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Gulyaev, Sergei A., and Tim J. Natusch. "Collaboration and development of radio-astronomy in Australasia and the South-Pacific region: New Zealand perspectives." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, SPS5 (August 2006): 137–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921307006886.
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AbstractAs a result of collective efforts of an Australian–New Zealand VLBI team, the first New Zealand VLBI system was developed, and a series of test observations between New Zealand and Australia conducted. The equipment and techniques used to conduct New Zealand's first VLBI observations are discussed and results of work in Australia and New Zealand to obtain fringes and the image of the source (PKS1921-231) are presented. The road map for New Zealand radio-astronomy as well as New Zealand involvement in the SKA is discussed.
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Kvasnytsya, O. M. "Standard and semi-standard plays in competition activity of leading rugby-15 national teams." Scientific Journal of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Series 15. Scientific and pedagogical problems of physical culture (physical culture and sports), no. 12(158) (December 30, 2022): 55–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31392/npu-nc.series15.2022.12(158).13.
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The present article analyzes the results of pedagogical survey and contrastive analysis of competition activity among national teams participating in Rugby-15 Championship 2022 season. It should be noted that the analysis of indices of competition activity at the championship using provided data will help supplement, expand, and substantiate current knowledge in the issue discussed. Indices of competition activity of rugby teams officially approved by the International Rugby Board, IRB were used in our research. Namely, the paper focuses on indices of standard (scrums and line-outs) and semi-standard plays (rucks, mauls) of New Zealand, South African Republic, Argentina, Australia national teams.
By the results of analysis of statistical data, it has been revealed that players of national team New Zealand prevailed over their opponents by indices of competition activity, successful scrums and line-outs; players of national teams South African Republic slightly prevailed by indices of rucks and mauls. However, by the most important index as assumed by us, namely the number of successful tackles of ball carrier, team New Zealand also prevailed.
Having analyzed the indices of competition activity, namely standard and semi-standard plays in Championship 2022 season we may state that rugby players of national team New Zealand prevail in three out of five indices of competition activity in rugby-15: more successful than other in scrums (87.5%); more successful on line-outs (88.5%); led by the important index of competition activity – tackling of a ball carrier (88.6%). At the same time, the best percentage of successful rucks and mauls was shown by players of South African Republic (94% and 92.3% respectively). According to this, better results of competition activity indices of national team New Zealand undoubtedly influenced on final general result at the aforementioned Championship.
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Maani, Kambiz, and Campbell Benton. "Rapid team learning: Lessons from team New Zealand America's cup campaign." Organizational Dynamics 27, no. 4 (March 1999): 48–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0090-2616(99)90029-3.
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Finlayson, Mary, and Antony Raymont. "Teamwork general practitioners and practice nurses working together in New Zealand." Journal of Primary Health Care 4, no. 2 (2012): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hc12150.
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INTRODUCTION: Teamwork in primary health care has been encouraged in New Zealand and in the international literature. It may improve work satisfaction for staff, and satisfaction and outcomes for patients. Teamwork may be classified as being multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary and is likely to be influenced by the nature of the work and the organisational context. AIM: To describe and analyse teamwork between general practitioners and practice nurses in New Zealand. METHODS: Data were drawn from a survey of general practices and from interviews with primary health care staff and management. RESULTS: Doctors and nurses in general practice in New Zealand see themselves as a team. Evidence suggests that the nature of the work and the business context most often leads to a multidisciplinary style of teamwork. Some providers have adopted a more intense teamwork approach, often when serving more disadvantaged populations or in caring for those with chronic illnesses. DISCUSSION: Concepts of teamwork differ. This article provides a classification of teams and suggests that most general practice teams are multidisciplinary. It is hoped that this will help personnel to communicate their expectations of a team and encourage progressive team development where it would be of value. KEYWORDS: Teamwork; primary care; practice nurses; general practitioners
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Davies, Chris. "From Munich to Christchurch: International Sport and the Threat of Terrorism." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 52, no. 3 (May 23, 2022): 29–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v52i3.7581.
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The 1972 Munich Olympic Games is remembered for the terrorist attack which resulted in 11 members of the Israeli team being killed. It highlighted that sporting events and teams can be targeted by terrorists due to the high media profile that major sporting events attract. Since this time, high level security has been an important organising consideration for the Olympic Games, something that has increased since the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001. Other sporting teams, namely the Togo national football team and the Sri Lanka national cricket team, have likewise been targeted. The international aspect of many sports requires extensive touring to other countries, and this has resulted in various touring teams being in places that have been terrorist targets, as the New Zealand national cricket team experienced in Pakistan. New Zealand is not a region of the world prone to terrorism problems, but the March 15 attack on a Christchurch mosque could have led to loss of life amongst the touring Bangladesh national cricket team. No region or country is free from potential terrorist attacks involving sporting teams.
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Brunsdon, Dave, Jitendra Bothara, Mike Stannard, Dick Beetham, Roger Brown, Clark Hyland, Warren Lewis, Scott Miller, Rebecca Sanders, and Yakso Sulistio. "Building safety evaluation following the 30 September 2009 Padang earthquake, Indonesia." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 43, no. 3 (September 30, 2010): 174–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.43.3.174-181.
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A ten-member team of engineers was deployed by NZAID and the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering to assist Indonesian local and provincial agencies with rapid structural assessments of earthquake-affected buildings in and around Padang. This was the first time that a team of New Zealand engineers had been operationally deployed outside the Pacific region following a major earthquake.
An accompanying paper describes the earthquake and its impacts, and the general observations of the team. This paper outlines the experiences of a team of 10 New Zealand structural engineers deployed on a volunteer basis for two weeks to undertake the deployment process, the arrangements that the team operated under in Padang, the tasks undertaken and the outputs and outcomes achieved. The lessons for building safety evaluation processes in New Zealand are also presented, along with the resulting enhancements to arrangements.
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Ibrahim, Khairil Izam, Seosamh B. Costello, and Suzanne Wilkinson. "Establishment of Performance Scales for Team Integration Assessment." Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building - Conference Series 2, no. 2 (April 14, 2014): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb-cs.v2i2.3887.
