost digital music production tools and how this has changed factors of time and creativity for the record company and recording artist. Research methods combine creative practice with participant observation through a comparative set of music production projects comparing recordings made in large format recording studios with those made in DIY contexts, and with a hybrid approach combining both.
Lachlan Goold
The thesis advances knowledge in the area of household energy conservation by developing a transdisciplinary, systematic program that improves the well-being and savings levels of low-income households. Connecting to Self, Community and Environment: Energy Conservation and Well-Being in Low-Income Households.
Heather Lorraine Hill
It examines therapeutic approaches that enhance well-being and facilitate change, and suggestions for an effective energy conservation program. This practice-led thesis examines how acts of home renovation can be represented, interrogated and contested in lyric poetry, arguing that the renovated home is an inappropriate, liminal space.
Ella M Jeffery
This dissertation examines the connections between local television viewers and state television in the state of Kuwait. The transformation of Kuwaiti television from 1961 to 2015: current challenges and future opportunities for national public television to promote the Arab public sphere in the context of globalization.
Abdullah Khayrallah
It offers an interpretation of the public debate that critically analyzes the relationship between local, regional and global television in the context of globalization and the changing dimensions of Arab and Middle Eastern television. This thesis is focused on Australian citizens who are not interested in politics and finds that there are at least twenty percent of Australians who are politically disinterested.
Greg Kramer
The thesis found that racism is both structural—maintained by platforms' infrastructure and processes—and mundane, manifested through the everyday practices of users. Platformed Racism: Adam Goodes' War Dance and the Noise Controversy on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
The study provided the researcher with mechanisms to articulate, recontextualize and interrogate procedural choreographic complexities. Situated in the changing landscape of the independent choreographer-dancer-producer, it identifies that the investigation of processual choreographic innovation has been essential to the researcher's ongoing artistic development and acknowledges this necessity to the wider field of contemporary choreographic practice.
Nerida Matthaei
This study aimed to understand the impact of web familiarity and content knowledge on older adults' web search behavior in large information websites. A familiarity-based web design (FWD) framework is proposed as an outcome to help design websites that are friendly to lower web familiarity and content knowledge older adults.
Gowrishankar Mohan
Experimental observations with the think-aloud protocol were used to collect and analyze data from 70 older adults. Professional standards were found to regulate and activate teachers' professional behavior - opening it up to the unknown - articulating forms of knowledge from education, business, popular psychology and "self-help"; and deploying techniques from performance development frameworks to "apps" for smart devices.
Peter O’Brien
This practice-led creative writing dissertation interrogates and disrupts the serial killer genre by exploring the trauma suffered by survivors of serial crime. This thesis argues that generic conventions of serial killer fiction bear little resemblance to the aftermath of vile violence and the realities of serial crime, and establishes the value of critiquing and disrupting the familiar tropes of the genre.
Emily O’Grady
Through a novel, The Yellow House, and an accompanying exegesis, I reimagine the Australian serial killer narrative by interrogating how the traumatic legacy of heinous violence can be transmitted across generations. This thesis contributes to the improvement of natural ventilation and thermal comfort in high-rise buildings in hot-humid climates.
Sara Omrani
Two main results of this study are: 1) a model for the integration of different methods of natural ventilation evaluation at different design stages, and 2) a holistic model for the implication of different design parameters to improve natural ventilation in buildings. This dissertation examines how governments in Indonesia, a young democracy with a rapid growth of the Internet and social media; act with citizens in the digital sphere by using the concepts of 'citizen participation' and 'voice'.
Rido Parulian Panjaitan
The findings highlight the importance of the concept of "locality" and may contribute to future management in Indonesian cities. The Changing Meaning of Urban Heritage: A Socio-Semiotic Survey of Historic Sites in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Johannes Parlindungan
Indigenous groups around the world have an inextricable physical and spiritual connection to the landscape, but little is known about the complexities of these relationships and preferences for sharing that knowledge. By learning about these attitudes and preferences, the research considers aligning these values with local government legislation.
