Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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An ecological approach to the intensification of teachers’ work and its influence on their classroom practices, interactions, and relationships with students.
Published 2025Framed by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (Bronfenbrenner & Ceci, 1994), this study examined how the multiple systems in which schools and teachers are embedded in (chrono, macro, exo, meso, and micro) shape ...Open AccessThesis -
Novel Methods and Systems for Renal Denervation using Microwave Ablation
Published 2025Renal Denervation (RDN) is a medical procedure aimed at treating resistant hypertension by ablating the renal nerves located around the renal artery and thus abolishing sympathetic nerve activity to the kidney. These nerves ...USyd AccessThesis -
Decolonizing Mo(ve)ments?: Decoloniality in/as Praxis with LGBTIQ+ Activists in Uganda
Published 2025Anchored in collaboration with two LGBTIQ+ organizations in Uganda, this thesis explores the possibilities of recentring the epistemic agency and authority of Africa/ns’ knowledges about LGBTIQ+ activisms. As such, this ...Open AccessThesis -
Understanding and Treating Family Factors in Child and Adolescent Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Published 2025Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating mental health condition affecting approximately 1-4% of children and adolescents. Despite the effectiveness of gold-standard treatment, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) ...USyd AccessThesis -
The risk of good intentions: How professional systems shape risk, respect, and outcomes for people with disability
Published 2025Disabled people frequently navigate systems that frame risk as something to be avoided or controlled. While often grounded in good intentions, these systems—through policy design, professional practices, and cultural ...Open AccessThesis