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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Mainland Chinese firstgeneration immigrants and New Zealanders’ views on sport participation, race/ ethnicity and the body: Does sport participation enhance cultural understandings?
This study set within the superdiverse city of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand examined how mainland Chinese first-generation immigrants and Pākehā (white New Zealanders) discursively understood each other in the context of…continue reading
Manawatahi Participatory City Pilot – Six Month Learning Report
This is a six month strategic learning report sharing the findings from a pilot to test the Participatory City Approach in the Connected Communities Department of te Kaunihera o Tāmaki…continue reading
Community Insights Report – The Turner Centre [2022-2023]
This report provides a range of key community and stakeholder insights from research that was conducted in the later part of 2022 (November-December). These insights provide the foundation for which…continue reading
‘Waiheke is a community, not a commodity’: Stakeholder perspectives on future Waiheke tourism
This comprehensive mixed-method research, undertaken from December 2020 to July 2021, comprised: • A survey of visitor satisfaction relating to Waiheke visits (n=991) • A survey of Waiheke residents’ perspectives…continue reading
Discover our neighbouhood – Phillipstown Community Mapping
Discover our Neighbourhood – Phillipstown Community Mapping is a project that tries to capture and organise the strengths already existing in the Phillipstown areas, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in…continue reading
Wellbeing and Arts, Culture and Creativity in the Waikato
A report commissioned by Creative Waikato to research to measure the social impact of community engagement with arts, culture and creativity in Waikato. Developed to provide insights; to support ongoing…continue reading
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…continue reading
Baseline Study of the Disability Support System in the MidCentral Area: Disabled Peoples Report
In October 2018 the Government launched system transformation in MidCentral Region. This was a process that changed the way disabled people and their whānau received funding from the Government and…continue reading
Baseline Study of the Disability Support System in the MidCentral Area: Whānau Report
In Oct 2018 a new system of providing funding support for disabled people was launched in MidCentral Region. It was called ‘system transformation’. This involved the creation of new funding…continue reading
Review of the Ethnic Groups of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington
The Review targeted Catholic migrants who identify as Pacific Islanders, Asians, Middle-eastern, Africans and other ethnicities apart from Europeans and Māori. The Review included obtaining demographic data from the government,…continue reading