Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Currency Crises and Regime Changes
Published 2024After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in the early 1970s, most currencies broadly transitioned towards more liberal arrangements. However, as of 2019 only a small minority of countries ...Open AccessThesis -
From the Pram to the World Stage: The History and Development of Circus Oz
Published 2024With its roots in both the New Wave theatre movement and in the traditional circus form, Circus Oz has, since its first shows in 1978, played a foundational role in the development of contemporary circus in Australia and ...Open AccessThesis -
Silence and Disaster
Published 2024This project addresses the challenge of expressing an experience of disaster that is beyond representation. It is propelled by an artistic compulsion to respond to personal crisis wreaked by the 2019 bushfires. The studio ...Open AccessThesis -
Getting stuck daydreaming: The role of cognitive flexibility in anxiety while mind-wandering
Published 2024Mind-wandering is a pervasive phenomenon that has gained interest in the past few decades. It has been proposed that this process of mind-wandering, by which individuals shift their attentional resources from external ...Open AccessThesis -
Stanley Forman and Documentary Film: Building Connections between Britain and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990
Published 2024This thesis investigates British communist Stanley Forman’s role in distributing and making socialist films in post-war Britain. It examines Forman's relationship with communism, the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East ...Open AccessThesis