Arts and Social Sciences Papers

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This collection houses research from Te Kura Toi School of Arts, Te Kura Whatu Oho Mauri School of Psychology, and Te Kura Aronui School of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato.

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Urban typography and cultural memory: A literature review in support of a design-led approach to heritage and preservation
(Design Research Society, 2026) Short, Carolina; Schott, Gareth R.
Typography has increasingly been recognised as a valuable lens for cultural and urban analysis. This literature review extends such perspectives by examining how design-led approaches can support the documentation, reinterpretation, and revitalization of urban letterforms as cultural heritage. Drawing on typographic studies, geosemiotics, and design research, it focuses on urban typography — typographic landscapes — understood as spatial and multimodal carriers of memory, identity, and cultural value. While existing scholarship has explored the semiotic and aesthetic dimensions of typography in the urban environment, and some have proposed design-led interventions, connections between theory and practice remain open to further development. The review synthesises interdisciplinary literature, clarifies key terminology, and establishes a conceptual foundation for a practice-based inquiry. It argues that typography, beyond its communicative role, contributes to the material and mnemonic fabric of cities, and that design can support the preservation and reactivation of these typographic forms in response to ongoing urban change.
Can advance care planning (ACP) be a relational healing place for indigenous homeless people in Aotearoa New Zealand?
(Taylor & Francis, 2024) Charvin-Fabre, Sandrine; Moeke-Maxwell, Tess; Stolte, Ottilie; Lawrenson, Ross
In this autoethnographic article, we explore one Māori person’s experience of engaging with advance care planning (ACP) while experiencing the distinct relational fracture as expressed into indigenous homelessness. We describe how ACP, envisioned as a relational space, and expressive of Māori holistic care and wellbeing, might be conducive in healing past traumatic experiences and restoring familial relationships and connections. Extending ACP beyond that for which it has been originally conceived for housed populations and by Western health models, may offer a pathway to assist indigenous homeless people with dignity and peace to fulfil tangihanga (traditional death customs and rituals) through re-establishing connections and healing at the end of life. We recommend that ACP in relation to Māori homelessness offers a Māori space, located within a web of Māori health professionals, to respond adequately to the specific demands that might arise from ACP. Essentially, these demands may relate to a) establishing restorative connections with whānau (extended family) and providing appropriate and consistent support whether in the context of the end of life or over time; b) addressing the needs and distress that may arise from expressing trauma events and offering a space to weave those experiences within a collective and transgenerational experience of trauma.
An impressionistic orientation towards visual inquiry into the conduct of everyday life
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-03-28) Hodgetts, Darrin; Andriolo, Arley; Stolte, Ottilie; King, Pita
Increasingly qualitative research in psychology encompasses various visual materials. These are often analysed using existing qualitative approaches associated with analysing linguistic materials. In this reflexive article, we raise concerns regarding this proceduralized practice and present the conceptual groundwork for a flexible approach to visual inquiry that draws concepts and insights from the visual arts. The primary focus is on engaging with insights from Impressionism as a source of insight for a dynamic and subjective orientation towards visual inquiry and comprehension. To ground this orientation, we argue for the relevance of concepts (e.g., memesis, the flâneur, aesthetics) for efforts to extend visual inquiries into social psychology of everyday homelessness.
Online reading lists: Evaluating students experience
(Springer, 2025) Kumara, P.P.N.V.; Hinze, Annika; Vanderschantz, Nicholas; Timpany, Claire
Reading Lists have begun to play an important role in student-centric education. However, there is currently too little information about the students’ experience in the use of the Reading Lists. This paper explores the students’ experience with the Reading Lists, in particular, when accessing electronic materials such as eBooks via a Reading Lists. We conducted a survey using an online questionnaire that comprised multiple choice and open-ended questions for the students who engaged with the Waikato Reading Lists. Thematic analysis was used for the qualitative data obtained from open-ended questions. Students were found to appreciate the way that Reading Lists help in their learning and perceived the Reading Lists to be a useful tool for their learning process. However, their use of Reading Lists features varied due to the lack of awareness, visibility and interaction difficulties. We explore implications for Reading Lists implemented through Digital Libraries and recommend enhancing the usability and the pedagicial features of Reading Lists to increase students’ engagement.
