• The Casketeers and prime-time tangihanga 

  Harrington, Erin (Freerange Press, 2018)

  From tangihanga, DIY funerals and new technologies to funeral poverty, this book explores what a good death might mean today and aims to foster honest conversations about death and dying in New Zealand.

• The Penguin and the Wahine: Shipwrecks, resilience and popular culture 

  McManus R; Blake D; Johnston D (Routledge, 2019)

• Finding variants for construction-based dialectometry: A corpus-based approach to regional CxGs 

  Dunn J (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018)

  This paper develops a construction-based dialectometry capable of identifying previously unknown constructions and measuring the degree to which a given construction is subject to regional variation. The central idea is ...

• Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Towards a Computational Dialectology 

  Dunn J (2019)

  The goal of this paper is to provide a complete representation of regional linguistic variation on a global scale. To this end, the paper focuses on removing three constraints that have previously limited work within ...

• Powerful Norms with Weak and Inconsistent Policy Support: The EU’s normative power and the EUropeanisation of the post-communist Western Balkans 

  Petrovic M (2019)

  Pressured by ‘enlargement fatigue’ of the mid-2000s and multiple economic crises from 2008 onwards, the EU has increased the toughness of the original 1993 Copenhagen accession conditions for new candidates for EU membership ...

• Implications of private sector involvement in providing health care to the elderly : now and in the new millennium 

  Shead, Andrew James (University of Canterbury, 1998)

  This thesis investigates the impediments to access engendered by the government's decision to reduce public funding to health care and incorporate market principles in the financing process. The critique begins with ...

• Stonewalled by the Powerball: Open your books, Lotto 

  Ross T; Treadwell G (Newsroom.co.nz, 2019)

  Given 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, ...

• The ambivalent heroism of Ajax in the Odes of Pindar. 

  Looyer, Natalie M. (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  Ajax appears throughout Greek literature as a hero whose downfall is at odds with his heroic credibility. Ajax is celebrated among the best of the Homeric heroes, but the narratives of his suicide in the lost parts of the ...

• Media practices, language attitudes and sociophonetic variation in Pakistani English. 

  Ali, Arshad (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This dissertation examines media practices, language attitudes and sociophonetic variation among second language speakers of English in Pakistan. A key question is whether speakers’ attitudes and media practices, measured ...

• Towards positive ageing : older people's advocacy in New Zealand, 1970-2001. 

  Williams, Eve E. (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  During the second half of the twentieth century demographic, economic, political and social changes in New Zealand began to transform older people’s lived experience. National organisations such as the National Old People’s ...

• State-led peace building in Aceh, Indonesia : from transition to normalisation (2005-2018). 

  Sustikarini, Amalia (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  Studies of post-conflict peacebuilding have flourished in recent decades. Most, however, focus on cases of externally led peacebuilding in fragile states with weak state institutions and inadequate national funding. By ...

• The Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print 

  Jones C; Bogue S; Michael K; De Jong E (2018)

  Facilitated and curated digital display of Canterbury Roll at Pitts Theology Library; wrote catalogue entry "Section 7: From Parchment to Pixel", pp. 102-103.

• Ask your librarian 

  Bartneck C (2019)

• The persistence of purism: Authenticity in Māori language revitalisation 

  King J (2019)

• The Blue-Grey Wall: (Corpore)oceanographies 

  Harrington EJ (2015)

  This critical, research-supported article was published in conjunction with the online documentation of the exhibition 'The Blue Grey Wall' at the Physics Room as a commentary on and response to the work

• A clash of internationalizations: New Zealand and the Bologna Process 

  Shannon W; Doidge MJ; Holland M (Informa UK Limited, 2019)

  In this paper we examine the normative and strategic impact of the Bologna Process on the New Zealand University system. We argue that, from a normative perspective, Bologna has not resulted in substantive change. Nevertheless, ...

• Sociophonetics of popular music: insights from corpus analysis and speech perception experiments 

  Gibson, Andy M. (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This thesis examines the flexibility and context-sensitivity of speech perception by looking at a domain not often explored in the study of language cognition — popular music. Three empirical studies are presented. The ...

• Troubling Trauma-Informed Policy in Social Work Education: Reflections of Educators and Students in Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Beddoe L; Ballantyne N; Maidment J; Hay K; Walker S (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019)

  Social work education is a contested site in many Western countries where neoliberal governments tend to privilege individual-focused rather than structural, rights-based welfare perspectives and expect curricula to reflect ...

• Ukraine through a Baltic Lens: Operationalising links between images, frames and narratives in International Relations 

  Chaban N; Matheson D; Kenix L (2019)

• A South Pacific horror hot take: pedagogy, media literacy and comparative horror analysis 

  Harrington E (2019)

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