Browse
Recent Submissions
Item Open Access An Analysis of Young Adults in New Zealand's Engagement with All Right Mental Health Campaigns(2022) Williams, GeorgiaThis analysis employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches to identify how young adults in New Zealand aged 18-25 years old have engaged with All Right? campaign material. A survey targeting young adults returned 51 viable out of 117 responses due to participation prerequisites. From the survey, five participants elaborated on their thoughts in an in-depth interview voluntarily. Interviews were conducted with key personnel from All Right? to craft broader understanding of the initiative whilst enhancing knowledge of mental health frameworks and their application. Ciaran Fox, Lucy Daeth and Sara Epperson, who have been imperative to the success of the campaign, shared their working experience in the community and public health sector and how this intertwines to their current roles at All Right?. Discussions of key frameworks, community conversations, the development of communication strategies and how All Right? approached Canterbury publics in a post-earthquake setting provided insight to the importance of understanding community circumstance in initial crisis and the correlated secondary stressors.Item Open Access Work Active: Supporting the "forgotten learners" in their journey to work(2019) Grant J; Cook T-A; Perez-y-Perez, Maria-VictoriaThe aim of the Work Active project is to develop a practice framework for an internship-based employment training programme for people with an intellectual disability. The intention is to develop a learning programme that combines a classroom component with workplace experience (in the form of an internship). Importantly, this project sets out to develop a teaching and learning model and toolkit based on a collaborative approach that maximises the potential for sustainable employment outcomes for people with an intellectual disability. This includes the development of a set of resources that meet the learning needs of adults with an intellectual disability to help build confidence and motivation, develop job specific skills, together with a range of soft skills. In addition, it is hoped that the toolkit developed for this project will be integrated into on-going services of SkillWise and similar service providers.Item Open Access Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 2/2019-20(2020) Mtchedlishvili D; Wilson G; Petrovic, MilenkoThe two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern Partnership countries: General macroeconomic and social trends in the region and their impact on NZ trade, tourism and its sociocultural and people-to-people links with the Balkan and the Eastern Partnership countries; Socio-political conditions and developments in the respective countries with regard to intra-regional cooperation and progress in democratisation and the European integration process. Particular attention will be paid to providing an overview of the current state of play as regards the Western Balkan states’ attempts to meet the official political and socio-economic conditions for EU accession, EU relations with the Eastern Partnership countries, and the latter’s progress in democratisation and in complying with the socio-political and economic requirements of the Eastern Partnership programme.Item Open Access Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 1/2019-20(2020) Wang X; Wilson G; Petrovic, MilenkoThe two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern Partnership countries: General macroeconomic and social trends in the region and their impact on NZ trade, tourism and its sociocultural and people-to-people links with the Balkan and the Eastern Partnership countries; Socio-political conditions and developments in the respective countries with regard to intra-regional cooperation and progress in democratisation and the European integration process. Particular attention will be paid to providing an overview of the current state of play as regards the Western Balkan states’ attempts to meet the official political and socio-economic conditions for EU accession, EU relations with the Eastern Partnership countries, and the latter’s progress in democratisation and in complying with the sociopolitical and economic requirements of the Eastern Partnership programme.Item Open Access Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 2/2018-19 (Socio-Political Conditions and Developments)(National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, 2019) Mtchedlishvili D; Wilson G; Petrovic, MilenkoThe two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern Partnership countries: General macroeconomic and social trends in the region and their impact on NZ trade, tourism and its socio-cultural and people-to-people links with the Balkan and the Eastern Partnership countries; Socio-political conditions and developments in the respective countries with regard to intra-regional cooperation and progress in democratisation and the European integration process. Particular attention will be paid to providing an overview of the current state of play as regards the Western Balkan states’ attempts to meet the official political and socio-economic conditions for EU accession, EU relations with the Eastern Partnership countries, and the latter’s progress in democratisation and in complying with the socio-political and economic requirements of the Eastern Partnership programme.Item Open Access Jean Monnet Chair Dr Milenko Petrovic, Policy Briefs Series: Developments in