RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Literacy Uses and Practices in English: Six Cases of Malay Primary Schoolchildren's Experiences in a Contemporary Malaysian Context 
    Syahrin, Syahro Syerina (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The aim of the study is to investigate the uses and practices of literacy in English of a small group of students from Malay ethnic backgrounds. This is significant since Malay ethnic background students score the lowest ...
  • Novel Magnetic Resonance Acquisition and Processing Strategies for Biological Tissue Characterisation 
    Zong, Fangrong (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Proton magnetic resonance techniques have become indispensable for characterising tissues non-invasively. These methods provide abundant information regarding metabolism, morphology and histology of the sample under study. ...
  • "Tao rin Kami (We are Humans Too)": Planning Informality as Part of the City 
    Llanera, Ivy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    In mega cities of the “newly industrialised” and “developing” world, the most prominent urban issue relates to informality. Informal practices, such as squatting and street vending, have colonised gaps and edges of the ...
  • Integrated Social Learning: Central Business District office building and early child-care centre 
    Ling, Connie Ting Zhi (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The convenience of early childhood centres (ECE) near to guardians’ working place creates a need to look into the integration of ECE into Central Business District (CBD) where most office buildings are located. This ...
  • Deus Ex Machina 
    Fisher, Charlotte (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This thesis proposes a multi-scale, adaptable theatre on the fringe of Wellington’s waterfront and city to revitalise the urban environment at both macro and micro scales. Through the activation of theatricality and exposing ...
  • Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow 
    Katsougiannis, Mihali (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Around the world lie dormant landscapes, altered by mankind and subsequently abandoned. Often these sites contain cultural significance that UNESCO works endlessly to protect, conserve and manage; but what of the sites ...
  • Trasylum Project: Resting in the Mountain 
    Wadsworth, Matthew (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Both now and in the future, the displacement of people due to forced migration is one of architecture’s most complex issues. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) the number of forcibly removed ...
  • In Search of Lost Time 
    Taylor, William (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This thesis proposes that, while decaying architectural artefacts can represent important chapters in our nation’s heritage, transformations to the New Zealand landscape often represent equally important chapters in our ...
  • Using nanotechnology to enhance plant growth 
    Che Zaudin, Nurul Akmar Binti (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Efficient and effective delivery of fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides and growth regulating compounds to plants is the subject of much ongoing research. The objective of this research was to develop nano-formulations for ...
  • Signal processing of cerebral blood flow regulation in humans 
    Saleem, Saqib (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The brain is energetically expensive and maintenance of normal cerebral metabolism is critically dependent on the regulation of the brain's blood supply. Under normal physiological conditions, this regulation is thought ...
  • Implementing “Metabolism Theory” in Chinese residential area through digital methods 
    Chang, Huaxia (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    With the high speed urbanization in most Chinese City, a huge amount of population swarm in to Chinese cities. In residence area of a city where the change happened most dramatically, to deal with high density of population, ...
  • Making Rebels: The New Zealand Socialist Party, 1901-1913 
    Dunick, Mark (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The New Zealand Socialist Party (NZSP) was the first radical socialist party in this country. The decade in which it existed was a time of rapid social change. The NZSP began in 1901 as a reaction against the Liberal Party ...
  • Evolution of a Normal Fault System, northern Graben, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand 
    Cameron, Hamish (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This study investigates the evolution (from initiation to inactivity) of a normal fault system in proximity to active petroleum systems within the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. The aim of this research is to understand the ...
  • The galleries of Maoriland: Māori portraits, ethnological art, and the culture of the curio 1880-1910 
    Blackley, Roger Allan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This thesis explores the intimate relationships between Māori objects and Māori images in the art and ethnological collecting culture of New Zealand at the turn of the twentieth century. The received art history of the ...
  • Quinine, Whisky, and Sun Helmets: Amateur Medicine in British East and South-Central Africa, 1890-1939 
    Wells, Julia (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Historians have extensively studied colonial doctors in Africa, and the connection between colonial medical services and imperial power. The focus has, however, fallen almost exclusively on medical practice by trained, ...
  • The Last House 
    Wurster, Reed (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The Carteret Islands are a small atoll chain 86km northeast of the mainland of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It is believed the small island community will become the world’s first climate change refugees. The small ...
  • 'Healing the land, Healing the People' 
    Hunter, Ashleigh (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Natural systems throughout New Zealand that remain unharmed are in decline, this started in early European settlement with the introduction of new resources and a mind-set driven by economy. Pre-European New Zealand was a ...
  • Collapsing the Veil Between the Worlds: Inhabiting the Cinematic Effect 
    Jenner, Ashleigh Nicole (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    As industrial aesthetics within the built environment become obsolete in a post-industrial setting, the quality of inhabitable spaces within Wellington’s industrial buildings declines, and numerous opportunities to reuse ...
  • Shaking The Norm: Structural Retrofitting Beyond The Minimum 
    Lees, Katrina (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Due to changing regulations, many buildings in New Zealand do not have adequate seismic resisting structure. There is a real need to structurally retrofit these buildings before the next severe earthquake. Structural ...
  • Public Space Event Space 
    Kim, Yang Hou (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Like many stadiums across the world, New Zealand’s sporting arenas demonstrate a sharply bipolar division of use and atmosphere. On event days, the stadium fulfils the entertainment needs of tens of thousands of the public ...

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