1,263 research outputs found
Faces and Places in Fashion: Meg Flather, Home Shopping Diva
No full textMeg Flather has spent decades building a multi-faceted career in performance, cosmetics and media. As author of Lessons, Lyrics and Lipstick, Meg performs entertaining and inspirational seminars for men and women embarking on similar vocations. As national makeup artist for OLAY, Meg worked closely with public relations, marketing and product development. As a home shopping brand ambassador, Meg has grown sales for PERLIER on TSC, Canada, Aloette on Shop NBC, PRAI on TVSN, Australia, StriVectin on QVC, and TSC, Canada. In December, 2015, Meg became the New York based Director of Education for TATCHA skincare.Meg began her cosmetic career in New York City. She was special events captain for all metropolitan accounts for Clinique, resident make-up artist for Yves St. Laurent at Bergdorf Goodman, held the highest national sales record for both Stila and Body and Soul at Barney’s, and raised customer service and artistry standards at all Face Stockholm locations. As an expert in her field, Meg has been featured on The Discovery Channel, in 15 national publications and her artistry credits include People Magazine, NBC Daytime, CNN, 20/20, The View, documentary films and numerous private clients.Part presentation, part Q&A, the "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting
Meg Medina Spanish Language Picture Book Award 2022 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Meg Medina gives her Silver Medal acceptance speech for Evelyn del Rey se muda illustrated by Sonia Sánchez (Candlewick)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/spanishlanguageaward/1000/thumbnail.jp
An Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones
No full textAn Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones conducted by Gerardo Con DiazThis oral history interview is sponsored by NSF 2202484, “Mining a Usable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy,” at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. The interview is with Meg Leta Jones, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University. Jones discusses her upbringing in rural Illinois, her education in engineering, law, and communication studies, and her path to interdisciplinary privacy scholarship. She reflects on her work on the right to be forgotten, data deletion, and comparative privacy regimes. Then she discusses her engagement with design, infrastructure, and information ethics, as well as her roles as author, mentor, and public scholar.National Science FoundationLeta Jones, Meg. (2025). An Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/274361
In Conversation: Tom and Meg Keneally, 9 Sep 2016
No full textTom Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark and The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, in conversation with Meg Keneally about their new historical crime series, The Soldier's Curse: Book One of the Monsarrat Series. In conversation with Dr Kim Wilkins, UQ School of Communication and Arts. Event held in conjunction with the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival
Thinking with Kaipara: A critical analysis of knowledge production in an ecosystem-based management settler colonial context
No full textEcosystem-based management is a management approach developed to address the unwarranted degradation crisis facing ecosystems such as coasts, harbours and estuaries. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) remains primarily situated within Western-Eurocentric ontologies and epistemologies, employing language, understandings, and tools of science to define ecosystem challenges and (technical) solutions. Practitioners and many Governments hold it up as an inclusive, holistic and localised (place) approach to managing ecosystems rather than a single species. However, through a critical lens EBM upholds Eurocentric notions of nature where nature is reduced to a resource to dominate, control and ascribe dollar value. The present research believes EBM is worthy but what is lacking, particularly in settler-colonial nations such as Aotearoa, Australia, Canada and the United States, is that knowledge production should have more than a singular (objective) dimension, but rather a multi-dimensional conception of the metaphysical, spiritual and relations with nonhuman nature. I used a critical Indigenous and ecofeminist analytical framework to explore this gap in knowledge informing EBM.
This research pushes EBM attributes of inclusivity and (w)holism further to include the intangible (nonhuman) matter that matters to the lives of Indigenous peoples and cultures, women and those being 'Other' and different. With EBM at risk of perpetuating the marginalisation of Indigenous peoples and those socially different in gender, ethnicity, class and sex in the equal access to resources and participation in management, this research aims to provide a timely and novel approach to the discourse. I argue and suggest ways that critical analysis of the role of knowledge and power at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and nature across space and time helps to problematise ecosystem challenges and use. To understand strategies and restoration practices to be employed. In doing so, social heterogeneous dynamics are (or should be) an integral part of EBM. To privilege the relational and metaphysical aspects of Indigenous cultures, my methodological strategy required alternative modes and practices so that such aspects could be performed, storied, and written about. Developed in collaboration, the 'Thinking with Kaipara' methodological strategy contributes to this call to explore problems and solutions differently through the agency of place and the nonhuman, supported by the intersections of gender, ethnicity and time. The approach illuminates the richness and multiplicities of difference. Nuanced human-nonhuman (co)stories of nature, spirituality, ecosystem degradation, and ourselves (as individuals, members of families, communities, and ecosystems) were shared and laid bare. Through using this intersectional lens, I examined sediment(ation) pollution. Findings revealed how pollution manifests differently across intimate (body, local) scales thereby demonstrating the far-reaching effects of settler-colonialism violence. A relational vision of sediment(ation) is presented based on the geo-creative narratives of four Māori women, who offered their lived experiences and realities of intimate sediment(ation) pollution geographies using methods familiar to and chosen by them. The richness of these narratives enables nuanced and political stories of sediment(ation) to be recalled in relational and affective terms. Such knowledge is absent from dominant accounts of sediment(ation) pollution in ecosystem-based management discourse and practice.
