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Evaluation of Community Learning Trust Pilots: Summary of Key Findings
September 2013 15 community learning trust pilots were set up by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (UK) to test new ways of planning and delivering community learning between…continue reading
Growing up with domestic violence: the voices of resilience
Maree Henderson, 2013 “The aim of this research was to bring voice to the experiences of adult children exposed to domestic violence as children; to privilege their experiences, insights, contradictions…continue reading
Young Mums Together Report and Guide
A new report from the Mental Health Foundation (UK) has been released about a project to develop a group for young mothers that would facilitate their access to mental health services…continue reading
Kete Kupu and the Vulnerability Report Available
The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Service’s publication Kete Kupu is available now. It profiles the new book, Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis and its launch, for which Professor Robert Wade from…continue reading
Conceptualisation and Measurement of Iwi Wellbeing : A Thesis
In her thesis towards a Master of Public Health, Jodi Porter asks the questions: What constitutes wellbeing from an iwi perspective? What are the characterisiscs of robust wellbeing indicators from…continue reading
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Research Symposium – Fostering Te Pā Harakeke – 25-26 Nov
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga in partnership with Tauranga Moana Iwi announces the 2013 Annual Research Symposium; Fostering Te Pā Harakeke; Healthy and Prosperous Families of Mana 25th – 26th…continue reading
Webinars for Non Profits to Utilise Social Media
Looking to figure out how to blog, launch a social media strategy or utilise Twitter and its apps? Heather Mansfield, a social media guru, is offering ten webinars on a…continue reading
The Effectiveness of Online and Mobile Technologies for Changing Health Behaviour
The Knowledge Translation Project aims to help translate health promotion evidence into action. It is a project of The Agencies for Nutrition Action. The report begins with an outline of…continue reading
Super City? State of Auckland. Report into the Auckland Experiment
This paper analyses whether the consolidation of Auckland’s Cities into a “super city” three years ago has been a success, a disappointment or something in between. It examines various areas…continue reading
Mind The Gap
This is Bryan Bruce’s latest documentary on what is driving the gap between rich and poor in New Zealand. Bruce investigates why the current state of child health in New…continue reading
Juggling community circus research
A research project looking into community circus had some surprising results. The two primary aims of the research were to begin to quantify the impact of circus programmes, and to…continue reading
Maximising the Impacts of your Research: A Handbook for Social Scientists
“There are few academics who are interested in doing research that simply has no influence on anyone else in academia or outside.” Social science research can be used to inform…continue reading