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Item E hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō | Return to your place of nourishment(Exhibition, University of Waikato, 2024) Apiata, Ammon Hāwea; Tawhiao, Hollie; Ratana, Aimee; Timutimu, Maraea; Roberts, AishaE hoki mai nei ki te ūkaipō | Return to your Place of Nourishment brings together works by four wāhine Māori artists which explore narratives of pakanga|conflict through toi|art. This exhibition aims to create a dialogic space in which the artworks reflect and challenge the current troubled economic and political landscape. In this show, the four artists weave together their unique practices and stories to present a cohesive yet diverse examination of conflicts, with a particular focus on the artists’ own whānau and hapū narratives. Ultimately, this collection of works interrogates political strategies that have exploited division and discord through carefully curated histories. This collection is also a reclamation of those narratives and histories by descendants who live in the aftermath of their ancestors’ mamae | pain.Item Three Pacific writers from Aotearoa discuss Indigenous languages and visual poetry(Chapter in Book, Poem Atlas, 2024-08-24) Salsano, Marama; Taito, Mere; Apiata, Ammon HāweaThis article draws on several months of conversations, creative workshopping, and writing sessions between Māori writers Ammon Hāwea Apiata and Marama Salsano, and Rotuman writer Mere Taito. Here, we contemplate the presence of Māori and Rotuman languages in our visual poetry. For too long, critical work about English language writing by Indigenous writers from the Pacific has been Eurocentric. Papua New Guinean writer-scholar Steven Winduo suggests the need to unwrite this “imagined Oceania,” while Māori author Keri Hulme writes disparagingly of the lower-cased ‘gods of literature’, and in her ReadNZ lecture, Sāmoan-Māori fantasy writer Lani Wendt Young describes traditional publishing as the “white castle of literature.” While white castled gods of literature have historically ignored the everyday vibrancy of Pacific voices, Indigenous writers from the Pacific continue to unapologetically write, read, experiment, critique, and play with words. Into this complexity, we acknowledge that for many Indigenous writers from the Pacific, English language Eurocentric thought and texts dominate our lives; many of us are second language learners of our languages.Item Flora + Fauna(Other, Poem Atlas, 2024-08-24) Apiata, Ammon HāweaItem Beyond paternalism and racism in Pacific labour migration(Internet Publication, The University of Waikato, 2024-06-30) Roy, Rituparna; Collins, Francis L.; Tu’inukuafe, EvalesiItem The robots are coming for your students' feedback(Chapter in Book, Cardiff University Press, 2024) Hodge, Emma-Leigh; Hasan, Rahat; Poihipi, Eden Kathleen; Barker, RebeccaThe Data Analytics team at The University of Waikato gathers student feedback (as rich qualitative data) but manual analysis of these comments poses a time challenge for reporting. To address this, we explored the possibility of condensing qualitative information by leveraging natural language processing (NLP) technology, specifcally Google’s NLP sentiment analysis. We employed a robust coding framework to test the validity of NLP-coded student feedback, analysing 1000 comments from the University’s 2021 course evaluations. Results show a statistical correlation between our sentiment analysis and NLP, ofering promising evidence for NLP’s efcacy in providing accurate, high-level insights into student feedback sentiment.