Alayna Renata
This project uses new media to recover, record and validate lost memories and life stories of a group of socially marginalized women from the Three Gorges District of China. From Sanxia to Tiger Mountain: Recovering Chinese Family Stories Under the Three Gorges Dam.
Hui Richards
The research forms a theory of costume design that incorporates collaborative authorship, the designer's voice, and the notion of embodiment to support a much-needed philosophy of costume design practice. In search of authorship: The costume designer's role in characterization - three case studies of Australian screen costume design.
Erin Roche
This research aims to develop a conceptual understanding of the role of costume designers in Australian film production and, specifically, whether they can claim an authorial voice through characterization. It covers the period from the late Bjelke-Petersen government - encompassing a time when Brisbane was developing a world-leading public arts policy - to the present day, when local public arts policy seems more uncertain and under siege.
Louise Rollman
When questioned, journalists claim both the intention and the ability to work in the public interest to explore issues of social complexity. Mapping the capacity of news workers to conduct public interest journalism in the face of organizational economic pressures.
Paul Rossall
Previous research examining the ability of journalists to write stories that explain complex social issues has yielded conflicting results. Using a case study of The Courier-Mail newspaper that focused on journalists' coverage of social marginalization, this study found that journalists consistently and proactively used a public interest orientation as one factor among a range of competing influences to negotiated in a flexible organizational manner. .
Yasuhiro Santo
The study examines modern office buildings and emphasizes the importance of making our workplace environment more flexible, desirable and sustainable by introducing cybernetic relationships between buildings and their users. The thesis concludes with a proposal that the introduction of compatible environments, where building users and their built environment positively influence and enhance each other, is the key to achieving such environments.
Fabius Steinberger
In Indonesia, digital media practices have enabled more young people than ever before to participate in civic and political activism, but there is little knowledge about the processes, motivations and literacy these young people need for their participation. This dissertation aims to explore how Indonesian youth have been able to use digital media for civic engagement and political participation to support democracy in Indonesia.
Fiona Suwana
This research focuses on Indonesian young people and includes interviews with activists, politicians and government personnel who were involved in the 2015 Save KPK movement, as well as interviews and focus group discussions with university or college students at five universities and one college in or near Jakarta. The study examined digital transformation and its impact on Bhutan Post and Community Centers (CCs).
Sonam Tobgye
This thesis explored how sport organizations use social media to communicate at international sport events. Combining participant observation, interviews and Twitter data analysis, it examines two cases "AFC Asian Cup and Netball World Cup" to document, analyze and compare social media strategy creation and implementation.
Portia L Vann
This research found that developing a social media strategy encompasses six key pillars: recruiting and training volunteers, setting goals, audience segmentation and targeting, platform-based approaches, content creation strategy, and moderating fan conversations. The thesis proposes a new research area and framework for design-led educational innovation based on.
Natalie Wright
The framework is validated and refined through the findings of a mapping study and an informal, context-adaptive, regional secondary school design immersion program called goDesign, conducted in Queensland, Australia. This research examines the urban traffic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam using a philosophical theoretical framework to analyze the relationship between perception, experience and practice.
Glenn Wyatt
This research examines the relationship between food experience and elderly Chinese immigrants' (ECIs) cultural transition in Australia. Results indicate that food experience mediates VCIs' cultural transitions between VCIs' home country cultural background and their host country context.
Yanan Yang
Such findings lead to the development of the Food Experience Mediated Adaptation Framework, which illustrates the cultural transition of ECIs and can be used to guide future design practices. This dissertation examined how rumors are constructed and contested on social media during two acute events: the 2014 Sydney siege in Australia and the 2015 Tianjin explosions in China.
Jing Zeng
Using an action research methodology (Plan, Look, Think, Act), this study examined how supervisors learn and develop supervision practices and identified work environment factors and actions that may influence practice implementation within a specific context. Examining the influence of training and work environment factors on the learning and development of supervisory practices in a human service organization.
