Griffith Research Online: Recent submissions
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Persisting in Field Education: Social Work Student Experiences
(2021-06-09)Field education is a core component within social work education and vital to enable students to integrate their learning and professional practice. In addition to the challenges associated with undertaking tertiary studies, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Leadership Practice: Tools for Meaningful Change How Leaders Use Language to Lead
(2021-06-09)To ensure the appropriate capacity development of educational leaders to meet the varying professional challenges they will encounter in the current landscape and into the future, school leaders need to be equipped to make ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Future Is Now: Exploring the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Tourism Marketing Through Presence and Emotion
(2021-06-09)Virtual Reality (VR)’s unprecedented ability to virtually transport the user is purported to be its biggest strength. Yet, despite postulations about VR’s benefits as a tourism marketing tool; the concept of presence, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Towards freer performance: An investigation into physical, interpretative and expressive acting techniques for enhancing solo piano performance
(2021-06-07)Solo instrumentalists are largely isolated from the influence of other performance genres. The author’s prior experiences demonstrated that musicians can learn from other types of performers, particularly from actors, in ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Crystallizing Teacher: A Performative and Critical Autoethnography of Conscientization Revealing Whiteness in Australian Schools
(2021-06-03)I am compelled to write this thesis, called by a professional and moral obligation. This thesis is an act of love bearing witness to dominance in Australian schools where dominance is embedded and normalised in epistemologies ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Anaerobic digestion of sugarcane trash and bagasse for biomethane production
(2021-06-07)Sugarcane cultivation is a major source and sinks of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). In 2019, approximately 30.04 x 106 t of sugarcane was harvested from 364,428 ha of land. Of the total cane harvested, sugarcane bagasse ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Rocking the Casbah: Journeying, the Islamic State Foreign Fighter and the Western State
(2021-06-03)Following the onset of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, the world witnessed the largest mobilisation of foreign fighters than any other conflict in history. With the declaration of the Caliphate across Syria and Iraq in 2014, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Visualising Disillusionment with Politics: An Exploration of Remixed Media and Commercial Design Practices
(2021-06-02)This research aims to further establish the position of visual communication design as an agent of meta-systemic political engagement. It responds to the question: “How can visual communication design visualise disillusionment ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Developing Affordable Remote Immersive Collaboration Spaces for All
(Locate 2019, 2019)Critical to 21st Century living is the ability to be connected globally. Technology and infrastructure now allow unprecedented access to most parts of the planet, enabling global stewardship efforts such as addressing the ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Aquatic Productivity and Connectivity in a Tropical River Floodplain
(2021-06-02)Floodplains are highly productive and biodiverse ecosystems, and they provide many environmental services. Despite their importance, floodplains are under increasing pressure from human development and climate change. ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Preschool Educators' Perceptions of Their Emotional Socialiser Role of Preschool Children's Emotional Competence
(2021-05-31)Preschool-aged children spend a large proportion of their waking hours in early childhood education and care services. The preschool years span a peak phase for children’s development of many key milestones of emotional ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Codesigning educational facilities for disaster preparedness and response: Sharing the journey and insights into partnerships and collaboration
(2021 Queensland Disaster Management Research Forum, 2021)With Australia experiencing extreme weather events and covid19 related disruptions over the last two years, decision-makers have been in continued response mode. In contrast to previous disaster response regimes involving ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Ecoacoustics as a sustainable tool to characterize, investigate and monitor freshwater streams
(2021-05-31)Freshwater systems are dramatically transformed by human activities and are in need of effective monitoring to halt the decline of ecosystem health. Ecoacoustics presents a new cost effective way to monitor changes in ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Development of a Method to Assess the Impact of Saline Infusion on Venous Physiology and Injury in Humans
(2021-05-31)Background and Aims: Peripherally inserted catheters (PIVCs) are one of the most commonly utilised invasive device globally [1-3]. However, despite the frequent usage of PIVCs, up to 69% [4-8] of these devices fail (unplanned ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Atomically Thin Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Energy Storage and Conversion Devices
(2021-05-31)Since the fabrication of graphene, designing advanced atomically thin nanomaterials (ATMs) with few-atoms thick layers, special electronic structures, and excellent electrochemical properties for next-generation energy ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Style and Expression in Brahms' Violin Sonatas: Performance Practice in the 21st-Century
(2021-05-31)This artistic research explores tensions between historical and modern stylistic expectations for the violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms. Aspects of 19th-century performance style diverge from modern conventions, including ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Including Students on the Autism Spectrum: Stakeholder Experience and Knowledge Gained in Evaluating Practice
(2021-05-31)Despite inclusive education being determined a human right for all students, many students on the autism spectrum continue to experience segregation from peers and poor educational outcomes. Further, educators report ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The commencement of hormone therapy for minors with gender dysphoria: a recent Queensland case
(The Queensland Lawyer, 2021)In the last 10 years the Family Court of Australia (Family Court) saw a rapid increase in the number of applications seeking approval for the commencement of Stage 1 and/or Stage 2 hormone treatment for children with Gender ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Short report: Learning through iconic gesture in autism spectrum disorder
(Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2021)Background: Understanding and therefore recalling spoken messages, including narratives, can be challenging for children with autism. While observing gesture can benefit narrative recall in typically developing children, ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Naked eye evaluation and quantitative detection of the sugarcane leaf scald pathogen, Xanthomonas albilineans, in sugarcane xylem sap
(Crop & Pasture Science, 2021)Sugarcane leaf scald caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas albilineans is a major disease of sugarcane worldwide. Whereas erratic symptoms make phenotypic detection challenging, molecular methods require expensive instruments ...JOURNAL ARTICLE