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International social work placements: Can overseas students stimulate professional learning for NGO staff?
(2019)This article focuses on the outcomes of collaborative work undertaken between a team of social workers supporting a New Zealand social work student from the University of Waikato completing her final placement. The student ... -
35,000 years of hydrological variability in northern New Zealand from speleothem magnetism
(2018)Speleothem magnetism is the study of the origin and geo-enviromagnetic significance of magnetic minerals in speleothems. Allogenic magnetic particles are transported to speleothem sites from soils and sediments by hydrological ... -
Maumahara Papahou: A mobile augmented reality memory treasure box based on Māori mnemonic aids
(2019)He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a worldwide “silent epidemic” causing ... -
An ‘open letter to teachers’
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, the University of Waikato, 2019)Teaching is a highly complex and political endeavour, and as teachers, we need to be courageous as we support children to make sense of the increasingly complex and diverse societies that we live in. My doctoral research ... -
Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts. The procedure involved a public consultation ... -
Insider threat modeling: An adversarial risk analysis approach
(2019)Insider threats entail major security issues in geopolitics, cyber security and business organizations. Most earlier work in the field has focused on standard game theoretic approaches. We provide here two alternative, ... -
Behind the label: Complexities of identifying Māori whānau in an away from home hospital transfer
(New Zealand Psychological Society, 2017)This paper highlights two methodological issues that arose for a group of Māori researchers during the first few months of a Māori CoRE funded project. The issues were in relation to defining 1) the evolving construction ... -
[Dicyclohexyl(sulfanylidene)-λ⁵-phosphanyl]methanol
(MDPI AG, 2019)The title compound, [dicyclohexyl(sulfanylidene)-λ⁵-phosphanyl]methanol, Cy₂P(=S)CH₂OH (1), was obtained from the reaction between [Cy₂P(CH₂OH)₂]Cl with one molar equivalent of NaOH and an excess of elemental sulfur ... -
Staying safe on a surf beach: What are rip currents?
(Frontiers Media SA, 2019)Everyone enjoys visiting the beach and playing or swimming in the water, but sometimes, waves breaking on beaches can create strong, narrow currents that can pull you out of your depth and into deeper water, where you may ... -
Nutritionism and the construction of 'poor choices' in families facing food insecurity
(Sage, 2018)The dominant research approach to both food insecurity and charitable meal provision is nutritionistic, deficit-orientated and ignores wider socio-economic issues. This reinforces existing power dynamics and overlooks the ... -
Homeless people's leisure practices within and beyond urban socio-scapes
(Sage, 2016)With increased inequity and polarisation in society, access to leisure has become even more crucial for ensuring the humanity and health of people living in urban poverty. Homeless people constitute the hard edge of urban ... -
Food insecurity in urban New Zealand. The case of the Kopa family
(2018)Poverty brings insecurity and chaos into the home, forcing families to develop strategies for navigating the difficulties of food insecurity. We document how one household, the Kopa family, responds to poverty in ad hoc ... -
‘Revolting murder at Te Aroha’ in 1881
(Historical Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2016)The brutal murder of Hamiona Haira, who had been mining with his two brothers and his father-in-law, shocked the new settlement. Being a member of Ngati Koi and Ngati Hako, these hapu threatened utu on the Pakeha responsible, ... -
Jespersen cycles on Malekula
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2015)In the indigenous languages of Malekula Island, members of Oceanic, diverse standard negation strategies have been identified, including double negation, simple preverbal negators, and simple postverbal negators. Individual ... -
Undergraduate linguistics and human research ethics
(2016)For students of linguistics at the University of Waikato, in Aotearoa/New Zealand, human research ethics has been something of a mystery. Delayed until graduate study, allocated to a generic Research Methods class, or even ... -
Taunakitia Te Marae: A Te Arawa perspective of Marae wellbeing: Final Report
(Te Arawa Tangata, 2015)In collaboration with Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, Waikato Tainui College for Research and Development and Te Kotahi Research Institute, Te Arawa Tangata conducted a research project named Taunakitia Te Marae, aimed at ... -
Exploration of association rule mining for coding consistency and completeness assessment in inpatient administrative health data.
(2018)OBJECTIVE: Data quality assessment is a challenging facet for research using coded administrative health data. Current assessment approaches are time and resource intensive. We explored whether association rule mining (ARM) ... -
He Pikinga Waiora: supporting Maori health organisations to respond to pre-diabetes
(BMC, 2019)Background Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a common long-term condition affecting the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders; one in every four New Zealanders is pre-diabetic. Māori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand, are at ... -
Fish population and biomass estimates from mark-recapture for Lake Milicich, a shallow Waikato peat lake
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Ecological effects of artificial mixing in Lake Rotoehu
(Environmental Research Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Waikato, 2015)
