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Surveying in South Africa: Coordinate vs monument cadastre

Goodwin, David (Journal Article, Surveying and Spatial, 2017)

The article is an extract from correspondence between an Otago Surveying lecturer and a graduate who worked in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then moved to South Africa. Underlying the dialogue is a critical comparison ...
Constructing the academic category of teacher educator in Aotearoa New Zealand university recruitment processes.

Gunn, Alexandra C.; Berg, David, A, G.; Hill, Mary, F.; Haigh, M. (Journal Article, International Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015)

An examination of recruitment materials and interviews with personnel involved in the employment of teacher educators to positions in university-based New Zealand initial teacher education reveals three constructions of ...
Research in the Work of New Zealand Teacher Educators: A CHAT Perspective

Berg, David, A, G.; Gunn, Alexandra C.; Hill, Mary, F.; Haigh, M. (Journal Article, Higher Education Research and Development, 2016)

In this article we use Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to explore the place of research in the work of New Zealand university-based teacher educators (TEs). We consider how aspirations for a research-informed ...
The changing work of teacher educators in Aotearoa New Zealand: A view through activity theory

Gunn, Alexandra C.; Hill, Mary, F.; Berg, D.; Haigh, M. (Journal Article, Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2016)

The study of recruitment practices for teacher educators in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) universities reveals the academic category of teacher educator (TE) constituted along three related trajectories: a professional expert ...
Research work as curriculum work in NZ early childhood settings: What should be taught and learned?

Gunn, Alexandra C. (Journal Article, Journal of Pedagogy, 2015)

This article draws from experiences in an ongoing study of children’s narrative competence in the early years across early childhood education and school settings. Focusing on the research as it is being conducted in the ...
Posthuman Animals and the Avant-Garde: The Case of Daniel Spoerri

Novero, Cecilia; Novero, Cecilia (Journal Article, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 2014)

Cecilia Novero’s essay situates Daniel Spoerri’s 1995 series of assemblages Carnival of Animals within the legacy of the historical avant-garde. In taking a close look at Carnival’s ingenious recourse to non-organicity, ...
Following in the Tracks of a Dog: “The Beggarwoman of Locarno” Revisited

Novero, Cecilia (Journal Article, German Studies Review, 2015)

This essay identifies key themes in Kleist’s “The Beggarwoman of Locarno,” such as the contrast between meaning and noise, perception and reason, and human and animal. All of these themes are traced back to the dog in the ...
Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

McWilliam, Wendy; Fukuda, Yuki; Moller, Henrik; Smith, Des (Journal Article, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017)

Pastoral landscape woody vegetation provides ecosystem services, but potentially competes for space, light and nutrients that could provide additional farm production. A questionnaire determined the values and behaviours ...
Optimising survey effort to monitor environmental variables: A case study using New Zealand kiwifruit orchards

MacLeod, Catriona J; Green, Peter; Tompkins, Daniel M; Benge, Jayson; Moller, Henrik (Journal Article, Journal of Environmental Management, 2016)

Environmental monitoring is increasingly used to assess spatial and temporal trends in agricultural sustainability, and test the effectiveness of farm management policies. However, detecting changes in environmental variables ...
Performance versus Values in Sustainability Transformation of Food Systems

Alroe, Hugo F; Sautier, Marion; Legun, Katharine A; Whitehead, Jay; Noe, Egon; Moller, Henrik; Manhire, Jon (Journal Article, Sustainability, 2017)

Questions have been raised on what role the knowledge provided by sustainability science actually plays in the transition to sustainability and what role it may play in the future. In this paper we investigate different ...
Identification of historical plant material using micro-computed tomography

Smith, Catherine Ann; Lowe, Bronwyn J.; Blair, Kate; Carr, Debra; McNaughton, Andrew (Journal Article, Studies in Conservation, 2013)

This work investigates the use of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT, µCT) for identification of New Zealand plant leaf material from artefacts. Micro-computed tomography was explored as a result of difficulties in preparing ...
What’s in a Name? The Practice and Politics of Classifying Māori Textiles

Smith, Catherine Ann; Laing, Raechel M (Journal Article, Textile History, 2011)

Textiles form an important part of Māori culture, of interest to Europeans since contact with New Zealand in 1642. The need to describe Māori textiles in English has determined the terminology chosen to describe them, ...
The Scope of the Validation Power in the Wills Act 2007

Peart, Nicola; Kelly, Greg (Journal Article, New Zealand Law Review, 2013)

When the new Wills Act was adopted in 2007 it made a number of changes to the law regulating wills. Probably the most radical change is the power in s 14 to validate wills that do not comply with the formal requirements ...
Resilience and sustainability: a complementary relationship? Towards a practical conceptual model for the sustainability–resilience nexus in tourism

Espiner, Stephen; Orchiston, Caroline; Higham, James (Journal Article, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2017)

“Sustainability” has endured as an important concept for tourism scholars, and volumes have been written about how to achieve this holy grail of the tourism industry. Sustainable tourism destinations are often promoted as ...
Relocation following parental separation: International research, policy and practice

Taylor, Nicola (Journal Article, Children Australia, 2013)

Relocation disputes are widely regarded internationally as one of the most difficult and controversial issues in family law. This article outlines the legal context governing relocation disputes in New Zealand and briefly ...
At the Margins: Victim Contact Work in the New Zealand Probation Service

Cunningham, Polly; Gibbs, Anita (Journal Article, British Journal of Community Justice, 2005)

In this article victim contact work undertaken by the New Zealand probation service will be reviewed. Victim contact work involves probation staff in making enquiries for reparation and emotional harm reports at the pre- ...
Nō Ōrākau: Past and People in James Cowan's Places

Cooper, Annabel (Journal Article, The Journal of New Zealand Studies, 2015)

In tracing the interconnections of place and people in James Cowan's writing, this article argues that his widely-disseminated body of work complicates current orthodoxies and warrants more consideration in the study of ...
Community Probation in New Zealand / Aotearoa

Gibbs, Anita (Journal Article, VISTA: Perspectives on Probation, 2000)
Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring in New Zealand and its Implications for Probation

Gibbs, Anita; King, Denise (Journal Article, VISTA: Perspectives on Probation, 2002)
Maori concepts for social and community work

Eketone, Anaru (Journal Article, Scope: Kaupapa Kai Tahu, 2013)

For those working in Māori communities or organisations, it is important to understand some of the inherent Māori cultural concepts that are important to those contexts. Many groups and projects have struggled to involve ...