Browsing by Supervisor "Piercy, Gemma Louise"
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"Experiences of families and professionals living/interacting with neurodivergent children while navigating the policy contexts of health, education and social services: The fight for accessible and suitable support"
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Families of neurodivergent children often end up interacting with policy contexts of health, education, and social services on a regular basis when they have unmet needs. My research investigates these policy contexts to ... -
I want to be employable! Constructions of employability from university students and recent graduates in New Zealand.
(The University of Waikato, 2018)In the 21st century, due to changes driven by neoliberal ideology, global markets, and innovations in technology, the labour market has become more competitive in most industrialised countries, and people carry more ... -
Insecure here, precarious there? Workfare-style welfare provision in the age of precarious employment in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Aotearoa New Zealand’s adoption of workfare, beginning in the late 1980s, was designed to reduce welfare dependency and reinforce employment as the pathway to greater wellbeing. Concurrent with these policy developments ... -
"It's about community" - Finding Local Solutions to Local Problems: Exploring Responses to the Social Problem of Youth Unemployment
(University of Waikato, 2012)The purpose of this research is to explore the policies and practices associated with the social „problem‟ of youth unemployment. A major focus of this research is a case study of the employment programme being utilised ... -
Measuring the pedagogical shift: Small-scale review of the New Zealand Diploma in Legal Executive Studies (NZDipLEX)
(The University of Waikato, 2022)This research focuses on the fully online New Zealand Diploma in Legal Executive Studies (DipLEX) at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (TOIT) that was first delivered in 2017. The development of an online program was ... -
Ora Kainga Rua: Experiences of Kura Kaupapa Māori Graduates
(University of Waikato, 2016)There is a wealth of indigenous scholarship examining the impacts of imperialist policies and ideologies on the learning identities of indigenous students. However, within the New Zealand context, there is a lack of ... -
Strengths and limitations of early career mentoring schemes: Case Study, the New Zealand Police Field Training Officer programme
(University of Waikato, 2015)This study focuses on the Field Training Officer (FTO) programme that the New Zealand Police adopted as an early career mentoring programme in 2003. The purpose of the research was to understand the nature of workplace ... -
Women's experiences of higher education in New Zealand: Comparing the perspectives of New Zealand and Chinese women
(University of Waikato, 2012)The perceptions of women and the nature of higher education have undergone dramatic changes since the 19th century. Women have gradually obtained the same rights and opportunities as men to pursue and participate in higher ...
