The University of Sydney: Recent submissions
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Public Value, Private Interest: Can quality management address the challenges to government performance identified by Public Choice Theory?
Published 2025Governments spend billions in tax revenue each year in pursuit of public value. However income is determined via legislation not performance and the integrity of resource allocation decisions is undermined by lack of ...Open AccessThesis -
Climate Migrants and the Origins of Swahili Society in Eastern Africa
Published 2026-02-18Climate extremes are often framed as triggers of societal crisis and collapse, yet human mobility frequently emerges as a resilient response. We show that climatic disruption destabilized inland farming systems in sixth-century ...Open AccessPreprint -
Implementing lifestyle interventions in mental health care: third report of the Lancet Psychiatry Physical Health Commission
Published 2025The physical health disparities experienced by people who live with mental illness are well documented. This population group has cardiometabolic risks and diseases at rates 1·4–2·0 times higher than people without mental ...Open AccessArticle -
Beheading the Roman body politic: Decapitation as a political metaphor in early imperial Latin literature
Published 2025This thesis analyses the development of beheading as a political metaphor in Latin literature from c. 20s CE – 120s CE. It aims to explore the addition of decapitation to the range of corporeal metaphors that existed for ...USyd AccessThesis -
Body Irony and Identity: The Trauma Narrative in the Fiction of Wang Xiaobo Yu Hua and Mo Yan
Published 2025The thesis develops a three-dimensional theoretical framework of trauma, body and irony to study the novelistic writings of three writers—Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua and Mo Yan—and how they utilise narratives of trauma in response ...USyd AccessThesis