Collage or chaos? Music documentary and the art of audiovisual remediation in Moonage Daydream
(Taylor & Francis, 2026-06-03) Perrott, Lisa
Upon its release in 2022, Brett Morgen’s documentary Moonage Daydream sparked vigorous debate among film reviewers and fans of David Bowie. Many criticisms appear to stem from unmet expectations about what a music documentary might be, along with a dearth of scholarly examination of how the film is situated in relation to experimental approaches to documentary filmmaking. While considering the discursive implications of public commentary about Moonage Daydream, audiovisual analysis is employed to examine the intersection of found footage and avant-garde assemblage strategies, audiovisual aesthetics, and animation. By contextualising Brett Morgen’s approach in relation to experimental approaches to documentary film, I explore Moonage Daydream in relation to the history of found footage film, music documentary, and avant-garde approaches to art. Through multimodal analysis of the film’s audiovisual construction, I explicate Morgen’s use of conceptually driven creative strategies – such as cut-up, bricolage, and remediation. I argue that these methods are not only consistent with the creative-critical agenda of found footage documentary filmmaking, but they also mirror Bowie's creative approach. While situating Moonage Daydream as a valuable example of remediation, contextually informed analysis reveals the creative-critical potential of found footage filmmaking and avant-garde approaches to audiovisual assemblage in music documentary.
The manners of digital distraction: Competing modes of attention and visual citizenship in Bangkok
(Wiley, 2026-05-28) Isaacs, Bronwyn
This paper is a photographic essay focusing on how people navigate the demands of visual citizenship in both virtual and physical spaces. It posits that theories of digital attention often overlook the bodily and specific material worlds where digital attention and distraction occur. Using photos and ethnographic data from public gatherings in Bangkok, Thailand, following the death of King Bhumibol, the paper examines how moral citizenship practices in virtual communities both intersect with and diverge from public manners of the body. The paper argues that while virtual citizenship practices may sometimes take precedence over in-person social practice, enduring manners and modes of attention in public urban spaces nonetheless shape and inform online citizenship behaviors. The paper argues scholars of visual nationalism and digital attention should focus more on physical modes of attention, including rituals and manners expressed through the body.
Tracing taonga trajectories: A methodological framework for indigenous heritage mapping
(Royal Society Te Apārangi, 2026-02-01) Ferrari de Aquino Klemm, Marina; Milne, Charlotte; Brown, Isaac; Ringham, Sandra Lee ; Nelson, Wendy A.
Rangitāhua is a tupuna to Ngāti Kuri and represents the iwi's geographic and ancestral connection to the Pacific. Despite this millennium-long ancestral tie, Ngāti Kuri's access to Rangitāhua has been severed for two centuries. Meanwhile, many European expeditions visited the islands, extracting and distributing natural history taonga across institutions, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. In this context of disconnection, Ngāti Kuri engaged partners to reclaim research leadership over Rangitāhua, leading to the Indigenous-led Te Mana o Rangitāhua program, embedding Māori values and tikanga within the environmental wellbeing research project. This study is part of the program and documents our collaborative approach to identifying expeditions to Rangitāhua, mapping where their taonga and data are held worldwide, and examining institutional responses to our data requests. We identified 127 expeditions that distributed 1.73 million objects across 88 institutions. Our provenance mapping successfully cross-linked specimens to the expeditions that collected them and the institutions that house them today. However, our research also revealed ongoing institutional barriers to data access, emphasizing colonial gatekeeping practices embedded in contemporary museology systems. We stress the urgent need for accessible and reciprocal data request systems if museum practitioners hope to advance the ultimate goal of Indigenous data sovereignty.
Prevalence, trends, and predictors of victimisation and polyvictimisation among children in England and Wales
(SAGE, 2026) Tura, Ferhat; Crivatu, Ioana; Tseloni, Andromachi; Tompson, Lisa
Childhood victimisation and polyvictimisation (experiencing two or more distinct crime types) can have lasting developmental, psychological, and social consequences. Yet there is limited research on victimisation and polyvictimisation in England and Wales using robust data sets. This study addresses this gap by investigating prevalence, trends, and individual, household, and area-level predictors of non-sexual non-familial violence, personal theft, household theft, and criminal damage and polyvictimisation using the 10- to 15-year-old Crime Survey for England and Wales (2011/2012–2019/2020; N = 25,415). A series of binary logistic regressions was performed, supplemented by visualisations. The weighted percentage of children experiencing a single type of victimisation ranged from 1.1% (criminal damage) to 5.8% (violence), while 1.1% were polyvictimised. Although most victimisation types and polyvictimisation declined over the 9-year period, reductions in polyvictimisation varied depending on socioeconomic status. Both individual (sex, ethnicity, disability) and area-level (deprivation) factors predicted polyvictimisation and individual victimisation types. Implications of the findings are discussed.
