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1. Event details
2. Key information
3. Key dates
4. Call for abstracts
5. Registration
6. Keynote speaker
7. Panel discussion
8. Poster exhibition

Event Details

When: December 8 and December 9. 2022
Where: Online, via Zoom

Key information

- Open to all NZ ITPs and Te Pūkenga staff
- All abstracts lightly peer reviewed and published for developmental purposes (not resulting in a quality assured output)
- Option to submit a full paper for publication by Unitec ePress in Symposium Proceedings, which will result in a quality assured output
- Presentations and posters
- Keynote Speakers
- Māori and Pacific Streams
- Awards: Research with Impact, Early Career Research, Student Undergraduate Research Excellence, Māori and Pacific Research Excellence 

Key dates

Abstract submission deadline: October 10
Final submission: November 21
Registrations open: August 1
Registration closed: November 21
Deadline for academic poster submission: November 21
Event: December 8 to December 9, 2022

Call for abstracts

- All presenters and authors of posters must submit an abstract.
- All abstracts are to be submitted online no later than October 10^th 2022. Abstracts will be subject to a “light” peer review, the intent of which is to strengthen the quality of presentations.
- All presenters and authors of posters must register to participate in the symposium and sign up for EasyChair, the software being used to manage abstracts.
- The Peer Review Panel reserves the right to accept or decline any submissions.
- The acceptance of an abstract does not imply provision of costs associated with preparation or presentation of the abstract.
- All accepted abstracts will be published in the Symposium Proceedings by Unitec ePress and the presentation or poster will result in a non-quality-assured research output for the authors.
- All presenters and authors of posters who have abstracts accepted will be invited to develop their research into full papers for blind peer-review, quality-assured publication in the Symposium Proceedings, by Unitec ePress.
- Requirements, guidelines and tips for writing an abstract can be found below. 

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Abstract guidelines

2022 MIT/Unitec Research Symposium
December 8th and 9th

NB – Abstracts will be peer-reviewed; the process is a “light” review intended mostly for the purposes of researcher development and quality enhancement. Reviewers will be instructed to provide practical, concise feedback for the researcher to improve the abstract. Decline of the abstract is unlikely but possible if it cannot be readily improved or the presentation is clearly just an opinion piece, a description of teaching with no research or inappropriate in accordance with institutional values and research ethics. Assessors may decline a paper that they feel would not meet the standard even with required changes, but recommend that it can be presented as a poster. Authors will be given ample time to respond to requirements and recommendations.

The symposium convenors reserve the right to decline an abstract.

Abstract Requirements
350 words maximum

1 - Describe the research you are presenting. What is it about? Why is it important? What is the critical background or context?

2 – What did the research aim to achieve? New knowledge, impact?

3 – What question, hypothesis or creative challenge does the research pose?

4 – Who are the community/industry partners and why?

5 - How does the research answer the question or respond to the challenge? (methodology/methods)

6 – Include a sentence in summary referring to outcomes, findings or conclusions or which entices the reader to want to hear more.

7 –Please indicate 3-4 keywords for your abstract – example – sustainability, grease traps, hospitality industry.

8 – References are welcome and will not be included in the word count

9 – One diagram, illustration, table, reference or graphic is allowed but not compulsory

Note well;
- All abstracts must be the original work of the authors, with all listed authors having significant contribution to the completion of the work.
- Provide maximum and only relevant information in the abstract
- If the subject matter is empirical, the following structure is obligatory: The objective, methods, results, conclusions.

Title: appropriate, meaningful and should be as brief as possible but long enough to indicate clearly the nature of the study.

Aims/Objective: explicitly state the aims and objectives.

Content: explain the purpose and background of the topic and why this would be of interest.

Method: Identify if a case study or describe your selection of observations or experimental subjects and how the study was conducted.

Results: Present your case study /results in a logical sequence in text showing the overall significance of the topic. If results are pending at the time of your submission, please highlight this and confirm if the results will be available for the conference.

For more tips on how to write a good abstract and samples see here: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-write-an-abstract

Criteria for Light Peer Review used by reviewers (FYI)
Accept
Accept with improvement
Decline

1 – On reading the abstract, do you understand what the research is about, why it is important and a little of the critical context?

2 – Do you know what it is trying to achieve?

3 – Is there a coherent question, hypothesis or creative challenge?

4 – Bearing in mind that not all projects will be partnered, do the community or industry partnerships declared appear genuine and relevant?

5 – Is the project design convincing? Bearing in mind that the abstracts are very short, are the methodology and/or methods appropriate?

6 – Are there any clues to outcomes or findings in summary? Does the summary make you want to hear more? Is there a concise summary of the findings?

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Disclaimer; Please note that by submitting an abstract, you agree to its publication by Unitec ePress if it is accepted for the symposium.

