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Membership of Australasian Nurse Educators Conference Scientific Committee, 2015
Get PDFThis letter acknowledges your contribution as a member of the Scientific Committee and to certify that you have peer reviewed abstracts for the 17th Australasian Nurse Educators Conference, to be held in Auckland on the 11-13 November 2015.
The review process was blind and against predetermined criteria. Your efforts in reviewing the abstracts will ensure that the conference will be recognised for the quality of the presentations.
Presenters of papers and posters from both academic and clinical settings will focus on the three sub- themes of Being, Knowing and Caring to provide an exciting forum where we can share in – Co-Creating the Future.
We hope that you have enjoyed this process. Your contribution has been greatly appreciated
Colonisation, De-colonisation and post-settlement practice - workshop
Get PDFWorking with Maori clients has become a key part of practice for many psychologists and counsellors. this workshop provides both a tangata whenua and tauiwi approach to colonisation, decolonisation, and how to practice in a post-settlement environment in Aotearoa today
Open Book exhibition at Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
No full textThe photograph on a wall, often framed or impossibly glossy, asks the viewer to step back and admire, but not to touch. This exhibition at Ramp Gallery explores the photograph in a more tactical and, perhaps, down-to-earth way.
Open Book brings a group of commissioned photo-books, set out in the style of a reading room, into the gallery. Inviting visitors to sit, flick, rummage and enjoy. The reading of a photo-book becomes a slower experience than is often afforded in the walk through of a gallery space. Within the pages of the photo-book each artist also enjoys a heightened sense of control. The paper-stock chosen, the format, the length and the pacing of the photographs all contribute to the reading experience.
Open Book has been shown in three spaces before this (its last) outing at Ramp Gallery. Some of the pages are beginning to look dog-eared and used. This can only add to the sense of permission and enticement to take the time to experience these beautiful works
Southern Celts: Narrative as method and text
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This article explores the use of narrative as method and text in a practice-led narrative inquiry which explores how people with Irish and Scottish cultural backgrounds live out their connections to the northern hemisphere homelands of Scotland and Ireland, in Aotearoa New Zealand. It analyses eight excerpts from interview narratives using Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) three frames of narrative inquiry: time (past, present and future), place, and the intersection of the personal and the social, to illustrate the discursive construction of cultural identities (Fong &Chuang 2004, Weedon 2004). It discusses the use of autoethnography (Muncey 2010, Ellis & Bochner 2000, Reed-Danahay 1997) and the value of arts-based practices (Butler-Kisber 2010, Leavy 2009) including song and poetry in the representation of interview narratives. Finally, it argues that offering longer narratives, free of the intrusive voice of the analytical researcher, readers may be encouraged to bring their own experiences to their engagement with the text and to think with rather than about the narratives (Bochner & Riggs 2014). Through this process they might gain deeper insights into the individual, social and political factors that have shaped the lives of individuals and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand
The L list: Vol. 1 Iss. 1 [zine]
No full textAuthor and self-publisher of queer issues zine "The L List" Inclusion of 'The L List' Vol 1 Issue 1 in the Hamilton Library Heritage Collection
Review of Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice, eds. Marta García Quiñones, Anahid Kassabian, and Elena Boschi.
No full textReview of Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice, eds. Marta García Quiñones, Anahid Kassabian, and Elena Boschi
A finite element model of the face including an orthotropic skin model under in vivo tension
Get PDFComputer models of the human face have the potential to be used as powerful tools in surgery simulation and animation development applications. While existing models accurately represent various anatomical features of the face, the representation of the skin and soft tissues is very simplified. A computer model of the face is proposed in which the skin is represented by an orthotropic hyperelastic constitutive model. The in vivo tension inherent in skin is also represented in the model. The model was tested by simulating several facial expressions by activating appropriate orofacial and jaw muscles.
Previous experiments calculated the change in orientation of the long axis of elliptical wounds on patients’ faces for wide opening of the mouth and an open-mouth smile (both 30 degrees). These results were compared with the average change of maximum principal stress direction in the skin calculated in the face model for wide opening of the mouth (18o) and an openmouth smile (25 degrees). The displacements of landmarks on the face for four facial expressions were compared with experimental
measurements in the literature. The corner of the mouth in the model experienced the largest displacement for each facial expression (11–14 mm). The simulated landmark displacements were within a standard deviation of the measured displacements. Increasing the skin stiffness and skin tension generally resulted in a reduction in landmark displacements upon facial expression
Discussing Death Matters
No full textDeath is something many people find difficult to talk about or even think about; our own or others’ “point zero”. From a general Western point of view death is something to be avoided or at least delayed as long as possible. Those of us who work in health, especially the pointy end of it in aged care or palliative care and acute areas working with trauma and/or in intensive care, are regularly present to death. Chan and Tin (2012, p. 899) refer to this as performing “death work”. Undertaking death work risks a raft of ills from compassion fatigue to countertransference. Elizabeth Menzies (1960) in her classic work on health professionals encounters with death and trauma highlighted the defences that they employed in order to manage their experiences. Often, within these contexts, death is thoroughly medicalised; a specific discourse of death and dying that may offer a defence of sorts in its objectification and thus distancing, but may not be useful in a wider cultural sense. Although discourses such as spirituality are also utilised by health professionals, especially in palliative care, the primary vehicle for health care professionals to make sense of death is as the failure of the physical body. In this paper I want to explore the multiple discourses around death and dying as they circulate in New Zealand in the early twenty first century and consider the question of whether we are still a death-denying culture as many have claimed (Aries, 1974; Elias, 1985). The prevailing discourses around death that we employ in New Zealand do not necessarily originate here but have taken root or alternatively may be challenging our dominant ideas
Transmission Of Maori Narratives. He Manawa Whenua International Indigenous Conference 2015
Get PDFThis presentation examined how Maori narratives of historical intergenerational trauma can trickle from one generation to the next through stories, songs and shared histories
Performance of Handel oratorio Saul April 2015
Get PDFParticipation as chorister in performance of Handel oratorio Saul by Handel Consort and Quire (Auckland) Sat 18 7pm Pitt St Church, Auckland and Sun 19 3pm Saint Andrews Presbyterian Church Pukekohe, NZ
Study of the scores and rehearsal with the choir provided invaluable information towards the continued development of my own choral writing and my lecturing to composition students