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The increased use of the alliance model in recent years highlights the importance of integration practice among multi-disciplinary teams, as it promotes a collaborative culture and the continuity of equitable relationships to improve project performance. If continuous improvement in project alliances is to be achieved through the use of integrated teams, then a means of assessing how well teams integrate and how team integration changes over time, needs to be introduced. In response to that need, an Alliance Team Integration Performance Index (ATIPI) has been developed as part of a wider study to develop an assessment tool for team integration in road construction alliance projects in New Zealand. In this paper, a set of Key Indicators (KIs) of team integration practice and the Quantitative Measures (QMs) for each KI are first introduced and then, in order to enhance the associated ATIPI model, the establishment of scales for the performance levels, namely ‘poor’, ‘average’, ‘good’, ‘very good’ and ‘excellent’, for each KI are described. The establishment of performance scales will help ensure that the assessment of team integration practice is quantified in a consistent and objective manner. Keywords: Alliance, Assessment, New Zealand, Performance Scales, Team Integration
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Wood, Yvonne Irene, Arno Sturny, Lindsay Neill, Alan Brown, and Renny Aprea. "The “New World” and international pâtisserie competition." British Food Journal 117, no. 4 (April 2, 2015): 1226–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-12-2013-0375.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the New Zealand Junior Pastry Team negotiated the rigours of international competition at the 2013 Junior Pastry World Cup in Rimini, Italy and how what was learnt from this experience holds relevance to creative hospitality practice and business application. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses an inductive qualitative enquiry to illuminate the narratives and subjective experiences of the competition team. Structured and semi-structured interview data responses were themed using an open coding system. This data were critically evaluated against both competition data, participant experience and relevant academic literature. Findings – This paper shows how the team’s desire to highlight its national identity through food in the competition resulted in problematic experiences that were compounded by a tyranny of distance. However, these challenges were overcome through the creative dynamic the team developed and the networking benefits which the competition provided. These experiences added value not only to the team competitors but also the culinary and pastry practitioners in New Zealand’s hospitality community. Originality/value – The research offers unique insights into how a representative pastry team from the “New World” negotiated international competition set in and heavily influenced by the “Old World” of culinary tradition. The paper’s findings could be of use to other novice competition teams. The work also links the importance of international culinary competition to wider constructs of hospitality, such as business advantage in commercial hospitality.
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Editor. "Notes on earthquake insurance in California and New Zealand." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 19, no. 4 (December 31, 1986): 251–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.19.4.251-254.
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On the initiative of the Earthquake and War Damage Commission a team was organised to study the recovery from the earthquake which devastated Mexico City on 19 September 1985. Earthquake preparedness and underwriting in California was also researched. There were five members in the team and they were – Mr. Milton Allwood, Secretary of the Earthquake and War Damage Commission; Mr. Derek Scott, representing the Insurance Council of New Zealand; Mr. Ken Grieve, representing the Institute of Loss Adjusters of New Zealand (Inc); Mr. Edward Latter, National Director of Civil Defence; Mr. Don Currie, representing the Accident Compensation Corporation. The following extract on earthquake insurance is taken from one of the reports by the team.
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Fleischman, Robert B., José I. Restrepo, Joseph R. Maffei, and Kim Seeber. "Preview of PCI’s New Zealand earthquake reconnaissance team report." PCI Journal 57, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 42–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15554/pcij.01012012.42.46.
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Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam, Seosamh B. Costello, and Suzanne Wilkinson. "Application of a team integration performance index in road infrastructure alliance projects." Benchmarking: An International Journal 23, no. 5 (July 4, 2016): 1341–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bij-06-2015-0058.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability of the Alliance Team Integration Performance Index (ATIPI) model as an assessment tool to measure the performance of team integration in alliance road infrastructure projects in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – This study takes a case study approach, using a qualitative research method. Three road infrastructure projects under project alliance from the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) were selected as the cases. Data were collected through the interviews with a representative from the alliance management team from each case. Project records and documentation were also used to assist and support the actual data from the interviews. Findings – The findings indicated that the ATIPI is performing as expected and found to be both practical and applicable to measure the team integration performance in light of real life case studies of alliance road infrastructure projects. Across the three case studies, there is evidence that high levels of integrated performance is consistently fostered by the project teams over the lifecycle of projects. In addition, based on the cross-case analysis from the application of the ATIPI on three cases, further work could enhance the probability of the utilization of the tool to manage different project alliance teams consistently and objectively. Research limitations/implications – The study was limited to three alliance road infrastructure projects in New Zealand. Further research into different alliance projects is required to establish a comprehensive database of alliance team integration performance, so that the model could be more beneficial for owner and non-owner participants, for benchmarking purposes. Practical implications – As team integration practice can directly result in high performing teams in alliance projects, the ATIPI is an ideal model to facilitate the continuous evaluation of team integration performance consistently and objectively over the lifecycle of the projects. Originality/value – This study extends the team integration literature in construction research by providing significant insights into the empirical evaluation of alliance team integration performance, as well as providing added value for the enhancement of any future development of performance evaluation models in construction research.
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Gauld, Robin. "Healthcare System Restructuring in New Zealand: problems and proposed solutions." Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 11, no. 3 (October 1, 2016): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.24083/apjhm.v11i3.163.
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New Zealand’s healthcare system is, like most, in a continual process of restructuring and change. While the country has endured several major system-wide changes in recent decades, more recent change has been incremental and evolutionary. Current changes are in response to a set of challenges, which are not unique to New Zealand. This article overviews the New Zealand healthcare system. It then describes a series of problems facing the system and proposed solutions. These include the need for team care, providing services closer to patients’ homes, focusing on a population of interest, connecting up the system, and engaging patients more closely in care design and delivery.
Abbreviations: DHS – District Health Board;GP – General Practitioner; PHO – Primary Health Organisation.
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O'Brien, Jilly, Tracy Riley, and Wendy Holley-Boen. "How Do Interprofessional Practice Teams Work Together to Identify and Provide for Gifted Students with Multiple Exceptionalities?" Kairaranga 17, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 14–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.54322/kairaranga.v17i2.213.
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Priority learners in New Zealand include thosewho have special educational needs, yet gifted learners with multiple exceptionalities arevariably identified, understood or provided forin our schools. International research advocatesthe use of interprofessional practice (IPP) teams,with competency across shared values, roles and responsibilities, communication, and teamwork, to support gifted learners with multiple exceptionalities. This study explored the experiences and understandings of IPP teams supporting students with multiple exceptionalities in New Zealand. The study found that IPP team identity is still in its infancy and core competencies are still evolving. Shared values towards inclusive practices were hampered by limited knowledge and expertise across the IPP team. Limited understandings of teamwork processes and limited recognition of the importance of communication within the IPP team were also common themes. Parents and students were typically not recognised
as part of the IPP team identity and processes. The article concludes that gifted learners with multiple exceptionalities may not have adequate support at a systems level, and development of interprofessional practice competencies may be one way to ensure their full inclusion in our education system. Implications for policy and practice are described.
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Manning, Richard F., Angus H. Macfarlane, Mere Skerrett, Garrick Cooper, Vanessa De Oliveira (Andreotti), and Tepora Emery. "A New Net to Go Fishing: Messages From International Evidence-Based Research and Kaupapa Māori Research." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 40 (2011): 92–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/ajie.40.92.
