This page contains links to Honours research theses for the Faculty 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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Carpooling Cultures: learning from University students on-the-move, Jacqueline Horton
Building momentum: an urban and regional geography of municipal food waste composting, Timothy P. Wall
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Community Participation in Biological Control of Environmental Weeds: The Case of Wandering Trad in the Dandenong Ranges, Samuel Bannon
Imagining a Blue Future: The Blue Economy and Social Values in the Illawarra Region, Itzel Gonzalez
Maintaining Heritage: understanding the importance of shack maintenance practices within the Royal National Park coastal cabin communities, Georgia Holloway
The sexual politics of clubbing: a feminist corporeal analysis of Palms, Oxford Street, Sydney Australia, Dominique Pezzutto
Composting: a Visceral Geography, Kaitlyn Jane Rankin
Samoans and ‘outdoor nature’: spaces of wellbeing in South West Sydney, Maddison Shaw
Resilient Food Futures? The Role of Organisations in Creating Resilient Food Systems, Anna Olivia Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Gambling platforms and sporting masculinities: place, performance and the negotiation of subjectivities, Hayden Cahill
Uncovering Knowledge Conflicts Surrounding Mulloway in NSW, Bridget Mullany
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Asian Australian Cultures of Recreational Fishing, Collette Fontaine
Indigenous Geographies of Home at Orient Point, NSW, Hilton Penfold
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Emotional Politics of Syrian Refugees Evoked by Australian Media Reporting Shame, Compassion, Fear, Tom Bambrick
Exploring Migrant's Contributions to Agriculture: The Story of Of Italians in the Sunraysia Region, Tess Spaven
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Exploring ethnicity, socio-economic status and the distribution of airborne emissions in Sydney, Australia, Nathan Cooper
Exploring the everyday performances of white anti-racists in Camden, NSW, Elizabeth Roslyn Oliver
Assembling Horses in Kosciuszko National Park, Jennifer Owens
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
Exploring Everyday Cultures of Transport in Chinese Migrant Households in Sydney, Sophie-May Kerr
Making Sense of Urban Parks: In Wollongong City Centre, Hayden Knobel
Collaboration on Country: Participatory Evaluation of the Girringun Indigenous Protected Areas, Eli Taylor
Theses from 2013
Femininities, ruralities and alcohol geographies: Women’s life narratives of ‘going out’ and ‘staying in’ in an Australian country town, Susannah Clement
No Longer the Fantasy of an Endless Supply: Water Value, Water Practice, and Changing Water Availability in Illawarra Households, Jonathon Cook
“It's the need that brings me back": Ageing Bodies and Volunteer Tourism, Ryan Frazer
Understanding the embodied geographic knowledge of people who watch birds: an exploration of encounter, performance and “becoming”, Carrie Wilkinson
Theses from 2012
Geographies of football: why do men play football in the Bega Valley, NSW, David Clifton
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
Flat-Packing the Suburbs, IKEA, Tempe, and a Sense of Place, Beth Laurenson
Conflict in Common: Heritage-making in Cape York, Nick Skilton
Coal Seam Gas: Issues for Consideration in the Illawarra Region, NSW, Australia, Joe Stammers
Geographies of inter‐ethnic intimacy in NSW, Alexander Tindale
Theses from 2011
Cultural Sustainability in Regional Australia: Young Women out and about in the Bega Valley, Anna de Jong
Caring for Place: Negotiating World Heritage on Lord Howe Island, Lucy Farrier
It’s Not Easy Being Orange: Exploring NSW State Emergency Service Volunteer attitudes and practices towards nature, Jacqueline L. McKinnon
Map-Making Methods: Young People and the Shoalhaven River, Annalee Moes
Transport choices - to and from Primary Schools in the Sutherland Shire, Stephanie Toole
Cultures of Coal and Climate Change in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Kiri Yapp
Theses from 2010
Skippy the ‘Green’ Kangaroo: Identifying Resistances to Eating Kangaroo in the Home in a Context of Climate Change, Bryce Appleby
Theses from 2009
Driving Cultures and Climate Change: Bodies, Space and Affluence., Theresa Harada
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