Brenda Allport
While proportional reasoning is not formally taught in the early years of school, important foundational concepts are developed. Case study findings suggest an awareness of how foundational concepts link to larger mathematical ideas has implications for the way teachers promote the fundamentals of proportional reasoning.
Angela Drysdale
Proportional reasoning is described as a sophisticated way of thinking and involves many interrelated mathematical concepts. This case study examined the ways in which gifted students benefited from one-to-one laptop technology in the 6th grade.
Adam Knights
Through the LCD glass: Exploring the experiences of gifted students in a one-on-one laptop classroom. The first area concerned how teachers' understanding of the possibilities of IWB influenced their pedagogy and practice.
Karen Lewis
Few studies have examined the prior knowledge about the nature of science that Australian preparatory students bring to their learning and how they represent this knowledge. Giving students the opportunity to develop an understanding of the nature of science is important for future citizens to contribute responsibly to contemporary social science issues and the unexpected consequences that come with them.
Jennifer Smyth
Understanding students' prior knowledge allows teachers to build on it to develop engaging and relevant science lessons for young learners. This research suggests that adjustments based on student insights have a positive impact on student learning and.
Haley Tancredi
This study focused on analyzing education policy documents to understand the history and discourse of educational policy borrowing practice in the Bhutanese primary education system. The study concludes by concluding that policy borrowing and policy learning are important aspects of Bhutanese education policy.
Zinpai Zangmo
The findings revealed that while there is a complex policy borrowing system influenced by the phenomenon of globalization, there are discourses that emphasize the importance of Gross National Happiness and local themes. Exploring the career development of young people of refugee background: Finding voice through narrative inquiry.
Peyman Abkhezr
This study investigated perceived enablers and barriers to Blackboard use by Saudi Arabian and Australian lecturers. Australian lecturers were more likely to incorporate online platforms other than Blackboard into their teaching.
Safa Ali S Aldubaibi
Understanding pedagogical practices and lecturers' perspectives regarding whiteboard use in Saudi and Australian universities. This research adopted a case study approach to investigate the well-being of gifted youth participating in a two-year immersion class.
Gabrielle A Baker
This study takes a sociocultural approach to examine how the loanword phenomenon has affected the Japanese language and the teaching of English in Japan. It argues that effective learning systems are promoted when a sociocultural approach to language teaching incorporating loanwords is adopted to teach English in Japan.
Dave Bollen
The research focuses on incorporating indigenous knowledge within the problematization process of indigenous education, using indigenous knowledge and practices in developing research and analysis of what works from an indigenous community perspective. Ultimately, the research is intended to give further voice to the people who are built on this field of research, the indigenous community.
John Davis
This study examined the leadership practices of school principals and the impact they may have on mid-career teachers. Leadership practices were identified under the five leadership domains outlined by Educational Queensland to determine and compare the impact each domain had on the work commitment of mid-career teachers.
Keith Graham
Key findings include the impact that relational leadership practices had on mid-career teacher work commitment, the difference in importance that the teachers and principals placed on the leadership domains regarding mid-career teachers' work commitment, and a difference in perspective between the principals and mid-career teachers of the application of leadership practices. This case study was developed as an in-depth consideration of the high school accounting curriculum in Queensland at a time of disruption and curriculum change.
Phillipa Greig
This study critically analyzes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander National Education Strategy 2015 through the prism of the Coolangatta Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Education. On the other hand, representations from students, parents and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community are researched and established.
Melitta Hogarth
Early childhood education and care in Australia is at a turning point, with significant legislation and policy requiring additional four-year qualified early childhood education teachers. Early childhood education and care teachers' experiences of articulation from vocational education and training to higher education.
Merryl Johnstone
This phenomenographic study examined the experiences of 16 pre-service teachers who transferred from graduate programs to university pre-service teacher education programs. She studied articulation from the perspective of the articulate pre-service teachers themselves in order to reveal the qualitatively different ways in which the pre-service teachers experienced articulation.
Timothy Lehmann
This is a comparative study conducted in both China and Australia that examines parental involvement in the transition to school, examining parental perceptions and involvement as well as influencing factors. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory and PPCT model were used to frame how Chinese and Australian parents' transition engagement is influenced by personal factors (child characteristics, parental role construction, self-efficacy, time and energy, and school.