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This article draws upon a Māori metaphor to describe the theoretical framework underpinning the methodology and findings of a research project completed by researchers from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2010. It explains how and why the project required the research team to synthesise key information from four New Zealand Ministry of Education Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) reports as well as kaupapa Māori research associated with the Ministry's Ka Hikitia Māori Education Strategy. The key messages outlined in this article were designed by the research team to serve as a new tool to assist whānau (family) and iwi (tribe) to actively engage in the New Zealand schooling system and assert their rights in accordance with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840). Given the large number of Māori children attending Australian schools, the findings of this research may be of interest to Australian educationalists.
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International Labour Law Reports On, Editors. "NEW ZEALAND: Court of Appeal of New Zealand Grace Team Accounting Limited v. Brake [2014] NZCA 541." International Labour Law Reports Online 35, no. 1 (November 21, 2017): 323–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116028-90000135.
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Weller, Jennifer, Jennifer Anne Long, Peter Beaver, David Cumin, Chris Frampton, Alexander L. Garden, Matthew Moore, Craig S. Webster, and Alan Merry. "Evaluation of the effect of multidisciplinary simulation-based team training on patients, staff and organisations: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-mixed methods study of a national, insurer-funded initiative for surgical teams in New Zealand public hospitals." BMJ Open 10, no. 2 (February 2020): e032997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032997.
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IntroductionNetworkZ is a national, insurer-funded multidisciplinary simulation-based team-training programme for all New Zealand surgical teams. NetworkZ is delivered in situ, using full-body commercial simulators integrated with bespoke surgical models. Rolled out nationally over 4 years, the programme builds local capacity through instructor training and provision of simulation resources. We aim to improve surgical patient outcomes by improving teamwork through regular simulation-based multidisciplinary training in all New Zealand hospitals.Methods and analysisOur primary hypothesis is that surgical patient outcomes will improve following NetworkZ. Our secondary hypotheses are that teamwork processes will improve, and treatment injury claims will decline. In addition, we will explore factors that influence implementation and sustainability of NetworkZ and identify organisational changes following its introduction. The study uses a stepped-wedge cluster design. The intervention will roll out at yearly intervals to four cohorts of five District Health Boards. Allocation to cohort was purposive for year 1, and subsequently randomised. The primary outcome measure is Days Alive and Out of Hospital at 90 days using patient data from an existing national administrative database. Secondary outcomes measures will include analysis of postoperative complications and treatment injury claims, surveys of teamwork and safety culture, in-theatre observations and stakeholder interviews.Ethics and disseminationWe believe this is the first surgical team training intervention to be implemented on a national scale, and a unique opportunity to evaluate a nation-wide team-training intervention for healthcare teams. By using a pre-existing large administrative data set, we have the potential to demonstrate a difference to surgical patient outcomes. This will be of interest to those working in the field of healthcare teamwork, quality improvement and patient safety. New Zealand Health and Disability Ethic Committee approval (#16/NTB/143).Trial registration numberAustralian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ID ACTRN12617000017325 and the Universal Trial Number is U1111-1189-3992.
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Brunsdon, D. R., N. R. Britton, R. J. Carter, R. F. Crimp, E. F. Gates, M. A. Gordon, G. J. Hughson, et al. "Lessons for New Zealand lifelines organisations from the 17 January 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 29, no. 1 (March 31, 1996): 1–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.29.1.1-55.
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This report outlines the observations and findings with regard to lifelines and other infrastructural items from each of the various New Zealand post-earthquake visits to Kobe subsequent to the NZNSEE reconnaissance team visit. The preliminary assessments on lifelines aspects made in the NZNSEE reconnaissance team report are developed further. Lessons and recommendations for New Zealand are presented.
In addition to lifelines aspects, observations are also made on the political decision-making process, subsequent economic trends and temporary housing and emergency management issues.
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Brown, Francesca. "Optimising staff utilisation in rural animal veterinary practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand." Perspectives in Animal Health and Welfare 2, no. 1 (September 22, 2023): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/piahw.002103.
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Utilisation of veterinary professional staff in rural animal veterinary practice has long been anecdotally reported as poor in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Evidence shows that skill utilisation is poor, and this is likely impacted by the low ratios of non-veterinarian staff to each veterinarian in rural animal veterinary practice. This participative action research utilised focus groups with a range of staff practising in rural animal veterinary practice in Aotearoa / New Zealand, who self-selected as having experience with excellent utilisation. Participants were asked to imagine what a future with excellent utilisation in rural animal veterinary practice in Aotearoa / New Zealand would look like. This research clarifies role definitions of a veterinarian, rural animal veterinary technician and rural animal healthcare assistant, and documents examples of task allocation in an interprofessional team. The participants identified that the outcomes of achieving appropriate utilisation are likely to be beneficial to individuals, the team, animals, clients, and the business profitability, however, a significant number of barriers were identified that may prevent implementation of appropriate utilisation. These included a disconnect between the current rural animal veterinary technician qualifications and the requirement from veterinary clinical practice for specific skills, rather than a full qualification; the current veterinary training pathway not setting up veterinarians to be consultants; lack of regulation of allied veterinary professionals; current skills in the team; lack of trust in technicians from veterinarians; perception of client expectations that a vet will attend; willingness of veterinarians to relinquish control; lack of availability of technical staff; the requirement for veterinarians to provide 27/4 after-hours service; and the risk of technicians leaving after being trained up to go out on their own. Whilst overcoming some of these barriers requires industryled solutions, many can be resolved immediately within individual teams. Therefore, there is no need to wait for industry change to begin creating veterinary teams with excellent utilisation within individual rural animal veterinary practices.
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Brown, Francesca, and Sylvia Ma. "Optimising staff utilisation in companion animal veterinary practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand." Perspectives in Animal Health and Welfare 2, no. 1 (September 22, 2023): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.34074/piahw.002102.
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Utilisation of all staff in companion animal veterinary practice has long been reported as sub-optimal in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Evidence shows that skill utilisation is poor, and this is likely impacted by the very low ratios of non-veterinarian staff to each veterinarian in a veterinary practice. This participative action research utilised co-design with a range of staff practising in companion animal clinical practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, who self-selected as having experience with excellent utilisation. Participants were asked to imagine what a future with excellent utilisation in Aotearoa/New Zealand would look like. This research clarifies role definitions of a veterinarian, companion animal registered veterinary nurse and companion animal healthcare assistant, documents examples of task allocation in an interprofessional team, and develops models to show how ratios of 11:2–14:2 of non-veterinarian staff to veterinarians could be operationalised. The outcomes of achieving this model are likely be beneficial to staff, animals, clients and the business profitability. However, a significant number of barriers are present which may prevent implementation of this model. These include lack of trust, poor team culture, perceived or real skill gaps in veterinary nurses, current legal risks associated with task delegation by veterinarians, and insufficient time available to implement change. Whilst overcoming some of these barriers requires industry-led solutions, many can be resolved immediately within individual teams. Therefore, there is no need to wait for industry change to begin creating veterinary teams with excellent utilisation within individual veterinary practices.
