Browsing by Supervisor "Simpson, Mary Louisa"
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Communication challenges of web development SMEs: The benefits and challenges of organizational tensions
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis examines the communicative constitution of organisations (CCO) through the communication challenges faced by web development small and medium enterprises (Cooren, Kuhn, Cornelissen, & Clark, 2011; Putnam & ... -
Effective implementation science processes for Māori and Indigenous health interventions
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Background This thesis considers the implications implementation science has for Indigenous communities, specifically in reducing health inequities for the Māori community of New Zealand. Implementation science has been ... -
Organisational volunteering: Meanings of volunteering, professionalism, volunteer communities of practice and wellbeing
(University of Waikato, 2012)Volunteering has become the major means by which individuals and communities connect and engage with significant social issues. While volunteering is typically constructed as an inherently positive activity that improves ... -
Sojourners and social exchange: Family and friends’ interpersonal ties across China-New Zealand borders
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Sojourners are peripatetic, making multiple, open-ended circular trips to other countries for a range of purposes. Nonetheless, sojourners retain interpersonal ties with their families and friends who remain in the homeland, ... -
Volunteering at the edge of chaos: A case study on the self-organising of younger volunteers during the Rena oil spill crisis
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This thesis investigates the self-organising of younger volunteers during the 2011 Rena oil spill crisis in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It builds on emerging research that considers the relationships between volunteering and ... -
Women’s equality—stalled or achieved? An intersectional analysis of New Zealand women’s experiences of (in)equality and perceptions of feminism
(The University of Waikato, 2021)A statement made in 2013 by Professor Judy McGregor, the former Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, suggested that equality for women in New Zealand had stalled, and that ... -
‘娩’ 与 ‘通’: Migrant Ethnic Chinese Mothers’ Intercultural Communication Experiences with Their Maternity-Care and Health Providers in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2013)In the transition to motherhood after migration, ethnic Chinese mothers in New Zealand experience different health and support systems compared to the ones they have knowledge of in China. At the same time, New Zealand ...