Abstract submission

Sign up for EasyChair
Submit your abstract (requires login from above)

Registration

Keynote Speaker

Day Two
9.15am – 10.30am
9th December 2022

Speaker – Mark Roberts
Panel Chair – Associate Professor Marcus Williams

The Role of Research Partnering in Waste Solutions and Minimisation

Mark will talk about the role of partnership in the context of his role at Auckland Council and the symposium’s theme: Rangahau: Te Mana o te Mahi Kotahitanga; Research: The Power of Collaboration. Significant time will be allocated for Q&A and discussion.

Mark Roberts

Senior Waste Planning Advisor
Waste Solutions
Auckland Council

Mark is a Senior Waste Planning Advisor at Auckland Council. With 18 years’ experience in the field of resource efficiency and waste minimisation, his role works closely with industry to design out waste, brokering the diversion of waste and developing opportunities for businesses, social enterprises, and communities. Mark has led innovative projects on deconstruction methods, initiated new research on construction waste and consulted across the building industry on waste minimisation.

In 2019, Mark was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to study how community-based organisations have become successful in construction and demolition waste in the North America. His fellowship trip took him across the US and Canada, meeting with social enterprises, government and business working to reduce construction waste.

 

Panel Discussion

Day One
9.15am – 10.20am
8th December 2022

Panel – Prof. Jean Ross, Yvonne Kainuku, Prof. David Tipene-Leach, Ass. Professor Terri-Ann Berry
Panel Chair – Ass. Professor Marcus Williams

Perspectives in Research Partnering

The panel discussion aims to provoke discourse about the symposium’s theme: Rangahau: Te Mana o te Mahi Kotahitanga; Research: The Power of Collaboration. The panellists will respond to questions from the panel chair in order to explore themes on research partnering in tertiary education in Aotearoa generally, but particularly in the ITP sector. There are four panellist from four different hubs of Te Pūkenga; one from Ōtepoti, Dunedin, one from Te Matau-a-Māui, Hawkes Bay, and two from Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. They are:

Professor David Tipene-Leach (Ngāti Kahungunu)

Public Health Physician, General Practitioner, Research Professor
Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT)/Te Pūkenga

David is a medical practitioner of general practice and public health, but also a researcher and recently a Research Professor at Te Pūkenga (EIT) in Napier. He has undertaken a large body of work in the promotion of a mātauranga Māori approach to SUDI prevention, the prevention of diabetes and more recently has been able to add research in mental health, renal replacement, cultural safety for medical practitioners and food security in Māori communities to this list. In addition to chairing Heretaunga Tamatea through to Settlement in 2015, he has been involved in archiving of 19th century manuscripts, repatriation of taonga, hapū development and marine coastal area management as integral parts of post-Settlement times in Ngāti Kahungunu.

Professor Jean Ross

Professor of Nursing
Otago Polytechnic/Te Pūkenga

Jean Ross is Professor of Nursing, originally from Wales, UK. Jean has more than 30 years’ experience of working with the rural nursing workforce in New Zealand. The cumulation of her work associated with rural nursing, includes activism, research, and education. Education includes undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral engagement. Jean’s initial work with rural nurses commenced in Wales and continued in 1994 with the establishment of the Centre for Rural Health in New Zealand of which she was co-director. Jean is also an advocate for sustainable rural community development.

Yvonne Kainuku

Ngāti Kainuku Ariki, Ngāti Tea’ia Ariki, Ngāti Tangii’au, Ngāti Crummer, Ngāti Collins
Senior Academic and Clinical Nursing Lecturer, Bachelor of Nursing Pacific (BNP) Programme Lead
School of Nursing
Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT)/Te Pūkenga

Yvonne has family connections to the region of Takitumu in Rarotonga and County Tyron in Ireland. Born and raised in the heart of one of the biggest Pacific populations in the world, Manukau, she is amother of four adult children and a Māmā to two precious mokopuna. Yvonne holds the position of programme lead, Bachelor of Nursing Pacific (BNP), MIT; 2021 sees the programme celebrate its 10th anniversary. Yvonne has done full circle, graduating as a nurse from MIT in 1993, she has almost 30 years working experience within the primary healthcare and community sectors, specialising in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Adolescent Health and Development including service development and writing policy.

She is currently an emerging researcher participating in an Oral Histories research project commissioned by the Nursing Education Research Foundation (NERF) and is completing her Master’s thesis in the topic of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Kūki ‘Airani nursing students.

Associate Professor Terri-Ann Berry

Director of the Environmental Solutions Research Centre
School of Construction and Engineering
Unitec Institute of Technology (Unitec)/Te Pūkenga

Dr Terri-Ann Berry (MSc, PhD, CChem, CEnv, FRSC) is Director of the Environmental Solutions Research Centre and Associate Professor in the School of Construction and Engineering at Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand. She is an environmental engineer with significant expertise in environmental chemistry and the management of sensitive environments. Her key research interests include effective waste management for the Construction and Demolition sector and managing and mitigating risks associated with asbestiform minerals, such as asbestos.