Abstract
The Pacific Voices: Pacific Postgraduate Symposium showcases and celebrates the research undertaken by Pacific postgraduate students across the University of Otago.
Abstracts may be cited as appearing in Richards, R., Walters, I., Finigan, A., Ruhe, T., Avia, L., Schaaf, M., Fehoko, E. (Eds.). (2023). Pacific Voices XX: Abstracts for the Pacific Postgraduate Symposium Pacific Islands Centre, University of Otago.
CONTENTS:
Foreword: Professor Rose Richards
Taeao lē leoa: the muted history of Indigenous Samoans in the arrival of Methodism in Samoa - Tema Alailima-Eteuati
Some Kiribati narratives of living with metabolic disease - Bwenaua Biiri
Towards an Indigenous research paradigm - Mino Cleverley
What's your 'wai?' – research through Indigenous developments in freshwater management - Jaxson Tautala-Hanita
Decolonising clinical psychology training in Aotearoa: a Pacific perspective - Susana Jones
Ngā tua, te tangata, ē te 'enua: Ecocriticism from a Cook Islands Māori perspective - Stacey Kokaua-Balfour
The development of industrial relations in Samoa, the role of customary law and formal law - Oloa Lipine
Medical students' initial experiences of the dissection room and body donors through a Pasifika lens - Jacob Madgwick
Being boys - social constructions of boyhood in Fiji - Priyam Maharaj
Engaging Indigenous values in doctoral research - Regina Maniam
Pacific stroke patients receive different medication prescriptions than NZ Europeans and have poorer functional status post-stroke - Shivankar Nair
Exploring mental health with young Tongan people - Jordan 'Okusi Quensell
'Blessed be': a phenomenological study exploring the influence of social capital on the risk perception of (older) female recreational gamblers - Otila Osborne
Contextualizing the Pacific: identifying cardiometabolic disease risk factors among Micronesians in Guam - Tristan Paulino
Supersolidity of a two-dimensional dipolar bose gas - Benjamin Ripley
Investigating the diversity of the D2 and extrinsic proteins of Photosystem II in cyanobacteria - Afreen Afeefa Saeed
Lessons from traditional healers to physios: translating Pacific cultural knowledge into clinical best practice guidance - Lilo Oka Sanerivi
Safeguarding our fa’asinomaga: Pacific youth motivations in climate action - Tahere Talaina Siisiialafia-Mau
First year Pacific students’ perception of their well-being journey at university in New Zealand - Lilly Elizabeth Sopoaga
Keynote Address at Pacific Voices XIX, 27 October 2022 - Professor David Murdoch