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Learning technologies: A medium for the transformation of medical education?
Context Learning technologies are ubiquitous in medical schools, implemented in anticipation of more effective, active and authentic learning and teaching. Such thinking appears to be an instance of solutionism. The ... -
The challenges we face: A professional identity analysis of learning technology implementation
Institutionally implemented learning technologies are often not adopted or are underused by academic staff. We aimed to better understand this problem by drawing on the notion of professional identity to explore the ... -
Learning by watching others learn: the use of videoed tutorials in undergraduate business education
The Fourth Industrial Age (4IA) is likely to be accompanied simultaneously by an increase in technology-mediated learning and an urgent need for people to learn rapidly, effectively and collaboratively. This study investigates ... -
Distinct Patterns of Internalization of Different Calcitonin GeneRelated Peptide Receptors
Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide that is involved in the transmission of pain. Drugs targeting CGRP or a CGRP receptor are efficacious in the treatment of migraine. The canonical CGRP receptor is a ... -
Seeking learning outcomes appropriate for ‘education for sustainable development’ and for higher education
This article shares and extends research-based developments at the University of Otago, New Zealand, that seek to explore how students’ worldviews change as they experience higher education with us. We emphasise that ... -
Understanding stakeholder viewpoints for foodservice localization: the potential of the leadership viewpoint
Localization has been identified as an area to improve foodservice sustainability. We asked the research question “What are the dominant shared stakeholder viewpoints about local food in a college foodservice and how might ... -
University foodservices’ potential for providing environmental education to students
University foodservices are potentially well placed to foster environmental education in a non-classroom setting and so could have the power to benefit communities through producing environmentally literate graduates. ... -
Food and vulnerability in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A review and theoretical reframing of food insecurity, income and neoliberalism
The incidence of food insecurity in rich countries has remained stubbornly consistent in recent decades, even as rates of undernourishment in poorer countries have dived since 1990 (United Nations, 2015). This article ... -
Revealing the lifestyles of local food consumers
Changing consumption patterns have led to a number of transformations throughout the food cycle, and understanding how and why people purchase local food is important. This paper aims to examine the characteristics of the ... -
Linking Personal Values to Energy-Efficient Behaviors in the Home
Laddering techniques are used to identify personal values underlying a range of 21 potential energy-saving behaviors or purchases. At an individual level, ladders (or means-end chains) are quite simple; when aggregated, ... -
Identifying Transition Capacity for Agri-food Regimes: Application of the Multi-level Perspective for Strategic Mapping
In this paper, agri-food systems are discussed in the context of a set of socio-technical transitions principles, with a focus on energy, materials and practice elements that have the potential to promote sustainable ... -
Getting a Taste for Food Waste: A Mixed Methods Ethnographic Study into Hospital Food Waste before Patient Consumption Conducted at Three New Zealand Foodservice Facilities
Foodservice organizations, particularly those in hospitals, are large producers of food waste. To date, research on waste in hospitals has focused primarily on plate waste and the affect of food waste on patient nutrition ... -
Revealing barriers to healthier fast food consumption choices
In light of growing concerns around obesity, the present work investigates why consumers continue to choose traditional unhealthy fast food options over newly offered healthier fast food alternatives. A total of 24 value ... -
The role of personal values in Chinese consumers’ food consumption decisions. A case study of healthy drinks
Differences in culture, language, and behavior between Chinese and Western consumers make entering the Chinese market a challenge. Chinese consumers may desire similar product features (e.g. brand name, quality, and flavor) ... -
Understanding the Needs of Food-Allergic Adults
Food allergies are a growing issue, yet society’s understanding of how individuals’ lives are affected is limited. We conducted four focus groups with food-allergic adults in New Zealand to gain an in-depth understanding ... -
Systems-practice framework: An integrated approach for foodservice management
There is increasing pressure on foodservice organisations to improve the sustainability of their operations and to do so practitioners must be equipped with appropriate tools. In this paper, a tool to guide management ... -
The Practice of Interdisciplinarity
There is a rocky chasm between the promise of interdisciplinary research and successful interdisciplinary research practice. As a group of researchers from New Zealand, based in five different disciplines (consumer psychology, ... -
Effect of information on Chinese consumers’ perceptions and purchase intention for beverages processed by High Pressure Processing, Pulsed-Electric Field and Heat Treatment
High Pressure Processing (HPP) and Pulsed-Electric Field (PEF) are non-thermal technologies that add value to foods by improving safety through lowering microbial loads in addition to improving the sensory properties such ... -
An attribute prioritization-based segmentation of the Chinese consumer market for fruit juice
Despite the enormous opportunity that the Chinese market provides for exporting companies in the food and beverage industry, little research has considered Chinese consumer decision making processes sur-rounding these ...