Browsing by Supervisor "Nikora, Linda Waimarie"
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Ārai Whakamōmori: An Exploration of Te Whakaruruhau’s Suicide Prevention Strategy
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Te Whakaruruhau, Waikato Women’s Refuge, have been able to achieve a suicide free environment for their clients for over 31 years. This research sought to understand how Te Whakaruruhau have been successful in preventing ... -
Challenges Faced – Implications for Policy: The Everyday Lives of Eastern European Women in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2016)This study explored the everyday lives, aspirations, and coping strategies of seven Eastern European immigrant women in New Zealand who came from Bulgaria, the former Eastern Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and ... -
Contextualizing street homelessness in New Zealand: A case study approach
(University of Waikato, 2010)Homelessness is commonly associated with large urban settings. For people who sleep on the streets it encompasses experiences of stigma, regulation and displacement, marginalization, violence, loneliness, and bodily decline. ... -
Different Coloured Tears: Bicultural Bereavement Perspectives
(University of Waikato, 2017)The research explored the pathways that Māori and Pākehā bicultural whānau follow in mourning, grieving and moving on through life, in response to the death of a signficant loved one. Of specific interest were sites of ... -
Exploring medications amongst Tongan households in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2010)The current thesis explores: how four related Tongan households understand, treat and use medications; and the ‘flow’ of medications into, around and out of these households. The participants for this research come from ... -
Exploring the nature of psychological wellness of renal patients on dialysis under the care of the Waikato Regional Renal Centre
(University of Waikato, 2017)In New Zealand, there has been limited enquiry into the experiences of dialysis patients and the health professionals who work with these patients. The number of people requiring dialysis is increasing every year and the ... -
I Muri i Te Ārai: Ko Ngā Mōrehu Ka Toe: Healing processes in Tangihanga for Wāhine Māori
(University of Waikato, 2015)This study involved a qualitative examination of the healing elements of tangihanga as described by eight female Māori respondents whose loss was not spousal but was dearly loved. Few substantive contemporary works on the ... -
Korean migrants' experiences and attitudes towards mental illness and mental health services in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2014)The process of migration is known to cause significant psychological distress. Korean migrants living in New Zealand are the focus of this study as the term “Asian” has been identified as over-simplyfying the diversity ... -
Maori children : Conceptions of Death and Tangihanga
(University of Waikato, 2011)Research pertaining to Maori children‟s experiences and perceptions of death and tangihanga is sparse. Much of what is available, relating to children and their experiences with death, particularly death of a loved one, ... -
Māori cultural concepts and service provision for homeless Māori men
(University of Waikato, 2010)Homelessness is a pressing issue for indigenous minorities such as homeless Māori men. Their circumstances are more vulnerable in ways, than other homeless groups given that their lives are impacted upon by ongoing ... -
Māori men's positive and interconnected sense of self, being and place
(University of Waikato, 2015)Māori men are on the wrong side of the ledger when it comes to illness and crime rates. Correspondingly, there is a significant amount of research into issues such as abuse and premature death involving Māori men, who are ... -
Medications and meanings in Maori households with chronic illnesses
(University of Waikato, 2010)Domestic spaces have always featured as sites for health care. The home is increasingly referred to as a new therapeutic space within which chronic illnesses are managed within everyday life. This research explores the ... -
Medications, migration and the cultural texturing of familial healthcare
(University of Waikato, 2014)Medications are a central part of health care systems, and are used to cure, halt or prevent diseases, and to easy symptoms. How medications are understood and used by people, including migrants in everyday life remains ... -
“Not another patient through the revolving door”: A case study analysis of six women’s experiences with pregnancy terminations in New Zealand.
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis investigates an under-researched and largely ignored area in New Zealand, specifically six young women’s experiences of pregnancy termination in a New Zealand context. The aim of this research is twofold: to ... -
Oceans away: Sri Lankan migrants in New Zealand - Explorations of hybrid identities, distance & everyday material practices
(University of Waikato, 2017)The past 50 years have seen a remarkable increase in migration, with more people moving than ever before. In New Zealand, foreign born peoples comprised over a quarter of the population in 2013, most of whom were from Asian ... -
Students’ Social Interest and University Partnership with Local Indigenous People
(University of Waikato, 2015)According to Alfred Adler, people will have a meaningful life if they contribute to the realisation of an ideal cooperating community. The psychological process of “contributing” is captured in the Adlerian concept of ... -
Tangi and State Funeral: Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu and Prime Minister Norman Kirk
(University of Waikato, 2010)The tangi of Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu (Te Arikinui) in 2006 paralleled the State funerals for New Zealand Prime Ministers like Norman Kirk who died in 1974. State funerals require the huge mobilization of people ... -
Tangihanga: Through the eyes of young Maori women
(University of Waikato, 2013)Tangihanga describes the Māori customary way of approaching death. The aim of this research is to explore the tangihanga experiences of young Māori women. The meanings they create, the learning they experience, and the ... -
"That's the price we pay": Kaupapa Māori Programme stakeholder experiences of external evaluation
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis takes a critical approach to the evaluation of Māori social and health service provision progammes through an in-depth exploration of the dynamics, impacts and politics of such exercises within Māori communities, ... -
The Fight in the Haze: Critical discourse analysis of Indonesian prime-time television talk shows addressing the 2015 Indonesian Haze
(The University of Waikato, 2017)On March to October 2015, fires raged in six Indonesian provinces in Sumatera and Kalimantan. Massive deforestation ensued, as well as a thick blanket of haze which extended to neighbouring countries. This study attempts ...
