Education, Health and Human Development: Journal Articles
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Gay and Lesbian Collaborative Co-Parenting in New Zealand and the UK: ‘The Law Doesn’t Protect the Third Parent’
(SAGE Publications, 2020)In many jurisdictions, legislation reflects, retains and reiterates heteronormative two-parent models of family. Lesbian and gay individuals and an increasing number of heterosexual individuals who choose to parent outside ... -
Cigarette smoking among university students aged 18-24 years in New Zealand: Results of the first (baseline) of two national surveys
(BMJ, 2019)Objectives: Although the smoking prevalence continues to decline in New Zealand (NZ) overall, little is known about smoking in university students. A 2013 survey of students aged 17-25 years found that 14% were current ... -
Effect of 8 Weeks of Grip Strength Training on Adolescent Sprint Swimming: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(2020)Objectives: Grip strength positively correlates with faster sprint swimming performance in both master and elite level swimmers. But it remains unknown whether improving grip strength improves swim performance. Our ... -
The explanatory role of facets of dispositional mindfulness and negative beliefs about worry in anxiety symptoms
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Dispositional mindfulness (DM) has been linked to a number of mental health outcomes, including anxiety. Metacognitive models of anxiety posit that an individual's negative beliefs about the danger and uncontrollability ... -
Learning as transformation in the development of expertise by elite indigenous Australian athletes
(Montenegrin Sports Academy, 2018)This article addresses the lack of attention paid to research on the development of Indigenous sporting expertise from a socio-cultural perspective. It inquires into the role that informal games played in the development ... -
Developing ‘good buggers’: global implications of the influence of culture on New Zealand club rugby coaches’ beliefs and practice
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)Despite recognition of how experience shapes sport coaches’ beliefs and practice empirical investigation into how this occurs is limited. This article redresses this gap in the literature by presenting the findings of a ... -
The experience of teaching using a game based approach: Teachers as learners, collaborators and catalysts
(SAGE Publications, 2018)This study focuses on the analysis of collective meaning associated with secondary physical education teachers’ (n = 12) experiences of teaching games using a game based approach (GBA). Participants taught in one of two ... -
Improved contraceptive use among women and men in Uganda between 1995-2016: A repeated cross-sectional population study.
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)BACKGROUND: Research on contraceptive behaviour changes over time in Uganda is scarce, yet it has among the highest fertility and maternal mortality rates of any country in the East African region. Understanding temporal ... -
The influence of early life experiences on English and Australian Super League coaches’ learning
(Informa UK Limited, 2020)This article focuses on the influence of early life experiences and socio-cultural context on coach learning in the sport of rugby league. It draws on the findings of a study that investigated the influence of cultural ... -
The status of Te Ātiawa histories of place in Port Nicholson Block (Wellington, Hutt Valley) secondary schools: Some research findings
(2009)This article outlines the research methodology and some key findings from my doctoral research project (Manning, 2008), which examined the status of Te Atiawa histories of place in Port Nicholson Block secondary schools' ... -
Leading schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand: Understanding and supporting the weight of culture for Māori teachers
(Exeley, Inc., 2018)Leading schools in Aotearoa New Zealand is a critical role. In a bicultural country, a key aspect of this role is developing a school ethos where culturally responsive practices are strongly embedded. Frequently, this ... -
Narratives of Place and Land: Teaching Indigenous Histories in Australian and New Zealand Teacher Education
(Edith Cowan University, 2018)This article offers a trans-Tasman critique of approaches to the teaching of history in New Zealand and Australia. Taking knowledge out of place and time and presenting it in textbooks is a conflicted task for schooling ... -
Exploring the benefits and risks of mentor self-disclosure: relationship quality and ethics in youth mentoring
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)Evidence shows that self-disclosure plays an important role in developing and maintaining close interpersonal relationships. As self-disclosure remains largely unexamined in the context of interventions based on youth-adult ... -
Making space for kaupapa Māori within the academy
(2008)Eketone’s target article, ‘The theoretical underpinnings of Kaupapa Māori directed practice’ makes a significant contribution to a nascent literature on Kaupapa Māori theory. He offers a model that integrates Critical ... -
Using small world toys for research: a method for gaining insight into children’s lived experiences of school
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)The importance of children’s perspectives is now well-established and there has been much attention afforded to appropriate methods for listening to children within research. Whilst language-based research methods, such ... -
Intensive care nurse-family engagement from a global perspective: A qualitative multi-site exploration
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Background: Critical illness is distressing for families, and often results in negative effects on family health that influence a family's ability to support their critically ill family member. Although recent attention ... -
Targeting human milk fortification to improve very preterm infant growth and brain development: study protocol for Nourish, a single-center randomized, controlled clinical trial.
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)Human milk is recommended for very preterm infants, but its variable macronutrient content may contribute to undernutrition during a critical period in development. We hypothesize that individually targeted human milk ...
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