A list of our graduates with links to their masters' and doctoral theses.
PhD graduates
2023
Peyton Bond – “What can you do? Capitalism exists” Sex work and the contemporary work system in Aotearoa New Zealand
2022
Hannah Herchenbach – On becoming a Dunedin rock musician
Romulo Jr. Nieva – Contextualising the intersection of reproductive wellbeing and incarceration: The case of Filipino women in prison
Abbigale Virens – Seeing the city for the weeds: A genealogical exploration of foraging in Dunedin, New Zealand
2021
Mariam Abdul-Dayyem – Everyday resilience: How has the journey of internet usage among Palestinians in the West Bank affected and reflected their political subjectivity?
Jin Yi (Louisa) Choe – Survival, not resilience: Young people's housing instability
Katharine Cresswell Riol – Paying with dignity: Neoliberalisation and the human cost of food charity
Simon Lister Clay – Wild self-care. Rethinking 'risky' health-related practices among members of the gay community
Katelyn Ferguson – The appropriation of cultural safety: A mixed methods analysis
Rudi Kresna – Social Capital, Resilience, and Smallholder Dairy Farmers: A Case Study of Four Communities in West Java, Indonesia
Laura Schilperoort – Egalitarian couples. How church-going heterosexual couples practise and conceptualise egalitarianism in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kayla Stewart – “I guess that's part of life”: The sexual victimisation of Aotearoa university students
2020
Ola Kattoura – Arab battered women in Israel: How social and political contexts shape their experiences
Myunik Panthi – Leisure activities and well-being in residential care: Voices of older adults in New Zealand
Lily K Ross – The survivor imperative: an autoethnography of secondary victimization after sexual violence
2018
Saemyi Chung – In Pursuit of Beauty Within the Ageing Body: Voices from Older Korean Women in New Zealand
Penelope Kinney – Becoming an ex-forensic psychiatric client: transitioning to recovery within the community
Md Mahfuzur Rahman – Fertility stalls in Bangladesh
2017
Anna McMartin – Rational economic families: social reproduction and social policy in 1980s and 1990s New Zealand
2016
Darryl Grant – When research is a dirty word: sovereignty and bicultural politics in Canada, Australia and New Zealand ethics policies
2015
Cinzia Piatti – Enacting the alter-native: a theoretical reframing of local food initiatives in Aotearoa/New Zealand
2012
Chris Burke – Speak to me, stranger: subjectivity, homosexuality and the preliberation narratives of James Courage
Anna Paris – “I'm doing it for me": a Foucauldian feminist engagement with practices of bodily transformation
Masters' graduates
2022
Trixie Croad – Investigating 'Food Waster Regimes' in Primary Production: Lessons from The Kiwifruit Industry in Aotearoa New Zealand
2021
Kirsten Koch – Clothing Upcycling in Otago (Ōtākou) and the Problem of Fast Fashion
Charlotte Bruce Kells – 'JacindaBabyMania': media representations of Jacinda Arden and women's perspectives of the 'working mother' in Aotearoa New Zealand
Laura Starling – Social Media Influencers in Neoliberal Networked Publics and their Presentation of Contraceptive Apps
2020
Helen Bollinger – Film families and friends: creative networks in a precarious industry
LHP Bulletin link to Film families and friends article
2019
Joshua James – Understanding the 'pink' vote in Aotearoa
2017
Helena O'Dwyer-Strang – What happens when the birds are sexting and the bees watch pornography? Digital sexualities, sexuality education and New Zealand adolescents
Elizabeth Simmons – Sustainable development and sustainable wine New Zealand: Bridging neoliberal statecraft and locally appropriate development
Lisa Temple – Gendered health technologies: the medicalisation of sexuality and the embodiment of reproduction
2016
Anastasia Bremer – Beauty and the bump: celebrities, social media and the consumption of pregnancy
Madeline Hall – From 'producers' to 'polluters': farmers' experience in the Lake Taupō Water Quality Trading Program
David Reynolds – The depoliticisation of deprivation: food insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand
2015
Roland Daniher – Scary uncertainty: an analysis of social-role control among community-dwelling retirees in New Zealand
Georgia Knowles – Looking at rape prevention: an analysis of the representations of sexuality, gender and rape myth in rape prevention poster campaigns
2014
Amber Chambers – Expecting the unexpected: how novice researchers negotiate unexpected ethical issues
Marita Leask – Exceptional choices? A discursive examination of abortion discourses in New Zealand
2013
Annelore Hoseit – Let's get mobile: unearthing issues of importance for adolescent mobile phone users
Alison Stoddart – A matter of waste: making experiences and perceptions of household food waste visible
2012
Darryl Grant – Paradox lost?: Four theoretical perspectives on Whānau Ora
2011
Joe Macdonald – A coalitional politics of incoherence: ethical (trans)masculinities in New Zealand
2008
Louise Pearman – Men and masqueraders: cross-gendered identity and behaviour in New Zealand, 1906–1950