Liwei Liu
A mixed methods approach was used to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data in Beijing, China and Queensland, Australia. This research explores how students used language to represent gender in a corpus of over 250,000 words of creative writing in one place from 1961 to 2015.
Christine Poulsen
Using tools from linguistics and critical discourse analysis, the research shows that popular claims about the progress of gender reform tell an incomplete story about how femininity and masculinity are represented. Although women are undoubtedly more visible in recent texts, the underlying grammatical structures used in students' writings in this corpus represent women as less active and less purposefully influential than their counterparts in previous decades.
Natalie Swayn
This PhD study explored how teachers view their approaches to student behavior in preparatory classrooms in Queensland state schools. Using a phenomenographic approach and the theory of variation through individual interviews, this study sought to reveal preservice teachers' perceptions of their approaches to student behavior.
Suzy Tamone
More specifically, the purpose was to find out what preservice teachers do when they approach student behavior and to describe the differences in their ways of seeing (or conceptualizing) approaches to student behavior. The results of this study show that preservice teachers' approaches to student behavior are experienced as fragmented and holistic.
Harsha Dulari Wijesekera
Parents and teachers must work together and recognize both strengths and weaknesses to better accommodate the needs of the gifted child. The social-emotional well-being of the gifted child and perceptions of parent and teacher social support.
Kerry-Ann Wright-Scott
Sustainability of inclusive education initiatives in Kiribati will depend on the continued development of local ownership. Aid, attitudes and ambivalence: the impact of Australian aid in the introduction and sustainability of inclusive education initiatives in the Republic of Kiribati.
Rodney Yates
The findings indicate that a positive commitment to inclusive education is emerging and that Australian Aid provided significant advocacy through direct management of initiatives. The main findings identify several sociological reasons behind participation, large differences between pre-service education prerequisites and post-service education perceptions, and differences in the introduction of program values in disadvantaged schools.
Yue Yin
From college graduates to teachers in disadvantaged schools: A sociological study of participation in an alternative teacher recruitment program. This thesis investigated associations between physical activity and cognitive function in younger women previously treated for breast cancer.
Melissa Arneil
This research has contributed to our understanding of physical activity and cognitive function in younger women after breast cancer and highlights the complex phenomenon of cognitive change and the considerations that should be made when assessing its impact. The thesis provides perspectives on deficient areas of objective evidence for consent for third molar tooth extraction through defined patient and legal disclosures and understanding.
Emma Badenoch-Jones
The outcome of the project is an evidence-based consent form for third molar extraction that will raise the standard of disclosure of patient information about this procedure by general dentists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons. The methodological process adopted is also one that can be replicated in other medical fields to provide objective evidence to guide the consent process for any medical procedure.
Elia Barajas Alonso
This study aimed to investigate and identify the teaching approaches in traditional and contemporary curricula, and the teaching practices of pharmacy academics involved in the curriculum transition. These growth factors have been shown to alter the environment to improve axonal regeneration and reduce glial scar tissue in the brain.
Kate Beecher
This study aimed to investigate the impact of inhibiting bacterial enzymes on pathogen growth and virulence as an alternative antimicrobial strategy to antibiotics. These findings have increased the pharmacological importance of DsbA as a target for anti-virulence drugs and contribute to ongoing research aimed at developing DsbA inhibitors against various bacterial pathogens with diverse DsbA enzymes.
Murari Bhandari
Results support the hypothesis that DsbA enzyme inhibition is a robust anti-virulence strategy that can 'disarm but not kill' bacteria using uropathogenic Escherichia coli as the model pathogen. Proteomic characterization of rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells cultured in 'Stemness'-promoting conditions.
Morgan Carlton
A proteomics approach was used to evaluate the biology of the cells and to determine how each of the growth conditions affected cellular differentiation. Understanding these genetic characteristics of the organism contributes to decisions regarding treatment of patients with M.
