Research Commons

Research Commons is a digital repository promoting and preserving the scholarly outputs of researchers at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

The repository contains the research of University of Waikato staff as well as Higher and Masters Degree theses deposited with The University of Waikato Library since 2006.

Communities in Research Commons

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Arts and Social Sciences [857]

Arts and Social Sciences Community
Computing and Mathematical Sciences [879]

Computing and Mathematical Sciences Community
Education [539]

Education Community
Law [48]

Law Community
Management [684]

Management Community
Māori and Pacific Development [40]

Māori and Pacific Development Community
Science and Engineering [1400]

Science and Engineering Community
University of Waikato Theses [1141]

Houses the digital thesis collections of the University of Waikato

Recently Added

Watch, listen and learn: Observing children’s social conduct through their communication

Bateman, Amanda (Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, 2011)

This paper argues for the use of conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorisation analysis (MCA) (Sacks, 1992) to investigate children’s social conduct. A majority of prior research in this area has tended to focus ...
Matariki, commodity culture, and multiple identities

Hardy, Ann (Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, 2011)

The event known as Matariki, the rising of the Pleiades in winter, which Māori take as the mark of the beginning of a new year, was not a strong feature of the wider public sphere for most of the 20th century. Since 2001, ...
A cohort history of mortality in New Zealand

Pool, Ian; Cheung, Jit (Population Association of New Zealand, 2003)

This paper uses the generational life tables to track historical mortality experience for New Zealand Pakeha and Māori. The key research questions we seek to explore concern with why was Pakeha life expectation so high so ...
Editors’ Introduction: Approaching the online audience: new practices, new thinking

Hight, Craig; Hardy, Ann; Michelle, Carolyn; Athique, Adrian M. (2011)

Convergence culture, participatory culture, user generated content, interactive media; these are all now familiar terms within contemporary media and communication studies that have risen to distinguish emergent content ...
Maori internal and international migration at the turn of the century: An Australasian perspective

Bedford, Richard; Didham, Robert; Ho, Elsie; Hugo, Graeme (Population Association of New Zealand, 2004)

At the beginning of the twenty-first century there were two major national clusters of Maori: New Zealand, the ancestral home for Maori, and Australia, home to a much smaller Maori population from the early years of the ...