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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Building a freshwater monitoring toolkit to give effect to Ngaa Rauru values
As Māori around the motu continue to assert the mana motuhake in freshwater management, many are developing bespoke freshwater monitoring approaches that represent their own values for freshwater. Here, we…continue reading
Islands of Indigenous innovation: Reclaiming and reconceptualising innovation within, against and beyond colonial-capitalism
From Vision Mātauranga and Callaghan, to Silicon Valley and billionaire space races, ‘innovation’ is becoming a placeholder for particular conceptions of progress. The concept is almost exclusively, however, associated with…continue reading
Strengths-based resilience intervention for informal carers of stroke survivors
Stroke is considered the most common cause of long-term and complex disability, often resulting in a combination of sensory, motor, and cognitive deficits. Stroke survivors return to live in the…continue reading
Lots of Little Fires
Video Story-Telling for The Waikato Wellbeing Project The concept of ‘lots of little fires’ captures the idea that there are many small ‘fires’ of passionate people ‘burning bright’ across the…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
Theorising Māori Health and Wellbeing in a Whakapapa Paradigm: Voices from the Margins
This thesis explores communication infrastructures at the margins of Indigeneity to understand Māori health and wellbeing meanings, challenges, strategies and solutions, articulated by whānau whose voices have been ignored, or…continue reading
Scouts Aotearoa Healthy Norms Project Evaluation
In 2021, Scouts Aotearoa, with support from Point, initiated an innovative project to address harmful gender norms within the movement. The impetus for this project was the results of an…continue reading
Kindness: a dynamic, two-way exchange that is critical to the community services sector
A qualitative snapshot of kindness through the lens of community service organisations in Aotearoa. This study began with a question: What is the role of kindness from the perspective of…continue reading
Designing for health equity: A mixed method study exploring community experiences and perceptions of pharmacists’ role in minor ailment care
Minor ailments are self-limiting, easily diagnosable and treatable conditions. Funded pharmacist minor ailments services (PMAS) have been posited to improve medicines access equity and, despite ethnic minorities across the globe…continue reading
Establishing research tikanga to manaaki research participants in a pandemic
The need for, and importance of, kaupapa Māori methods in science and health research is now clearly articulated in best practice guidance1,2 and is increasingly recognised as important by research…continue reading
Māori, pharmacists, and medicines adherence – A mixed methods study exploring indigenous experiences of taking medicines ‘as prescribed’ and mechanisms of support
Background: Medicines are the most common medical intervention and medicines adherence is associated with improved clinical outcomes. Understanding drivers and experiences of medicines adherence is important for optimising medicines use.…continue reading
Colonization’s Impact on Fiji, New Zealand, India and Cultural Intersectionalities
Colonization’s Impact on Fiji, New Zealand, India and Cultural Intersectionalities Colonization had a profound effect on the Maori, Indian, Fiji Indian and Native Fijian population, intersecting with the Auckland Sugar…continue reading