Factors affecting psychological distance to climate change adaptation: A case of urban communities in Islamabad, Pakistan
(Elsevier, 2026) Waseem, Hassam Bin; Rana, Irfan Ahmad
Psychological distance plays a crucial role in shaping climate risk perception and motivating adaptation actions. Understanding the psychological distance dimensions and the determinants influencing adaptation decisions is therefore essential. This study assesses psychological distance to climate change adaptation across four dimensions: spatial, temporal, social, and hypothetical. Data was collected from three urban communities situated in Islamabad, Pakistan, from a random sample of 600 households. An indicator-based approach, supported by descriptive statistics and the composite index method, was applied to calculate psychological distance and its dimensions. The relationship between the dimensions was examined using Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression was employed to identify socioeconomic determinants. Findings indicate that households perceived a moderate level of psychological distance from climate change impacts at both the community and national levels. They also expressed confidence in adaptation as a protective measure. Spatial and hypothetical dimensions showed moderate distance, whereas temporal and social dimensions reflected relatively lower distance. The results suggest that urban communities hold an uncertain yet receptive stance toward adaptation. Regression analysis revealed that gender and education of the household head significantly and positively influenced psychological distance, highlighting the role of social and educational factors in shaping perceptions. Significant correlations were observed among the four dimensions of psychological distance. The study highlights the importance of reducing psychological distance through targeted awareness and education initiatives. Policymakers should prioritize community-based programs, gender-sensitive outreach, and education-driven campaigns to strengthen motivation and enhance the willingness of urban households to adopt climate change adaptation measures.
Mark making: Asemic art
(2025) Schott, Gareth R.
This set of works reflect an exploration of the expressive capacity of penmanship in a space between script and image. They belong to the practice of 'asemic writing art’ – asemic referring to the lack of specific semantic content or meaning. As an artistic style, asemic works celebrate unhindered explorations of handwriting. Mark Making reflects the unique style, gestures and personal visual vocabulary of the mark maker, a process that is also susceptible to inner states, muscle memory, fatigue, involuntary movements, vision blur and ink flow! While hand-written documents possess less authority and relevance today, the tactile experience of a smooth nib glide, the satisfying weight of a pen and the aesthetic quality of ink on paper has not diminished. This collection is testament to the absorbing practice of placing marks, ticks and dots on paper until they culminate into a recognizable forms.
Women’s and girls’ ADHD diagnosis journeys: A mother-daughter autoethnography
(BMJ, 2026) Wheaton, Belinda; Holland, Poppy
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains underidentified, underdiagnosed and undertreated in women and girls. Research exploring their diagnostic experiences across national contexts is limited, despite an urgent need for experience-based knowledge to address epistemic injustices in healthcare. Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, this study examines the diagnosis journeys of a mother and daughter, both with ADHD. We focus on critical incidents in the daughter’s ADHD/dyslexia diagnosis journey over a decade, spanning childhood to adulthood and two health systems: England and Aotearoa New Zealand. Findings reveal how limited understanding of ADHD in girls/women, combined with co-occurring conditions, contributed to repeated missed or misdiagnoses by teachers, education psychologists, psychiatrists, paediatricians and general practitioners. A network of professionals across health and education settings acted as gatekeepers, often unintentionally hindering access to support. Moreover, the experiential knowledge of both women was frequently sidelined, perpetuating epistemic injustice. We discuss implications for policy and practice and highlight the value of lived experience in addressing systemic barriers to ADHD diagnosis, recognition and understanding for women and girls.
Osobiste i zawodowe rozważania nad wartością Szkoły Lwowsko-Warszawskiej
(Wydawnictwo Academicon, 2025-10-31) Ulatowski, Joseph W.
