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1970s Soft Rock, Baroque Pop, and ‘Prog-Lite’: Or, what does middle-of-the- road popular music sound like?
Get PDFThis paper was presented at the Music and the Middlebrow International Conference, University of Notre Dame, London, 22-24 June 2017. The paper examines songs from the 1970s that fall under a "middle-of-the-road" umbrella and explores the defining musical characteristics of this aesthetic. The presentation slides are attached
Evaluating social work supervision.
Get PDFINTRODUCTION: The question of whether the practice of professional supervision is effective, and how its effectiveness can be measured, has been debated by both social work and other professions. This study explored how practitioners, supervisors and managers in Aotearoa New Zealand currently evaluate the supervision they receive, provide and/or resource. The study was interprofessional involving counsellors, mental health nurses, psychologists and social workers. This article focuses on the findings from the social work cohort.
METHODS: Through an on-line Qualtrics survey participants were asked: 1) how they currently evaluated professional/clinical supervision; and 2) how they thought professional/clinical supervision could be evaluated. Data were extracted through the Qualtrics reporting functions and thematic analysis was used to identify themes. A total of 329 participants completed the survey of which 145 (44%) were social workers.
FINDINGS: A majority of the social work participants reported that they evaluated supervision in some form. No culture or policy emerged regarding supervision evaluation, but social workers expressed interest in training and resources to assist evaluation and some saw a supportive and endorsement role for the professional or regulatory bodies. An unexpected finding was reports of unsatisfactory and harmful supervision.
CONCLUSION: Evaluation of supervision is an activity with which social workers engage, but further research is needed to explore how evaluation can be embedded in supervision practice. More critically, a broader audit is required to reconsider the definition and model of social work supervision in Aotearoa New Zealand and the environments within which supervision occurs
Determinants of Corporate Capital Structure in New Zealand
Get PDFChoosing the way to fund new projects would be one of the toughest tasks for top management in the real business world. Among the long history of study in financial management, several theories have developed to explain corporate capital structure such as net income approach, trade-off, agency costs and pecking order.
This paper identifies determinants of capital structure based on a sample of 155r 5-year financial statements from31 of NZX 50 companies utilising statistical analysis: descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression. This study finds that there is a positive relationship between leverage and company size measured as total assets, total revenue and EBIT. Four independent variables chosen for the regression analysis are: a ratio of income tax expense divided by total assets; return on net assets (profit after tax divided by non-current assets plus working capital); aggregate of depreciation, amortisation, lease, occupancy and impairment expenses; and dividend pay-out ratio. Findings are consistent with the tax shield effect arising from the use of debt, which is given by the trade-off theory while being inconsistent with the notion of non-debt tax shield. Moreover, findings are also consistent with pecking order theory. However, the four independent variables only explain the leverage ratio at 46.76 percent
10th Anniversary 2017 Photo Competition for the NZROK Friendship Society
No full textSelected as Judge for the 2017 Photo Competition by New Zealan
"She watches over her household": Wellbeing of mothers and children in motherled households.
Get PDFWellbeing is a term used in everyday conversation, and by health professionals, policy writers and analysts, economists and others, to sum up one’s ability to flourish and live a rewarding, fruitful life. Family is deemed a significant source and determinant of wellbeing. Here, people may expect to receive the love, nurturance, and belonging all humans need to thrive, as well as the most basic needs for food, shelter and warmth. The many forms of family in societies such as New Zealand are of interest to those who posit that the conduct and wellbeing of mothers in families, is central to the flourishing of all within.
Some families are believed to hold better promise of wellbeing than others. Families with mothers at the helm, motherled households, are constructed in research and public discourse, and enacted in policy, as sites of social and economic peril. Studies abound in which women and children in motherled households are depicted as suffering social isolation, lacking moral support, and experiencing material poverty.
In this study I explore wellbeing in motherled households. My lived experience as nurse specialising in maternal, child and family health, and as a single mother for some time, is pertinent. Using Judi Marshall’s (1999) notion of life lived as the basis for inquiry, I grounded my study in a subjective, storied frame in which I troubled notions of wellbeing in families – notions which I had read in research, enacted in policy and practice, and questioned.
Berger and Luckmann (1966) theorised that what is understood as true or real, is a result of socially-fabricated claims to truth; that is, they posit the social construction of reality. I explore the conditions under which truths about families and motherhood are constructed, bolstered by research, enacted in and enacting institutionalised policy.
Institutionalised constructions of wellbeing and families constitute narratives writ large in research, policy and everyday conversation. I posit these as an example of the petrified grand narratives brought to my attention in the work of Boje (2008a). I read them now as monolithic, simplified and ultimately limited (and limiting)accounts of our humanity. The generation of living stories and their attendant many-voiced ante-narratives are seen as “bets on the future” (Boje, 2001), stories along the way to narrative. Antenarratives may interrupt or endorse a grand narrative. My thesis is a quest to story a version of those in motherled households which is rich and hopeful.
