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An approach to teaching the writing of literature reviews [Online]
(Zeitschrift Schreiben, 2008)Students face difficulties in writing literature reviews that relate in particular to limited knowledge of the genre (Bruce, 1992; E. Turner, 2005). While there has been valuable research relating to genre and discourse ... -
Antarctica: environment, justice, sustainability & development
(United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 2014)This paper focuses on Antarctica and its status as a commons area with potential to facilitate both the human rights objectives and development agendas of global south states. It suggests that, using a combined and ... -
Appendix: the New Zealand literature on social class/inequality
(New Zealand Sociology, 2013)No abstract. -
Bangladesh: an umpired democracy
(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2012)This paper reveals that there has been a continuous political confrontation between two archrival political forces in Bangladesh since independence in 1971. In the course of the confrontation, the country has seemingly ... -
Beyond Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning: An Attempt with SVM
(The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020)A big challenge in continual learning is avoiding catastrophically forgetting previously learned tasks. The possibility of improving existing knowledge whilst integrating new information has been much less explored. In ... -
The Christchurch Principles
(The Helen Clark Foundation and Auckland University of Technology, 2019)November 2019: We believe that the public sphere should be a place of equal participation. As the internet, and social media especially, becomes an increasingly influential public space, these digital media have greater ... -
Climate Finance Landscape for Aotearoa New Zealand: A Preliminary Survey
(Mōhio and Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This report, prepared by consultancy Mōhio, examines climate finance in New Zealand. It includes a snapshot of key existing climate finance flows and a look at the instruments available to the Government and private sector ... -
Editorial: social class and inequality in New Zealand and Overseas: introduction to special issue
(New Zealand Sociology, 2013)No abstract. -
Embracing the Muddle: Learning From the Experiences From Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Collaboration
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Interdisciplinary, collaborative teaching and learning is recognised as important for twenty-first century tertiary education that seeks to build students’ critical thinking, cultural competence and global understanding. ... -
ePortfolios in cooperative education: do they work?
(Australian Collaborative Education Network, 2010)This paper documents the process of integrating eportfolios from the multidisciplinary perspectives of the Schools of Languages, Social Sciences and Education. The experiences of Coordinators, Flexible Learning Advisors, ... -
Estimating the Economic Costs of Ethnic Health Inequities: Protocol for a Prevalence-based Cost-of-illness Study in New Zealand (2003-2014)
(BMJ Journals, 2018)INTRODUCTION: There is significant international interest in the economic impacts of persistent inequities in morbidity and mortality. However, very few studies have quantified the costs associated with unfair and preventable ... -
Fight the power: comparing and evaluating two measures of French and Raven’s bases of social power
(University of Iowa, 2014)Social power, or potential for social influence, has traditionally been conceptualized according to French and Raven’s (1959) power typology. The purpose of this analysis was to examine the relationship between a commonly ... -
Fighting complacency and retrogression: reawakening gender equity activism In New Zealand
(International Sociological Association (ISA), 2014)New Zealand enjoys an impressive reputation for gender equality. It was the first self- governing nation to grant women’s suffrage in 1893 and scores highly in international indexes such as the World Economic Forum’s Global ... -
The impact of economic and social human rights in New Zealand case law
(The Australian Human Rights Centre, 2015)Although New Zealand has traditionally relied on ‘positive progressive realisation’ of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) through public policy decision-making, recently there has been small number of cases relying ... -
The Impact of Exogenous Shocks on National Wellbeing. New Zealanders’ Reaction to COVID-19
(Springer, 2021)In this paper, we explore the response of an aggregate measure of subjective wellbeing to the arrival and passage of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small, geographically separate economy in the South Pacific. Studies of national ... -
Impact of School-Based Support on Educational Outcomes of Teen-Mothers: Evidence From Linked Administrative Data
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Teen Parent Units (TPUs) provide education and support for high school students who are pregnant or parents in New Zealand. They provide childcare, links to health and other social services, guidance and mentoring. Because ... -
The Interwoven World Te Ao I Whiria: Towards an Integrated Landscape Approach in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The Policy Observatory, AUT, 2018)In this discussion paper, The Policy Observatory’s Dr David Hall explores the ways that New Zealanders think about the landscape, and how these ideas influence actual decisions about land use. To put New Zealand on the ... -
Just transitions and a contested space: Antarctica and the Global South
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This paper suggests that Global South states should prioritize Antarctica as a core trans-national issue because of the potential rewards it offers in terms of opportunities for advancing their common political and development ...