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Lots of Little Fires
Video Story-Telling for The Waikato Wellbeing Project The concept of ‘lots of little fires’ captures the idea that there are many small ‘fires’ of passionate people ‘burning bright’ across the…
Theorising Māori Health and Wellbeing in a Whakapapa Paradigm: Voices from the Margins
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…
Designing for health equity: A mixed method study exploring community experiences and perceptions of pharmacists’ role in minor ailment care
Minor ailments are self-limiting, easily diagnosable and treatable conditions. Funded pharmacist minor ailments services (PMAS) have been posited to improve medicines access equity and, despite ethnic minorities across the globe…
Colonization’s Impact on Fiji, New Zealand, India and Cultural Intersectionalities
Colonization’s Impact on Fiji, New Zealand, India and Cultural Intersectionalities Colonization had a profound effect on the Maori, Indian, Fiji Indian and Native Fijian population, intersecting with the Auckland Sugar…
Enhancing the development of refugee-background youth in Aotearoa New Zealand through non-formal education
Globally, non-formal education (NFE) plays an important role in youth development. However, while universal approaches to youth development are well researched, there is little research on what influences positive youth…
E hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō—Return to Your Place of Spiritual and Physical Nourishment
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, which explores the connection between place, genealogy, and identity for two Māori (New Zealand’s Indigenous people) communities: one living…
Unveiling the Sociological Ninety-ten rules for Social Sciences research: Towards better hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences in the interests of higher quality research and intellectual multi-polarity
The Sociological Ninety ten rules that are proposed in this paper, are based on the fundamental premise that various branches of social sciences like sociology, anthropology and economics are human-centric…
A Critical Tiriti Analysis of the recruitment and performance review processes of public sector chief executives in Aotearoa
This paper examines the recruitment and performance review processes of public sector chief executives from 2000 to 2020 to ascertain Te Tiriti compliance. Methods: Recruitment and performance review templates were…
System Transformation in the disability sector in New Zealand – Repeat Study MidCentral: 2018-2021
In October 2018 the Ministry of Health launched system transformation in MidCentral region (Palmerston North, Levin, Otaki, Foxton, Feilding and the local environments). This new system was to be based…
Kaupapakāinga: The potential for Māori cohousing
This report explores the potential for Māori to co-opt aspects of the cohousing model. A hybrid approach, combining elements of cohousing and papakāinga (as co-papakāinga, or ‘kaupapakāinga’ (kaupapa-based kāinga)) could…