Theses: Recent submissions
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Transforming Halal: Articulating Halal through Food Regulation, Representation, and Consumption in Contemporary Indonesia
Published 2025This study examines halal food as a dynamic site through which religious and national identities, state power, and everyday cultural practices are negotiated in contemporary Indonesia. Adopting a Cultural Studies approach, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Advancing adolescent health promotion in the digital era
Published 2025Background: Adolescents (10-24 years old) are calling for high-quality digital services to support their health and wellbeing. With non-communicable diseases on the rise and adolescents at risk due to emerging public health ...Open AccessThesis -
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 -
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