Browsing by Supervisor "Humphries, Maria"
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A Relationships Framework for Organisational Responsiveness to Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi in the Work of Groups and Organisations in the Community and the Public Sector of Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis is focussed on the development and implementation of a Relationships Framework based on Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi. The Framework has been designed to enable working together between Tangata Whenua and Tangata ... -
An Account of Championing Food for Vulnerable Households and Hungry Children in Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2013)Global food security became the focus of policy and media attention worldwide following the 2006-2008 food price spikes. In 2013, food security issues in Aotearoa New Zealand relate to access to food, ability to access ... -
Archetypes and the unthought: The projection of the King’s Court in New Zealand television media
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This thesis explores archetypal projections of conflict in Television New Zealand’s news and current affairs as an unthought. The television news and current affairs programmes identified in the thesis relate to issues of ... -
Career development and the vitality of academic women in an era of intensifying globalisation
(University of Waikato, 2016)Globalisation is a term used by authors such Korten (2015b), Klein (2016), Kelsey (2016a), Maxton (2011), Stiglitz (2014) and Shiva (2016) to denote the greater integration and intensification of capitalist ideas globally. ... -
A critical interruption in the governance of a New Zealand state high school
(University of Waikato, 2011)The governance of contemporary Western education aspires to serve the intertwining values of human emancipation and social inclusiveness in both the organisational form of educational institutions and their pedagogical ... -
Demystifying a relationship between voluntary work and Māori
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The purpose of this thesis is to provide evidence that critically reviews the relationship between Māori and voluntary work in social service organisations. Since colonisation very little research has been initiated that ... -
Empowering Ni-Vanuatu women: Amplifying Wantok authority and achieving fair market access
(University of Waikato, 2013)The Republic of Vanuatu (2004) report on Vanuatu’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) notes that many urban disenfranchised Ni-Vanuatu ... -
Implications of the Improvement of Teaching Quality for Professional Development (PD) of Academics at the Colleges of Applied Sciences (CASs) in the Sultanate of Oman
(University of Waikato, 2014)The Oman Accreditation Council (OAC), which is called later the Oman Academic Accreditation Authority (OAAA), designed a higher education institution (HEI) Quality Assurance (QA) framework for Omani public and private ... -
In search of well-being in the workplace: Exploring the emancipatory potential of participatory action research
(The University of Waikato, 2005)The co-optation of employee empowerment discourses by organisations seeking to maximise performance have been argued to contribute to the intensification of control rather than enhancing real employee participation in ... -
Indigenous women and the professions: Some Maori women's experiences in the accountancy profession of Aotearoa/New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2003)Concern about and resistance to the marginalisation of indigenous peoples has been growing globally. A focus upon indigenous women's experiences of accountancy is thus timely given the increasing concern to recognise the ... -
Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health
(University of Waikato, 2012)Institutional racism, a pattern of differential access to material resources and power determined by race, advantages one sector of the population while disadvantaging another. Such racism is not only about conspicuous ... -
Invigorating the Church for Mission. Action Research with Local Parishes
(University of Waikato, 2012)By drawing together the insights of Action Researchers and a personal theological/spiritual conviction of the total and limitless Love of God I present a bridge between the discourse of faith, worship and spirituality on ... -
Justice through service: An action inquiry
(The University of Waikato, 2004)Through 2000 and 2001, I undertook an action research project with a group of staff in a church-affiliated social service agency in Aotearoa New Zealand. The purpose of the action inquiry was to work with the staff in the ... -
Normalising global neo-liberalism and workplace change through career management and development discourse: a New Zealand case study
(The University of Waikato, 2003)Critical theorists call for the denaturalisation of complex processes within society that render individuals unconscious to particular forms of power and domination. They promote resistance and transformation based on ... -
Shared Lunch: An Ethnography of Food Sovereignty in Whaingaroa and Beyond
(University of Waikato, 2017)Food presents complex interconnectedness between inner and outer; social and political; culture and biochemistry; values and practices; tradition and innovation; wealth and poverty; the global, local and highly personal. ... -
“She Watches Over Her Household”: Wellbeing of mothers and children in motherled households
(University of Waikato, 2017)Wellbeing is a term used in everyday conversation, and by health professionals, policy writers and analysts, economists and others, to sum up one’s ability to flourish and live a rewarding, fruitful life. Family is deemed ... -
The Being in some body: An Autoethnographic Account of Being and Becoming-in-the-world with Multiple Sclerosis
(University of Waikato, 2013)Embodiment and experience as a nurse, wife, mother, researcher, and educator living and working with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the focus of this study. MS is a chronic de-generative neurological illness. It was confirmed ... -
The Transformative Possibilities of 'Noticing' in Community Gardening and my Life
(University of Waikato, 2014)The growing gap between rich and poor and the degradation of the planet are among the systemically generated outcomes increasingly associated with contemporary capitalism. This association is made by scholarly, professional ... -
Time: A Kaleidoscopic Image of Bermuda's Sacred Financial Phenomenon and the Wealth of Social-Environmental Diversity
(University of Waikato, 2016)The Twenty-First Century human has: "Palaeolithic emotions; Medieval institutions; and God-like technology.” Dr Edward O. Wilson (Costa & Wilson, 2010, p. 18) Bermuda’s corporate centred economy has been less ... -
"We Came Here for Work": Recollections of Globalisation and Changes to Work in a New Zealand Single Industry Town
(University of Waikato, 2015)Globalisation is a term widely associated with intensification in the mobilisation of goods, services, capital and people by scholars focussed on organisational research. Kelsey (1997) and Stiglitz (2003) are among those ...