Robyn Carter
The researcher developed DNA-based strategies to genetically characterize isolates of Mycobacterium (M.) intracellularly that cause lung diseases, especially in elderly patients. This project involved a study of the antiviral response of lung cells from people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Natasha Collinson
This research revealed that current VTE prevention practices were cost-effective compared to either no or suboptimal prevention. The cost-effectiveness of current practice of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis compared with no prophylaxis or pharmaceutical prophylaxis only.
Yupin Crawford
This study uses economic evaluation methods to model current practice of VTE prevention at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Services, compared to historical controls. Economic modeling showed that increasing prescription compliance to 95% to achieve a lower incidence of DVT and PE was cost-effective for general surgical and orthopedic patients.
Allison Dobson
Only those who were randomly allocated to receive the intervention immediately increased the duration of physical activity in the controlled phase.
Eric R Franklin
Transglutaminases incorporate a variety of primary amines into specific glutamine residues of target proteins in a transamidation reaction: incorporation of lysine residues results in protein cross-links, while incorporation of minor amines results in protein-amine conjugates.
Samuel Hjorth-Jensen
We aimed to address the current clinical need for more sensitive and specific imaging in biochemically recurrent prostate cancer with a prospective clinical trial investigating PSMA PET/MRI. Furthermore, as a proof of principle, we wanted to use the new organoid culture technology to develop patient cell models to enable drug testing and next-generation sequencing as part of a precision medicine approach in early recurrent prostate cancer.
Andre Joshi
ACL injuries and hamstring strains account for a significant amount of time lost in many codes of football. This research program has contributed new knowledge regarding the maladaptation that occurs after ACL injury and subsequent reconstruction, as well as providing new data that can be used to inform exercise selection decisions in ACL injury prevention and rehabilitation programs. and thigh muscles. .
Daniel Messer
This study confirms that cancer nurses make an important contribution to the palliative care referral decision-making process by engaging in a range of advocacy activities. The decision-making process for palliative care in acute cancer situations: Nurses' advocacy behaviors and the factors influencing these behaviors.
Sarah Northfield
The study identified cancer nurses who often advocated for referrals to SPCS if they had positive beliefs and scope of practice to refer directly to the service. This thesis investigated how many critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) in a single Australian.
Priscilla Pather
This thesis examines fluctuations in body composition and body mass index of Australian military personnel over the past century. Secular trends in stature and body mass index in Australian Defense Force personnel from the Boer War (1899) to members of modern uniform (2017).
Holly Peters
The impact of changes in biological standard of living, birth in rural versus urban cities, and occupation on stature and BMI was examined. This project investigated temporal trends in per-fluoroalkyl acid concentrations in Australian children between 2002 and 2017.
Sophie H Phillips
Prostate cancer cells with increased EphB4 move more easily across endothelial cell barriers when endothelial cells make the EphB4 ligand ephrin-B2. Role of EphB4 and Ephrin-B2 interactions in prostate cancer models of intravasation and extravasation.
Anastasiya Protsenko
This work investigated the role of EphB4 in processes important for the metastatic spread of disease using blood vessel wall models. The project profiled these biomolecules from diabetic wound fluid samples using mass spectrometry (MS) and identified biomarkers whose appearance or levels would correlate with wound healing status.
Masti Venugopal Srihari Sharma
Diabetic foot disease (DFD) which can result in amputation is one of the main reasons a person with diabetes is hospitalized. Socio-economic, geographic and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inequalities in diabetic foot disease and diabetes-related lower extremity amputations.
Adrian Singh
With minimal knowledge of the impact of social factors, this study examined hospital admissions related to DFD and eventual amputations in Queensland. These people tended to be younger, lived in remote areas and were of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.
Peter Spencer
This study involved a phenomenological exploration of the experiences and motivations of Filipino nurses working in the Philippines and seeking employment abroad. The study results can inform policy makers and workforce planning and suggest that policies should be reexamined to explore sociocultural factors that are often neglected in discussions of the migration of Filipino nurses.
