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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Standards of care for the health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8
(Informa UK Limited, 2022-08-19)Background: Transgender healthcare is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. In the last decade, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number and visibility of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people ... -
Interim guidance on the use of new sea-level rise projections
(Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand, 2022)The recently updated future projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2021–22 confirm that sea-level rise is accelerating. The updated projections show an increase in projected sea-level rise ... -
Quality of life, quality of business, and destinations of recent graduates: fields of study matter
(Springer, 2022)One of the main challenges facing non-metropolitan regions is the attraction and retention of highly-educated young people. A loss of the brightest can lead to reduced business creation, innovation, growth and community ... -
Patient-reported diagnostic intervals to colorectal cancer diagnosis in the Midland region of New Zealand: a prospective cohort study
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Background and objectives New Zealand (NZ) has high rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) but low rates of early detection. The majority of CRC is diagnosed through general practice, where lengthy diagnostic intervals are ... -
Hidden hunger in a land of plenty: Food insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand
(2022)Aotearoa New Zealand is a relatively wealthy, food-producing nation. Yet, increasing numbers of the populace are experiencing food insecurity, hidden hunger, and material hardship. More than an individual issue, ensuring ... -
"I teach them. I have no choice": experiences of primary care among transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(2022)AIM: This study aims to report primary care experiences among transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand based on quantitative and qualitative data from a nationwide community-based survey of transgender people. METHODS: ... -
Did the post-1986 decline in the homeownership rate benefit the New Zealand labour market? A spatial-econometric exploration
(2020)The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian ... -
Environmentally smart contracts for artists using NFTs
(2021)This presentation discusses the environmentally smart contracts for artists using NFTs -
Living standards, wellbeing, and Public Policy
(2021)It has been five years since the publication of the Treasury paper that first set out its Living Standards Framework (LSF) (Treasury 2011). Since then, the LSF has become an increasingly central part of Treasury’s strategic ... -
Clinician knowledge of driving restrictions following a stroke event.
(2021)AIM: To investigate the knowledge and practice of health professionals when advising persons on driving restrictions after a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or stroke in a tertiary hospital in New Zealand. METHODS: ... -
Testing filter term performance in PsycINFO to identify evidence syntheses in crime reduction, using the relative recall method
(Springer, 2019)Objectives To test filter term performance against an original search strategy to identify evidence syntheses with a crime reduction outcome in the PsycINFO database, with a view to maximising efficiency and/or effectiveness ... -
Bubbles and lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand: the language of self-isolation in #Covid19NZ tweets.
(2022-07-27)In March 2020, as cases of COVID-19 were found in Aotearoa New Zealand, the government moved to eliminate community transmission of the virus through self-isolation. During this month, as the population discussed if, when ... -
Cultural safety for LGBTQIA+ people: A narrative review and implications for health care in Malaysia
(2022)LGBTQIA+ people in Malaysia constitute a marginalised population as they are subjected to cisheterosexism that permeates every layer of society. Cisheterosexist ideologies in Malaysia find their eligibility on secular and ... -
Relationships between offenders’ crime locations and different prior activity locations as recorded in Police data
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Understanding the relationships between individual offenders’ crime locations and their prior activity locations is important to enable individual level predictions to support crime prevention and investigation strategies. ... -
China's media diplomacy in the South China Sea disputes. Case studies of the Scarborough Shoal stand-off and the oil rig crisis
(Amsterdam University Press, 2022)The Scarborough Shoal stand-off and the oil rig crisis hold symbolic value to the Chinese. During the crises, China’s sovereignty claims over the South China Sea have been recounted several times. As the way that the Chinese ... -
Improving spatial data in health geographics: a practical approach for testing data to measure children's physical activity and food environments using Google Street View
(BMC, 2021)Background Geographic information systems (GIS) are often used to examine the association between both physical activity and nutrition environments, and children’s health. It is often assumed that geospatial datasets are ... -
COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later, we extended this line of ... -
Self as one and many narratives
(2021)There are different approaches to the narrative self. I limit myself to one approach that argues narratives have an important role to play in our lives without it being true that a narrative constitutes and creates the ... -
Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation
(Wiley, 2022)Human agency is seen as a critical component of adaptive capacity concerning environmental change. This capacity may entail social actor's ability to learn from past experience, and create opportunities in the present for ... -
Sex differences in outcomes from mild traumatic brain injury eight years post-injury.
(2022)The long-term effects of mild TBI (mTBI) are not well understood, and there is an ongoing debate about whether there are sex differences in outcomes following mTBI. This study examined i) symptom burden and functional ...