The implications of this knowledge impoverishment, based on my research, is that marginalisation of social difference remains. Moreover, normative colonising behaviours and norms of nature-culture relations continue. Thinking with a relational ontology embraces multiple dimensions — affect, spirituality, wairua, ethics, justice — freeing EBM from the power and knowledge production structures of settler-colonialism
Youth Living in Auckland: Climate change mitigation efforts and the factors affecting their actions
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Climate change is an undeniable threat to the global population. Different measures for adaptation and mitigation against climate change impacts are taken worldwide and to varying extents. While climate change mitigation is perhaps most high-profile at a governmental (policymaking) level, individual responsibility for change within their sphere of influence needs more consideration given the impact of collective action and cumulative effects. Further, young individuals’ (ages 16 – 24 years old) climate change perspectives and mitigation actions deserve more attention in aspects of intergenerational climate justice and the fact that governance choices made now will have repercussions for future lives and livelihoods. This thesis examines the approaches of youth in Auckland, New Zealand, towards mitigating climate change impacts at a personal/household level. This study engaged young participants (ages 16-24) to diarise their different consumption patterns over two weeks - behaviours like food consumption, energy use, transportation and water use - and calculate their carbon footprints as a heuristic, reflexive exercise. Through focus groups, the research reveals the strategies used by Auckland youth to reduce their GHG emissions and their priority of what actions need to be taken and by whom. Additionally, this thesis sheds light on the motivations and also the barriers youth face in their pursuit of climate action and considers how any barriers can be overcome by structural changes by the government and corporations. This thesis argues that climate change mitigation action holds great importance at an individual level (especially youth) to reduce negative climate change impacts in the future. It also provokes that youth should be supported by government and corporate action to assist them in climate-friendly lifestyles
Community involvement in wetland restoration: How are community values and knowledge integrated into wetland restoration at the Waikato peat lakes, New Zealand.
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Over the past two decades, wetland restoration has been undertaken in New Zealand as a response to the historical loss and maltreatment of these ecosystems, which left many of them in a degraded state. The evidence suggests, however, that in both theory and practice wetland restoration is primarily driven by a desire to improve the ecological functions and values of wetland, directed by scientific knowledge held by experts. And while some research is beginning to emerge on the other values the community associate with wetland environments and how the community can be involved in environmental management more widely, there is still a significant gap between the translation of this theory into practice. In response to this observation, this thesis explores community involvement in wetland restoration highlighting barriers and opportunities towards community involvement in this process and examines how community values and knowledge are (or are not) being integrated into the restoration of wetland environments. This research utilises a mixed-methods case study of the Waikato peat lakes in New Zealand and draws upon data gathered from a web-based questionnaire disseminated to the Waikato community by organisations connected to the peat lakes and community groups and pages on Facebook, and semi-structured interviews with both members of the community and members of organisations involved in the restoration of the peat lakes. The analysis reveals the range of values communities hold towards wetlands, including cultural, historical, and social values. But these values are often not prioritised within restoration as highly as ecological values, which have a strong focus within wetland restoration. The research also highlights the barriers indigenous Māori face to have their mātauranga (Māori knowledge) included alongside scientific knowledge to help inform wetland restoration. The findings of this research further suggest the important role that building relationships and collaborating with the community can have in integrating their values and knowledge into wetland restoration projects and increasing their involvement more generally. In addition, this thesis argues that environmental education can play a major role in increasing community involvement in restoration projects through generating a greater sense of care towards them
Continuity and change
No full textIn the present day there are two main ethnic groups of Indigenous Australians: Aboriginal people from the Australian continent and nearby offshore islands, and Torres Strait Islanders. This chapter proposes two key challenges for the task of adapting to climate change for Indigenous communities. The first is to move beyond current conceptualisation of Indigenous as ‘traditional’ and consider the diversity of Indigenous communities. The second key challenge relates to future planning and the need to consider how adaptation relates to social justice and Indigenous rights. Emilie Cameron argues, in the context of the Canadian Arctic, that the vast majority of Indigenous-focused climate change adaptation research overlooks how historic and contemporary experiences of colonisation continue to shape Indigenous societies. There are unavoidable justice dimensions associated with adaptation, which determines the winners and losers of decisions about how, when and where to adapt.http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/UOA2_A:uoa_alma5123710956000209
Positron timing and detection in the MEG experiment
No full textHere the high timing resolution positron detector designed to be used in the MEG experiment is described. Several technical challenges have been faced to obtain the unprecedented goal resolution of 100 ps FWHM for positrons to be detected in the MEG experiment. Also an overview on past experiments is proposed. The key role of the MEG experiment in unveiling New Physics phenomena is briefly stressed. © owned by the author
Flexible head-casts for high spatial precision MEG.
Full text linkBACKGROUND: In combination with magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data, accurate knowledge of the brain's structure and location provide a principled way of reconstructing neural activity with high temporal resolution. However, measuring the brain's location is compromised by head movement during scanning, and by fiducial-based co-registration with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The uncertainty from these two factors introduces errors into the forward model and limit the spatial resolution of the data. NEW METHOD: We present a method for stabilizing and reliably repositioning the head during scanning, and for co-registering MRI and MEG data with low error. RESULTS: Using this new flexible and comfortable subject-specific head-cast prototype, we find within-session movements of <0.25mm and between-session repositioning errors around 1mm. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD(S): This method is an improvement over existing methods for stabilizing the head or correcting for location shifts on- or off-line, which still introduce approximately 5mm of uncertainty at best (Adjamian et al., 2004; Stolk et al., 2013; Whalen et al., 2008). Further, the head-cast design presented here is more comfortable, safer, and easier to use than the earlier 3D printed prototype, and give slightly lower co-registration errors (Troebinger et al., 2014b). CONCLUSIONS: We provide an empirical example of how these head-casts impact on source level reproducibility. Employment of the individual flexible head-casts for MEG recordings provide a reliable method of safely stabilizing the head during MEG recordings, and for co-registering MRI anatomical images to MEG functional data
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