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Iwi Exhibitions at Te Papa: A Ngāi Tahu Perspective
Authors:   , Sciascia Ana 
Published: November 2021

<p>The post-modern museum has in recent years been grappling with how best to engage with source communities in their professional practice. However there is a gap in the international literature in documenting the relationships between museums and indigenous people, particularly studies by native peoples themselves. The complex dynamics of this relationship are profiled in the following dissertation which examines the Iwi Exhibition Programme at the National Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa. Using the Ngāi Tahu Whānui iwi exhibition Mō Tātou as a case study, the research explores how current museum practice through collaborative exhibitions can play a role in the resurgence of iwi identity and tribal efforts to define their cultural heritage. By combining both qualitative and quantitative methodologies endorsed by a kaupapa Māori research framework, the research design employs an online survey to gauge responses from the Ngāi Tahu iwi members to the Mō Tātou exhibition. Findings from the survey show that 90% of respondents visited Mō Tātou, while 83% of respondents reported that the exhibition generated new cultural aspirations. The principal motivation to visit Mō Tātou was "to learn and reconnect" to their Ngāi Tahutanga. Interviews with key informants involved in the development, both within the museum and amongst iwi, reveal the complexity of establishing and maintaining relationships. Inductive analysis produced data that threw light on some of the operational challenges that are faced during exhibition development. Finally, attention to the agency of display shows the production of meaning and the construction of a Ngāi Tahu identity by visitors and developers. The most significant contribution of this dissertation is in providing rich data to profile a Ngāi Tahu perspective in evaluating their own tribal exhibition. In contrast to much critical theory, this study illustrates the potential of collaborative exhibitions: That partnerships and collaborations are feasible, and the results can be mutually beneficial. Te Papa continues to be a leader in their engagement with source communities, although the research makes several recommendations to further advance this process. Meanwhile Ngāi Tahu themselves have demonstrated how iwi can engage with museums to advance their cultural aspirations and exercise their tino rangatiratanga within a bicultural institution.</p>
Contesting Representations of Refugee‑Background Women (and Men) as ‘Needy’ and ‘Problematic’ in Healthcare Literature in Aotearoa New Zealand: Advancing the Case for a Capability‑Driven Model
Authors:   , Ford Kristine Mary 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research analyses how power operates discursively within the western biomedical model as it pertains to the representations and treatment of refugee‑background women (and men) in Aotearoa New Zealand. It carefully investigates the tendency of current biomedical discourse to typecast women (and men) with refugee backgrounds as having considerable health needs, which predicates the (over‑) representation of them as exclusively ‘problematic’ and ‘needy’ throughout refugee and healthcare related literature. It also considers other ways in which the western biomedical model may be inappropriate and inadequate for refugee‑background communities. This thesis takes its starting position from some of the concerns regarding health outcomes raised in a meeting with three representatives of various refugee‑background communities in Wellington in 2011, and by the recent ChangeMakers Refugee Forum (CRF) (2011) report, “barriers to achieving good health outcomes in refugee‑background communities”. In light of these concerns (and subsequent recommendations), this research aims to introduce alternative narratives in the effort to improve health outcomes, as well as constitute a more fair and just discourse. The mentation of the thesis is heavily inspired by postdevelopment theory and its potential for more enabling and effective ways of ‘doing’ development. I draw on this theoretical frame to explore how an asset‑based approach to maternal healthcare services in Aotearoa New Zealand for refugee‑background women may be a vehicle to help us negotiate the politics of representation and generate better health outcomes for refugee‑background communitiescomes for refugee‑background communities.</p>
Earth and Straw Bale: An Investigation of Their Performance and Potential as Building Materials in New Zealand
Authors:   , Hall Min 
Published: November 2021

<p>Is there a future for ‘natural’ or ‘alternative’ building systems in New Zealand? Do they have a role to play in the quest for more sustainable housing solutions? These are the questions that underpin this thesis which looks at the state of earth and straw bale building in New Zealand at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, using the Nelson area as a case study. A database of all the earth and straw bale houses in the region has been compiled, followed by a written survey in the form of a questionnaire of 82% of the owners of these houses. Interviews with eleven experts and house owners provided additional information. This information, and that gleaned from a review of research carried out both in New Zealand and overseas has been collated and analysed to present an overview of the current situation. The way in which both earth and straw bale construction have changed over time is documented and the issues currently being faced for both systems are identified. The thesis concludes that there is a future for these natural building systems in New Zealand and identifies areas for further research that would help facilitate this.</p>
Floodplain Inhabitation: A Socio-Spatial Resilience Network
Authors:   , Boyle Rebecca 
Published: November 2021

