Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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How international postgraduate coursework students navigate academic writing expectations in Australian universities
Published 2024International students often face challenges with academic writing expectations in host institutions, despite existing support mechanisms. For international postgraduate coursework students transitioning into the Australian ...USyd AccessThesis -
Stability and instability of perceived shape from shading
Published 2024Images of an object can vary considerably due to variation in illumination. Despite this, humans are surprisingly adept at recovering stable estimations of shape, suggesting the presence of invariant structure in images ...Open AccessThesis -
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