Zenn Urbi
This thesis developed a new methodological framework for studying how road conditions contribute to the risk of motorcycle accidents. Using specific engineering approaches, data collected by an instrumented motorcycle was transformed into measures of road geometry and road surface quality.
Yusuf Adinegoro
This thesis used a community-based participatory action research and culturally informed Talanoa methodology to examine diabetes self-management of Australian Pacific Island (API) women with type 2 diabetes living in Queensland. The findings will contribute to the development and design of culturally appropriate and tailored diabetes self-management strategies for Pacific communities.
Heena Akbar
Fundamentally process and action oriented, the study aimed to understand self-management change behavior within the wider API community that included social, cultural and environmental contexts. Socio-cultural context of type 2 diabetes management in Australian Pacific Islanders living in Queensland.
Najla Khaled S Al Abdulsalam
The aim of this project was therefore to evaluate the use of membranes prepared from silk protein as a scaffold on which corneal tissue substitutes can be grown in the laboratory from corneal endothelial cells. This project developed a new method to measure corneal nerve fiber migration, the only place in the body where it can be measured.
Khaled Saleh S. Al Rashah
This dissertation examined the dimensions of decision-making of nurses managing continuous renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit. Variations in levels of decision-making were largely due to contextual factors, including workforce characteristics, management practices, socialization, and organizational constraints.
Hajar Ali M. Alasmari
The concepts also constitute an explanation of the ways in which the interplay of social, organizational and technological boundaries has constructed the nursing process of clinical decision-making and performance with advanced technology. Investigating intensive care nurses' clinical decision-making related to acute kidney injury and continuous renal replacement therapy in Saudi Arabia.
Cassie Albury
This dissertation focused on increasing knowledge and understanding of common and complex migraine genetics. The central objectives of this study were 1) to identify novel migraine causing genes using modern sequencing techniques and; 2) investigate potential genetic associations between common and complex migraine.
Shorash Amin
This thesis evaluated the effectiveness and feasibility of a low contact pedometer-based physical activity intervention. Exploring the effectiveness and feasibility of a social-cognitive theory-based physical activity intervention in type 2 diabetes patients in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia.
Novita Intan Arovah
The findings showed that the provision of pedometers improved physical activity to levels sufficient to improve glycemic control. In conclusion, the intervention offers a low-contact physical activity program that could be offered in resource-limited hospitals.
Nesli Avgan
The complex and highly polygenic properties of intelligence, learning and memory are fundamental functions of neurocognition. This thesis has created new knowledge about how to identify people with a hematological cancer who are at high risk of progression and death.
Elise Button
This research will help people with a hematological cancer to have more control over their death and the time they have left. Disordered eating behavior is prevalent in young adults with type 1 diabetes and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
Melanie M Broadley
Despite the recent establishment and spread of Aedes koreicus mosquitoes in Europe, their natural history and potential public health impacts remain poorly described. This thesis provides the first detailed insights into the biology of Aedes koreicus and its ability to transmit arboviral diseases.
Silvia Ciocchetta
The research investigated the effect of a learning intervention on developing undergraduate nursing students' self-efficacy (confidence) for pain assessment of a patient with moderate dementia. Examining the impact of an educational intervention to improve undergraduate nursing students' self-efficacy regarding the pain assessment of a person with moderate-stage dementia: A pilot study.
Diane H Collins
Bandura's theory of self-efficacy supported the development of a new research instrument to measure changes in self-efficacy and provided a solid theoretical basis for the development of a learning intervention. Although statistical significance was not demonstrated, preliminary results of the pilot study indicated that the intervention showed promise as a teaching and learning strategy to promote self-efficacy in undergraduate nursing students in assessing pain in patients with.
Sonali Coulter
AMS interventions are cost-saving from a hospital perspective and cost-effective, especially when combined with rapid diagnostics in the microbiology laboratory. This study examined the short-term effects of extreme environmental temperatures on hospital admissions due to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in three geographically dispersed provinces along the central coastal region of Vietnam.
Thi Anh Thu Dang