Rok 2025 stanowi kamień milowy dla Szkoły Lwowsko--Warszawskiej . Obchodzimy 130 . rocznicę jej założenia przez Kazimierza Twardowskiego (1866–1938), ucznia wie-deńskiego filozofa i psychologa Franza Brentana (1838–1917) .Podejście Twardowskiego do zagadnień filozoficznych jest wyjątkowe w historii filozofii, a jego dziedzictwo kon-tynuowali jego uczniowie, każdy na swój indywidualny spo-sób . Choć rocznica ta nie jest obchodzona jako stulecie czy półtorawiecze, które zazwyczaj są okazją do uroczystości, rok ten pozostaje znaczący.
Guest editors’ introduction
(Taylor & Francis, 2025) Ulatowski, Joseph W.; Wright, Cory; Griffith, Aaron; Hernandez, Shawn; Kashtan, David
Introducing the value of truth in the Age of Post-Truth, Sher on Post-Truth, the Invited Commentaries, and the Open Peer Commentaries.
Violence metaphors: A cognitive linguistic study of YouTube breast cancer discourse in New Zealand and Pakistan
(2025) Malik, Sara; Calude, Andreea S.; Ulatowski, Joseph W.
Research largely takes a medical focus, overlooking thoughts and emotions. Studying thoughts and emotions reveals speakers' experiences. Many of us know someone affected by this illness. Understanding their language helps us grasp their experiences more deeply.
Breast cancer talk: A cross-linguistic study of lexical verbs occurring with generic pronoun ‘you’
(2025) Malik, Sara; Calude, Andreea S.; Ulatowski, Joseph W.
Breast cancer discourse is increasingly studied within medical humanities, reflecting a broader interest in illness narratives and patient-centered storytelling (DeShazer, 2005; Frank, 1995). Using a cognitive, usage-based approach, we explore how New Zealand (NZ) English and Pakistani (PK) Urdu speakers use language, particularly metaphor, speech acts, pronouns and verbs to express their cancer experiences on YouTube. This paper focuses on one aspect: the use of lexical verbs following generic second-person pronouns, analysing their semantic patterns which offer insight into how speakers construe illness. Drawing on Payne’s (2011) verb categories and expanding Durst-Andersen et al.’s (2013) classification of state verbs, this study explores the range and types of verbs in both datasets. The data includes 46 narratives from NZ and 36 from PK, posted between 2011 and 2023 by organisations such as the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation and Pink Ribbon Pakistan. These videos were transcribed using Whisper AI and filtered to include only patients’ discourse, then organised into eight narrative topics. A mixed-method approach was used: quantitative analysis with AntConc extracted keyword-in-context (KWIC) instances of you, followed by qualitative analysis to identify generic uses of you and the types of verbs that follow it. The study investigates (a) shared and distinct lexical verbs across datasets, and (b) insights from the most frequent verbs. Preliminary findings show that most verb types are similar across both datasets, with action and state verbs being the most frequently used. Building on Stirling and Manderson’s (2011) findings about the use of generic you pronoun in Australian English, we report that speakers of both NZ English and PK Urdu similarly use generic you, along with state verbs to foster empathy and action verbs to convey credibility and authority in illness narratives. We argue that pronoun-verb pairings function as strategic tools for positioning cancer experiences within speaker narratives.
Higher Education in the Metacrisis: A conversation
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2025) Eames, Chris W.; Estellés, Marta; del Monte, Pablo; Ulatowski, Joseph W.
There are multiple intersecting crises afflicting society, from environmental devastation to the collapse of democracy, from economic exploitation to gratuitous violence, in the so-called “metacrisis.” Universities have both contributed to these crises in various ways, but have also tried to prevent them In this paper, we consider our responses to the metacrisis from our various disciplinary perspectives as four university educators from different scholarly traditions in one institution in Aotearoa New Zealand, We draw from our teaching experiences and our theoretical perspectives to engage in a reflective conversation with each other about how we may address the challenges of the metacrisis. Our conversation illustrates the potential benefits that such reflections, amongst colleagues who are intimately connected to a range of crises, may have to elucidate knowledge, power and performativity, and considers how humility, in a variety of forms, may be important to navigate the metacrisis.
Quantum-resistant timestamping for open science: A non-technical guide
(Taylor & Francis, 2026) Krägeloh, Christian U.; Bartholomew, Emerson J.; Medvedev, Oleg N.
