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Students' reflections on the relationships between safe learning environments, learning challenge and positive experiences of learning in a simulated GP clinic.
Learning environments are a significant determinant of student behaviour, achievement and satisfaction. In this article we use students’ reflective essays to identify key features of the learning environment that contributed ... -
Cracking open death: death conversations in primary care
INTRODUCTION: Research supports talking about death outside the end-of-life context. Benefits include allaying death anxiety to increased engagement in health promotion interventions. Nonetheless, the focus on death ... -
Valuation as destruction? The social effects of valuation processes in contested marine spaces
Valuation encompasses far more than the practice of estimating the financial value of environmental services and changes. It extends to almost any socio-political process in which local actors seek to shape the development ... -
Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal ... -
Visualizing rugby game styles using Self-Organizing Maps
Rugby coaches and analysts often use notational data describing match events to assess their team’s performance and to devise strategic plans for upcoming matches. However, given the volume and complexity of the data ... -
Sustainability cultures and energy research: An actor-centred interpretation of cultural theory
The energy cultures framework has had widespread use in studies of the energy-related implications of habitual behaviour and behaviour change, and to other topics including mobility, water and carbon-related outcomes. As ... -
Deep interventions for a sustainable transport future
The dominance of automobility is giving rise to unsustainable outcomes, not least of which is its contribution to climate change. At the same time, business-as-usual transport systems are entering a period of turbulence ... -
Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand
Socialisation into electricity consumption usually occurs during childhood, but little is known about the socialisation processes involved. Here, we use interviews and focus groups to investigate how nine to ten-year-old ... -
Shared mobility in a Maori community
Shared mobility is being advanced as a novel, technologically sophisticated approach to reducing the environmental impacts of high levels of car ownership. However, communities have long shared modes of transport for ... -
Skateboarding beyond the limits of gender? Strategic interventions in Sweden
Sweden prides itself as a country where young women can enjoy gender equality. Yet many young women skateboarders still experience discomfort when skateboarding in public spaces. We argue that diverse strategies are required ... -
Analysis of greenhouse gas emissions in electricity systems using time-varying carbon intensity
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity generation are generally assessed using a yearly average carbon intensity (in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per unit of energy). This masks the variability of emissions ... -
Emerging energy transitions: PV uptake beyond subsidies
In the past decade there has been a substantial increase in the uptake of residential solar photovoltaic (PV) systems globally, which is starting to impact upon traditional electricity systems. An emerging energy transition ... -
Baudrillard in a ‘Post-Truth’World: Groundwork for a Critique of the Rise of Trump
This paper takes the view that Baudrillard’s work on the West’s fascination with reality is as insightful as ever. The paper traces the rise of this fascination across four areas of his work: the critique of the commodity ... -
Pacific university graduates in New Zealand: what helps and hinders completion
Increasing the numbers of Pacific Island students who graduate from New Zealand universities is important for the students’ futures, their families, communities and society in general. In this study, Pacific graduates (N ... -
Reading New Zealand Within The New Global Order: Sport and the Visualisation of National Identity
Globalization has emerged as one of the most controversial and debated issues of our times. In particular the potential impact of global products and processes on political, economic and cultural life in all of the world’s ... -
Reflections on Communication and Sport: On Advertising and Promotional Culture
This essay highlights the unique and intimately interrelated nature of the relationship between communication and advertising by providing a selective overview of communication about and through sport within the context ...