Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Awakening the latent entrepreneur or fulfilling society’s responsibility: Individualisation of funding for support services for people with disability
Published 2009-01-01The push towards the individualisation of funding for support services for people with disability has been seen by many governments and disability rights advocacy groups as the obvious next step in recognition of rights ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Sorting Out Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Complexities of the Clinical Encounter
Published 2009-01-01Clinical decisions regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are commonly based upon heterogeneous evidence and ‘expert opinion’. To date, research examining how paediatricians are using (or ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Generational Approach to Modelling Youth’s Engagement in Politics
Published 2009-01-01Youth in contemporary Anglo-Saxon democracies are less engaged in politics than their adult counterparts. To explain why, this study adopts a generational approach to modelling youth’s engagement in politics. Contemporary ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Do neo-liberal ideologies disadvantage those with mental illness within the Australian mental health care system?
Published 2009-01-01Within current academic literature pertaining to the social policy of mental health, there is a general acknowledgement that the mental health system utilised in Australia is inadequate. The history of the mental health ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“How cavemen did social media”: A comparative case study of social movement organisations using Twitter to mobilise on climate change
Published 2010-01-01In the face of widespread public disillusionment with traditional politics the internet is emerging as a popular tool for increasing public participation in social and political activism. Little research has been performed, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours