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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
ANZTSR 2014 Rogue NGOs and NPOs: Content, Context, Consequences
This paper explores the key components of dysfunctional, criminal and deviant behaviours within and by associational and not-for-profit organisations, and their consequences in terms of practice, application and policy.
Posted on 26 November 2014 |
Upper Clutha Social Services Snapshot: Baseline survey results – Feb 2019
The Social Services Snapshot is a longitudinal survey of social services. It tracks the issues impacting both local social social services and their clients and identifies service gaps.
Posted on 19 June 2019 |
ANZTSR 2014 Recounting food banking: A paradox of counterproductive growth
The meteoric rise of food bank use in times of prosperity leads us to argue that food banks are institutionalised within New Zealand society with texts reflecting civic, market and…continue reading
Posted on 26 November 2014 |
Randwick Park’s Neighbourhood-led DNA: A Community-Led Study
This research is a community-managed discovery of the ingredients underlying the neighbourhood-led approach of Randwick Park’s community leadership. It explains the basis of this shared kaupapa and explores some of…continue reading
Posted on 18 June 2019 |
ANZTSR 2014 Third Sector Organisations and Earthquake Recovery Planning in Christchurch, New Zealand
The research looks at how Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) have been involved in and impacted by mid- to long-term recovery efforts, following the Christchurch earthquakes. Relocation information of TSOs’ offices…continue reading
Posted on 26 November 2014 |
Waste Not Want Not: Food Insecurity in Wairarapa
Posted on 14 June 2019 |
ANZTSR 2014 Indigenous Communities, Disasters, and Disaster Research: Surviving Disaster Research On, With and By Maori
This paper presents insights into the impact on Maori of the Christchurch earthquakes, including the role of Indigenous Knowledge (Matauranga Maori) in disasters, and the role of Indigenous culture in…continue reading
Posted on 26 November 2014 |
Kaupapa Aukati Iwi: the language of motivation to inspire movement in the arena of racial inequity
This is an article written by a Maori business partnership who presented and attended a conference on racial equity in the United States in October 2018. Looking through a Maori…continue reading
Posted on 18 February 2019 |
ANZTSR 2014 Crisis Communication Capacity for Disaster Resilience: Community Participation of Information Providing and Verifying in Indonesian Volcanic Eruption
This case study of Jalin Merapi in the 2010 Merapi volcanic eruption captures how local communities can empower themselves through participation in providing, sharing and verifying information within their social…continue reading
Posted on 26 November 2014 |
A Paradox in Action? A Critical Analysis of an Appreciative Inquiry.
A journey comprised of three paths is the metaphor through which I: i) reflect and report on my involvement with four New Zealand primary school Boards of Trustees (BOTs) investigating…continue reading
Posted on 18 February 2019 |
ANZTSR 2014 Third Sector Accounting and Accountability in Australia: Anything But a Level Playing Field
This is the first, desk research stage seeking to understand why some Australian Not-for-Profit organisations make voluntary financial disclosures beyond their basic statutory obligations. We found institutional and stakeholder theories…continue reading
Posted on 26 November 2014 |
Anagotus fairburni Monitoring Orua Wairua
6 years ago, 74 flax weevils (Anagotus fairburni) and 100 Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) were translocated from Maud Island and released over 2 sites across Oruawairua. One site…continue reading
Posted on 12 February 2019 |