AUT Faculties
The research activities within each of AUT’s five faculties are overseen by an Associate Dean of Research who works closely with the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise. We encourage you to explore the broad suite of research activities from each faculties. Full text digital files are available open access for all items.
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Migrant Construction Workers’ Demography and Job Satisfaction: A New Zealand Study
(Emerald, 2021)Purpose The demand for construction-related occupations has increased consistently over many years in New Zealand (NZ). This has necessitated recourse to migrant workers to address capacity and capability requirements. ... -
Public Education Unbounded: Reflection on the Publicness of Green School New Zealand
(NZAROE, VUW, 2021)Green School New Zealand is a private school whose school fees confirm for critics the inequity of private education, but the school may contribute to an alternative vision of public education if its commitment to ... -
Nutritional and Volatile Characterisation of Milk Inoculated With Thermo-Tolerant Lactobacillus bulgaricus Through Adaptive Laboratory Evolution
In this study, thermo-tolerant strain of Lactobacillus bulgaricus (L. bulgaricus) was developed using gradual increase in temperature to induce Adaptive Laboratory Evolution (ALE). Viable colony count of 1.87 ± 0.98 log ... -
Freedom of Information. What Were They Thinking?
(Schools of Art & Design, Communication Studies, and Business, AUT, 2020)“The right to know is the right to live.” Aruna Roy (1946— ), Indian social activist Ongoing dissatisfaction among information requesters, including journalists, has discredited the early and partially heroic narratives ... -
A Computational Interrogation of “Big-C” and “Little-c” Creativity
The distinction between “Big-C” and “little-c” creativity implies that the generative process of celebrated creators is of a special type or degree. Arguments for and against such a hierarchy of creativity are found in the ... -
The Proportion of Lower Limb Running Injuries by Gender, Anatomical Location and Specific Pathology: A Systematic Review
(University of Uludag, 2019)Running is associated with a higher risk of overuse injury than other forms of aerobic exercise such as walking, swimming and cycling. An accurate description of the proportion of running injuries per anatomical location ... -
Preliminary Evidence for the Clinical Utility of Tactile Somatosensory Assessments of Sport-Related mTBI
(2021)Objectives: To evaluate the clinical utility of tactile somatosensory assessments to assist clinicians in diagnosing sport-related mild traumatic brain injury (SR-mTBI), classifying recovery trajectory based on performance ... -
Hybrid Model of Data Augmentation Methods for Text Classification Task
(SCITEPRESS, 2021)Data augmentation techniques have been increasingly explored in natural language processing to create more textual data for training. However, the performance gain of existing techniques is often marginal. This paper ... -
Injury Incidence Within Male Elite New Zealand Cricket From the Early T20 Era: 2009–2015
(BMJ, 2021)Objectives This study aimed to describe the injury epidemiology of domestic and international level male New Zealand cricketers from seasons 2009–2010 to 2014–2015 across all match formats given the increasing popularity ... -
Braille Recognition Using Deep Learning
(ACM, 2021)Text is the media to convey and transmit information. Braille is extremely important for vision impaired people to exchange information through reading and writing. A braille translator is crucial tool for aiding people ... -
FlexiNet: Fast and Accurate Vehicle Detection for Autonomous Vehicles
(ACM, 2021)Autonomous vehicle has come to reach on the road; however accurate road perception in real-time is one of the crucial factors towards its success. The greatest challenge in this direction includes occlusion, truncation, ... -
Resonant Voices: The Poetic Register in Exegetical Writing for Creative Practice
(Intellect, 2021)Quality, exegetical writing can be constrained when students marginalize poetic ways of thinking and replace them with carefully edited accounts that reshape the role and nature of emotional response. In the pursuit of ... -
Artificial Muscles Performance Based on TCP-NiCr Actuators
(IEEE, 2021)In the past years, artificial muscles (and or soft-actuators) have gained attention to be used in rehabilitation robots due to their inherent compliance. Twisted and coiled polymers (TCP) artificial muscles are one of the ... -
Strength-Based School Counsellors’ Experiences of Counselling in New Zealand
This article presents New Zealand school counsellors’ narratives of counselling adolescents from a strengths-based perspective. Strength-based counselling encompasses several counselling modalities including positive ... -
A Reflective Commentary About Teaching International Non-accounting Postgraduates Amid COVID-19
(Emerald, 2021)Purpose This study aims to highlight the experience of teaching accounting to non-accounting international postgraduates both pre- and during COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach Reflections and anecdotal evidence ... -
Non-routine Mathematical Problem-Solving: Creativity, Engagement, and Intuition of STEM Tertiary Students
(2021)This study set out to evaluate an intervention that introduced a period of non-routine problem-solving into tertiary STEM lectures at four tertiary institutions in New Zealand for 683 students. The aim was twofold: to ... -
Loosening Ties: Permanently Virtual Teams and the Melting Iceberg of Relationship
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GoodWIL Placements: How COVID–19 Shifts the Conversation About Unpaid Placements
(2020)This paper discusses how the COVID–19 pandemic can shift the conversation of paid and unpaid placements from an economic to a pedagogical and goodwill perspective. During the pandemic lockdown many placements were cancelled ... -
PBRF Changes – Encouraging On-Going Fiddling With the Rules While the Academy Burns
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Over the last 18 years successive governments have tried various schemes to reward and encourage good research, without actually conducting much research into the effectiveness of the rewards and discouragements inherent ... -
Voting in New Zealand Local Government Elections: The Need to Encourage Greater Voter Turnout
(UTSePress Journals, University of Technology, Sidney, 2021)Within a global context, local government in New Zealand occupies an enviable position: it enjoys both a statutorily-defined ‘power of general competence’ and financial autonomy from central government. However, despite ...