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Embedding Learning for Future and Imagined Communities in Portfolio Assessment

In tertiary contexts where adults study writing for future academic purposes, teaching and learning via portfolio provides them with multiple opportunities to create and recreate texts characteristic of their future and imagined discourse communities. This paper discusses the value of… Continue Reading →

A Revisit of Price Discovery Dynamics Across Australia and New Zealand

This study re-investigates the price discovery dynamics of selected stocks cross-listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) during a bear trading phase from January 2008 to December 2011. A differing price discovery dynamic… Continue Reading →

Experiencing Women’s Advocacy: Connections with and Departures from a Feminist Socio-Political Movement to end Violence Against Women

This article examines how contemporary women’s advocates working in New Zealand with women experiencing intimate partner violence regard their work and how these experiences both connect with and depart from a feminist movement to end violence against women. Ten women’s… Continue Reading →

Advancing Local Marine Protection, Cross Cultural Collaboration and Dialogue in Northland

This research report summarises findings and observations arising from the Advancing marine protection through cross-cultural dialogue project, which examines community-driven, collaborative marine protection campaigns currently being pursued in Northland. This project consists of a series of case studies undertaken between… Continue Reading →

Embedding Building Information Modelling into Construction Technology and Documentation Courses

The aim of this research is to generate a resource to assist construction lecturers in identifying opportunities where Building Information Modelling [BIM] could be employed to augment the delivery of subject content within individual courses on construction technology programmes. The… Continue Reading →

Te AkoWhaiora: Through learning Is Well-being

The Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management (GDNFPM), is one of the 160 programmes on offer at Unitec Institute of Technology. It was established in 1996 in response to a call from the community sector to improve the capability… Continue Reading →

Nothing Stands By Itself: Advocacy in the New Zealand Not-For-Profit Sector

This research focuses on the nature of Government/Not for Profit (NFP) sector relationships with particular reference to advocacy in New Zealand. It follows up on a study of advocacy in NSW and Queensland carried out by Onyx et al. (2009)…. Continue Reading →

System Dynamics Modelling of Pathways to a Hydrogen Economy in New Zealand: Final Report

The model examines two principal scenarios within which are nested matrices of factors that impact scenario outcomes. The first principal scenario is the Laissez-faire scenario, which relies on market forces to determine the time frame for the uptake of hydrogen… Continue Reading →

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