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Rangatahi-Developed Nutrition & Wellbeing Guidelines
The current nutrition guidelines developed by the NZ Ministry of Health do not adequately serve youth due to the lack of input from rangatahi themselves and the absence of mātauranga…continue reading
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…continue reading
Māori perceptions of ‘home’: Māori housing needs, wellbeing and policy
This paper presents the findings of the Perceptions of Papakāinga project, a 12-month, Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga funded project which explores comparative views of ‘home’ for Māori. The findings…continue reading
The impact of recessions on fundraising: a systematic review of the literature
The impact of economic crises on philanthropic funding to, and fundraising by, nonprofit organisations is a surprisingly under-researched field. Internationally, data is scant and comparisons are impeded by different categorisations…continue reading
Better Banking : Creating Ease of Banking for the Not-For-Profit Sector
We want to improve experiences with banks for community organisations. Community Networks Aotearoa volunteered to take leadership of a project to investigate and gather the stories of the sector, the…continue reading
Availability and acceptability of interpreting services for refugees as a question of trauma- informed care
Refugee-background communities have been a significant part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s multicultural population for decades. Despite the documented relevance of communication for newly arrived refugees, local reports over the years…continue reading
Advancing a social justice-orientated agenda through research: a review of refugee-related research in tourism
Scholars have called for more critical considerations of social justice and tourism that align with the tenets, values, and practices for sustainability, transformation, and social change. The aim of this…continue reading
A Critique of New Zealand’s Exclusive Approach to Intercultural Education
This article examines the intercultural initiatives, programmes and strategy documents in New Zealand education to answer the following two questions: What intercultural policies and strategy documents are offered to New…continue reading
Perceived Discrimination as Experienced by Muslims in New Zealand Universities
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…continue reading
Introducing Long-term Ethnography: Positioning Long-term Ethnography as a valuable tool for longterm Ethnographic research
Trends in Ethnography have changed over the years, and just as in the initial years, fieldwork and the Participant Observation method replaced armchair ethnography, shorter-duration in locales close to the…continue reading
Operationalizing cross-cultural research design: Practical, cost-effective, and a minimalistic application of cross-cultural research design to minimize cultural bias in research and reconcile diverse viewpoints
We begin this paper by providing a brief overview of the history of science in different civilizations and cultures around the world since ancient times, in order to show that…continue reading
Elucidating the Certainty uncertainty principle for the Social Sciences: Guidelines for hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences for enhanced objectivity and intellectual multi-polarity
This paper is the second in our series on scientific method for the social sciences, and is presented in relation to what we call the “Globalization of science”. It is…continue reading