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Beresford, Rob. "New Zealand Plant Protection Medal 2016." New Zealand Plant Protection 71 (July 26, 2018): 360–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.30843/nzpp.2018.71.225.
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This medal is awarded by the New Zealand Plant Protection Society to honour those who have made exceptional contributions to plantprotection in New Zealand in the widest sense. The medal is awarded for outstanding services to plant protection, whether through research,education, implementation or leadership.
In 2016, the New Zealand Plant Protection Medal was awarded to Dr Rob Beresford who is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and versatile plant pathologists. Rob started his career in science with an MSc Hons, 1st class, in Auckland in 1978 and was appointed to DSIR Plant Diseases Division at Lincoln in 1979. He was awarded a National Research Advisory Council Postgraduate Research Fellowship to undertake PhD studies at Long Ashton Research Station in the UK from1982 to 1985, returning to Lincoln in 1986. Those studies kicked off a long career in epidemiology and today Rob is New Zealand’s pre-eminent plant disease epidemiologist. For 30 years, Rob has been New Zealand’s strongest advocate for the use of weather-based disease prediction for developing practicaldisease control strategies, particularly to reduce the economic, environmental and market residue impacts of fungicide use. By understanding and modelling relationships between pathogen biology and ecology and weather, Rob has translated complex correlations between biological and physical factorsinto simple practical tools for growers to use for disease control. To date, these have included decision support tools for apple scab, downy mildew in onions, botrytis in grapes and more recently Psa in kiwifruit. He has also developed prediction models for climatic risk of invasive pathogens (potato wart disease and myrtle rust) and for the impacts of climate change on crop diseases.
Recognising the importance of climate and weather in affecting plant diseases, Rob has, for many years, championed a network of weather stations in the key horticultural districts throughout New Zealand to generate data for the decision-support tools. It has been a struggle to keep the network running against shortages of funding and the frequent need to re-assert the value of the network to New Zealand horticulture. Rob has built a team of equally committed colleagues who share this understanding and, through tenacity and persistence, have recently achieved an upgrade of the entire network to internet-based communication systems. It is through his close collaborations over many years with the software company HortPlus that his decision support tools have been delivered to the commercial arena.
Rob was a member of the New Zealand team that argued the case at the World Trade Organisation for the easing of restrictions on New Zealand apples entering Australia. Rob’s superior skills in interpreting climate data, in this case Australian data, in terms of pathogen survival, establishment and spread, and his clarity in presenting the results were instrumental in the success of that case in 2010.
In parallel with Rob’s epidemiological strategy to reduce fungicide use is his interest in the threat of pathogens developing resistance to fungicides. Rob leads research to identify resistance threats to fungicides and also provides liaison between grower associations and agrochemical companies to design and implement robust resistance-management strategies. His focus on resistance started in 2005 when he published updated management strategies for all nine of the then available fungicide groups for the New Zealand Plant Protection Society (NZPPS). In 2007, he re-established the New Zealand Committee on Pesticide Resistance (NZCPR) (which had been in abeyance for 10 years) and chaired the committee’s work on fungicides, insecticides and herbicides from 2007 to 2012. He stepped aside to become NZCPR Science Advisor in 2012 so he could focus on resistance research. Following devastating disease outbreaks of apple scab (Venturia ineaqualis) in the pipfruit industry in 2009, Rob initiated a research programme with Pipfruit New Zealand that showed the cause of the outbreaks to be resistance to two groups of fungicides in use at the time. He has recently coordinated resistance strategy updates for botrytis affecting the wine industry, for summer fruit diseases and is currently leading a programme to monitor resistance of grape powdery mildew to key groups of fungicides. Rob was awarded the 2014 Plant & Food Research Chairman’s Award for his work on fungicide resistance.
Rob is an effective communicator at all levels from heavy science to grower forums and is always willing to share his time, skills and knowledge. He has been involved with undergraduate lecturing for many years and has successfully supervised several PhDs.
NZPP Medal recipients for the previous five years:2015: Gary Barker2014: -2013: Andrew Hodson2012: Margaret Dick2011: Jim Walker
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New Zealand reconnaissance team. "The September 1985 Mexico earthquake." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 18, no. 4 (December 31, 1985): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.18.4.291-312.
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Angus, Elizabeth, Kate Reid, Sigred Yamit, Gill Coe, Bridget Ryan, and Sharyn Crichton. "Experience of internationally qualified nurses providing palliative care in a New Zealand aged residential care facility." International Journal of Palliative Nursing 27, no. 10 (December 2, 2021): 515–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2021.27.10.515.
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Background: New Zealand is reliant upon internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) working within aged residential care (ARC), despite the fact that many of these nurses have limited or no ARC or palliative care experience before arriving in the country. Aims: To understand the issues faced by IQNs providing palliative care to people in ARC. To understand how the palliative aged residential care (PARC) specialist nurse team can best support IQNs. Methods: A thematic analysis was undertaken from five focus group interviews with IQNs (n=24) from ARC facilities in the Christchurch and Canterbury regions. Findings: Unfamiliarity with New Zealand 's palliative care and ARC systems, cultural differences and communication barriers caused internal struggles. Transitioning to a New Zealand approach to palliative care highlighted participants' adaptability and resilience. Consistent approaches to training and support by the PARC team and additional cultural training within New Zealand Competence Assessment Programmes (CAP) are required. Conclusion: Ongoing education, support and role modelling to develop confidence and reduce internal struggles are required for IQNs providing palliative care in ARC.
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McCarthy, Hannah. "New Zealand Plant Protection Society Research Scholarship." New Zealand Plant Protection 71 (July 26, 2018): 363. http://dx.doi.org/10.30843/nzpp.2018.71.228.
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The necrotrophic fungus Ciborinia camelliae Kohn causes a disease known as camellia petal blight that has been disfiguring camellia flowers (Fig. 1) since it was first found in New Zealand in 1993. This blight has severally impacted the camellia seed oil industry, floriculture industry, and has been a great frustration to keen camellia growers over the last 25 years but no viable control methods for camellia petal blight have been discovered so far. The Camellia Memorial Trust has helped fund a research team at Massey University to study the interaction between
camellia plants and this pathogen. Hannah McCarthy, recipient of the 2017/2018 New Zealand Plant Protection Society Research Scholarship, is part of this team. Ciborinia camellia is host and tissue specific, which restricts its infection capability to flowers of the Camellia genus. This disease spreads by ascospores, which after landing on a susceptible Camellia spp. bloom, germinate to grow hyphae and cause necrosis and death of the petal tissues. The flower then falls prematurely to the ground, where the fungus survives as hardened sclerotium until the next flowering season.
