• How does voluntary ethics improve research? : introducing a community research development initiative 

      Flanagan, Paul; Tumilty, Emma (Unitec ePress, 2015-11-27)
      Until recently, community organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) have not had any avenue for ethical review of research involving human participants unless they were connected to researchers involved with health and ...
    • IACD Practice Exchange India 2016. Conference report 

      Stansfield, John (Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)
      Put 18 Community Development specialists on a train together in India and you have much more than a mobile party. You have the international professional development experience of a lifetime. The International Association ...
    • In the context of mobility, social identity and belonging, where is ‘community’ – and why does it matter? 

      Fagan, Karen M. (Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)
      The word ‘community’ is used in many diverse situations. It may be that we move into a geographical community, buy into a product community, are part of a shared interest community, participate in a work or student community, ...
    • Intergenerational transmission of communication : a Tongan perspective 

      Fuka-Lino, ‘Aulola (Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)
      Positive youth development requires good information to improve outcomes for service provision and delivery. This article discusses Tongan concepts that are central to effective intergenerational communication between ...
    • Interview with Joan Lardner-Rivlin 

      Haigh, David (Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)
    • Kai Conscious Waiheke : a community development approach to food waste reduction 

      Jeffery, Dawn A.; Stansfield, John (Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)
      Organic waste, particularly food waste, has been identified as a significant hazardous component of the waste to landfill stream. The waste represents an economic loss as well as an environmental pollutant, which is digested ...
    • Language and myths of poverty 

      Haigh, David (Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)
      “Poverty strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it.” G.B. Shaw, Major Barbara This paper explores the popular and political myths and language used about poverty and those who are ...
    • Laudato si’ : establishing local approaches for global ecological conversion 

      Jennings, Anne (Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)
      In 2017 the Aotearoa Community Development Association (ACDA) and the International Association for Community Development (IACD) held a conference, Sustainably yours: Community development and a sustainably just future, ...
    • Manufacture of ignorance 

      Haigh, David (Auckland District Council of Social Service, 2015-03)
      The book: Agnotology:The Making & Unmaking of ignorance provides valuable material about how the tobacco industry tried to undermine scientific evidence on the health impacts of smoking. It is a salutary lesson on how ...
    • Newmarket Arts Trust: A brief history (2004–2021) 

      Haigh, David (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 ...
    • One man's campaign in the Inner City News : Bruce Hucker (1970 - 1990) 

      Haigh, David (Sociological Association of Aotearoa/New Zealand (SAANZ), 2015)
      Bruce Hucker wrote a weekly article for the Inner City News between 1979 and 1990. Hucker took issue with Auckland City Council on many issues and accused the Citizens and Ratepayers group that ran council of being nothing ...
    • Painting the desert pink : where place making, social cohesion and wellbeing collide 

      McGregor, Kristy (Unitec ePress, 2015-11-27)
      In remote communities of western Queensland, where gatherings are rare and take the form of gymkhanas and campdrafts, women hardly take time out to invest in themselves. During droughts, the pressures are so great that ...
    • Panoptic reality : a review of Citizenfour 

      Tunnicliffe, Craig (Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)
      Movies, and perhaps more importantly documentary movies, need to be separated into good documentaries and important documentaries. Citizenfour would then fall squarely in this second category, and require viewing for ...
    • Participation, Partnerships and Pilots in Community Development Policy 

      Toogood, Fleur M. (Unitec ePress, 2015-05-01)
      This paper critically examines the current New Zealand government’s policy of promoting local participation and ‘partnerships’ in community development and the provision of social services with particular consideration of ...
    • Partnering with educational leaders to advance social work education in Vietnam 

      Drabble, Laurie A.; Cohen, Edward; Nguyen, Hoa; Hines, Alice; Faires, Debbie; Tran, Tuan; Ngô, Patrick Thanh An (Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)
      This case study describes the leadership component of the Social Work Education Enhancement Project (SWEEP), an international collaboration designed to strengthen the capacity of Vietnam’s undergraduate social work programmes ...
    • Perceptions of community safety in West Auckland and White fragility 

      Bridgman, Geoffrey (Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)
      Unitec and Community Waitakere have recently completed a project supported by the Lottery Community Sector Research fund, looking at the contemporary issues affecting perceptions of safety in West Auckland communities. A ...
    • Placing youth in a volunteer framework 

      Wardlaw, Maryanne (Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)
      Volunteering Auckland faces an encouraging challenge: it has more youth volunteers than it has organisations willing to place them. As a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits find and maximise a volunteer base, Volunteering ...
    • Positive women : a community development response to supporting women and families living with HIV/AIDS in Aotearoa New Zealand 

      Connor, Helene; Bruning, Jane; Napan, Ksenija (Unitec ePress, 2016-10-26)
      This paper reflects on Positive Women’s twenty five years as a successful community development response to supporting women and families living with HIV or AIDS. The paper focuses on the community development philosophical ...
    • Poverty in New Zealand 

      Haigh, David (Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)
      Poverty is an important socio-political issue in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Children’s Commissioner’s Child Poverty Monitor has established the following measures of poverty: material hardship (households that go without ...
    • Practice report : when life gives you apricots 

      Stansfield, John (Unitec ePress, 2016-11-16)
      The International Association for Community Development (IACD) practice exchange in India this March gave me a whole new take on the saying “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, and a good lesson in the ways of an ...