The State of Volunteering is Volunteering New Zealand’s flagship report on the state of the community and voluntary sector. Over the years, this report has evolved, reflecting the demands of…
State of Volunteering in Aotearoa 2022
By: Tūao Aotearoa - Volunteering New Zealand
Published: 2022-12-01
Advocacy
“We Want to Contribute”: Former Refugees’ Perspectives and Aspirations on Economic Integration
By: Associate Professor Huibert Peter de Vries - University of Canterbury; Associate Professor Nirosha Wellalage - University of South Australia; Dr Nadeera Ranabahu – University of Canterbury; Dr Ruth Helen Samujh - Capric Enterprises (NZ) Limited; Sandya Rajapakshe - Refugee Orientation Centre Trust
Published: 2023-07-28
The economic and subsequent societal benefits that former refugees offer a host country is poorly understood in New Zealand. These former refugees are noted to be a most vulnerable minority…
Health
Strengths-based resilience intervention for informal carers of stroke survivors
By: Ayesha Qureshi
Published: 2022-09-20
Stroke is considered the most common cause of long-term and complex disability, often resulting in a combination of sensory, motor, and cognitive deficits. Stroke survivors return to live in the…
Law and Justice
Lots of Little Fires
By: Joe Wilson and Muredach Daly
Published: 2023-02-14
Video Story-Telling for The Waikato Wellbeing Project We are embarking on a series of short stories sharing the lives, perspectives and projects of inspiring people living across the Waikato. These…
Ethnicity and Diversity
Perceived Discrimination as Experienced by Muslims in New Zealand Universities
By: Neda Salahshour and Eric Boamah
Published: 2022-09-22
Since the March 15 attacks in Christchurch, there has been raised awareness and new and strong enthusiasm to understand the experiences of the Muslim minority community. This exploratory paper investigates…
Pacific Peoples
Islands of Indigenous innovation: Reclaiming and reconceptualising innovation within, against and beyond colonial-capitalism
By: Suliasi Vunibola (the Pacific case studies was conducted by Suliasi Vunibola which is now connected to Indigenous climate resilience research -including Inidigneous innovation). Mathew Scobie as the co-author did the Māori case studies and we wrote this article together.
Published: 2022-04-04
From Vision Mātauranga and Callaghan, to Silicon Valley and billionaire space races, ‘innovation’ is becoming a placeholder for particular conceptions of progress. The concept is almost exclusively, however, associated with…
Climate Activism Climate Change
Pacific Peoples
Islands of Indigenous innovation: Reclaiming and reconceptualising innovation within, against and beyond colonial-capitalism
By: Suliasi Vunibola and Mathew Scobie
Published: 2022-01-03
From Vision Mātauranga and Callaghan, to Silicon Valley and billionaire space races, ‘innovation’ is becoming a placeholder for particular conceptions of progress. The concept is almost exclusively, however, associated with…
Environment
Theorising Māori Health and Wellbeing in a Whakapapa Paradigm: Voices from the Margins
By: Christine Elers
Published: 2023-07-20
This thesis explores communication infrastructures at the margins of Indigeneity to understand Māori health and wellbeing meanings, challenges, strategies and solutions, articulated by whānau whose voices have been ignored, or…
Advocacy
Scouts Aotearoa Healthy Norms Project Evaluation
By: Scouts Aotearoa and Point and Associates
Published: 2023-07-31
In 2021, Scouts Aotearoa, with support from Point, initiated an innovative project to address harmful gender norms within the movement. The impetus for this project was the results of an…