This study explores the experiences of women undergraduate nursing students within a feminist framework. In enquiring into the lives of undergraduate women nurses, this study sought to develop a deeper understanding of the social, historical and political factors that shape the lives of these women. An important aim of the study was to provide the women participants a political voice by which they could communicate their experiences. The methodology is developed from the theoretical insights of a range of feminist theorists and researchers and draws on some fundamental assumptions about the gendered social location of women. The study sought to test out these assumptions through an exploration of key themes within data collected from unstructured interviews with a purposeful sample of 13 undergraduate women students from a School of Nursing within a major Brisbane university. The emerging themes reveal that women have roles that are gendered in construction and that their personal stresses and traumas are shaped by gender role construction.

Heritage has been defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance”. In plain words, it is what defines a cultural expression and allows this cultural expression to survive, reproduce and thrive like a living organism.The aim of this thesis is to study and analyse how the locals in Tomar perceive their heritage, and how they present it to outsiders.After conducting an ethnographic survey based on informal interviews with locals, both professionally involved with heritage and uninvolved professionally with heritage, it was possible to conclude that Tomar is a case of living heritage, as it is a place where the intangible heritage is kept mostly by the locals despite the lack of assistance of the governing authorities, and the locals have no say on the governing authorities’ management decisions affecting tangible heritage.