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What was the original forest composition of Great Island (Three Kings)?
(Science and Research Division, Department of Conservation (New Zealand), 1996)Following the extermination of goats (Capra bircus) from Great Island in 1946 the recovery of that island's vegetation has been of tremendous scientific interest. Numerous papers have been written on the subject and recent ... -
"What will people think?" Indian Women and Domestic Violence in Aotearoa/ New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2016)Migration is a complex process undertaken for a wide range of reasons. To leave the country of ones birth to settle in another is likely to involve disruption to existing family and community relationships, reassessing ... -
What wrist should you wear your actigraphy device on? Analysis of dominant vs. non-dominant wrist actigraphy for measuring sleep in healthy adults
(Brazilian Association of Sleep and Latin American Federation of Sleep Societies, 2017)OBJECTIVE: Differences in sleep results due to the placement of actigraphy devices (non-dominant vs. dominant wrist) are yet to be determined. METHODS: 65 nights of data from 13 adult participants was collected while ... -
"What's going on?" Developing reflexivity in the management classroom: From surface to deep learning and everything in between
(ACAD Management, 2016)‘What’s going on?’ Within the context of our critically-informed teaching practice, we see moments of deep learning and reflexivity in classroom discussions and assessments. Yet, these moments of criticality are interspersed ... -
What's news? Encounters with news in everyday life: A study of behaviours and attitudes
(Springer, 2016)As the news landscape changes, for many users the nature of news itself is changing as well. Insights into the changing news behaviour of users can inform the design of access tools and news archives. We analysed a set of ... -
What's the risk? A comparison of actual and perceived driving risk
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2014-07-01)It has long been presumed that drivers’ perceptions of risk play an important role in guiding on-road behaviour. The answer to how accurately drivers perceive the momentary risk of a driving situation, however, is unknown. ... -
Whatever next? Export market choices of New Zealand firms
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)We examine product and market entry choices of New Zealand exporters, using enterprise-level data on firm performance and merchandise trade. For firms already exporting, we ask: What determines their choices about what and ... -
What’s in a title? The use of honorifics in media coverage
(Maori and Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2008)On the 15th August 2006, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu (referred to in this paper as Te Arikinui) passed away at the age of 75 years old after serving the Kingitanga movement for forty years. Her passing heralded the ... -
What’s the story? Outdoor education in New Zealand in the 21st century
(Physical Education New Zealand, 2008)Outdoor education, in its various guises, has been part of the New Zealand education system for decades and is considered by many to be integral to school life. This paper addresses outdoor education within physical education ... -
Whāia ngā pae o te māramatanga: our horizons of pursuit
(New Zealand Association of Scientists, 2019)In Aotearoa New Zealand there is a growing recognition that Māori engagement and leadership across the science and research sector is essential for addressing national challenges and realising the distinctive contribution ... -
Whānau aspirations, extracurricular activity and positive youth development: The leisure activity patterns and narratives of successful young Māori men and how they might inform urban whānau raising tamatāne.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)The purpose of this research is to offer parents and whānau (extended family groups) insight about the kinds of leisure activities that might make a positive contribution to their boys’ development. Focused on the positive ... -
Whānau Māori explain how the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool assists better access to health services
(2019)In this paper whānau Māori highlight how a Kaupapa Māori centred intervention (the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool) has improved interactions with health services. The Harti tool is undergoing a Randomised Control Trial at ... -
Whānau Stories: Creating meaningful engagement and wellbeing for the indigenous culture of Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2017)This research sees my interests coalesce into a particular focus on how collaborative partnerships with parents/caregivers can provide whānau Māori with opportunities to strengthen wellbeing in their own lives. It is located ... -
When appearances are misleading: Psychosocial consequences of facial masking in Parkinson’s disease
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Facial masking, the loss of expressive facial mobility in Parkinson’s disease, has the potential to impact communication, emotion perception, subjective wellbeing, and social relationship functioning. This unique symptom ... -
When citizen politics becomes uncivil: Between popular protest, civil society and governance in Jamaica
(The University of Waikato, 2007)This thesis focuses on the problem of incivility within the domains of citizen politics and civil society by exploring the proclivity for popular protest in Jamaica and the intersections between popular citizen protest, ... -
When does it get any easier?: Beginning teachers' experiences during their first year of teaching.
(Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2001)Studies of beginning teachers' readiness to teach indicate a range of areas in which these teachers feel nervous about teaching, prior to beginning their first teaching position. Studies of the first year of teaching ... -
When educational supervision meets clinical supervision: what can we learn from the discrepancies?
(Routledge, 2008)The authors question the taken-for-granted notion of supervision. Their concerns arose out of an attempt to introduce 'clinical' supervision into academia as a way of addressing an increasing number of the ethical issues ... -
When loanwords are not lone words: Using networks and hypergraphs to explore Māori loanwords in New Zealand English
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2023)Networks are being used to model an increasingly diverse range of realworld phenomena. This paper introduces an exploratory approach to studying loanwords in relation to one another, using networks of co-occurrence. While ... -
When one of them is in our place: Early childhood settings as spaces of resistance
(Sage Publications, 2016)When they come to us in our place, what happens, for them and for us? This article investigates conceptions of Otherness through the story of an immigrant early childhood teacher, seen as the stranger, foreigner, who comes ... -
When salient science is not enough to advance climate change adaptation: Lessons from Brazil and Australia
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Increased social and environmental vulnerability to extreme climatic events and inherent aggravation of environmental and social problems has placed climate change adaptation as an urgent challenge for decision-makers. ...
