Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE LUMBAR MICRODISCECTOMY ASSESSMENT SCALE
Published 2025Lumbar microdiscectomy (LM) is the index spinal surgical operation for neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery trainees. Surgical training has moved towards competency-based training, yet there is no objective competency-based ...Open AccessThesis -
Searching for the Holy Grail: An Inquiry into the Existence and Content of the Highest Good
Published 2025This dissertation is on the summum bonum or the traditional notion of the highest good of human beings. Once considered the most important ethical idea in ancient and medieval philosophy, this notion is now decidedly ...Open AccessThesis -
An Ethnolinguistic Analysis and a Sketch Grammar of Torwali Language: An Approach to Support Mother Tongue Education in Swat Valley, Pakistan
Published 2025The promotion and preservation of the Torwali language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Torwali people an ethnolinguistic group residing in Pakistan's Swat district, Pakistan, is crucial to ensuring its sustained use ...Open AccessThesis -
Identity and Investment of Chinese Heritage Language Learners in Australian Higher Education
Published 2025The growing number of Chinese heritage language learners (CHLLs) in Chinese language classrooms at North American and Australian universities has compelled some institutions to offer special classes for them that generally ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Ripple Effect of the First All-Women’s Band from West Arnhem Land
Published 2025This thesis examines what happens when women take control of the production and performance of contemporary rock music through an autoethnographic study of the Ripple Effect Band (REB) from Maningrida, a remote Indigenous ...Open AccessThesis