The University of Sydney: Recent submissions
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How Improvising Musicians "Play What They Hear": A Phenomenology of Sonorous Musical Imagination, Ideation, and Intention in Action
Published 2026When improvising musicians speak of “playing what they hear,” what is unfolding in that moment? This phrase, central to practitioners’ discourse, points to a phenomenon in which creative action is shaped by imagined sonorous ...Open AccessThesis -
How Important is Healthcare‑Contact Time to Systemic Treatment Decision‑Making in Advanced Gastrointestinal Cancers: Developing Attributes to Include in a Discrete Choice Experiment
Published 2025Abstract Background People receiving treatment for advanced cancer invest substantial portions of their survival time receiving healthcare, labelled the ‘time toxicity’ of treatment. Although qualitative research has ...Open AccessArticle -
“The Cancer is My Life”: patient and caregiver perceptions of the time toxicity of palliative systemic cancer treatments for advanced gastrointestinal cancers
Published 2025Purpose Treatment for advanced cancer entails substantial time commitments, which has been labelled the ‘time toxicity’ of treatment, though the perspectives of people affected by cancer are still being established. We ...Open AccessArticle -
From Sight to Sound: Musical Ekphrasis in the Long Nineteenth Century
Published 2025This thesis examines musical ekphrasis, a subgenre of program music that involves a deliberate attempt to respond to and re-present a visual artwork. The process by which art is transformed into music experienced by the ...Open AccessThesis -
The Redundancy Effect in Human Causal Learning
Published 2026Everyday life requires us to make judgments based on indirect and fragmental evidence. This is especially true when we acquire causal knowledge, where potential causes are often correlated, redundant, and thus highly ...Open AccessThesis