<p>The inadequacy of current approaches to managing floodplain inhabitation was highlighted in the 2010-11 Queensland, northern New South Wales and Victorian floods; the most costly floods in Australia’s history. Despite technological advancements and the prevalence of flood mitigation infrastructure, floods continue to have widespread adverse physical, social, economic, and emotional impacts. This situation is mirrored internationally and is anticipated to worsen as scientists predict an increase in the severity and prevalence of natural disasters such as flooding. In response to this, management of floodplain inhabitation must shift from flood prevention to adaptation. Adaptation is a key term in ecological resilience, defined as the capacity of a system to adapt and persist in the face of disturbance (Holling 1976). Hendstra et al (2004) suggests that in the context of disaster-resilient cities, resilience can be defined as the “capacity to adapt to stress from hazards and the ability to recover quickly from their impacts” (Henstra, Kovacs, McBean, & Sweeting, 2004, p. 5). Analysis of ecosystems reveals that interdependence across scales, variety, redundancy, adaptability and feedback are the key resilience principles enabling the system to adapt and maintain stability during flooding. At present there is a sparsity of literature exploring spatial resilience approaches to improving floodplain inhabitation. Whilst amphibious approaches improve individual resilience, there is a lack of innovative solutions to improve community and city resilience to flooding. Resilience approaches have the potential to reduce safety concerns, financial losses and the emotional stress associated with residing on Australian floodplains. Such approaches acknowledge the interconnected nature of riverine floodplains and their inhabitants. However resilience principles need to be given a physical spatial function within specific social contexts. Architecture provides a platform to test new and retrofit adaptable approaches to promote a more suitable spatial relationship with the river. This thesis will take the theory and literature of resilience and apply it to a site-specific spatial context: Maitland. Maitland city is built on one of the most flood prone regions in New South Wales (Keys, 1999). Despite the Hunter Valley Flood Mitigation Scheme, which consists of 170 kilometers of levees and flood control structures, flooding continues to occur in and around Maitland. Regardless of these flood risks, Maitland City Council is proposing large scale residential development on the floodplain to encourage population increase. Maitland will be used as the primary case study for investigating the opportunities socio-spatial resilience interventions have for improving the longterm inhabitation of the floodplain. This thesis proposes a multi-scaled approach to examine flood hazard and exposure at the individual, community, city and regional scale. As spatial designers it is imperative that architects play a part in this explorative process</p>
The Ecological and Immunological Relationships Between Salmonella and Tuatara
Authors:   , Middleton Danielle Mary Rose Lea 
Published: November 2021

<p>The transmission and expression of disease in wild animal populations is a complex interaction of host, pathogen and environmental factors. The individual fitness of a host may be negatively impacted by pathogenic bacteria in a number of ways including increased predation risk and reduced survival and reproductive output. Salmonellosis is an important zoonotic disease resulting in significant morbidity and mortality in populations of wild reptiles, birds and mammals throughout the world, and herpetofaunal species have often been implicated as shedders and transmitters of Salmonella globally. To better understand the unique threats to New Zealand native wildlife, I investigated spatio-temporal dynamics of Salmonella in an island ecosystem, and selected one species, tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) (an endemic New Zealand reptile), for in-depth immunological analyses. I collected cloacal swabs and faecal samples from native wildlife on Stephens Island repeatedly between October 2009 and October 2011. While Salmonella was isolated from 6.5% of native skinks and 8% of the soil samples, intestinal carriage of Salmonella was not detected in the more than 600 cloacal swabs collected from wild tuatara, despite these tuatara living in close proximity to Salmonella-positive skinks or soil. In context, the lack of Salmonella detected in tuatara in this and other studies raises the question of whether tuatara are innately resistant to Salmonella. To test this hypothesis I examined aspects of innate and adaptive immune responses in tuatara serum. Immune measurements included in vitro anti-microbial activity of serum and antibody recognition of bacterial antigens. Serum was tested against three closely related enteric pathogens, including Salmonella, in order to establish the importance of cross-reactivity in the strength of immune responses observed. I found that tuatara possess antibodies which recognise Salmonella antigens by Western blot and flow cytometry. I also determined that the anti-microbial activity of tuatara serum was approximately 6-fold higher than donkey or mouse sera, but showed similar activity to other reptilian species tested. These findings are the first report of both environmentally-induced anti-Salmonella antibodies and anti-microbial activity in tuatara serum. Taken together, these studies investigating the distribution and seasonality of Salmonella within the environment and evaluating anti-Salmonella immune responses in tuatara will help to inform decisions about disease screening and animal movements to maintain the health of native fauna.</p>
Faces of the Captives: Aesthetic Distance and Emotional Absorption in Young Children's Engagement with Theatre
Authors:   , Swallow Catherine 
Published: November 2021