Most plant pathogens utilise a range of proteins to promote infection using mechanisms that include the suppression of plant immunity, degradation of cell walls, or the manipulation of the host’s immunity to their own advantage. These proteins are known as ‘effectors’ and identification of these complex molecules has led to a better understanding of disease and new disease-control strategies for other plants. The aim of Hannah’s MSc research is to identify effectors in Ciborinia camelliae, and she has been focusing on a protein family that shares characteristics (such as high cysteine content and the size of protein sequences) with known effectors from other fungi. This protein family is called Ciborinia camelliae-like small secreted proteins (CCL-SSPs). There are 73 unique protein sequences in Ciborinia camelliae but of the ten tested for necrotic ability by recombinant expression and infiltration into camellia petals, none were found to induce cell death. However, a protein found in the closely related fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, was found to induce very rapid cell death, which was visible just two hours after infiltration. This protein from Sclerotinia sclerotiorum has high sequence similarity to CCL- SSPs. To identify the function of this protein family, Hannah is performing region swaps between the S. sclerotiorum protein and a Ciborinia camelliae CCL-SSP. By the end of
this project, the research team hopes to have: (a) identified the region of the S. sclerotiorum protein responsible for its necrotic activity; (b) compared this region with sequences of Ciborinia camelliae CCL-SSPs; and (c) deduced the likely function of this protein family, and its role in camellia petal blight.
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Burch, Giles St J., and Neil Anderson. "The team selection inventory: Empirical data from a New Zealand sample." Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 46, no. 2 (August 2008): 241–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1038411107086881.
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Burch, G. S. J., and N. Anderson. "The team selection inventory: Empirical data from a New Zealand sample." Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 46, no. 2 (August 1, 2008): 241–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1038411107086881.
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Scanlan, Tara K., David G. Russell, Larry A. Scanlan, Tatiana J. Klunchoo, and Graig M. Chow. "Project on Elite Athlete Commitment (PEAK): IV. Identification of New Candidate Commitment Sources in the Sport Commitment Model." Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 35, no. 5 (October 2013): 525–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsep.35.5.525.
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Following a thorough review of the current updated Sport Commitment Model, new candidate commitment sources for possible future inclusion in the model are presented. They were derived from data obtained using the Scanlan Collaborative Interview Method. Three elite New Zealand teams participated: amateur All Black rugby players, amateur Silver Fern netball players, and professional All Black rugby players. An inductive content analysis of these players’ open-ended descriptions of their sources of commitment identified four unique new candidate commitment sources: Desire to Excel, Team Tradition, Elite Team Membership, and Worthy of Team Membership. A detailed definition of each candidate source is included along with example quotes from participants. Using a mixed-methods approach, these candidate sources provide a basis for future investigations to test their viability and generalizability for possible expansion of the Sport Commitment Model.
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Cocker, Alan. "Editorial." Back Story Journal of New Zealand Art, Media & Design History, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 2–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/backstory.vi1.8.
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It is a pleasure to be able to introduce the first issue of BackStory. The idea behind this journal is to provide a medium for those interested in ‘looking back’ at New Zealand’s art, media and design history. These are the stories that lie behind current media, art and design production and practice in this country. It is envisaged that this new journal will provide an opportunity to explore our rich heritage in these fields.
In part the motivation to launch a new journal is to meet a perceived need. The country presently does not have a journal which has the focus envisaged for BackStory. The Journal of New Zealand Art History (JoNZAH) was last published in 2012/13 and its absence has meant that those interested in reading and writing about this aspect of our cultural history lost a valued publication. The editorial team has approached the Hocken Library who provided editorial and production input for the JoNZAH and gained their support for the BackStory initiative. It is acknowledged that the new journal is not a re-launch or continuation of the JoNZAH. Instead, BackStory: Journal of New Zealand Art, Media and Design History, seeks to broaden the scope of its predecessor to include media and design history. The editorial teamhope that those who valued the JoNZAH will find value in this journal as a worthy successor.The initial editorial team for BackStory is drawn from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and an Editorial Advisory Board has been established. The establishing editorial team are Minna Pesonen (Designer), Rosemary Brewer, Alan Cocker and Peter Hoar from the School of Communication Studies, Peter Gilderdale from the School of Art & Design and Simon Mowatt from the Faculty of Business. It is the hope of this team that BackStory has an appeal beyond academia and will inspire contributions from those working in this country’s libraries, galleries and museums as well as others who have an interest in the history of New Zealand art, design, photography and media. We are pleased that this first issue contains contributions from curators at the Auckland Museum and Te Papa, and that there is a wide representation of different material drawn from across the target disciplines. Our hope is that the quality of the research and writing, and the common New Zealand focus will entice readers into crossdisciplinary explorations.
All submissions except commentaries will be blind peer reviewed by two reviewers to conform to university research publication standards but we are seeking contributions that will have an appealbeyond the university. In the so-called online age the decision to publish a printed form is deliberate. The editorial team are seeking the highest print production standards conscious of the artifact value of this journal.
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Wood, Lyn, and Angela Broring. "New Zealand Medical Library Faces The Challenges Of A Cyberattack." Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia 4, no. 2 (October 15, 2023): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.55999/johila.v4i2.155.
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In 2021 our library team faced a new challenge – a cyberattack. We weren’t reading about it happening somewhere overseas, we were living it. We have put together an account of how we managed our library services during a challenging nine weeks.
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Cotterell, Gerard, and Martin Von Randow. "Addressing the quantitative skill shortage in the social sciences." New Zealand Science Review 67, no. 4 (December 19, 2023): 126–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/nzsr.v67.8878.
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Increasingly social science graduates in New Zealand, especially those in the subject areas of sociology and political studies, are graduating without essential skills in the area of quantitative data analysis. In an attempt to address these issues, the research team at the Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS) at the University of Auckland have developed two initiatives. The first of these, the New Zealand Social Statistics Network (www.nzssn.org.nz) organises short courses in research methods training. The second, the New Zealand Social Science Data Service (www.nzssds.org.nz), provides secondary data for analysis and teaching resources linked to quantitative research methods.
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Suckling, David Maxwell. "New Zealand Plant Protection Medal 2017." New Zealand Plant Protection 71 (July 26, 2018): 358–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.30843/nzpp.2018.71.223.