Psychology faces a dual challenge from artificial intelligence (AI): While AI offers powerful research tools, it simultaneously threatens the discipline’s methodological foundations through deepfakes and synthetic data generation. The ability to prove when psychological data, preregistrations, and research protocols genuinely existed has become critical for maintaining scientific integrity, particularly as AI can now fabricate convincing retroactive evidence. These concerns are compounded by the vulnerability of existing open-science platforms to cyberattacks, data loss, or service unavailability, raising broader questions about the reliability and security of current research infrastructure. Together, these threats make robust, independent verification of research records increasingly urgent, especially in the context of psychology’s ongoing replication crisis and open-science reforms. This method article presents a quantum-resistant blockchain timestamping solution for researchers with no technical blockchain knowledge. Using the example of the Algorand blockchain’s Falcon cryptographic signatures – which are understood as being able to withstand both current AI threats and future quantum-computing attacks – we are demonstrating how researchers can create immutable proof that their hypotheses, data collection protocols, and datasets existed at specific times at the cost of a fraction of cent. Through step-by-step instructions, this article enables researchers to implement quantum-resistant timestamping regardless of their technical background. By removing barriers to blockchain-based verification, this method aims to make such protection as routine as current preregistration practices, ultimately establishing a new standard for safeguarding research integrity in the age of AI.
“If it don’t talk, it's not whakapapa data”: Conceptualising whakapapa data in a digital age
(Wiley, 2026-02) Pēpi Tarapa‐Dewes, Ella; Kukutai, Tahu
In Te Ao Māori, whakapapa is a sacred framework that connects all aspects of existence. Whakapapa is highly sensitive information and a taonga that requires active protection. But what can be considered whakapapa data in a digital age where data linkage is ubiquitous and the boundaries between personal and collective information are increasingly blurred? We explore this question through a case study with Ngāti Tiipa, a hapū that is actively engaged in its own data sovereignty research. Reflexive thematic analysis of whānau kōrero identified three types of whakapapa data, each denoting a specific kind of connection: 1) between relatives, both living and deceased; 2) between people and places of cultural significance; and 3) between people and the spiritual realm. Whānau concepts of whakapapa data tend to be context‐specific, suggesting that it is more useful to think of whakapapa data as dynamic and relational rather than a fixed, inherent attribute.
Remediating the art of music video [in Malleable boundaries - Creative modes of practice and inquiry in the Academy]
(University of Waikato, 2024-11-15) Perrott, Lisa; Hill, Rodrigo; Davidson, Cerys
The concept of remediation implies that new media attain cultural distinctiveness by paying homage to, and refashioning earlier media (Bolter & Grusin, 1999). Having explored remediation in my book David Bowie and the Art of Music Video (2023), I extended this project by employing creative practice research to test the flexibility of this concept. The affordances of several mediums and materials were explored to remediate three images from music videos previously analysed for my book. Title of painting #1: Remediating Life On Mars? When directing the music video for Life on Mars? (1973), photographer Mick Rock used 16mm film to remediate the materiality and two dimensionality of Pop Art and Japanese paintings of the Edo period known as Ukiyo-e. As an extension of this process, I experimented with the fluidity of watercolour paint to remediate these artforms in relation to the affordances of music video and still photography. Title of painting #2: Divine Heroes When directing Heroes (1977), Stanley Dorfman sculpted with light and film to remediate Byzantine paintings and sculpture of the Renaissance period. Paying homage to these mediums, and referencing the Divine Mercy paintings of 1934 and 1944, I experimented with the vibrant hues and light-sculpting properties of watercolour paints and gold leaf. Title of painting #3: Ashes to Dada When directing Ashes to Ashes (1980) an accident with camera settings enabled David Bowie and David Mallet to exploit the affordances of videotape, thus producing a unique remediation of avant-garde films of the 1920s. While using watercolour paint to rework the estranged colours and fuzzy materiality of videotape, my use of the cut-up method pays homage to the aleatory process associated with this video, to the Dada movement, and to the artistic process of Tristan Tzara, William Burroughs and David Bowie.
Truth as a cultural value
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2026) Wyatt, Jeremy
Gila Sher (2025) puts forward a theory of truth that is founded on a thought-provoking strategy for thinking about truth’s nature. According to this strategy, in attempting to develop an account of truth’s nature, we should foreground the fact that truth is an intrinsic human value. In this brief commentary, I will argue that truth is best described as a cultural, rather than a human, value. I will then explore the ramifications that this has for Sher’s strategy for thinking about truth’s nature.

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