Sociology, Gender and Social Work
Recent Deposits
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Fertility stalls in Bangladesh
This study uncovered the causes of fertility stalls in Bangladesh. A fertility stall occurs when fertility rate levels off or increases following a trend of decline. Fertility in Bangladesh has declined rapidly since the ... -
Sustainable Development and Sustainable Wine New Zealand: Bridging Neoliberal Statecraft and Locally Appropriate Development
James C. Scott argues that states require schematic knowledge of local realities. This standardized knowledge produces one-size-fits-all development solutions, which can fail to adequately account for context and thus ... -
Some aspects of home-making
The home-maker, and similarly every other human being, has three scarce factors to consider – money, time and energy. Except in times of severe depression there are usually ways in which one may obtain more money – by ... -
The V8 boys : a case study of a delinquent gang.
A case study is presented of a delinquent gang known as the V8 boys who lived and carried out their activities in Dunedin, New Zealand. The name V8 refers to the V8 cars owned and driven by members of this group. The ... -
First findings from phase one of the Child Welfare Decision-Making Variability Project: Research briefing paper.
Decision variability,that is,different decision outcomes when levels of harm are similar is a problem common to many child protection systems. The causes are many and varied: the expectation of the child protection system ... -
Eating a nuclear disaster: A vital institutional ethnography of everyday eating in the aftermath of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster
This project explores the coordination of everyday eating in the aftermath of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO’s) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. With the onset of the nuclear disaster in March 2011, ... -
'We all have one': Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work
The idea of ‘exiting’ the sex industry plays a powerful symbolic role in the feminist debates around the morality, legitimacy and regulation of sex work. Drawing on interviews with 39 women sex workers in Australia and ... -
Work conditions and job mobility in the Australian indoor sex industry
This article explores sex workers’ experiences of work conditions and job mobility in the indoor sectors of the Australian sex industry: brothel work, escort work and small cooperative work. Drawing from 14 in-depth ... -
In Pursuit of Beauty Within the Ageing Body: Voices from Older Korean Women in New Zealand
Researchers have attempted to explore the experience of ageing bodies and the use of beauty and anti ageing practices among older women. However, an insufficient number of such studies have focused on women from diverse ... -
Social work skills for students prior to fieldwork placement
Social work skill is a key component of social work education yet it is an under researched area. This thesis seeks to address the gap in research around preparing social work students with skills they need for fieldwork ... -
Saints or Communists? The Story of Dunedin/Ōtepoti Food Banks and FoodShare
Food banks began in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s and experienced a rapid rise from the early 1990s because of significant neoliberal reforms. Food banks and latterly “food rescue” organisations have become a normalised ... -
There's a new kid on the block: A longitudinal study of the aspirations held by members of the social work profession for the introduction of statutory registration for social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand...... and the consequences
The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) was established in 1964 and for nearly 40 years members of the Association debated the merits of statutory registration and its possible forms and processes. ... -
Hoki ki tōu maunga kia purea ai koe ki ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea. A tangata whenua model of supervision
This thesis explores a cultural practice, specifically a Tangata Whenua (people of the land) model for supervision through the experiences of research participants using a phenomenological approach. The model for supervision ... -
The legal and practice implications of the s18A amendment to the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989
This thesis examines section 18A of the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989, which took force on 1 July 2016. The historical, drafting and rights issues associated with its enactment and its implications for ... -
What happens when the birds are sexting and the bees watch pornography?: Digital sexualities, sexuality education and New Zealand adolescents
The relationships between young people, technology and sexuality are highly contentious. We live in a digital age and young people are fully immersed. Increasingly, their communities are negotiated and formed in cyberspace. ... -
Child Sexual Abuse: Knowing and Not Knowing in Social Work Practice and Education
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a pervasive yet elusive social problem, arguably crossing all domains of social work practice. Within the practice sphere of mental health and addiction CSA is particularly prevalent, however, ... -
Rational economic families: social reproduction and social policy in 1980s and 1990s New Zealand
This thesis examines social policy during New Zealand’s era of neoliberal transformation, the fourth Labour government of 1984-1990, followed by the fourth National government of 1990-1999. It traces the shift from a ... -
"BABY MAMA" The experiences of being a teenage parent
This study explores the challenges that young mothers face and the support systems they access along the way. The format that it adopted was to have semi structured interviews with ten young mothers who reside in Southland, ... -
Gendered health technologies: the medicalisation of sexuality and the embodiment of reproduction
My thesis explores the medicalisation of male and female bodies in respect of sexuality and reproduction. I investigate the complex interaction of gender and sexuality in relation to health technologies such as Viagra, ... -
Pregnant Adolescents: How do Social Worker's assess their parenting capacity?
It is the role of Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Social Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand to decide whether pregnant adolescents have the capacity to raise and effectively parent their children when reports of concern are ...