Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Picturing Identity: An Investigation into Culturally Inclusive Literacy Practice with Secondary EAL/D Students Using Multimodal Texts
Published 2025This Australian study investigates how multimodal literacy activities may support culturally inclusive literacy practices with secondary students for whom English is an additional language or dialect (EAL/D). The cultural ...Open AccessThesis -
Supporting Education for All: The Role of Multicultural Creative Arts Curriculum in Addressing the Principles of Anti-Bias Education
Published 2026This qualitative study investigated how Multicultural Creative Arts Curricula (MCAC) can foster children's identities as part of anti-bias practice in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Although the Arts are widely ...Open AccessThesis -
Manipulation of Natural Deformables: Simulation, Inference, and Learning
Published 2026Over the past decades, machine learning has transformed robotic manipulation, enabling autonomous systems to perform complex rigid body tasks. Yet, this progress has not translated to deformable objects, characterised by ...Open AccessThesis -
Strategies to Ensure Intersectional Fairness in Vision-Language Models for Clinical Decision Support
Published 2026Rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as decision support system for medical diagnosis promises to enhance healthcare outcomes. However, these models can inherit and ...Open AccessThesis -
A Culturally Appropriate and Linguistically Understandable Translation Approach: For Dementia-related Public Health Information
Published 2025Dementia is a leading cause of death in Australia. As Australia’s culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) ageing population grows, dementia-related public health information must be scientifically accurate, culturally ...Open AccessThesis