South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Partnership Countries, Brief No 1/2018-19 (General socio-economic trends and relations with New Zealand)(National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, 2019) Wang X; Wilson G; Petrovic, MilenkoThe two policy briefs that this Jean Monnet Chair will issue annually for the period September 2017 – September 2020 will cover the following aspects of the contemporary developments of the Balkan States and the Eastern Partnership countries: General macroeconomic and social trends in the region and their impact on NZ trade, tourism and its socio-cultural and people-to-people links with the Balkan and the Eastern Partnership countries; Socio-political conditions and developments in the respective countries with regard to intra-regional cooperation and progress in democratisation and the European integration process. Particular attention will be paid to providing an overview of the current state of play as regards the Western Balkan states’ attempts to meet the official political and socio-economic conditions for EU accession, EU relations with the Eastern Partnership countries, and the latter’s progress in democratisation and in complying with the sociopolitical and economic requirements of the Eastern Partnership programme.Item Open Access Artists' Books in UC Collections: A Scoping Study(2014) Garrie, Barbara; Davis, SophieArtists' Books in UC Collections: A Scoping Study, undertaken as part of the University of Canterbury Summer Scholarship Scheme, provides the foundation for a larger project by the Department of Art History and Theory. This ongoing research initiative will investigate the place of artists' books within UC collections, and explore ways in which the collection and display of these objects can be enhanced through innovative collaborations with the Digital Humanities, librarians and external partners.Item Open Access Stonewalled by the Powerball: Open your books, Lotto(Newsroom.co.nz, 2019) Ross T; Treadwell GGiven the sums of money involved – and the sheer reach of state-run gambling – we wanted to look more closely at Lotto NZ’s operation. In a collaboration between AUT and the University of Canterbury journalism programmes, and with partners from the US, we attempted to map Lotto NZ’s growth and impact. We were particularly interested in analysing which areas of the country had the largest growth in Lotto outlets (our US partners had found in their study, for instance, that the biggest growth in their region had been in poor communities of colour). We were also interested in measuring the extent to which lotteries money was being disbursed back to the communities that spent it. Were the communities that spent the most on lottery products getting the most from the NZ Lottery Grants Board?Item Open Access The Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print(2018) Jones C; Bogue S; Michael K; De Jong EFacilitated and curated digital display of Canterbury Roll at Pitts Theology Library; wrote catalogue entry "Section 7: From Parchment to Pixel", pp. 102-103.Item Open Access Kia Piki Ake Te Mana Tāngata— Review of the WEAG Tikanga Framework(Ministry of Social Development, 2019) McMeeking S; Kahi H; Kururangi G; Maurice EItem Open Access Implementing He Ara Waiora in alignment with the Living Standards Framework and Whānau Ora: recommendatory report (Draft)(2019) McMeeking S; Kahi H; Kururangi GEXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Prime Minister has committed government to increasing the consideration of wellbeing across all policy, with an expectation that policy processes and priorities will evolve to better achieve wellbeing outcomes and enable greater governmental accountability for those outcomes. The policy infrastructure supporting this commitment is under development, and arguably includes four key initiatives at this time: • The Living Standards Framework (LSF), which aims to provide a high level framework for measuring and analysing intergenerational wellbeing; • Whānau Ora outcomes, which aim to articulate dimensions of Māori wellbeing and that Te Puni Kōkiri has recommended an overlay of the LSF; • Indicators Aotearoa, led by Statistics New Zealand, which aims to identify a comprehensive suite of wellbeing indicators; • Various departmental and issue specific approaches to identifying the dimensions of wellbeing, many of which include a distinct or integrated reflection of tikanga Māori. It appears these four types of work are being progressed in parallel, with less than optimal co-ordination between the work streams, as well as ambiguity about the respective objectives and potential operation of the frameworks. This report aims to provide a view on a potential relationship between the prominent frameworks: the LSF, Whānau Ora and He Ara Waiora. He Ara Waiora emerged as an issue specific wellbeing framework, specific to the tax system, but has since evolved into a framework that aims to reflect a mātauranga Māori sourced approach to the concept of wellbeing that can be implemented as a comprehensive framework to measure and analyse intergenerational wellbeing. The report argues that while all three frameworks have merit as a way of understanding, measuring and analysing wellbeing, we believe there should be consideration of using He Ara Waiora as the parent framework that the LSF, Whānau Ora and Indicators Aotearoa are integrated within. Our rationale includes: • That the LSF, while it is supported by OECD precedents, has a reductive and fragmentary approach to identifying the dimensions of wellbeing. We consider a framework that