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Pasifika peoples remain significantly underrepresented in Aotearoa New Zealand’s technology sector; despite comprising 8.9% of the population they make up less than 3% of those in digital and IT pathways. This disparity reflects structural inequities that constrain access, progression and… Continue Reading →
Achieving consistent marking of architectural drawings between different tutors can present challenges, including reliable benchmarking of acceptable standards to ensure valid, trusted and justifiable final grades. The purpose of this project is to develop and analyse a marking approach using… Continue Reading →
Asylum design research journal is produced by Unitec’s School of Architecture and published annually by ePress, Unitec’s publishing platform. Now well into its third decade, and a highlight of the academic year, Asylum was named for the former hospital building that… Continue Reading →
This article explores a collaborative arts-research exchange between Māori and Aboriginal women cloak-makers, positioning traditional cloaking practices as powerful sites of healing, resistance and cultural regeneration. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori and Whatuora (H. Smith, 2017; 2019) methodologies, the article weaves… Continue Reading →
Asylum design research journal is produced by Unitec’s School of Architecture and published annually by ePress, Unitec’s publishing platform. The 2024 edition marks thirty years of the School of Architecture, and over twenty years of the publication, named for the former… Continue Reading →
This book acknowledges Te Reo Karanga o Wairaka – Tuu Puna, the Wānanga Karanga programme that has continued at Unitec from 2017 to 2022. The programme builds the capacity of kaikaranga and women in leadership at Te Whare Wānanga o… Continue Reading →
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Whitireia and WelTec had the pleasure of co-hosting the 2021 ITP Research Symposium online on 25 and 26 November 2021. The theme for the 2021 symposium was aumangea (resilience), a concept that resonated across… Continue Reading →
The Ngā Wai a Te Tūī – Hiringa Hauora Summer Research Mentorship is a kaupapa Māori collaboration to increase hauora Māori (Māori wellbeing) research capacity. The idea of research internships is not new, nor is a focus on hauora Māori…. Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development. This issue features articles on youth volunteering, voluntourism, discrimination against gender-diverse tertiary students, poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand, youth HIV/AIDS awareness… Continue Reading →