title: Navigating a pandemic: Exploring housing, homelessness, and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic

authors: Hall, Anthony

abstract: It has been almost four and a half years since Covid-19 emerged and changed everyday life for people in New Zealand. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an unprecedented health response, which included lockdowns, social distancing measures and restrictions on the everyday lives of New Zealanders. Focusing on New Zealand, this thesis explores housing, homelessness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. I aimed to provide a snapshot of the experiences of people who lived in emergency housing or were otherwise homeless during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, I wanted to understand the experiences of those housing case workers who supported the homeless during the Covid-19 pandemic. I undertook a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with five participants. Some themes that emerged from these interviews included challenges in access to services, healthcare and information concerning Covid-19. The concept of autonomy in the context of public health policies also emerged, and the impacts of social isolation and feelings of powerlessness as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions were explored. Analysis of the participants’ experiences revealed underlying neoliberal narratives and internalised delegitimization. The participants demonstrated a variety of coping strategies, including familial connections, positive fatalism and humour, that were used to navigate their lives and the challenging Covid-19 pandemic. This study emphasises the importance of understanding the lived experiences of individuals facing homelessness, particularly during unprecedented events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to produce equitable policy change that considers the diverse needs and challenges of vulnerable populations.

text: Navigating a pandemic: Exploring housing, homelessness, and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic It has been almost four and a half years since Covid-19 emerged and changed everyday life for people in New Zealand. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an unprecedented health response, which included lockdowns, social distancing measures and restrictions on the everyday lives of New Zealanders. Focusing on New Zealand, this thesis explores housing, homelessness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. I aimed to provide a snapshot of the experiences of people who lived in emergency housing or were otherwise homeless during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, I wanted to understand the experiences of those housing case workers who supported the homeless during the Covid-19 pandemic. I undertook a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with five participants. Some themes that emerged from these interviews included challenges in access to services, healthcare and information concerning Covid-19. The concept of autonomy in the context of public health policies also emerged, and the impacts of social isolation and feelings of powerlessness as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions were explored. Analysis of the participants’ experiences revealed underlying neoliberal narratives and internalised delegitimization. The participants demonstrated a variety of coping strategies, including familial connections, positive fatalism and humour, that were used to navigate their lives and the challenging Covid-19 pandemic. This study emphasises the importance of understanding the lived experiences of individuals facing homelessness, particularly during unprecedented events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to produce equitable policy change that considers the diverse needs and challenges of vulnerable populations.

year: 2024

title: Strategic marketing in action: A comparison of higher and lower performing manufacturing firms in the UK

authors: Brooksbank, Roger

subjects: business performance

abstract: Purpose – To contrast the role and practical application of strategic marketing in higher and lower-performing firms. 
Design/methodology/approach – In-depth personal interviews with senior marketing executives in three matched high/low performing manufacturing firms in the UK were recorded, transcribed and analysed. The interview agenda was derived from the authors' own previous research studies, plus precedents in the literature. 
Findings – These are structured around four key strategic marketing activities previously found to be characteristic of higher performing firms. They clearly show that such companies implement them with a far greater degree of skill, sophistication and ingenuity than do their lower performing counterparts. Above all, for the higher performers, strategic marketing is a truly cross-functional activity. 
Research limitations/implications – The methodology of this study indicates a fruitful approach to further research aimed at extending and refining the findings and recommendations, though details requiring methodological attention are identified. 
Originality/value – As an aid to marketing practitioners and educators alike, these findings and conclusions identify and describes a number of specific, applicable characteristics of successful strategic marketing.

text: Strategic marketing in action: A comparison of higher and lower performing manufacturing firms in the UK Purpose – To contrast the role and practical application of strategic marketing in higher and lower-performing firms. 
Design/methodology/approach – In-depth personal interviews with senior marketing executives in three matched high/low performing manufacturing firms in the UK were recorded, transcribed and analysed. The interview agenda was derived from the authors' own previous research studies, plus precedents in the literature. 
Findings – These are structured around four key strategic marketing activities previously found to be characteristic of higher performing firms. They clearly show that such companies implement them with a far greater degree of skill, sophistication and ingenuity than do their lower performing counterparts. Above all, for the higher performers, strategic marketing is a truly cross-functional activity. 
Research limitations/implications – The methodology of this study indicates a fruitful approach to further research aimed at extending and refining the findings and recommendations, though details requiring methodological attention are identified. 
Originality/value – As an aid to marketing practitioners and educators alike, these findings and conclusions identify and describes a number of specific, applicable characteristics of successful strategic marketing.

year: 2007

title: Proposing an indigenous power of veto in Aotearoa New Zealand

authors: Te Aho, Linda

abstract: Tom Fookes was an architect of New Zealand's Resource Management Act passed in 1991 (RMA). When interviewed about his life's work, Tom responded that he had sought to create a 'fair, integrated consideration of the decisions and policy to do with the social, economic and environmental conditions of our people'. I am told that he worked hard to provide a fair opportunity for all people to have a voice in decisions that affect them and places they care about. Processes were included in the RMA to allow this to occur, with particular provisions for a distinctive Maori voice. Because of these provisions, and the Act's lodestar of sustainable resource management, the RMA was promoted as one of the 'world's finest national environmental policies'.

text: Proposing an indigenous power of veto in Aotearoa New Zealand Tom Fookes was an architect of New Zealand's Resource Management Act passed in 1991 (RMA). When interviewed about his life's work, Tom responded that he had sought to create a 'fair, integrated consideration of the decisions and policy to do with the social, economic and environmental conditions of our people'. I am told that he worked hard to provide a fair opportunity for all people to have a voice in decisions that affect them and places they care about. Processes were included in the RMA to allow this to occur, with particular provisions for a distinctive Maori voice. Because of these provisions, and the Act's lodestar of sustainable resource management, the RMA was promoted as one of the 'world's finest national environmental policies'.

year: 2015