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This medal is awarded by the New Zealand Plant Protection Society to honour those who have made exceptional contributions to plant protection in New Zealand in the widest sense. The medal is awarded for outstanding services to plant protection, whether through research, education, implementation or leadership.
In 2017, the New Zealand Plant Protection Medal was awarded Prof David Maxwell (Max) Suckling. In his 35+ years of research, Max has been pivotal in bringing odour-based technologies to New Zealand. In particular, his research on insect pheromones has enabled integrated pest management to be realised in this country. As a result, New Zealand plant-based industries can access premium overseas markets due to the low pest prevalence and low pesticide residue on primary produce. It has also reduced grower exposure to pesticides.
The acknowledgement of his broad knowledge of risks and benefits that new organisms and substances can pose to New Zealand has been exemplified by his position of Chair of the Environmental Risk Management Authority Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Committee where he presided over decisions from determining which organisms are new to New Zealand through to whether the benefits of the release of new organisms outweighed the risks. His unique knowledge and ability to make sound judgements based on the evidence presented also led to two invitations back to the Environmental Protection Authority after he had finished as a special member on the Committee so that New Zealand could safely continue to assess the use of biological control agents.
Since 2004, in his role as Science Group Leader of the Biosecurity group at The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd (PFR), Max has been instrumental in developing tools to improve detection sensitivity and socially acceptable eradication options for new pests that threaten New Zealand, such as the Queensland fruit fly and the painted apple moth.
Max has been a member of the New Zealand Plant Protection Society for many years and served as President from 1999 to 2001. He was nominated for the Medal because of the passion he has displayed towards developing and making available socially acceptable pest eradication and management tools in New Zealand. The work that he and the chemical ecology team he has built and led, has had a large impact in many sectors from horticulture to biosecurity.
This use of socially acceptable tools for the productive sectors naturally led to Max’s involvement in the pest surveillance and eradication space. He led the Eradication and Response Theme in the Better Border Biosecurity collaboration for over ten years, co-ordinating research among Crown Research Institutes to achieve their goals and the goals of New Zealand’s biosecurity practitioners. He has gone beyond odour-based technologies and branched into sound, vision and sterile-insect technologies for managing pests, sticking with the social acceptance theme.
Max is an innovative thinker, testing novel approaches for pest management, and can bring quite separate groups together to achieve a goal. For example, he combined an irradiator used to sterilise medical equipment and insect rearing to achieve a boutique insect-sterilisation programme against the painted apple moth. By pushing the envelope, he is seen as a world leader in his field of using socially acceptable tools, with numerous invitations as a keynote speaker at international meetings, which has allowed him to return to New Zealand with some of the latest scientific ideas.
He has served on working groups of the sterile-insect technique for the joint division of the Food and Agriculture Organization/International Atomic Energy Agency. He was recently made a professor when he was made a joint appointment at PFR and the University of Auckland, and has supervised and co-supervised a number of PhD and MSc students.
His outstanding collaboration and mentoring skills enable him to work across different fields, secure new knowledge and tools for novel pest-management approaches, bring together people from different organisations, and mentor ‘thinking-out-of-the-square’ scientists for the future.
His desire to protect New Zealand’s flora, fauna and people, make him a worthy recipient of the New Zealand Plant Protection Medal.
NZPP Medal recipients for the previous five years:
2016: Rob Beresford
2015: Gary Barker
2014: -
2013: Andrew Hodson
2012: Margaret Dick
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Brunsdon, D. R., R. A. Davey, C. J. Graham, G. K. Sidwell, P. Villamor, R. H. White, and J. X. Zhao. "The Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake of 21 September 1999." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 33, no. 2 (June 30, 2000): 105–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.33.2.105-167.
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This report on the 21 September 1999 Taiwan earthquake describes the event and its impacts, along with the observations of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Reconnaissance Team. The report covers the effects of the earthquake on the ground, lifelines, buildings, bridges, other structures and the community. The emergency management response is outlined, along with the response of the earthquake engineering community. Lessons for New Zealand are presented and discussed.
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Bonk, Devin, Chloé Leprince, Katherine A. Tamminen, and Julie Doron. "Collective rituals in team sports: Implications for team resilience and communal coping." Movement & Sport Sciences - Science & Motricité, no. 105 (2019): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/sm/2019007.
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Many sports teams engage in collective rituals (e.g., the New Zealand All Blacks’ haka). While the concept has been studied extensively in other fields (e.g., social psychology and cultural anthropology), literature on collective rituals specific to sport is limited. Leveraging theoretical positions and empirical findings from across the human and social sciences, the application of an existing definition of collective ritual in team sports is explored. Complementary research is suggestive of a potential link between collective rituals and two growing topics of interest in group dynamics, namely, team resilience and communal coping. Collective rituals can bolster team resilience by strengthening the group structure and increasing a team’s social capital. They can also serve as communal coping strategies, helping to manage team stressors as they arise. However, at the extremes, collective rituals can become problematic. Over-reliance and abusive rites of passage (i.e., hazing) are considered. Potential applied implications and future research directions in sport psychology are then discussed.
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Robinson, D. "Medicine at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games: the New Zealand health team." British Journal of Sports Medicine 36, no. 3 (June 1, 2002): 229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.36.3.229.
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Psirides, Alex, Jennifer Hill, and Sally Hurford. "A review of rapid response team activation parameters in New Zealand hospitals." Resuscitation 84, no. 8 (August 2013): 1040–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.01.022.
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Davis, Niki, Alison Fields, and Maggie Hartnett. "Editorial: Engaging in open, flexible, and distance learning with a new editorial team." Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning 18, no. 1 (September 23, 2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.61468/jofdl.v18i1.230.
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This editorial provides insights into the processes of scholarly publishing, at a time of handover to a new editorial team, to publicise evidence of quality processes and leadership. Publishing trends are also briefly identified. The issue also publishes the first set of papers that have been further developed from the research stream of the 2014 biennial conference of The New Zealand Association for Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (DEANZ). We are happy to be able to include papers that represent the wide area of open, flexible, and distance learning supported by our Aotearoa New Zealand association. We start with a paper on using learning management systems to support personalised learning in primary schools, and this is followed by papers situated in the tertiary sector on software literacy in a university’s programmes, embedded librarians in the tertiary sector, and research into social work. The final paper provides a literature review on the highly topical subject of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The editorial puts the papers into current contexts globally and within the region to inform the field worldwide.
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Kvasnytsya, O. M., and I. M. Kvasnytsya. "Indices analysis of competition activity of national teams at Rugby Championship, 2022 season." Scientific Journal of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Series 15. Scientific and pedagogical problems of physical culture (physical culture and sports), no. 10(155) (October 26, 2022): 75–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.31392/npu-nc.series15.2022.10(155).18.