My noticing of contradictions in these grand narratives led me to seek conversations with mothers, and to share their stories in a reconstructed conversation. These mothers understood wellbeing in their motherled household as a deeply entwined and connected process. Women storied wellbeing in unique, individual, and evolving ways. These women valued their families as sites of purpose, wellbeing and intentionality, a version of family and wellbeing not told elsewhere.
Storytelling contributes to versions of mothering in which women and children flourish, foregrounding activist hopes for research about families. Reflexive storytelling approaches challenge those concerned with making a difference through research and policy formation, through individual practices and everyday
conversation
Interislander
No full textThis poem employs literary devices of allusion, association and pun to locate the commonplace concept of death as a journey in a geographical setting; a ferry ride between two islands. The poem attributes ancient motifs to contemporary life and revisits the idea of Charon as a worker, in order to acknowledge the ordinariness of the passage to death. The literary devices relate this poem to a tradition of poems about death, even as the intention is to remove the traditional association of grief and fear. To ‘inter’ is to bury, and the poem employs a grammatical pun on the official name of the regular ferry between the North and South Islands of New Zealand, where ‘inter’ operates both as a prefix meaning ‘between’ and as an active verb
The ghost of Sigurd the Volsung in Eketahuna
Get PDFWhile William Morris was creating the narrative poem based on his translations of the Icelandic tales of Sigurd the Volsung, in the 1870’s, groups of Scandinavian settlers were encouraged to come to New Zealand as part of a grand scheme of borrowing money from Britain to develop the new world country for further settlements. These immigrants were to clear and fell some of the densest bush remaining in the hinterland of the North Island for road, rail and the concomitant communications that would follow. They came willingly, anticipating better lives for themselves, although the reality was disappointing at best and devastating at worst.
While the foot print of their efforts is still evident, and the towns and even cities they created, including Palmerston North and Eketahuna, are flourishing, the immigrants have become invisible, no more remembered than the nameless chain-gangs of prisoners or the unemployed, who took over their effort and continued with progress in the early 20th Century, on land that had been bought cheaply from the indigenous Māori.
But what intellectual footprint did they leave this inhabitation? What stories and links with stories did they bring, coming from the great Viking traditions of Saga and Skald? This paper will consider the stories brought and left by the Scandinavians and their small, flickering presence in New Zealand poetry, song and story
Landfall in unknown seas; creative approaches to research collaboration
Get PDFAs research becomes an ever more important goal and outcome for tertiary level educational institutions and the disciplines they house, a significant question engaging teachers of creative writing internationally is: How do we teach and encourage approaches to research in creative writing? To this discussion, we bring what we can learn from a collaborative and Australasian approach to this issue. Briefly profiled will be the work of individuals, groups, and professional organisations and communities in this space, as well as the possible futures opened up by this co-operation. We will discuss conferences, journal special issues and books which have arisen from initiatives across oceans, in particular across ‘the ditch’ that separates Australia and New Zealand, and the way that as with Curnow’s Abel Tasman, we have found that,
“Simply by sailing in a new direction
You could enlarge the world.
Subjective preferences of varying menthol mouthwash concentrations
Get PDFMenthol is a widely used, naturally occurring monoterpene alcohol that elicits a feeling of coolness and freshness upon application to the oral cavity, or skin (Stevens & Best, 2016).
Recently menthol has demonstrated improvements in time to exhaustion (Mündel & Jones, 2010) and time trial performance (Stevens et al., 2015), but no investigations have been
conducted to ascertain the preferred concentration of menthol mouth swill(s)
Flipping first years! Flipped classrooms for novice nursing students
Get PDFThis presentation will outline our students’ experience of the use of flipped or online lecture delivery to novice first year nursing students. Following on from literature and conference presentations around the use of this teaching method, we have used this approach to facilitate learning of foundational information in lifespan development for nurses.
The idea of flipped learning has been storied, not as an experimental deviation to teaching, but as an established alternative way of learning that meets with our institution’s teaching and learning directions of being flexible and adaptable (Marshall, 2013).
Students are supported in an active, student-centred manner to apply, describe, discuss and demonstrate the learning from the flipped classroom. The aim being to confidently instil in students the value of flipped classrooms from day one so that students are able to transition from traditional classroom delivery.
As evidenced by student feedback reactions, flipped classrooms challenged students to be self-disciplined, take responsibility for their learning, and to develop study habits essential at tertiary level.
References:
Marshall, H. W. (2013). Three reasons to flip your classroom. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/lainemarsh/3-reasons-to-flip-tesol-2013-3211