This dissertation contextualizes Roman sculpture within its local environment, giving particular attention to the honorific statue groups of the imperial family in the first and second centuries CE. Previous studies focus primarily on issues of style and typology, whereas this p…
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Contact literary texts in English are growing in number as well as recognition throughout the English speaking world. By contact literary texts, I refer to those literary texts which have been created in English, but from national/geographical contexts of situation where English…
The study takes servant-leadership and attempts to find if there is an equivalent concept in management. Leadership and management have been extensively compared and contrasted in research and theory and while there are divergent views of exactly what each entails, others hold t…
The academic study of how people respond to adverse life experiences has been dominated by Western conceptualisations of distress, resilience and growth. The current literature base regarding responses to adversity has been criticised for focusing on one response trajectory (Pos…
Healthcare professionals such as speech and language therapists are expected to change their practice throughout their career. However, from a practice perspective, there is a lack of knowledge around what practice change is, what it really takes, and why there are different tra…
The use, reuse and manipulation of information has become a key factor in the success of any organisation in an increasingly competitive and global business environment. Ensuring that employees are able to access (or are provided with) the right information in a timely manner is…
Organisational learning is conceptualised within healthcare policy as an acontextual entity to be implemented across services through a prescribed governance framework. Studies of organisational learning often exclude context in this way. The central questions of this thesis con…
Context is a difficult concept to define, model, and represent. Geography and history offer unique perspectives on the notion of context, a context defined in this research as geo-historical context, or GHC. GHC creates a contextual setting based on the interconnectedness of phe…
The object of this study are love-words in the earliest mainstream Christian literature. In the first chapter, we define what a love-word is and how our systematic analysis of love-words contributes to the debate on alternative Christianities first proposed by Walter Bauer. In t…
The code model of communication theory, which nurtured Bible translation theory, perceived that meaning was encoded in the text. Context did not have a formal place in the theory. Relevance Theory shows that context plays as important a role in communication as the text, and goe…
The following thesis explores how creating work in a non-traditional art space can change the perceptions of that environment and the work itself. This essay is intended for exhibition designers, installation artists, design educators and museum/gallery directors. Using various …
This thesis examines the distinctive nature, specific struggles, and ultimately hopeful future of rural congregations in the United Methodist Church. Drawing from my experience pastoring various rural churches, I address a set of critical questions that every rural congregation …
The first-century Middle Eastern church was effective in disciple-making. While some of their disciple-making methods apply primarily to first-century culture, others offer guidance for effective disciple-making in 21st-century North American church culture. Since disciple-makin…