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The article presents results of pedagogical survey and comparative analysis of the basic components of competition activity in rugby-15 among the best teams of the world, participants of men’s 2022 season of Rugby Championship. Video materials and game reports that were processed, analyzed and studied were used as data for the research. Indices of competition activity of four teams taking part in of Rugby Championship, 2022 season (rugby-15), have been analyzed. The matches were played from August 13, 2022 to September 24, 2022. Overall, 12 matches were analyzed. During the research, we used indices of rugby teams’ competition activity officially registered by the International Rugby Board, IRB. The authors have analyzed the following indices of competition activity: number of points scored; number of points allowed; number of tried made by a team; number of tries allowed by a team; number of tries scored; number of assists ;number semi-standard phases “ruck” and “maul”; percentage of won semi-standard phases “ruck” and “maul”; number of tackles and lineouts; percentage of tackles and lineouts won; number of free kicks; ball carrying; ball kicks during the game; number of percentage of successful grabs; ball possession percentage. Based on statistical data, it has been revealed that by quantitative indices of competition activity players of national team New Zealand and South African Republic statistically prevail over their opponent by the majority of indices. Specifically this refers to indices like overall points scored and allowed during the tournament, movement and ball carrying. These national teams also prevailed in successful tries and tries allowed.
Analysis of indices of competition activity in Rugby Championship, 2022 season, proves that rugby players of the national team New Zealand prevail in seven of eight indices of competition activity in rugby-15, which turns into results in the form of leading position in the standings of the 2022 tournament. Further academic research will focus on analysis the aforementioned national teams in Rugby Championship, 2022 season, during semi-standard and standard phases.
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Park, R., I. J. Billings, G. C. Clifton, J. Cousins, A. Filiatrault, D. N. Jennings, L. C. P. Jones, et al. "The Hyogo-Ken Nanbu earthquake (the Great Hanshin Earthquake) of 17 January 1995." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 28, no. 1 (March 31, 1995): 1–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.28.1.1-98.
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This report describes the observations and preliminary assessments of the members of the Reconnaissance Team of the New Zealand National Society for Earthquake Engineering which visited Kobe, Japan and the surrounding areas following the Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake of 17 January 1995. The report covers aspects of the effects of the earthquake on the ground, lifelines, buildings, bridges and other structures, and the community. Lessons for New Zealand are discussed.
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Beggs, J. M. "Research for the Upstream Petroleum Sector: The Crown Research Institute Concept." Energy Exploration & Exploitation 13, no. 2-3 (May 1995): 245–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0144598795013002-313.
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New Zealand's scientific institutions have been restructured so as to be more responsive to the needs of the economy. Exploration for and development of oil and gas resources depend heavily on the geological sciences. In New Zealand, these activities are favoured by a comprehensive, open-file database of the results of previous work, and by a historically publicly funded, in-depth knowledge base of the extensive sedimentary basins. This expertise is now only partially funded by government research contracts, and increasingly undertakes contract work in a range of scientific services to the upstream petroleum sector, both in New Zealand and overseas. By aligning government-funded research programmes with the industry's knowledge needs, there is maximum advantage in improving the understanding of the occurrence of oil and gas resources. A Crown Research Institute can serve as an interface between advances in fundamental geological sciences, and the practical needs of the industry. Current publicly funded programmes of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences include a series of regional basin studies, nearing completion; and multi-disciplinary team studies related to the various elements of the petroleum systems of New Zealand: source rocks and their maturation, migration and entrapment as a function of basin structure and tectonics, and the distribution and configuration of reservoir systems.
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Braae, Nick, David Sidwell, Jeremy Mayall, and Kyle Chuen. "Scoring Loss in a Contemporary New Zealand Musical." IASPM Journal 13, no. 1 (July 28, 2023): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.5429/2079-3871(2023)v13i1.11en.
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This paper functions as an exegesis of a recent New Zealand musical, Mum’s Kitchen. The show was a creative practice research project and involved a collaborative writing/composition process with a team of four creatives. The article explores explore the confluence of musical voices within the work with a focus on the distinct musical choices made in relation to particular narrative themes. Taking a cue from Murphy (2014), we analyse the songs in Mum’s Kitchen that directly express loss and nostalgia. We suggest that the two composers have their own strategies for “scoring” this theme: use of “anachronistic” styles (such as a country ballad) to evoke a past era, and a collection of contemporary harmonic devices (open chord voicings, harmonic ambiguity) that evoke emptiness and uncertainty. We then argue that [author] as orchestrator both unified these voices through a consistent sound palette, while also emphasising these themes through his sonic choices.
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Nestsiarovich, Kristina, and Dirk Pons. "Team Role Adoption and Distribution in Engineering Project Meetings." Behavioral Sciences 10, no. 2 (February 8, 2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10020057.
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Team communication plays a vital role in engineering management, however, there is a paucity of work that examines how team roles emerge as a response to the communicative processes between participants. This research explored role adoption using qualitative methods comprising observations, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Five student teams doing final year projects at a university in New Zealand were observed during the academic year and then interviewed at the final stage of project completion. A number of team roles in the engineering context were identified for students and their supervisors: Explorer; Initiator; Facilitator; Active and Passive Information Provider; Outsider; Active and Passive Connector; Passive Collector; Arbitrator; Gatekeeper and Representative. Personal factors, such as social sensitivity, were correlated with the choice of team behaviour pattern. In addition, the team roles could be arranged in circular order to create a circumplex, the two axes of which were identified as Personal Agency/Communion and Social engagement/Social disengagement.
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Hodge, Ken, Graham Henry, and Wayne Smith. "A Case Study of Excellence in Elite Sport: Motivational Climate in a World Champion Team." Sport Psychologist 28, no. 1 (March 2014): 60–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.2013-0037.
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This case study focused on the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team during the period from 2004 to 2011, when Graham Henry (head coach) and Wayne Smith (assistant coach) coached and managed the team. More specifically, this case study examined the motivational climate created by this coaching group that culminated in winning the Rugby World Cup in 2011. In-depth interviews were completed with Henry and Smith in March 2012. A collaborative thematic content analysis revealed eight themes, regarding motivational issues and the motivational climate for the 2004–2011 All Blacks team: (i) critical turning point, (ii) flexible and evolving, (iii) dual-management model, (iv) “Better People Make Better All Blacks,” (v) responsibility, (vi) leadership, (vii) expectation of excellence, and (viii) team cohesion. These findings are discussed in light of autonomy-supportive coaching, emotionally intelligent coaching, and transformational leadership. Finally, practical recommendations are offered for coaches of elite sports teams.
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Holmes, Janet. "Negotiating the culture order in New Zealand workplaces." Language in Society 47, no. 1 (February 2018): 33–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404517000732.