<p>When Captain Hook has the lost boys tied up on his ship he cannot recognise that the sparkle on the ‘faces of the captives’ is the thrill of mimesis. It has been suggested that if young children cannot distinguish between reality and illusion then instead of suspending disbelief in the stage world, they will actually believe and therefore experience a dangerous level of emotional absorption. Using Peter Pan as a frame of reference, this thesis examines responses to three contemporary theatre works, Capital E National Theatre for Children’s Songs of the Sea and Boxes and Scottish company Catherine Wheels’ White to challenge the idea that aesthetic distance provides a necessary protective function. Instead, it will be argued that the imagination, empathy and emotion contagion provide the conditions in which children can capably enter the aesthetic space of fictional worlds on stage.</p>
Pliocene-Pleistocene Orbital Cyclostratigraphy and Glacial Evolution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet from Continental Rise IODP Site U1361, Wilkes Land Margin, East Antarctica
Authors:   , Grant Georgia Rose 
Published: November 2021

<p>Stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), in response to the orbitally-paced cooling climate of the Late Neogene, is largely unknown. The Wilkes Land margin of East Antarctica, largely grounded below sea level, has previously been proposed to respond dynamically during the warmer climate of the Pliocene, similarly to other marine based sectors of Antarctica (i.e. West Antarctica). Sediment deposition on the Wilkes Land continental rise, recovered in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program U1361A drillcore provides a distal but continuous record of EAIS fluctuations. Changes in sedimentary depositional environments at U1361A core site, were determined through analysis of lithofacies and physical property logs: natural gamma-ray (NGR), gamma-ray attenuation bulk density (GRA), magnetic susceptibility (MS) and L* colour reflectance. NGR primarily reflected biogenic content and a synchronous relationship between NGR, GRA and MS was used to identify interglacial and glacial phases, whereby decreased NGR, GRA and MS values indicated an increase in biogenic material. L* colour reflectance was more variable through time, displayed higher frequency fluctuations and a changing relationship with the other physical property logs down core. Two depositional models, based on facies interpretations and the defined physical property relationships, were produced for the Middle Late Pleistocene (last ~550 kyr; model A) and mid-Pliocene (~4.2-3.6 Ma; model B), which represent end members. Depositional processes common to both models occurred in the intervening core, spanning the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene (3-1 Ma). Model A, applied to the Middle Late Pleistocene, shows that alternating diatom-rich clays to silty clays in the upper 9 m of core U1361A, reflect the large amplitude ~100 kyr paced glacial-interglacial cycles, which is confirmed by spectral analysis of the physical properties for this interval. Model B, applied to the Early Pliocene, suggest that the depositional processes recorded by facies may have been less sensitive to EAIS fluctuations, probably due to the fact that the ice margin was generally more distal to the core site during glacial-interglacial cycles of advance and retreat. Nevertheless, these more subtle changes in lithology were characterised by variations in the physical property logs, and spectral analysis of these time series implied orbital pacing was still influential on depositional processes at this time (displaying power in precession and obliquity frequencies). Spectral analysis of the physical property logs and visual correlations to the benthic δ18O stack, confirmed the 4.2-1 Ma interval was paced by ~40 kyr and implies obliquity-paced oscillations of the margin of the EAIS. Precession periodicities, significant in spectra throughout the 4.2 Myr record, are proposed to be the response of phytoplankton productivity in response to seasonal insolation controlling sea-ice extent.</p>
Enhancing Quality of Life through Singing: A Music Therapy Study into Huntington’s Disease
Authors:   , Van Beek Sacha 
Published: November 2021

<p>This mixed methods study investigated whether the process of singing in music therapy can enhance the quality of life of patients with Huntington’s Disease. It took place in New Zealand, over a two-month period, in a residential home dedicated to the rare condition. The research involved five participants: two residents diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease who participated in individual music therapy sessions, two caregivers at the facility, and the music therapy student (MTS). The study endeavoured to answer the research question by triangulating three data sources. Data sources included; the MTS’s clinical notes of the sessions, semi-structured interviews with the staff members and a short questionnaire developed by the researcher which involved gathering the personal self-rated scores from the resident participants. A thematic analysis was undertaken with the two text-based data sources (clinical notes and interview transcripts) and the questionnaire scores were collated for each case. However the questionnaire results were deemed predominantly invalid. The triangulation of findings found that participants observed the process of singing had contributed to areas of quality of life for both of the residents, by providing them with: 1) a stimulus for socialisation; 2) emotional and psychological support; and 3) support for their remaining cognitive and physical ability. The outcome of the study found that the process of singing stimulated the resident participants in two contrasting ways and their motivation to participate was not only the singing itself but also the music in the session, instrumental play and the relationship between the residents and the MTS. From the perspectives of the participants consulted in this study it was concluded that the results from this research added some rich detail to the current literature available. Findings also concluded that residents, caregivers and the MTS herself valued the process of singing in music therapy and regarded it as an important intervention when seeking to preserve the quality of life of Huntington’s patients.</p>
Kaupapa Māori in New Zealand Public Libraries
Authors:   , Hayes Luqman 
Published: November 2021

