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Management of Osteoarthritis in the NZ Public Health System
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of health losses and costs in NZ. The burden of OA is rising as a result of population ageing, rising obesity, increasing injury rates, and earlier onset of disease. The New Zealand ... -
A Contextual Bible Study on the Crucifixion of Jesus: Engaging the issue of male violence against men
In collaboration with David Tombs (and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago) the Ujamaa Centre facilitated a workshop (5 June 2019), following the public lecture 'The stripping of Jesus: sexual ... -
Unbundling Litigation Services in New Zealand: Where to next?
‘Unbundled legal services’ and ‘unbundling’ are terms that can be used to describe the practice of providing a limited set of legal services in a litigation matter, accompanied by the expectation that the client will proceed ... -
Accessing Legal Services: The Price of Litigation Services
The price of legal services is often charged by the hour (the billable hour), usually at a rate of hundreds of dollars per hour. An agreement to pay these hourly rates might also come with little clarity over how many hours ... -
Inventory of the James Hogg Collection. Special Collections, University of Otago
‘The works of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, have experienced a remarkable revival in recent years and sustained attention to his works is long overdue’. So says Alker and Nelson’s ‘Introduction’ to James Hogg and the ... -
Prostitution in New Zealand: The Re-Importation of Moral Majoritarianism in Regulating a Decriminalised Industry
In 2003 New Zealand became the only country in the world to decriminalise all aspects of unforced prostitution. The law reform heralded a radical shift; rather than attempting to suppress the industry by criminalising the ... -
Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse: Text and Context
A key principle in the work of Latin American liberation theologians has been a willingness to take their Latin American social context seriously as an aid for understanding biblical texts. This paper is intended to ... -
Foucauldian Discourse Analysis and Early Childhood Education: Tools for Understanding Inequity and The Pursuit of Social Justice
Formal early childhood education is a relatively modern institution to which increasing numbers of children are routinely exposed. Since the modern invention of childhood, the early childhood years have been increasingly ... -
Pricing for profit in dynamic competitive markets using logit demand models: closed form optima and some corollaries
This manuscript develops and simplifies a pricing decision model for maximum profit as a function of unit variable cost, 3 estimated price-demand response points, a simplified representation of known competitor intensity ... -
John Evelyn (1620-1706) An Inventory of Works, Special Collections, University of Otago
John Evelyn was born in Wotton, Surrey in October 1620. He lived in tumultuous times – the execution of Charles I, the ascension of Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum, and the Restoration of King Charles II, of whose ... -
Robert Gibbings (1889-1958): An Inventory of his Work in Special Collections, University of Otago
Irish-born Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an incredibly talented artist, engraver, and author. He traveled widely and spent a lot of time in the South Pacific; he even visited Dunedin in the 1940s. Special Collections at ... -
Eric Gill (1882-1940): An Inventory of his Work in Special Collections, University of Otago
Eric Gill (1882-1940) was an artist, engraver, typographer and sculptor. The works he completed in his lifetime have had a lasting effect and influence on the artistic world. Special Collections at the University of Otago ... -
Foxcroft Lecture 2015
An overview of three New Zealand book collectors: Sir George Grey, Dr T.M. Hocken, and Frank Wild Reed; their collections and legacy.