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“We’re looking out through a window to a field of weeds and sand and stones”: The Stadium Broadcast, a Radio Memorial
(SAGE Publications, 2018)This paper explores the scope of small-scale radio to create an auditory geography of place. It focuses on the short term art radio project The Stadium Broadcast, which was staged in November 2014 in an earthquake-damaged ... -
Journalistic boundary work at a time of professional crisis
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2016)This research explores how news bloggers and mainstream news journalists discursively constructed the doxa of journalism, as well as their own efforts to reinscribe their activities as being positioned inside or outside ... -
Cultivating the Cultural Memory of Ranunculus Paucifolius T. Kirk, a South Island Subalpine Buttercup.
(ANU Press, 2017)Building from an idea outlined in Libby Robin’s landmark study How a Continent Created a Nation (2007), this article traces shifting European attitudes towards Ranunculus paucifolius, a rare subalpine buttercup, from ... -
We wanted to choose us: how embryo donors choose recipients for their surplus embryos
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)© 2018 Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology. Objective: This study aimed to explore factors affecting donors’ choice of recipients for their surplus embryos in the New Zealand context of conditional, known ... -
One Belt, Competing Metaphors: The Struggle Over Strategic Narrative in English-Language News Media
(2018)This article studies the reception by English-language news media of a strategic narrative deployed by the Chinese state to reposition China in the world. Metaphor analysis is conducted on 816 articles from six countries ... -
The organizational-level communication of African LGBT refugee NGOs on social media
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2016)Due to the extraordinary odds of successful refugee status and because lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) asylum seekers are often completely isolated in their search for refugee status, there is a heightened ... -
How linguistic structure influences and helps to predict metaphoric meaning
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2013)This paper argues that two properties of the linguistic structure of an utterance influence and partially determine whether the utterance has a metaphoric meaning that results in a stable interpretation: (i) degree of ... -
Multi-unit association measures: Moving beyond pairs of words
(2018)This paper formulates and evaluates a series of multi-unit measures of directional association, building on the pairwise ΔP measure, that are able to quantify association in sequences of varying length and type ... -
Mapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corpora
(2019)This paper evaluates large georeferenced corpora, taken from both web-crawled and social media sources, against ground-truth population and language-census datasets. The goal is to determine (i) which dataset best ... -
Southern Spirits: The Case of the Christchurch Psychical Research Society
(2015)This research report analyses the eclectic yet incomplete archives of the Christchurch Psychical Research Society held at Canterbury Museum and the Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury. The Society, active in ... -
Lessons in Ephemera: Teaching and Learning through Cultural Heritage Collections
(2017)This article synthesizes an intern’s experience assessing the University of Canterbury’s (UC) theatre and concert music program ephemera collection for its teaching and research potential, and evaluating its storage ... -
Grandmaternal childcare and kinship laterality. Is rural Greece exceptional?
(Elsevier BV, 2019)Grandmothers provide more childcare for their daughters' children than for those of their sons, almost everywhere. Exceptions occur where virilocal (patrilocal) postmarital residence makes the children of sons more ... -
Governing the Future
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Women's place-making through craft in in post earthquake Canterbury
(2019)INTRODUCTION: There is little research on the role of creative arts and craft in disaster recovery. This article reports findings about the emergent role of crafting from research conducted after the 2010–2011 series of ... -
A case for resurrecting lost species. Review Essay of Beth Shapiro's, "How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction"
(University of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative ArtsUniversity of Canterbury. Philosophy, 2016)The title of Beth Shapiro’s ‘How to Clone a Mammoth’ contains an implicature: it suggests that it is indeed possible to clone a mammoth, to bring extinct species back from the dead. But in fact Shapiro both denies this ... -
SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
(RMIT, 2018)When we think of poverty reduction and development, we assume that these have always been inextricably linked. This is not the case. A focus on the problem of poverty was a relatively late entrant onto the development ... -
What is Intellectual Freedom Today: An Indigenous Reflection
(University of Canterbury. Aotahi School of Maori and Indigenous Studies, 2016)Intellectual freedom, a hallmark of so-called modern democratic societies, signals the existence of repressive forces. Intellectual freedom as a mechanism, serves to challenge and confront such forces, and its excesses. ... -
Three-dimensional printable ultrasound transducer stabilization system
(2018)When using ultrasound imaging of the tongue for speech recording/research, submental transducer stabilization is required to prevent the ultrasound transducer from translating or rotating in relation to the tongue. An ...
