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The Meke Meter™: Exploring the wellbeing and quality of life of New Zealanders during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
(2022)AIM The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) originated from Wuhan, China in 2019. The pandemic has had a significant impact on the world today. While the national 2020 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) was successful from ... -
Expert consensus on the metaverse in medicine
(Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd, 2022)BACKGROUND Recently, Professor Chunxue Bai and colleagues have proposed a definition of the Metaverse in Medicine as the medical Internet of Things (MIoT) facilitated using AR and/or VR glasses. METHODS A multi-disciplinary ... -
Identifying motivational factors to increase the selection of a career in the engineering profession
(2022)The shortage of skilled workers, specifically engineers, in New Zealand is well published (Freeman-Greene, 2020). To recruit the best talent into engineering careers and address the increasing shortfall of highly skilled ... -
The factors influencing brand loyalty in purchasing pet food in New Zealand
(2022)Pet ownership is becoming popular throughout the world and hence the pet food industry has been growing. New Zealand’s contribution to the global pet food industry is significant as the country has the second-highest ... -
Effects of gamification mechanisms on the behaviour of bank customers using credit cards
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTIONS • Which gamification elements are most desired among credit card users in the banking context? • Is there a significant relationship between gamification and customer engagement, satisfaction, and ... -
How to grow a culturally responsive career practice
(2022)As a career practitioner working towards opening a career service in South Auckland, I intended to explore the lived experience of Pacific youth in shaping their entry into their careers whilst negotiating the dual ... -
Intersections of immigration law and family violence: Exploring barriers for ethnic migrant and refugee background women
(Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2021-12-23)INTRODUCTION: Action on family violence remains a policy priority for the New Zealand government. Accordingly, this article explores the Immigration New Zealand’s Victims of Family Violence (VFV) visa. Specifically, it ... -
Māori architecture: A response to colonisation
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)For generations, Māori have disputed colonisation and the impact it has had on Indigenous peoples. As settlers acquired more land, Māori realised they were losing power over decision making in Aotearoa and began to create ... -
Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Hyperreal architectural photographic assemblages proliferate within contemporary media: artists, photographers and architects envision digital worlds that operate at the intersection of hyperreal architectural renders, ... -
Climate change and housing: Exploring a New Urban model to help build resilience to climate change
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)The environmental effects of climate change and the provision of affordable housing are seen as essential yet disparate issues in contemporary urban discourse in Aotearoa New Zealand. We argue that these two critical ... -
(Re-)uses of historical knowledge in architectural education: The value of the client – Reginald Ford on professional practice
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)With the support of Tūāpapa Rangahau Research and Enterprise at Unitec New Zealand, a research project devoted to Gummer and Ford – an Auckland architectural firm founded in 1923 by William Henry Gummer (1884–1966) and ... -
Te Pūtaha Auaha: Avondale Graffiti Pavilion
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Public architectural and art installations can enable leftover and forgotten urban spaces to be positively reinvigorated. These interventions can be produced at different scales and placed in a variety of existing ... -
A layered conservation response to the layers of built history
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)RESEARCH QUESTION How can differing conservation responses and approaches maintain and enhance those layers of history within a historical building? ABSTRACT The Conservation and Heritage Research stream in Unitec’s ... -
Suburban styles: Housing design at higher densities in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Suburban housing design in Aotearoa New Zealand’s cities evolved through the twentieth century with adaptable styles to suit changing fashions and various forms of external expression. Designers followed a path that saw a ... -
Values-based politics and new structural social work: Theory for a post-neoliberal age?
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)The mission of social work includes implementing positive changes in the structures of society to enhance social justice, not simply assisting individuals and families to achieve personal growth and better adaptation to ... -
Interview with Neil Smith
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)This interview with Neil Smith, carried out in 2002, is the second in a series of interviews with practitioners who have made significant contributions to the field of community development in Aotearoa New Zealand. Neil ... -
Newmarket Arts Trust: A brief history (2004–2021)
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)BACKGROUND The Newmarket Arts Trust (NAT) was formed in 2004. The original trustees were a mixture of people involved in the art world –– myself –– Sue Haigh (no relation to the author, local resident and active member ... -
Financial self-efficacy scale for people living in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ FSES)
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)As indicated by the increased amount of literature that examines the role of financial self-efficacy in current or future financial behaviours, it is important to have a valid and reliable tool to measure financial ... -
Impacts of poverty
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)In Aotearoa New Zealand there is a strong link between poverty and certain impacts such as physical health problems, psychological wellbeing, housing, education, food insecurity and social status. These impacts are closely ... -
Pop the “maths anxiety” bubble: An approach to support nursing students to self-manage anxiety while studying drug calculation
(Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2021-12-16)This is a report on an informal action research undertaken between 2013 and 2014 to find solutions to support tertiary nursing students experiencing anxiety while studying drug calculation. The literature identifies ...
