Arts and Social Sciences Papers
This collection houses research from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato.
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Systematic evidence map of disparities in police outcomes: final report
(University of Waikato, 2021)To support the New Zealand Police Understanding Policing Delivery (UPD) project, we were tasked with completing an academic literature review on bias in policing. However, the vastness and complexity of the relevant research, ... -
Primitivist theories of truth: Their history and prospects
(Wiley, 2022)Primitivists about truth maintain that truth cannot be analysed in more fundamental terms. Defences of primitivism date back to the early years of analytic philosophy, being offered by G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and ... -
Rats, plagues, and children, Oh My! Multimodal representations of the past in historical games
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)Since their inception, Game Studies and its sub-discipline Historical Game Studies have stressed the pedagogical potential of (historical) games for learning. Today, popular off-the-shelf historical digital games such as ... -
Evidence, interests and argumentation: an environmental policy controversy in a small New Zealand town
(OpenEdition, 2021)This article examines interactions between different forms of authoritative knowledge and evidence in a public dispute over an environmental problem. It draws on a case set in a small coastal town in New Zealand where the ... -
Examining the effects of policy design on affordable unit production under inclusionary zoning policies
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Problem, research strategy, and findings: Evidence suggests that inclusionary zoning (IZ) correlates with affordable housing and mixed-income communities; however, what effect the policy design has on affordable housing ... -
Response efficacy in environmental discounting: Concern and action towards climate change threats
(Scholink Co, Ltd., 2021)Extending preceding environmental discounting studies, we examined the role of response efficacy (in low, control, and high conditions) in participants’ valuation of climate-change concern and action across four psychological ... -
Methods for eliciting informative prior distributions: A critical review
(INFORMS, 2022)Eliciting informative prior distributions for Bayesian inference can often be complex and challenging. Although popular methods rely on asking experts probability-based questions to quantify uncertainty, these methods are ... -
It’s time to consider LGBTQ-affirmative psychology in Malaysia
(SAGE Publications, 2021)International studies have revealed stark mental health inequities affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. While there is increasing awareness of higher prevalence of mental health difficulties ... -
Observations by and conversations with health workers and hospital personnel involved in transferring Maori patients and whānau to Waikato Hospital in Aotearoa New Zealand
(MDPI, 2020)The predominant focus of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public health system on biomedical models of health has left little room for meaningful engagement with holistic indigenous approaches. Culturally appropriate provision and ... -
“Seeing” Kāpō Māori: Making visible the experiences of Kāpō Māori during and after COVID-19
(Maori & Psychology Research Unit, University of Waikato, 2021)A scoping project focused on the intersection of Māori and the framing of vision impairments (disability) within the context of a pandemic response (in this instance COVID-19). Specifically, we were interested in the ... -
Cup of tea to keep warm
(University of Western Ontario, Western Libraries, 2022)The way people source, prepare, and consume food is deeply interconnected with social practice. Drawing on theories of everyday life and social practice, we consider the everyday food-related practices and tactics for ... -
COVID-19 and blind spaces: Responding to digital (in)accessibility and social isolation during lockdown for blind, deafblind, low vision, and vision impaired persons in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Policy Press, 2021)In this chapter we, as Indigenous (Māori) and non-Indigenous (Pākehā) academics, practitioners, and disability advocates critically examine the experiences of people who are blind, deafblind, low vision and vision impaired ... -
Absence of street lighting may prevent vehicle crime, but spatial and temporal displacement remains a concern
Objectives This paper estimates the effect of changes in street lighting at night on levels of crime at street-level. Analyses investigate spatial and temporal displacement of crime into adjacent streets. Methods Offense ... -
Whanau Maori explain how the Harti Hauora Tool assists with better access to health services (vol 25, pg 471, 2019)
(CSIRO Publishing, 2019)In this paper, whānau Māori highlight how a Kaupapa Māori-centred intervention (the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool, hereafter Harti tool) has improved interactions with health services. The Harti tool is undergoing a randomised ... -
Supportive interactions with primary care doctors are associated with better mental health among transgender people: results of a nationwide survey in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
(2022)BACKGROUND: Past research has established that transgender people experience significant disparities in mental health outcomes and healthcare dissatisfaction compared with cisgender people, but more research is needed on ... -
Setting a research agenda in trans health: An expert assessment of priorities and issues by trans and nonbinary researchers
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022)Background: This article is by a group of trans and nonbinary researchers and experts in the field of trans health who have conducted an analysis of trans health research needs. Aims: To highlight topics that need further ... -
A new Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique for crime investigations: GP-SMART
(Wiley, 2022)This study developed and tested a new geographic profiling method for automating suspect prioritisation in crime investigations. The Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique (GP-SMART) maps suspects' ... -
The 2020 cannabis referendum: Māori voter support, racialized policing, and the Criminal Justice System
(2022)In the New Zealand 2020 cannabis referendum, 50.7% of all voters rejected the creation of a legally-regulated cannabis market and instead supported retaining the current prohibitionist policy. Although the referendum failed ... -
Investigating the effects of perceived student gender on primary school teachers' recognition of autism
(Wiley, 2022)Recent research indicates that autism is under-recognized in girls and women. The current study investigated whether the gender-based assumptions of teaching staff impact the identification of autism. A survey was completed ... -
Future intentions, plans, and the problem of Buridan's Ass
(Academia.edu, 2021)Suppose that: 1. an agent, S, is able to choose only one option, x or y; 2. S prefers neither x nor y in comparison to the other; and 3. S prefers having at least one of x or y to having none.1 Call this “the problem ...
