Postgraduate Research

PhD in Progress
MA in Progress

PhD theses in progress

Arthur Atkinson - Collaborative justice: International voluntarism, the global justice movement and civic engagement

Ronda Cooper - Innovation imperatives: Constructing discourses of benefit for new technologies

Jamie Craig - Restructuring in the health sector

Lorna Davies - Sustainability and midwifery practice

Wang Hong - Connecting the Chinese international student diaspora with New Zealand's knowledge society

Ambika Kohli - Abortions among Indians in India and among the Indian community in New Zealand

Benjamin Lindt - Recruitment processes in the Indian IT and ITeS industry

Brenda Mackie - Risk communication, perception and warning fatigue: The Australian Bushfires

Amba Morton - Transdisciplinarity: Strategic for transformative & inclusive education

Simon Nwachukwu - Social capital, empowerment and development needs. (A case study of cooperatives in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.

Nicola Surtees - Queer imaginings and diverse practices: Lesbians, gay men and their children

Lois Tonkin - The experience of social infertility with particular attention to infertility as an experience of disenfranchised grief

Johanna Veth - Relationships between professional understandings of DNA as forensic evidence and paradigms of criminal justice

Cindy Zeiher - An empirical study on (hidden) meanings and constructions of desire.

MA Theses in Progress

Alex Atwood - Sports sociology

Andrew Butler - 'Boy racer'/illegal street racing culture

Digby Carter - The implication of the existence of contemporary spaces and/or activities and the behaviour and meaning produced as a result

Rebecca Duell - WINZ beneficiaries access to justice through the Benefits Review Committee

Chris Hayward - Creative work: supported living within retirement villages

Malcolm Irwin - Acts of difference ... how the emerging church conversation is refounding The Salvation Army

Denise Parker - Managing disruption: An autoethnography of reassembling an organisation

Susanne Rose - A comparison of the practice of social impact assessment

Barbara Stephens - The aid industry

Toni Symon - Criminology

CJ Wells - How can we assist the developer to become self-visible in the interactive process of creating a user script?

Lydia Yu - Political Religion in China: A Case Study of the Cultural Revolution