This page contains links to Honours research theses for the area of Social Sciences. Theses relating to the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities strand are located here. All University of Wollongong masters by research and PhD theses are posted online here.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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“I had no idea where to go”, exploring barriers to LGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence accessing service provision in the Illawarra, Jade Parker

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Carpooling Cultures: learning from University students on-the-move, Jacqueline Horton

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Building momentum: an urban and regional geography of municipal food waste composting, Timothy P. Wall

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Community Participation in Biological Control of Environmental Weeds: The Case of Wandering Trad in the Dandenong Ranges, Samuel Bannon

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Imagining a Blue Future: The Blue Economy and Social Values in the Illawarra Region, Itzel Gonzalez

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Maintaining Heritage: understanding the importance of shack maintenance practices within the Royal National Park coastal cabin communities, Georgia Holloway

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The sexual politics of clubbing: a feminist corporeal analysis of Palms, Oxford Street, Sydney Australia, Dominique Pezzutto

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Composting: a Visceral Geography, Kaitlyn Jane Rankin

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Samoans and ‘outdoor nature’: spaces of wellbeing in South West Sydney, Maddison Shaw

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Resilient Food Futures? The Role of Organisations in Creating Resilient Food Systems, Anna Olivia Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Visceral Geographies of Household Sustainability: How Kitchen Caddies Construct (and are Constructed by) Meanings and Practices of Food Waste and Consumption, Elloise R. Ames

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Gambling platforms and sporting masculinities: place, performance and the negotiation of subjectivities, Hayden Cahill

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Uncovering Knowledge Conflicts Surrounding Mulloway in NSW, Bridget Mullany

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Asian Australian Cultures of Recreational Fishing, Collette Fontaine

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Indigenous Geographies of Home at Orient Point, NSW, Hilton Penfold

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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The Emotional Politics of Syrian Refugees Evoked by Australian Media Reporting Shame, Compassion, Fear, Tom Bambrick

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Exploring Migrant's Contributions to Agriculture: The Story of Of Italians in the Sunraysia Region, Tess Spaven

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Exploring ethnicity, socio-economic status and the distribution of airborne emissions in Sydney, Australia, Nathan Cooper

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Exploring the everyday performances of white anti-racists in Camden, NSW, Elizabeth Roslyn Oliver

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Assembling Horses in Kosciuszko National Park, Jennifer Owens

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Cultures of Water: Exploring the role of water as a home-making practice of Burmese migrant households in metropolitan NSW, Louisa Welland

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Exploring Everyday Cultures of Transport in Chinese Migrant Households in Sydney, Sophie-May Kerr

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Making Sense of Urban Parks: In Wollongong City Centre, Hayden Knobel

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Collaboration on Country: Participatory Evaluation of the Girringun Indigenous Protected Areas, Eli Taylor

Theses from 2013

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Femininities, ruralities and alcohol geographies: Women’s life narratives of ‘going out’ and ‘staying in’ in an Australian country town, Susannah Clement

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No Longer the Fantasy of an Endless Supply: Water Value, Water Practice, and Changing Water Availability in Illawarra Households, Jonathon Cook

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“It's the need that brings me back": Ageing Bodies and Volunteer Tourism, Ryan Frazer

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Understanding the embodied geographic knowledge of people who watch birds: an exploration of encounter, performance and “becoming”, Carrie Wilkinson

Theses from 2012

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Geographies of football: why do men play football in the Bega Valley, NSW, David Clifton

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A new way of living with nature? Zones of friction and traction in Nangarin Vineyard Estate, a rural residential estate in Sydney’s South-West, Charles Gillon

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Flat-Packing the Suburbs, IKEA, Tempe, and a Sense of Place, Beth Laurenson

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Conflict in Common: Heritage-making in Cape York, Nick Skilton

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Coal Seam Gas: Issues for Consideration in the Illawarra Region, NSW, Australia, Joe Stammers

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Geographies of inter‐ethnic intimacy in NSW, Alexander Tindale

Theses from 2011

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Cultural Sustainability in Regional Australia: Young Women out and about in the Bega Valley, Anna de Jong

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Caring for Place: Negotiating World Heritage on Lord Howe Island, Lucy Farrier

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It’s Not Easy Being Orange: Exploring NSW State Emergency Service Volunteer attitudes and practices towards nature, Jacqueline L. McKinnon

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Map-Making Methods: Young People and the Shoalhaven River, Annalee Moes

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Transport choices - to and from Primary Schools in the Sutherland Shire, Stephanie Toole

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Cultures of Coal and Climate Change in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Kiri Yapp

Theses from 2010

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Skippy the ‘Green’ Kangaroo: Identifying Resistances to Eating Kangaroo in the Home in a Context of Climate Change, Bryce Appleby

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‘Mild-mannered bistro by day, eclectic freak-land at night’ The Oxford Tavern as Heterotopia and Cultural Asset, Ben Gallan

Theses from 2009

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Driving Cultures and Climate Change: Bodies, Space and Affluence., Theresa Harada

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Perceptions of Geography as a vocation: a study of secondary school students in the Illawarra and South East region of New South Wales, Heather Smith