Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Public Value, Private Interest: Can quality management address the challenges to government performance identified by Public Choice Theory?
Published 2025Governments spend billions in tax revenue each year in pursuit of public value. However income is determined via legislation not performance and the integrity of resource allocation decisions is undermined by lack of ...Open AccessThesis -
Beheading the Roman body politic: Decapitation as a political metaphor in early imperial Latin literature
Published 2025This thesis analyses the development of beheading as a political metaphor in Latin literature from c. 20s CE – 120s CE. It aims to explore the addition of decapitation to the range of corporeal metaphors that existed for ...USyd AccessThesis -
Body Irony and Identity: The Trauma Narrative in the Fiction of Wang Xiaobo Yu Hua and Mo Yan
Published 2025The thesis develops a three-dimensional theoretical framework of trauma, body and irony to study the novelistic writings of three writers—Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua and Mo Yan—and how they utilise narratives of trauma in response ...USyd AccessThesis -
What Audiences Want: A Comparative Study of Film Distribution and Subscription Video-on-Demand in Australia
Published 2025Film distributors and streamers are in the business of connecting films with audiences and generating profit from this interaction. The distributor’s perception of the potential audience for a film determines the price it ...USyd AccessThesis -
The molecular mechanism of action of the endocytosis inhibitor dynole 34-2 on dynamin
Published 2026Endocytosis is an essential process by which cells internalise extracellular material and is important in various signal transduction pathways. A key enzyme involved in clathrin-mediated endocytosis is dynamin, which induces ...Open AccessThesis