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AbstractIn many societies the relative social status of different social and cultural groups results in hegemonic relationships or an ‘order’ which manifests itself as sets of taken-for-granted societal norms or ideologies which influence behavior, including linguistic behavior. I label this concept the culture order, and propose it as a potential sociolinguistic universal. Drawing on the research of the Language in the Workplace Project (LWP) team, I provide evidence of some of the complex components of the New Zealand culture order. Using a social realist theoretical framework, and an interactional sociolinguistics approach, I identify a number of areas of contrast in the discourses instantiating the Māori and Pākehā culture orders (e.g. meeting norms, ways of criticising others), as well as discourse norms apparently shared by both groups (e.g. the Modesty Maxim; see Leech 2014). The complexities of these similarities and differences are discussed as well as their implications for hegemonic relationships. (Culture order, workplace discourse, sociolinguistic universals, egalitarianism, meeting norms)*
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Wigens, Lynne. "Integrated care nursing in Canterbury, New Zealand." Journal of Integrated Care 24, no. 3 (June 20, 2016): 150–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-01-2016-0001.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline how nursing has contributed to the development of integrated care in an internationally recognised centre of excellence (Timmins and Ham, 2013). Design/methodology/approach – During a three-week travel scholarship the author undertook interviews, focus groups and observation and has reflected on this through three themes. These are: system working, nursing leadership and examples of integrated care in action. Findings – Elements of the Canterbury approach could have implications for other health care systems, e.g. New Care Models within England. Time was spent on developing the vision, involving many staff. Stability in the senior leadership team allowed decisions to be made in a collective, transformational way. Nurse leadership authenticity meant nursing staff saw integrated decision making being role modelled at a senior level and this appeared to empower them to operate in a similar way. Time was invested in redesign. Creating a positive culture where innovation was tried, without staff feeling the risks and challenges would not be supported by their leaders. Originality/value – This system worked most effectively where there was cohesion between health and social care, and strong relationships developed between leaders and staff working for different providers. The reflection includes practice examples of integrated care services in action. There is potential to inform integrated care developments within other health and social care systems, e.g. Vanguards within England.
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Pons, Dirk, and Steffen Haefele. "Team Interactions for Successful Project Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises." International Journal of Information Technology Project Management 7, no. 2 (April 2016): 17–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitpm.2016040102.
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Team interactions are recognised as important factors in successful project management. Even so the concept of ‘teams' is not developed to any great detail within the project management literature. This project sought to determine the actual practices of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in regard to their management of teams within project management (PM). The specific area of interest was engineering organisations, and the focus area was New Zealand (NZ). Data were collected by means of a survey, which was advertised through various PM chapters and other organisations. Results show that there is an overwhelming appreciation for the importance of team work in projects, but a low awareness and usage of team models, and a large proportion (37%) of team processes that do not work well. Team building is the team process that is strongest associated with project success. Curiously, the results also suggest the existence of an asymmetrical relationship between teamwork and project success: that effective teamwork IS a factor in project success, but the lack thereof IS NOT a failure factor. Instead the major causes of project failure are identified as primarily poor planning and poor communication. Implications are identified for future developments of a more comprehensive understanding of how team variables affect project success.
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Bolstad, Rachel. "How can New Zealand schools respond to climate change?" Set: Research Information for Teachers, no. 3 (December 20, 2020): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18296/set.0184.
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International climate agreements say education can play a key role in responding to the global challenge of climate change. My team and I are currently carrying out research to help build a national picture of educational responses to climate change. Our research suggests that New Zealand’s educational policies and strategies currently provide a diffuse framework for responding to climate change, and there is a lack of coherent messaging “from the top” about what could or should be expected of schools. Yet some innovative practices and approaches are visible across the school network. This article describes what we currently know about climate and sustainability thinking and practice across English-medium schools, and what further actions and supports may be needed across the system.
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Bell, Robert, Hugh Cowan, Erica Dalziell, Noel Evans, Mike O'Leary, Bernie Rush, and Lawrence Yule. "Survey of impacts on the Andaman coast, southern Thailand following the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 38, no. 3 (September 30, 2005): 123–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.38.3.123-148.
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This report on the Sumatra-Andaman great earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004 describes the event and its impacts in southern Thailand. It includes the observations of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Reconnaissance Team gathered one month after the event. The report covers the effects of the tsunami on the natural and built environment, and the recovery process in relation to social and economic issues. Lessons applicable to the understanding and potential mitigation of tsunami risk in New Zealand are presented and discussed.
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McIlroy, Anne-Marie. "All Students Belong inThe New Zealand Curriculum’: A vision supported by the Inclusive Education Capability Building Project." Kairaranga 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54322/kairaranga.v16i2.258.
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This article describes the Ministry of Education’s Inclusive Education Capability Building Project (2013-2014). Project members were tasked with creating resources for professional development that would be used to grow inclusive practice in New Zealand schools. This article also shares the learning journey of some members of the project team as they engaged in the inquiry process around inclusive practice. A key understanding for this project was that all students can be successful learners and belong in The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007), also referred to in this article as NZC.
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GRIGGS, JAMES, LAWRENCE WALKER, and GARRY HORNBY. "An evaluation of the Team-Teach behaviour support training programme in New Zealand." Support for Learning 26, no. 3 (August 2011): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9604.2011.01487.x.
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Psirides, A. J., J. Hill, and D. Jones. "Rapid Response Team activation in New Zealand hospitals—a multicentre prospective observational study." Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 44, no. 3 (May 2016): 391–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0310057x1604400314.
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Quadling-Miernik, Leigh. "Lessons Learnt From The 2020 COVID 19 Lockdown: A Students’ Online MS Team Project." ATLAANZ Journal 5, no. 1 (December 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.26473/atlaanz.2021/002.
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This paper outlines an investigation of the impact of a programme Students Online, which was created in Microsoft (MS) Teams during New Zealand’s level 4 lockdown of March-May 2020. Students Online was set by the Learning Hub, the learning support centre, for a large tertiary institution in response to an international student’s request, asking for a way for students to meet and practise English. The study aimed to investigate the experiences of those who engaged with the MS Team and derive implications for possible future improvement. Offering focused learning support as well as sessions on life in New Zealand, the most significant benefit seen was the overall sense of connection when many aspects of life were disconnected. Other benefits highlighted by the study’s participants include improved communication between students and the Learning Hub, a “mental release” in the day, relationships being built and adding to the institute’s value of being supportive. The MS Team provided a sense of normality in a time when life was filled with abnormality. Participants were drawn from Learning Hub staff and students who interacted within the programme. This study found that the Students Online programme was considered generally useful and successful, modifications for future such programmes are suggested.