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Takina Te Hau e Te Reo Karanga

This book acknowledges Te Reo Karanga o Wairaka – Tuu Puna, the Wānanga Karanga programme that has continued at Unitec from 2017 to 2022. The programme builds the capacity of kaikaranga and women in leadership at Te Whare Wānanga o… Continue Reading →

Proceedings: 2021 ITP Research Symposium, 25 and 26 November

The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Whitireia and WelTec had the pleasure of co-hosting the 2021 ITP Research Symposium online on 25 and 26 November 2021. The theme for the 2021 symposium was aumangea (resilience), a concept that resonated across… Continue Reading →

Growing Kaupapa Māori Research Capabilities and Confidence Through Whanaungatanga as Research Mentorship

The Ngā Wai a Te Tūī – Hiringa Hauora Summer Research Mentorship is a kaupapa Māori collaboration to increase hauora Māori (Māori wellbeing) research capacity. The idea of research internships is not new, nor is a focus on hauora Māori…. Continue Reading →

Perspectives in Biosecurity | 2018 | Volume 3

Perspectives in Biosecurity is a multi-disciplinary electronic journal of research papers and other outputs covering all aspects of the field of biosecurity including, but not restricted to, invasion biology and ecology, invasive species identification/diagnostics, management and eradication/control, new invasive species… Continue Reading →

Whanake, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018

Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development. This issue features articles on youth volunteering, voluntourism, discrimination against gender-diverse tertiary students, poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand, youth HIV/AIDS awareness… Continue Reading →

Exploring the role of Buddhist monks’ and nuns’ engagement in community development as catalysts for social change and sustainable development in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A case study of the Buddhism for Development Project at Ban Bungsanthueng, Nongbok District, Khammouane Province, by Toung Eh Synuanchanh

The topic of this research report is an important one in the context of Asia’s rapid economic development in recent years, and the need to rethink development policy and especially methodologies of development communications, so the mistakes of the past… Continue Reading →

Thesis review: The storytellers: Identity narratives by New Zealand African youth – participatory visual methodological approach to situating identity, migration and representation by Makanaka Tuwe

This fascinating and original work explores the experiences of third-culture children of African descent in New Zealand. The term ‘third-culture kid’ refers to an individual who grows up in a culture different from the culture of their parents. Experiences of… Continue Reading →

The Hīhīaua Studio

In 2016, the Momentum North Hīhīaua Community Group asked the Unitec Architecture Pathway to investigate the development of a new masterplan for the Hīhīaua Peninsula in Whangarei, Northland. This request became the basis of a twelve-week joint Landscape Architecture /Architecture… Continue Reading →

Whanake, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2018

Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development, and is edited by Gavin Rennie and John Stansfield. This issue features articles on epistemology and community worker education, intergenerational communication… Continue Reading →

Medium-density dwellings in Auckland and the building regulations

National thermal standards have historically been set to minimise winter heating energy in detached houses. It is uncertain whether these standards are optimal for the increasing number of joined, medium-density dwellings when summer and winter conditions are considered. Using freely… Continue Reading →

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