<p>It is nearly two decades since Tui MacDonald first studied the experience of Māori in New Zealand libraries. Since then libraries have seen many changes and embraced challenging initiatives in creating public spaces which reflect much of the biculturalism of New Zealand society. Bilingual signage has been erected, awareness and obligations to the Treaty are generally better accepted and understood, and Te Rōpū Whakahau has helped to ensure there is a growing professional Māori presence in our libraries. But is that enough? Should biculturalism not be aiming to integrate Māori values and concepts in the ideals of the organisation? Should biculturalism not reflect an equal representation of both the Pākehā (non-Māori) and the Māori worldview in the way information is organised, customers are greeted and activities are carried out in the library? This research project explores the deeper commitments to biculturalism by examining the extent to which kaupapa Māori, or Māori knowledge frameworks, value systems, and a Māori worldview form part of a wider bicultural strategy within public libraries in Aotearoa. The study highlights the bicultural achievements being made in public libraries as well as exploring the evolutionary and transformative challenges which lie ahead for the sector in striving towards an epistemological and cultural balance. Data for this research was collected using a qualitative approach involving semi-structured interviews with a selection of library leaders chosen from a purposive sample of public library services in New Zealand. The findings suggest a degree of inconsistency around the integration and understanding of kaupapa Māori concepts and practice, depending on location and demographic. They indicate that while there are personal, organisational and resource barriers to fully incorporating a kaupapa Māori, including a lack of Māori seniority within the industry, these limitations stem from political and historical roots which relate to colonialism in Aotearoa and the commitment to, and interpretation of, the Treaty of Waitangi. The results also reveal an aspiration for advancing the bicultural agenda and for exploring new paradigms for reshaping European designed public libraries in ways which integrate indigenous worldviews. As a contribution to the library and information sector body of knowledge, the subject has significance not only within New Zealand but globally, particularly in relation to the incorporation of indigenous worldviews in library design, development and delivery. Opportunities for further research include exploring Māori representation in public library management, options for altering library classification systems and collection arrangements to integrate indigenous worldviews and staff experiences of kaupapa Māori.</p>
Determining the Modelling Input Parameters for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems in New Zealand Commercial Buildings
Authors:   , Gates Anthony 
Published: November 2021

<p>Template energy calculation models that have been produced by the Building Energy End-use Study (BEES) team are used to quickly and reliably model commercial buildings and calculate their energy performance. The template models contain standardised equipment, lighting, and occupancy loads; cooling and heating requirements are calculated using an ideal loads air system. Using seven buildings, Cory et al. 2011a have demonstrated that the template models have the potential to closely match the monthly energy performance of detailed (individually purpose built) models and the real buildings. Three of these models were within the ±5% acceptable tolerance to be considered calibrated. The four template models that were not within the acceptable tolerance have been identified to have complex Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems that the ideal loads air systems could not replicate. Because HVAC systems consume one of the largest proportions of energy in commercial buildings, this has a significant impact on the reliability of the template models. To address this issue, a set of detailed HVAC systems were needed to replace the ideal loads air systems. Due to HVAC system parameters not being collected by the BEES team and the lack of published modelling input parameters available, it is unknown what values are reasonable to use in the models. This study used a Delphi survey to collect real building information of the commonly installed HVAC systems in New Zealand commercial buildings. The survey formed a consensus between HVAC engineers that determined what the most commonly installed systems are and their associated performance values. The outcome of the survey was a documented set of system types and modelling input parameters that are representative of New Zealand HVAC systems. The responses of the survey were used to produce a set of HVAC system templates that replace the ideal loads air systems. The HVAC template models updated the software default parameter values with values that are representative of commonly installed systems in New Zealand. The importance of the updated input values was illustrated through a comparison of the calculated monthly energy consumption. The resulting difference in energy consumption using the updated parameter values is typically <5% monthly; at worst it is 75% for Variable Air Volume (VAV) system in the Wellington climate during June.</p>