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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Upside Youth Mentoring Aotearoa: A thematic analysis of routinely collected interviews with mentors, young people, and young people’s whanau
Upside Youth Mentoring Aotearoa is a community mentoring organisation specialising in the formation of supportive relationships between volunteers and young people aged between 9 and 13 years. A key focus…continue reading
Posted on 2 September 2020 |
Agenda for Change
SSPA has been working with some sector leaders on what a reset of the social services system could look like. We’ve prepared an agenda for change and are now ready…continue reading
Posted on 4 September 2020 |
Being Accepted: The Experience of Discrimination and Social Exclusion by Immigrants and Refugees in New Zealand
This report identifies the nature of discrimination experienced and/or perceived by new settlers in New Zealand. The research results presented are derived from data collected via four focus groups conducted…continue reading
Posted on 23 September 2020 |
Refashioning Racism: Immigration, Multiculturalism and an Election Year
We wish to examine a number of events arising from statements made by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters during the 1996 election campaign and the public response to them.…continue reading
Posted on 23 September 2020 |
The Roles of Health and Health Care Services in Social and Cultural Integration of Ethnic Minority African Migrants: The Case of the Luo Community of Wellington
This research provides anthropological analysis into the intersection between migrants’ health, healthcare services, and the concept of migrant integration, focusing on the Luo community of Wellington as an ethnic minority…continue reading
Posted on 23 September 2020 |
Our Multicultural Future: New Zealanders talk about multiculturalism
This report was commissioned by Multicultural New Zealand assisted by a grant from the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO. It is based on the outcomes of 34 workshops involving…continue reading
Posted on 23 September 2020 |
Ethnic Community Perceptions of New Zealand Police
In 2005 the New Zealand Police commissioned this research project to explore the perceptions of police held by members of various ethnic communities and to provide information on the current…continue reading
Posted on 23 September 2020 |
KidsCan GoodMeasure Report – Impact Lab
The GoodMeasure Report for KidsCan was created with KidsCan to inform it’s social enterprise decision-making for the benefit of the children it serves. The product was created for KidsCan using…continue reading
Posted on 2 October 2020 |
Making Relationships Count – Exploring how Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand can use monitoring and evaluation to develop trust-based relationships with tangata whenua partners
Relationships are central to effective outcomes in the international development sector yet, there are very few frameworks or indicators to help measure the quality of trust – as the foundation…continue reading
Posted on 8 October 2020 |
Making Relationships Count: Measuring Trust In Relationships Between A Catholic Development Agency And Māori Communities – Research Article
Relationships are central to effective outcomes in the international development sector yet, there are very few frameworks or indicators to help measure the quality of trust – as the foundation…continue reading
Posted on 8 October 2020 |
Football in Aotearoa: Responding to Diversity, Becoming More Inclusive
The growing diversity of New Zealand brings into sharp focus the need to address diversity as a way of increasing participation and inclusivity in football. This report discusses key considerations…continue reading
Posted on 16 October 2020 |
Without doing factorization, a new method to find multiplied two large prime numbers of any composite numbers.
This research is all about the biggest question… is it possible that without using factorization method can we find two prime numbers factors of any given product (composite number)? Answer…continue reading
Posted on 19 October 2020 |