Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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A Blended Approach to Improve Student Engagement in Undergraduate Physics Experiments by Integrating Technologies with Model-Based Inquiry
Published 2024In undergraduate science courses, experiments and laboratory programs are where students develop their experimental and laboratory skills. This thesis presents a series of studies and proposes a conceptual framework for ...Open AccessThesis -
Norfolk Island and the Polynesian Narrative: New Evidence from a Marginal Mystery Island
Published 2024Norfolk Island was settled by Polynesian voyagers between c. 13th-15th centuries CE (Anderson & White 2001a), but the island is frequently omitted from many broader discussions of pre-European migration, settlement, and ...Open AccessThesis -
Embodied Cities, Citied Bodies: Assembling Urban Research through Movement
Published 2024While urban environments are commonly characterised and studied as nodes in international networks of migration, economics, cultures and policies, they are also sites for everyday embodied experience through which local ...Open AccessThesis -
Regietheater and the staging of Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Published 2024The commonly stated phrase ‘Bach is Universal’ is, in its simplest form, false. Bach composed his music in worship of a specific God, for a particular group of people, at a unique point in time. Yet, there is something ...Open AccessThesis -
Active head rotations influence thresholds and perceived direction of visual motion
Published 2024Self-motion signals must be accounted for such that an accurate and robust perception of object motion can be maintained. However, research in this area has been focused on translation self-motion, as well as often using ...Open AccessThesis