provides aspirational direction, while also including practicable elements to guide policy development, is preferrable. • We consider that He Ara Waiora provides such direction to the concept of wellbeing, and importantly, provides guidance as to the inter-relationship between the dimensions of wellbeing. • We strongly emphasise that it is not possible to retain the integrity of mātauranga based approaches to wellbeing if the LSF is the parent framework, due to the inherent relationality within mātauranga that the LSF will inevitably and improperly disaggregate. • We also recognise that adopting He Ara Waiora as a parent framework for wellbeing would be a bold step for Aotearoa New Zealand, but we consider that if carefully approached it would be of high value to all New Zealanders. We also note that He Ara Waiora is currently an incomplete framework that requires further development and a wider engagement process. He Ara Waiora to date has been developed through a principled engagement process with Māori that we consider is the best example of government partnering with Māori. The critical element has been that pūkenga Māori have driven the design of the model and have effectively been ‘incubating the framework’. We strongly recommend that Māori continue to incubate the model, supported by The Treasury, and that if there is subsequent engagement with Māori on He Ara Waiora that the engagement process is led by the pūkenga Māori involved in the design. We caution that if either of these elements are disregarded that He Ara Waiora will have a fatal loss of legitimacy within the Māori community and that the LSF will be exposed to concerted Māori criticism as failing to appropriately recognise Māori concepts of wellbeing.Item Open Access He Ara Waiora : background paper on the development and content of He Ara Waiora(2019) McMeeking S; Kahi H; Kururangi GTikanga Māori Approach to Wellbeing to inform the Living Standards Framework He Ara Waiora is potentially internationally significant as a model for measuring and analysing wellbeing, sourced in mātauranga Māori. This report aims to serve as a comprehensive source document on the development of He Ara Waiora, containing an overview of the development of the model and some indicative approaches to implementing He Ara Waiora as a macro wellbeing framework to guide government policy as well as monitoring the state of wellbeing over time.Item Open Access Second chances: a report on employing offenders in Canterbury(2019) Gilbert J; Elley B; Best TThose who have offending histories face significant barriers to employment. • Prison was found to have an extremely limiting effect on employability, with 16.8% (n=35) of respondents saying that they would not hire a former prisoner, 29.2% (n=61) reporting that they would be much less likely to hire, and only 17.2% (n=36) reporting that they would treat them the same as other applicants. • Non-custodial sentences were found to have a similar, but lesser effect. Those who had been given only a sentence such as community service were much more likely to be treated equally, with 45.5% reporting that they would be treated the same as a normal applicant. • Different types of offending were found to have significantly different impacts on employability. Driving and minor drug offenses had only a limited effect on employability, while violence and dishonesty considerably inhibited employment. Sexual offending and violence resulting in a death were found to make employment almost impossible, with only a small minority saying that they would consider hiring an offender who had committed those crimes. • Only 65.6% (n=139) of employers said that they would consider hiring an offender, indicating that the range of jobs available for offenders is significantly restricted. • Half of businesses check criminal records during the hiring process, and those who check criminal records were less likely to consider employing an offender, with 58.7% (n=64) of employers who check criminal records reporting that they would consider hiring an offender in the future, compared with 71.4% (n=74) of those who do not check criminal records. These barriers to employment were not proportionate to job performance. • Those with offending histories were generally found to be satisfactory employees, with employers who had hired an offender rating offenders’ job performance as being only slightly less than an average non-offending employee. • Employers were found to be most concerned about managing risk to business, staff, and customers when making hiring decisions, and were concerned that the time and resources required to train a new employee might be wasted when hiring someone with an offending history. The support options that were the most valuable were those that helped employers to be confident that hiring someone with an offending history was a worthwhile investment. • The support options that employers were most interested in were those which would help them to be sure that an offender was ready for work, had work skills, and had support in place to ensure that they would not return to offending. • Significantly, these were preferred over options which offered simple financial assistance (such as wage subsidy, a free work period, and cost reimbursement), indicating that the cost of wages is not always a primary concern when making hiring decisions.Item Open Access RESEARCH BRIEFING ON EQC IN THE PRESS(2019) Ford, GeoffreyThis research briefing reports on the key findings of a computer-assisted text analysis of records from The Press newspaper related to the Earthquake