AUT graduates record number of PhD students

AUT graduates record number of PhD students

Auckland University of Technology (AUT) will celebrate its Winter Graduation with a record number of 38 PhDs being awarded over two days of ceremonies. This is the highest number of PhDs granted by AUT University to date and an increase from the 20 PhDs awarded at the last graduation in December 2011.

Of the 2500 students graduating, 1500 will participate in the parade at 10:00am from Albert Park, along Queen Street, finishing at Aotea Square where the graduating ceremonies will be held on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 July 2012.

One of those proud students will be New Zealand Tourism and Research Institute’s Senior Research Officer and single mum, Carolyn Deuchar. Carolyn completed her extensive research on small tourism enterprises network formation in rural New Zealand and the integration of information and communication technologies and community in Western Southland.

Below is a list of the thesis titles from this semester’s PhD graduates:

Business and Law
Denis Mowbray, Doctor of Philosophy
Searching for the “mythical unicorn” – the missing link between boards of directors and organisational effectiveness

Jashim Khan, Doctor of Philosophy
Cash or Card: Consumer Perceptions of Payment Modes

Katherine Ravenswood, Doctor of Philosophy
Productivity, Participation and Employee Wellbeing in the Residential Aged Care Sector

Luiz Mendes Filho, Doctor of Philosophy
Understanding how user-generated content empowers the online consumer in the travel industry

Noel Spanier, Doctor of Philosophy
Competence and Incompetence Training, Impact on Executive Decision-Making Capability: Advancing Theory and Testing

Norhayati Mat Husin, Doctor of Philosophy
Intellectual Capital Reporting in Malaysian Companies: A Multidimensional Analysis

Saten Kumar, Doctor of Philosophy
A Cross Country Evaluation of the Demand for Money

Paul Tuck Ming Leong, Doctor of Philosophy
Mentoring Practices in Information Systems Project Management

Culture and Society
Althea Louise Lambert, Doctor of Philosophy
Belonging and Becoming: Voices of Harmonious Being. Young women Steiner students explore their lifeworlds through Goethean conversation

Carolyn Deuchar, Doctor of Philosophy
Small Tourism Enterprise Network formation in rural destinations: integrating ICT and community in Western Southland New Zealand

Jyoti Rookshana Jhagroo, Doctor of Education
A hermeneutic phenomenological study of the lived experiences of immigrant students in their mathematics classrooms at a secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand

Kazuhisa Hara, Doctor of Philosophy
Educational change beyond borders: International Baccalaureate in New Zealand

Margaret Joan Stuart, Doctor of Philosophy
Cradle and all; rocking the cradle of wealth. Human capital theory and Early Childhood Education in New Zealand, 1999-2008

Nicola Chisnall, Doctor of Philosophy
Montessori education in Aotearoa-New Zealand: A framework for peace and social justice

Ross Stacy Bernay, Doctor of Education
Mindfulness and the beginning teacher

Yixin (Jim) Luo, Doctor of Philosophy
The Strategic Role of HRM in Organizational Performance: the Large Hotel Sector in New Zealand

Design and Creative Technologies
Alan Te Morenga Litchfield, Doctor of Philosophy
The Semantics of Work in a Work System: A Pragmatic Philosophy of Information Systems

Ashwin Polishetty, Doctor of Philosophy
Machinability and microstructural studies on phase transformations in Austempered Ductile Iron

Graeme David Sterne, Doctor of Philosophy
Images of Public Relations in New Zealand: Perceptions of Key Stakeholders in Business, Education and the Media

Hai Lan, Doctor of Philosophy
An Investigation into Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement

Lisa Ann Williams, Doctor of Philosophy
Beyond words: An investigation into aspects of meaning articulated through the material forms of ‘old’ media as expressed in a polysemous narrative

Mark Beckerleg, Doctor of Philosophy
Evolution of Robotic Controllers Using Genetic Algorithms

Markus Leonard Stamm, Doctor of Philosophy
Framework for the integration of an advanced manufacturing paradigm and methodologies in New Zealand manufacture-to-order SMEs

Song Cui, Doctor of Philosophy
Thermomechanics, Material Flow and Microstructure Evolution during Friction Stir Processing of Light Cast Alloys

Thamilini Arunachalam, Doctor of Philosophy
An extension and implementation of a computational theory of language

Health and Environmental Sciences
Alicia Crocket, Doctor of Philosophy
Creating a healthier eating environment on campus: Feed Your Need to Succeed

Angela Cadogan, Doctor of Philosophy
The Diagnosis of Shoulder Pain in Primary Care

Caryn Zinn, Doctor of Philosophy
Losing weight and keeping it off: Workplace and dietician clinic settings

Christos Kostas Argus, Doctor of Philosophy
Characteristics and Development of Strength and Power in Rugby Union

El-Shadan Tautolo, Doctor of Philosophy
Pacific Fathers Cultivating the Future: The heath of Pacific fathers and their involvement and influence upon their children

Maria Carbines, Doctor of Philosophy
Adjusting and redefining priorities: A grounded theory of everyday parental management in families with young children

Micalla Williden, Doctor of Philosophy
Health and productivity in New Zealand: an exploratory study

Richard Francis Ellis, Doctor of Philosophy
Neurodynamic evaluation of the sciatic nerve during neural mobilisation: ultrasound imaging assessment of sciatic nerve movement and the clinical implications for treatment

Roz Karen Sorensen, Doctor of Health Sciences
Mental Health Consumer Participation: A Technical Action Research Project
Ruth DeSouza, Doctor of Philosophy
Migrant Maternity

Simon Gianotti, Doctor of Philosophy
The FREED framework for community sports injury prevention implementation in New Zealand

Tiaki Brett Smith, Doctor of Philosophy
Monitoring Performance of Elite Rowers

Te Ara Poutama
Ella Henry, Doctor of Philosophy
Te Wairua Auaha: Emancipatory Maori entrepreneurship in screen production

ENDS

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