Welcome to Research Bank, our open research repository that includes research produced by students and staff while affiliated with Unitec, Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), Otago Polytechnic, Toi Ohomai and Southern Institute of Technology (SIT). It is intended to facilitate scholarly communication and shared access to our research outputs.

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Interpolation of financial time series data in a virtual geographic environment
(2022-06)This paper introduces a new approach to visualising and interpolating financial time series data, e.g., Bitcoin prices, in a spatial domain using the notion of spatialization: forming a spatial representation of non-spatial ... -
Understanding mortality through the lens of contemporary photography: How can explorations of the abject and the uncanny in contemporary photography provoke experiences of embodiment and mortality?
(2022)This essay explores how contemporary photography can provoke an embodied experience in an audience to help initiate the contemplation of mortality. Emerging research and a growing ‘death positive’ movement proposes that ... -
Whakatupua te rito: Improving the experiences of postgraduate tauira Māori within vocational education
(2021-12-25)WHY THIS STUDY? Māori students generally do not attain the same levels of tertiary success as Pākehā New Zealanders across all levels of higher education including postgraduate study (Richardson, 2018). Chauvel and ... -
Osteopathic management of dysmenorrhea: A qualitative snapshot of New Zealand women’s experiences
(2022)AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of New Zealand women regarding the osteopathic management of their dysmenorrhea. DESIGN Qualitative descriptive exploratory study. METHODS A convenience ... -
Insights into the impacts Facebook can have on management decisions for (recreational) sport horses in New Zealand
(2021)The aims of this project are to firstly explore whether recreational horse owners in New Zealand are using equestrian-themed groups on Facebook to gain knowledge and advice on matters of horse husbandry rather than using ...