Commission (EQC) from 2010 to 2019. The briefing has been prepared as a submission to the Public Inquiry into the Earthquake Commission. The aim of producing this research briefing is to provide the Public Inquiry with preliminary findings of a large-scale overview of media coverage on EQC and to identify and quantify key features and trends in public discourse about EQC over time. This research, which aggregates many stories and voices over time, offers a unique lens to view how EQC has been collectively represented, understood and experienced by the people of Canterbury.Item Open Access Recommendatory Report on a Tikanga Framework for the Taxation System(The Treasury, 2018) McMeeking SM; Kahi H; Kururangi G; Williams MThis document summarises responses from a process designed to test the suitability of the draft tikanga framework for the taxation system. The central themes in the responses were: • That Treasury is to be commended for both their aspirations and endeavours to develop a tikanga framework; • That there is merit in the current approach, but that there needs to be more work to develop it into an integrated and sound tikanga framework. In the view of participants, a tikanga framework needs to have inter-related purposive and performance elements which the current framework does not yet have. On the basis of the testing process, Aotahi recommends that: • The draft tikanga framework is not released as a ‘tikanga framework’ on the grounds that it requires more development; • If it is considered important to release the framework, we believe it may be more appropriate to describe it as a preliminary values based approach for the taxation system; and • That further developmental work on the tikanga framework includes the following: o Deeper exploration of tikanga as it applies to the collection and distribution of resources for the public good; o More detailed consideration of the alignment between purposive and performance elements of the tikanga framework, with particular consideration of the cascading relationship between kawa, tikanga, ritenga and āhuatanga, as well as the relationship between the tax framework and the living standards framework; and o Further engagement with academics and practitioners to test the framework as it develops.Item Open Access Was 2016 a Realigning Election?(2016) Tan AC; Clark C; Ho, CItem Open Access Insights on Māori Social Enterprise 2017- Pakihi What Kaupapa(Te Puni Kōkiri, 2017) McMeeking SM; Grant, W; Melrose, UnaikiThis resource has been prepared by Te Puni Kōkiri to provide insight and share initial findings from Te Puni Kōkiri commissioned research and evaluation of Māori social enterprise in Aotearoa. These insights are intended to contribute to a wider discussion around the kinds of supports the Government should focus on and invest in to grow Māori social enterprise, as part of its commitment to He kai kei aku ringa – the Crown-Māori Economic Growth Partnership. The insights in this report are primarily sourced from: › Māori Social Enterprise – A preliminary scoping and needs analysis completed for Te Puni Kōkiri by Maui Lab at the University of Canterbury (unpublished). The lead author is Sacha McMeeking, supported by William Grant and Unaiki Melrose. This report was commissioned to better understand what Māori social enterprise is in Aotearoa and inform key stakeholders about designing programmes and policy settings that could support Māori social enterprise development. › Te Hiringa Hononga Community Social Enterprise Programme: 2017 Evaluation Report (unpublished). Prepared by Dr Adrian Field, Debbie Goodwin and Louise Were. Te Hiringa Hinonga Community Social Enterprise Programme was an investment pilot initiative to build the capability of Māori social enterprises in Te Tairāwhiti and Te Taitokerau in 2016/17. The pilot was trialled in both regions, of which have high Māori populations to support the growth of Māori social enterprise capability.Item Open Access Report of the Committee Established to Review the Faculty of Arts at the University of Samoa, 2014(2014) Millar P; Hume E; Tuimalealiifano M; Lowry J; Grey SItem Open Access “Be there with us”: An appreciative inquiry into supporting culturally diverse dementia-care workers as learners(2014) Gilmour KL; Gee S; Scott-Multani M; Medina G; Croucher M; Evans NItem Open Access Fundamental Ambiguity – The Failure of Compromise during the American Secession Crisis(University of Canterbury. History, 2014) Paterson, LuisThis dissertation examines the key attempts at reaching compromise between the secessionists of the Southern States and the Republican administration of Abraham Lincoln during the Secession Crisis of 1860-61. The question of why compromise failed to prevent the Civil War is analysed first in the context of the Secession Crisis itself. Then, the nature of an American compromise and Constitutional liberty is defined with the work of philosopher George Santayana, and an overview of the three main phases of historiography, traditionalist, revisionist, and post-revisionist, is provided. After that, the two main strands of reasoning behind the long-term failure of compromise, the idea that the North and South developed irreconcilable sectional differences that could not be compromised over, and the pervasion of dualistic moral abstractions preventing reasoned discussion of political issues, are elucidated on. Ultimately, it is argued that the failure to reach an enduring compromise stemmed from fundamental ambiguity in the Constitution, particularly in regards to slavery.
- «
- 1 (current)
- 2
- 3
- »