Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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The Creation and Synthesis of Zonal Elastics In Improvisation
Published 2024This research demonstrates a new language and perspective of musical expression, I term as Zonal Elastics. The research asks, if my individual improvisational language can be fundamentally formulated from a newly cultivated ...Open AccessThesis -
Looking Forward, Listening Back: The Sonic History of Three Early Twentieth-Century Australian Violinists
Published 2024In the early decades of the twentieth century Sydney saw a ‘boom’ in concert life. During these years violinists Cyril Monk, Patrick Moore MacMahon and Phyllis McDonald were well-known figures to Sydney’s concert-going ...Open AccessThesis -
Breaking through the pain barrier. The extraordinary life of Dr Michael J. Cousins
Published 2024This is a creative, practice-led thesis comprising a biography as the creative component and an exegesis as the theoretical element. The biography, ‘Breaking through the Pain Barrier: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Michael ...Open AccessThesis -
“We’re all healing together and it’s beautiful”: Mindfulness and self-compassion practices as embodied praxes for transforming relationships of domination into relationships of care among men
Published 2024This thesis holds that hegemonic masculinity in Western contexts is constructed around alienating and dominating relationships with the “feminine” – emotions, women, and the natural environment – largely for the purposes ...Open AccessThesis -
Employee Wellbeing Program: Designing the Digital Nudge
Published 2023Many organisations have adopted employee well-being into their HR strategies and have implemented ongoing well-being management programs. With the ongoing pandemic and work-from-home arrangements, numerous well-being ...Open AccessThesis