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The absent elephant in the 2016 : Modernising Child Youth and Family Expert Panel Report

Kenkel, David (Re-Imagining Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2016-04)

Sometimes the most interesting thing about a new policy document or report is not what is present in the document but what is absent. On receiving the report Investing in New Zealand’s Children and Their Families I used ...

Advocacy in the NZ not-for-profit sector: 'Nothing stands by itself.'

Elliott, Susan; Haigh, David (Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Inc., 2013-12)

This research focuses on government–not-for-profit (NFP) sector relationships, with particular reference to advocacy in New Zealand. It follows a study of advocacy in Australia by Onyx et al. (2009). There are concerns ...

Advocating for children : children and domestic violence

Kenkel, David (2016-07)

The new social studies of childhood We are somewhat trained to see children not as active players in their own lives but as the stage bound demonstration of capacities in training for the future (Qvortrop, 1994). ...

African mothers’ experiences of raising ‘Afro-Kiwi kids’ in Aotearoa / New Zealand

Connor, Helene; Ayallo, Irene; Elliott, Susan (African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), 2017-12)

This article presents findings from qualitative research data gathered from a group of ten refugee-background and immigrant African mothers living in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The research study—From Mama Africa to ...

Analysis of PGF ORS and SRS data 2011-2014. Report for the Problem Gambling Foundation – July 2015

Bridgman, Geoffrey (New Zealand Problem Gambling Foundation, 2015-07)

This analysis is based on data collected between 2011 and 2015. All clients in the database started after 31/12/2010 and none started after 31/12/2014, although data up to April 2015 from clients who had started in 2014 ...

Analysis of the Australian data from the Cartoon Network's New GenerAsians survey: Presentation made in conjunction with the Sydney release of data from the 12 Asian nation study of youth attitudes, perceptions and behaviours at the Regent Hotel, Sydney, 4th August, 1998

Bridgman, Geoff (1998-08)

Are Australian children unique or are they similar to other children in Asia? In my short review of the truly massive amount of data collected in the Cartoon Networks New GenerAsians survey, I can only touch upon, in a ...

Analysis of the Hong Kong data from the Cartoon Network's New GenerAsians Survey: Presentation made in conjunction with the Hong Kong release of data from the 12 Asian nation study of youth attitudes, perceptions and behaviours at the New World Harbourview Hotel, Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1998

Bridgman, Geoff (1998-06)

As a researcher on the impact of television on children, I'm interested in the relationship between watching TV and other activities.

The analytic and institutional space of transdisciplinary gender studies

Gremillion, Helen (2013)

A narrower focus! Gender Studies as a field name: some implications for, and debates surrounding, the content and viability of this area of study.

The anti-mandate movement: motorbike helmets and neo-liberalism

Kenkel, David (Re-imagining Social Work in Aotearoa, 2022-01-20)

What I am aiming to do in this piece is to connect some threads that I don’t see commonly linked and raise some questions about who benefits from the anti-mandate movement and the potential position of social work in ...

Application of information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in a rural community in Kenya: An ethnographic approach

Githinji, Rosabel Wanjiku (2011)

There is growing evidence of the positive role ICTs can play in development particularly in rural areas of developing countries through the use of public services in the form of telecentres. Emphasis is now placed on ...

Assessing perceived well-being and safety of a Lao rural community in Nakai, Khammouane province as a result of completed unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and risk education activities

Chanthavong, Thongkham (2015)

RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. What are the significant changes as a consequence of the UXO operational intervention in Nakai in relation to the well-being and safety of residents and social, economic, and developmental conditions ...

The benefits of keeping Hmong girls enrolled in primary education in Luang Prabang province of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) : teachers and parents/guardians viewpoints and perspectives

Saythongmany, Sisamouth (2016)

Primary schooling in Laos improved dramatically after Laos got full independence in 1975. The Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) has expanded a number of schools, improved the quality of teacher training and made ...

Biculturalism, women’s collectives, Māori feminism and mana wāhine Māori : de-storying narratives of mono-culturalism within postcolonial Aotearoa/New Zealand

Connor, Helene (2016-06)

He iwi kotahi tātou – We are one people? The beginning of Mono-culturalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We are one people? • Became a rationale for assimilation policies and mono-culturalism. • Hobson’s words epitomised ...

Bringing down the house : how the gambling industry conspires with the treatment industry, academics and government agencies to destroy a public health approach to gambling harm

Stansfield, John (2015-11-30)

Business acquisition in the community sector in New Zealand

Sykes, Vicki (2015)

The community sector in New Zealand is diverse, and organisations within it receive their income from a variety of sources. Those sources of income are not currently enough to meet real, perceived, and anticipated need. ...

Capacity building with educational leaders in Vietnam : The Social Work Education Enhancement Project

Nguyen, Hoa (2017-02)

The Social Work Profession was recognized by the government in 2010 The Government issued Decision 32/2010/QD-TTg and National Plan 32 to develop the SW profession in 2010 BSW programs have grown very fast since 2004 and ...

Celebrating diversity! Umm? And why the question – "Kei hea te putea?" Is more important than ever. Posted on April 6, 2018 by RSW Collective

Kenkel, David (Re-imaging Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2018-04-06)

Fraser and Honneth (2003) suggest that one useful way to slice up politics is to distinguish between the politics of recognition and the politics of redistribution. You could also talk about identity politics (Gergen, 1995) ...