Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Preserving the Expressive Style of Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music: Historically-informed and Practice-led Approach
Published 2023Music preservation has attracted considerable research interest in recent decades for its significance to preserving music traditions. Preserving music in different country settings faces different challenges. Preserving ...USyd AccessThesis -
Tibambaylan: An exploratory study of how Filipina lesbian poetry functions as a site of femme activism and decolonial praxis
Published 2024This thesis is composed of a poetry manuscript entitled Tender Vehemence and an exegesis that supports and contextualises the femme lesbian themes that manifest throughout the creative artefact. Rather than amplify definitions ...USyd AccessThesis -
Investigation and mitigation of reduced fecundity and pup survival due to infectious disease in the endangered Australian sea lion, Neophoca cinerea
Published 2024The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) is endangered and declining, with high pup mortality additional to low fecundity. This thesis investigates infectious disease contribution to population size modulation, and the ...Open AccessThesis -
Students' perceptions of the factors that influence their decisions to study elective music in Year 8 and Year 11 of secondary school
Published 2004This study explored the perceptions of Year 8 and Year 11 students in relation to the influence of various selected factors upon their decisions to study elective music in secondary school. These factors included students’ ...Open AccessThesis -
An oral history of nurses who cared for the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima from August 1945 to the end of that year
Published 2008At 8:15 A.M. on 6 August 1945, the first Atomic Bomb was deployed against the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The city of Hiroshima was largely destroyed by this action, and huge numbers of its people became A-Bomb Victims ...Open AccessThesis