Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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From a Breadwinner to a Good and Useful Citizen: The Attitudinal Shift Towards Child Labour in NSW, 1850–1916
Published 2025In New South Wales, childhood underwent a fundamental transformation during the modern era as child labour restrictions replaced widespread child employment with education-focused childhoods. This shift, rooted in ...Open AccessThesis -
School Mental Health: Development of a Multidimensional Mental Health Training Model Based on a Needs Assessment
Published 2025Global trends related to climate change, cost of living crisis, war and pandemics have and continue to impact on young people’s mental health. In Australia, mental disorders increased by 50% between 2007 and 2021 in ...USyd AccessThesis -
Urban Displacement in New York City and Gentrification as City-wide Strategy, 2019-2024
Published 2025This thesis examines the causes and catalysts of urban displacement in contemporary New York City. More than a physical relocation urban displacement is understood as a spatial and ontological effect of intertwining ...Open AccessThesis -
Talking about life and work: Exploring Aboriginal employees’ experiences of the fit between Central Australian lifeworlds and NGO workplace practices and service delivery models
Published 2025Aboriginal employees play a vital role in non-government organisations in Central Australia however there remains a continual under-representation of Aboriginal people in the human service workforce in this remote area. ...Open AccessThesis -
Quantifying dynamical properties of brain activity using complex systems analysis
Published 2025The human brain exhibits a complex and multiscale dynamical structure, from microscopic cellular crosstalk to macroscopic networks. While complex systems science offers a plethora of analytical tools, brain dynamics are ...Open AccessThesis