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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Improving Educational Achievement for Students From Somali Backgrounds in Auckland, New Zealand: An Evaluation of a School Catch–Up Programme.
From arrival in New Zealand refugee students are disadvantaged as they will often not have had the experience of formal education. In New Zealand, the mismatch of age and placement…continue reading
Posted on 3 December 2014 |
Walking a tightrope: Asian health research in New Zealand
Interest in how knowledge is constructed in multiethnic, multi-lingual, and multi-faith communities is gaining momentum in countries such as New Zealand as they become more diverse. In turn, this provides…continue reading
Posted on 20 June 2019 |
Evaluation of jigsaw Whanganui’s White Water Years Parenting Programme
This report presents the results of a small scale process and outcomes evaluation of jigsaw Whanganui’s White Water Years Parenting Programme carried out during 2014 and funded through a Lottery…continue reading
Posted on 28 November 2014 |
The Art of Walking Upright Here: Realising a Multicultural Society
Background paper for the AsiaNZ Foundation’s Kiwi India Seminar Series: An Outline of the challenges facing Indian communities in New Zealand by drawing together the history of migration to New…continue reading
Posted on 20 June 2019 |
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 |