http://hdl.handle.net/10092/652 2013-04-16T19:22:13Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6118 Title: Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Judges' Report 2007 Authors: Millar, P.; Rout, M.; Larsen, D. Abstract: Report on the finalist and winners of the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards from the judges. I was convening judge and prepared the report with input from my fellow judges. Description: This report was distributed at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards dinner and posted on the Booksellers New Zealand web site for over a year. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5367 Title: Peer Support Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand Authors: Scott, A.L.; Doughty, C.; Kahi, H. Abstract: This study was based on individual or group interviews with peer supporters and peer support managers, conducted at fourteen peer support services around Aotearoa New Zealand. The services were based in ten organisations which vary on a number of dimensions, such as size, whether it is consumer-led, organisational structure, services offered, and type of peer support used. Each participant in the twelve mainstream services took part in two individual interviews, one focused on peer support relationships and the other focused on policy and practice. In the two kaupapa Māori services, a tikanga [correct procedure or custom]based group interview process was held over a period of two days. The study was approved by the Multi-Regional Health and Disability Committee of New Zealand. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5258 Title: Peer Support Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand Authors: Scott, A.L.; Doughty, C.; Kahi, H. Abstract: Recovery and peer support: Every District Health Board in Aotearoa New Zealand currently offers some form of peer support, even if in small amounts. This is part of a growing commitment to place ‘recovery’ at the heart of the mental health system. There are two types of recovery in relation to mental illness. The first is recovery in the sense of restoring previous functioning and reducing symptoms. Peer support operates with recovery in its second meaning, which comes out of the civil rights, independent living and mental health consumers’ movements. This understanding of recovery makes the powerful claim that, regardless of the symptoms one may be experiencing, everybody has the right and the possibility of living well. Recovery in this sense is inherently political, and has a multi-layered meaning. It might be seen as a synonym for ‘deep learning’. Recovery doesn’t usually ‘just happen’. The conditions and environment for this form of recovery have to be actively created. This is a role that peer support plays, within the recovery orientated services of the mental health sector as a whole. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3623 Title: Sustainable Collaborative Research Activities: A System’s Approach to the implementation of e- Conferencing for Lower Carbon Footprint Authors: Allan, M. Abstract: The growing need for environmentally sustainable remote collaborative research is often addressed using the ‘if you build it they will come’ model, where the provision of e-conferencing technology is believed to instigate changes in practices and the replacement of face-to-face meetings with virtual ones. More comprehensive approaches where nontechnical variables were addressed tended to follow a binary trend which classified variables as drivers and barriers. The report challenges these approaches arguing that there is a need to break away from any binary models, and that processes of adopting technology should be viewed as complex systems comprised of interdependent relationships between various factors. The report describes the findings of a one year project which set out to identify the technical and non technical variables entailed in the process of uptake, and chart the routes through which they interrelate. Emerging from this work is a System’s approach based analysis of uptake processes where variables entailed are perceived as participants in subsystems within a greater system embracing the process as a whole. Acknowledging the strategic difficulties entailed in implementing such an approach, the report proposes a new method which enables decision makers attempting to implement econferencing tools to prioritise clusters of factors aggregated into subsystems. The prioritisation of subsystems is achieved through the adoption of concepts from Social Network Analysis (SNA), and illustrated using Graph Theory techniques. The method enables to administer the implementation process in manageable yet interconnected parts of a multi factor system. The report concludes that the method described here can serve as a generic model for the implementation of diverse innovations and the introduction of changes to practice and culture they prompt. Description: Post-doctoral project report 2009 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z