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Featured Publications

Whanake, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2018

Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development, and is edited by Gavin Rennie and John Stansfield. This issue features articles on epistemology and community worker education, intergenerational communication and Tongan youth, Samoan poetry praxis, and CD in Uganda. It also includes the new  […]

Medium-density dwellings in Auckland and the building regulations

National thermal standards have historically been set to minimise winter heating energy in detached houses. It is uncertain whether these standards are optimal for the increasing number of joined, medium-density dwellings when summer and winter conditions are considered. Using freely available software, annual heating energy use and summertime peak temperatures were calculated for a number […]

  • Author(s): Roger Birchmore
  • ISSN: 2324-3635
  • Date of Publication: 25.07.18

Collaborative housing as a response to the housing crisis in Auckland

According to future projections based on current demographic growth trends, Auckland’s population will reach two million in 2033. Since the city is already afflicted by a serious housing crisis, at the beginning of 2017 the newly elected Mayor Phil Goff set up a task force. Formed by representatives of various stakeholders, it was given the […]

  • Author(s): Paola Trapani
  • ISSN: 2324-3635
  • Date of Publication: 25.07.18

Thesis Review: Evaluating the Impact of Social Change Catalyst on Urban Community Development: A Case Study of LIN Centre for Community Development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Chau Doan-Bao

In this thesis, the author evaluates the impact of the Listen – Inspire – Nurture (LIN) Center’s model of participatory urban community development in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). It evidences how LIN has supported urban not-for-profit organisations (NPOs) to alter their self-perception from ‘charity organisations’ to being part of community development processes. Using a […]

  • Author(s): Irene Ayallo
  • Date of Publication: 20.06.2018
  • ISSN: 2382-2228

Thesis review: Tongan Women Talking About Their Lives by Sandra Kailahi

Sandra Kailahi’s thesis, Tongan Women Talking About Their Lives, explores Tongan women in Auckland fulfilling leadership roles. About 60,000 Tongans live in New Zealand, the third largest group coming from the Pacific islands but, in keeping with a general trend in New Zealand, very few Tongan women hold leadership roles; although there are some notable […]

  • Author(s): Philip Cass
  • Date of Publication: 18.04.2018
  • ISSN: 2382–2228

File to Factory: A case study of automated prefabrication house-building methods for small-to-medium enterprises

The Eco-Digital Fabrication (EDFAB) research project aimed to investigate how automated prefabrication technologies and off-the-shelf construction products can be employed to disrupt building industry norms. The aim of this research – conducted at the University of Auckland and Unitec Institute of Technology from 2014 onward – was to provide small-to-medium enterprises in the construction industry […]

  • Author(s): Yusef Patel
  • ISSN: 2324-3635
  • Date of Publication: 23.12.2017

Pūrātoke Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Creative Arts and Industries, issue 1, 2017

Pūrātoke: (Maori: 1. (verb) to glow, gleam / 2. (noun) glowworm / 3. (noun) bright spark, clever person). Pūrātoke is an online, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to the publication of high-quality undergraduate student research within the creative arts and industries. This pilot issue, edited by Scott Wilson and Samuel Holloway, features the work of eleven emerging researchers from key […]

  • Editor(s): Scott Wilson and Samuel Holloway
  • ISSN: 2538-0133
  • Date of Publication: 21.12.2017

The Sustainable Whānau Challenge 2016: A multi-factor assessment tool to rank lifestyle shifts towards sustainability based on predicted impact

The report presents the results of collaborative research involving the Kaipatiki Project and an interdisciplinary pool of Unitec Institute of Technology researchers. In 2016 the Kaipatiki Project launched the second edition of the Auckland-wide Sustainable Whānau Challenge, an online challenge to spread the adoption of everyday life actions oriented towards a more sustainable lifestyle. The […]

  • Author(s): Paola Trapani, Marie-Caroline Lefort, Ngaire Molyneux, Evangelia Papoutsaki and Gregor Steinhorn
  • ISSN: 2537-9828
  • Date of Publication: 16.12.2017

Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development, Volume 3, Edition 2, 2017

Announcing the publication of Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development Volume 3, Edition 2, 2017. Whanake is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development, and is edited by Gavin Rennie and John Stansfield. This issue features articles on social work education in Vietnam, perceptions of community safety in West Auckland and white fragility, […]

  • Editor(s): John Stansfield and Gavin Rennie
  • ISSN: 2423-009X
  • Date of Publication: 13.12.2017

Perspectives in Biosecurity 2

Perspectives in Biosecurity is a multi-disciplinary electronic journal of research papers and other outputs covering all aspects of the field of biosecurity including, but not restricted to invasion biology and ecology, invasive species identification/diagnostics, management and eradication/control, new invasive species records, modelling, biosecurity law and policy, relationships between human society and invasive species. This journal has […]

  • Editor(s): Dan Blanchon and Mel Galbraith
  • ISSN: 2538-0125
  • Date of Publication: 13.12.2017
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