Research Commons

Research Commons is a digital repository promoting and preserving the scholarly outputs of researchers at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

The repository contains the research of University of Waikato staff as well as Higher and Masters Degree theses deposited with The University of Waikato Library since 2006.

Communities in Research Commons

Select a community to browse its collections.

Arts and Social Sciences [859]

Arts and Social Sciences Community
Computing and Mathematical Sciences [880]

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Community
Education [540]

Education Community
Law [49]

Law Community
Management [684]

Management Community
Māori and Pacific Development [40]

Māori and Pacific Development Community
Science and Engineering [1400]

Science and Engineering Community
University of Waikato Theses [1141]

Houses the digital thesis collections of the University of Waikato

Recently Added

Communities of practice and professional development

Chalmers, Lex; Keown, Paul Ashley (Taylor & Francis, 2006)

The Internet has had a transformative effect on many aspects of contemporary living. While there may be a tendency to overstate the impacts of this technology, workplaces and work practices in many societies have been ...
Traces of the secondary Geography curriculum

Chalmers, Lex (Wiley, 2005)

Expressions of dissatisfaction about the post-compulsory Geography curriculum in the early 1970s were unusually concerted, leading to the creation of a National Geography Curriculum Committee. This essay reviews this history ...
Full model selection in the space of data mining operators

Sun, Quan; Pfahringer, Bernhard; Michael, Mayo (ACM, 2012)

We propose a framework and a novel algorithm for the full model selection (FMS) problem. The proposed algorithm, combining both genetic algorithms (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), is named GPS (which stands for ...
Offshore petroleum and minerals: Plugging gaps in the present framework

Barton, Barry (2011)

For twenty years, it has been realized that there is a gap in New Zealand’s environmental law in that there is no general environmental legislation for the exclusive economic zone, and now for the extended continental shelf ...
Watch, listen and learn: Observing children’s social conduct through their communication

Bateman, Amanda (Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, 2011)

This paper argues for the use of conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorisation analysis (MCA) (Sacks, 1992) to investigate children’s social conduct. A majority of prior research in this area has tended to focus ...