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    Hyper-pluralism and the RELICS method : how religious expression via living inter-personal conceptual schemata accounts for religious diversity : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy at Massey University, Distance, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2019) Doughty, Samuel William Connor
    This paper offers a new method for a new pluralism. The author offers an examination of John Hick’s religious pluralism and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). After detailing the amendments required for both Hick’s pluralism and Lakoff and Johnson’s CMT the author offers an updated version of the former and an amended version of the latter. In the final section a ‘hyper-pluralism’ is offered as well as a method for the account of religious diversity through religious expression via living inter-personal conceptual schemata (RELICS).
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    The eye of the team : critical incidents analysis of team metaphors used by teams in a health setting : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
    (Massey University, 2005) Ramkissoon, Vinodhini
    This study sought to explore working teams' mental models of their success and failure, to cast light on what improves rather than undermines the teams' performance. Implicit team mental models may become explicit through exploring the language, specifically metaphors, that teams use to describe successful and unsuccessful performance. Ten teams comprising 69 individuals from a large district health board and including one all Māori team, participated in semi-structured interviews, that focused on the positive and negative critical incidents, when working together. Twin Content analyses of each type of incident revealed classical attribution biases, for example self-serving biases (team failures externalised using system metaphors as in "It is not our fault, it is the computer's fault" and successes internalised as in "the high standard of work is a reflection on the integrity and skills of the team"). At the same time however teams occasionally sidestepped these biases by reflecting on whether they could have achieved even more. Unlike their counterparts, the single all-Māori team used the same "two worlds" metaphor to describe both success and failure through bi-cultural harmony and bi-cultural conflict. Discussion focuses on how metaphors enhance team development. For example through discourse analysis of training sessions, teams may become aware of what biases the team is engaging in, thereby fuelling organisational learning.
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    Internal landscapes : pain and trauma injury through the lens of subjective experience : an exegesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2013) Sainsbury, Maria
    My body resonates pain. Lying here, it’s like static on a radio infuriatingly monotonous and irritating in its regularity. Stabbing, burning, aching, it’s a constant vibration of stimulation. So wearying trying to stay on top of it. I’m waiting for the drugs to bring some relief so I can get on with the day. (This extract is taken from my diary before my third spinal surgery.) This thesis project was motivated by my subjective experience of constant pain over nearly a decade. Repeated spinal surgeries culminated in the implantation of rods and screws after a trauma accident. Through the process of research about pain I have recognised that its lack of an external referent makes it difficult to comprehend pain without visual trauma. The difficulty is that the pain experience is internal and not truly capable of being shared. Pain is multidimensional and includes many factors such as physical, mental, social and cultural environments that vary with individual circumstance. I haven’t presented my experience as a narrative but it does assist contextualising the works. I consider a multi discliplined approach to this project may help resonate this experience more articulately. I suggest that my subjective experience of pain manifests in an abstract form within my body. I seek to extrapolate traces of my interior experience by exploring a metaphorical and abstracted vocabulary of sound, sculpture and photography. I have referenced various theorists such as Elaine Scarry, Arne Vetleson and Amelia Jones. Similarly researching Artists from Modern and Contemporary fields such as Josek Sudek, Bob Flanagan, Hannah Wilke and Mona Hatoum. These theorists and artists are working or have worked with themes of pain, trauma and subjectivity. Further to this I have presented research papers at the Massey University Post Graduate Symposium 2012, Occulus - Canterbury University Post Graduate Symposium 2012, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2011 and the Zonta Organisation, Mana Chapter 2011. There is no definitive language that can accurately transcribe my subjective experience but I argue parts might be conveyed through a contemporary art project and those parts may ultimately be understood.
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    The metaphorical rise of entrepreneurship
    (Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006) Cardow, Andrew
    The words that have come to be associated with innovative and creative business enterprises – entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial – have their English origins in the realm of armed conflict. However over time the terms were colonised by the commercial world with the result that by the end of the 20th century the terms have become firmly embed within the language of commerce. Yet along the way the meaning attached to the terms have become disassociated with commerce. By the start of the 21st Century the term entrepreneurial has become a metaphor, a stand in for innovation, creativity, proactivity and risk. It is argued that such a metaphor is not owned by the commercial world and instead is a figure of speech that can be used in any situation where the speaker requires a conceptual word to mean innovation, risk, proactivity and creativity.