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Operationalising bicultural practice with Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: Registered psychologists' experiences, approaches, and challenges
(The University of Waikato, 2026) Wilson, Alice; Mohi , Simone R.
Registered psychologists in Aotearoa New Zealand are required under Te Tiriti o Waitangi to integrate Māori worldviews and culturally responsive practices into their therapeutic work. However, empirical research examining how psychologists operationalise bicultural practice in everyday clinical settings remains limited. This qualitative study addressed two research questions: (1) How do psychologists operationalise bicultural principles in their psychological practice? and (2) What are the biggest challenges psychologists have experienced in engaging in bicultural practice? Semi structured interviews were conducted with 24 registered psychologists, and results were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Eight themes were identified: (1) Prioritising Whakawhanaungatanga, (2) Client-Centred Cultural Responsiveness, (3) Te Whare Tapa Whā as a Fundamental Framework, (4) Cultural Practices Integration, (5) Ongoing Commitment to Preparation and Learning, (6) Fear and Anxiety as Barriers to Engagement, (7) Barriers to Engagement: Bicultural Training and Educational Preparation, and (8) Navigating Practitioner Positionality and Client Cultural Identity Complexity. Together, these findings illustrate how psychologists are actively incorporating bicultural practice across diverse clinical settings while navigating systemic, educational, and personal barriers. Results are discussed within the He Awa Whiria (Braided Rivers) framework, with implications for training, professional standards, and the ongoing development of bicultural psychological practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Improving diabetes self-management in Māori communities: The use of behaviour skills training with continuous glucose monitoring
(The University of Waikato, 2025) Laird, Nikcarla; Blackmore, Tania Louise; Nankivell, Rewi
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic health condition characterised by irregularities in the production and processing of insulin. Within the New Zealand context, diabetes disproportionately affects the Māori population more than non-Māori. Self-management of diabetes relies heavily on individual behaviours to manage the condition, which can be challenging for individuals to effectively achieve on a daily basis. Due to the higher proportion of Māori who suffer from diabetes, there is a need for culturally tailored and effective interventions to support diabetes self-management. This aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of behaviour skills training (BST) to improve diabetes selfmanagement behaviours for two Māori participants who use continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices. The study integrated an applied behaviour analysis (ABA) intervention in BST and a Kaupapa Māori approach where tikanga Māori was weaved into the four components of BST. A task analysis was curated to score the correct procedure of applying a CGM device, with the goal of improving the participants self-management and overall health, aiming toward an improved quality of life. BST combined with a Kaupapa Māori approach was an effective tool for improving diabetes self-management for Māori participants who use CGM, highlighting the need for culturally responsive interventions in healthcare as well as acknowledging the effectiveness of a behavioural approach to medicine.
Data stream analytics
(MDPI, 2023) Aguilar-Ruiz, Jesus S.; Bifet, Albert; Gama, João
The human brain works in such a complex way that we have not yet managed to decipher its functional mysteries. It has five main channels that act as information input: the senses. Sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch generate information that flows from their corresponding receptors, i.e., the eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and skin, that help us understand the world around us. In short, the brain transforms information flows into knowledge and has the ability to store it for later use, i.e., it learns and memorizes.
The interplay of the entrepreneurship ecosystem, collective entrepreneurship, and civic wealth creation in the tourism and agricultural sectors: A Sri Lankan perspective
(The University of Waikato, 2026) Gajanayaka, Channa; Pavlovich, Kathryn; Sinha, Paresha N.
Entrepreneurship research frequently treats entrepreneurship ecosystems, collective entrepreneurship, and civic wealth creation as parallel or pairwise explanations, leaving limited understanding of how these domains interact, generate reinforcing (or weakening) feedback, and co-evolve over time, particularly in emerging-economy contexts where institutional coordination is uneven and entrepreneurial practice is routinely shaped by shocks and livelihood insecurity. This thesis addresses that gap by developing the Triadic Synergy Model (TSM), an original, mechanism-based analytical lens that specifies reciprocal influence and feedback among Entrepreneurship Ecosystems (EE), Collective Entrepreneurship (CE), and Civic Wealth Creation (CWC), while conceptualizing Individualistic Entrepreneurship (IE) as a cross-cutting constraining practice logic that dampens triadic coupling. Empirically, the study adopts a qualitative multiple-case design focused on Sri Lanka’s tourism and agricultural sectors, drawing on semi-structured interviews with SME entrepreneurs, conducted primarily in participants’ mother tongue, with follow-up interviews and iterative thematic analysis and cross-case comparison to identify mechanisms, boundary conditions, and sectoral patterning. Findings show that CE is not a generic claim of “working together” but an achieved coordination capability: synergy emerges when participation is sustained and governance is credible. Under these conditions, CE enhances EE functioning by translating ecosystem supports into usable capacity (e.g., shared infrastructures, pooled learning routines, and collective voice) and can catalyze civic endowments when collective enterprise is organized around inclusion, stakeholder participation, and community capability building. EE is experienced less as a static set of “elements” than as workable access points (e.g., regulatory and procedural infrastructure, skills, finance, market channels, and shared resource pools) that condition day-to-day continuity and shape whether collective arrangements and civic pathways can persist. CWC is evidenced as multidimensional endowment creation and, in necessity-driven settings, as a survival and resilience pathway; however, civic wealth durability depends on participation infrastructures and credible support regimes rather than enterprise goodwill alone. Across the triad, boundary conditions are systematic: low trust, role ambiguity, opportunism concerns, politicization, and survival-first constraints weaken CE and narrow civic outcomes, interrupting the reinforcing loops the TSM specifies. By sector, tourism exhibits more consistent triadic reinforcement due to higher interdependence and more visible participation infrastructures, whereas agriculture shows stronger IE resistance, coordination fragility, and weaker feedback channels, yielding more constrained and discontinuous reinforcing pathways. By integrating Active Influence and Reactive Adaptation logics, the thesis advances a contingent, governance-sensitive explanation of when ecosystem supports translates into durable collective capability and when entrepreneurial activity produces civic wealth that consolidates over time in emerging-economy sectors.
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.