The Lalaga Ōtara Leaders Programme 2025 was a Moana-centred leadership and wellbeing initiative grounded in the Lalaga framework and card game (a weaving approach) that strengthens identity, confidence, and purpose…continue reading
Well Being
Towards creating belonging for the LGBTTQIA2S + community in Liminoid leisure event spaces
By: Willem Coetzee, Hannah Mckeeman, Stu Hayes
Published: 2026-04-16
Significant strides have been made toward equality, LGBTTQIA2S + individuals continue to face discrimination. Leisure, however, holds transformative potential, providing spaces where individuals can express themselves freely. Within leisure event spaces, participants…continue reading
Community & Place Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Ethnicity and Diversity
Mapping the decolonial equity framework ecosystem: a comparative analysis of Critical Tiriti Analysis, Discursive Tiriti Analysis, Progress World View and Discursive Equity Analysis
By: Matt Broadway-Horner
Published: 2025-12-01
This paper offers (as far as the author is aware) the first systematic comparison of four decolonial equity frameworks: Critical Tiriti Analysis (CTA), Discursive Tiriti Analysis (DTA), Progress World View…continue reading
Critical Tiriti Analysis
Mātai ako: Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching
By: Christina Severinsen, Bevan Erueti, Farzanah Desai, Rangimarie Mahuika, Peter Graham and Reupena Tawhai
Published: 2025
This article examines initiatives within the College of Health at Massey University to embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi in learning and teaching. Situated within broader strategies, it focuses on the…continue reading
Critical Tiriti Analysis
Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Tikanga Māori and Labour Frameworks: An Exploration of Collective Agreement Clauses and the Experiences of Māori Workers
By: Ria Te Uira Holmes
Published: 2025
This thesis examines the integration of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and tikanga Māori within labour frameworks. The labour framework is comprehensively conceptualised to include statute, common law, terms and conditions,…continue reading
Learning from lived experience: How phenomenology could help transform Aotearoa’s justice system and navigate the barrier of public opinion
By: Corrina Thompson (Dixon)
Published: 2021
This project researched the narratives of those with a personal lived experience of the justice system in Aotearoa, from the premise that lived experience is specialist knowledge. This thesis argues…continue reading
Law and Justice
Child to Parent Violence and Abuse: Understanding the Types of Traumas Experienced by Families and Whānau
By: Lee Tempest
Published: 2026-06-25
This report examines Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) through a trauma-informed lens, highlighting the complex, cumulative, and often overlapping forms of trauma experienced by parents, caregivers, siblings, and…continue reading
Law and Justice
Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) Professional Perspectives Survey A summary of VisAble’s 2026 survey: The Professionals Voice
By: Tempest, L., & Hale, K.
Published: 2026-06-25
The VisAble 2026 Professional Perspectives Survey highlights that Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) is a common yet under-recognised issue across Aotearoa New Zealand, with most professionals reporting experience…continue reading
Queer migration, heteronormativity and the ‘ethnic closet’: Chinese queer international students’ intersectional experience in New Zealand
By: Taylor Le Cui & Lin Song
Published: 2024
Drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews with 15 Chinese queer international students from New Zealand’s tertiary institutions, this paper explores their motivations to pursue higher education transnationally and unpacks the interconnected…continue reading