title: Stitching hope through loss in celebration

authors: Brink, Ashlie

abstract: This chapter focuses on the revisiting and re-storying of hopeful actions and practices in the face of emotional hurt, physical pain, sorrow, loss and shattered dreams. Painstakingly slow recovery from major surgery coincided with the shocking and immeasurable loss of a beloved mother. This chapter grew out of conversations reminiscing about a graduation ceremony in the year following the loss. Memories, of a gold dress, carefully stitched together the concern, love, attention, compassion, and admiration of a mother and her support for her daughter’s hope of an academic future. These memories later became the focus of an outsider witnessing practice and re-membering conversations as a means by which to re-visit, re-story and re-member the celebration of the graduation ceremony. Eleven years after the loss and as an aspiring academic, the small, but significant steps of speaking through the hurt of injustice, the immense loss of not only a mother, but central person in the life of a young woman living with disability, opened up the space to discuss the discursive and material practices of Ashlie’s lived experiences.

text: Stitching hope through loss in celebration This chapter focuses on the revisiting and re-storying of hopeful actions and practices in the face of emotional hurt, physical pain, sorrow, loss and shattered dreams. Painstakingly slow recovery from major surgery coincided with the shocking and immeasurable loss of a beloved mother. This chapter grew out of conversations reminiscing about a graduation ceremony in the year following the loss. Memories, of a gold dress, carefully stitched together the concern, love, attention, compassion, and admiration of a mother and her support for her daughter’s hope of an academic future. These memories later became the focus of an outsider witnessing practice and re-membering conversations as a means by which to re-visit, re-story and re-member the celebration of the graduation ceremony. Eleven years after the loss and as an aspiring academic, the small, but significant steps of speaking through the hurt of injustice, the immense loss of not only a mother, but central person in the life of a young woman living with disability, opened up the space to discuss the discursive and material practices of Ashlie’s lived experiences.

year: 2017

title: Prediction of the mechanical properties of isotropic pure metal-based and two-phase alloy-based porous materials using modified analytical models

authors: Bolzoni, Leandro

abstract: This work investigates the applicability and accuracy of the five fundamental analytical models commonly used to estimate the thermophysical properties of porous materials for the prediction of the mechanical behaviour, both compressive and tensile, of isotropic pure metal-based and two-phase alloy-based porous materials. In literature, the prediction of the mechanical behaviour of these advanced engineering materials requires the development of semi-empirical models, which are material-specific and, thus, require empirical constants. The significance of the current investigation is the possibility to optimise the mechanical behaviour of porous metallic materials through the rapid and accurate prediction of their mechano-physical behaviour using non-empirical physically-based prediction models. The work is complemented with the derivation of new combined models with increased accuracy prediction of up to approx. 90% with respect to fundamental models. Although developed for porous materials, the derived combined models could be applied for the accurate and rapid prediction of the thermophysical and mechanical properties of multi-phase materials with unknown microstructure such as two-ductile-phase alloys, nanocomposites, hetero- and harmonic-structured materials, and immiscible alloys.

text: Prediction of the mechanical properties of isotropic pure metal-based and two-phase alloy-based porous materials using modified analytical models This work investigates the applicability and accuracy of the five fundamental analytical models commonly used to estimate the thermophysical properties of porous materials for the prediction of the mechanical behaviour, both compressive and tensile, of isotropic pure metal-based and two-phase alloy-based porous materials. In literature, the prediction of the mechanical behaviour of these advanced engineering materials requires the development of semi-empirical models, which are material-specific and, thus, require empirical constants. The significance of the current investigation is the possibility to optimise the mechanical behaviour of porous metallic materials through the rapid and accurate prediction of their mechano-physical behaviour using non-empirical physically-based prediction models. The work is complemented with the derivation of new combined models with increased accuracy prediction of up to approx. 90% with respect to fundamental models. Although developed for porous materials, the derived combined models could be applied for the accurate and rapid prediction of the thermophysical and mechanical properties of multi-phase materials with unknown microstructure such as two-ductile-phase alloys, nanocomposites, hetero- and harmonic-structured materials, and immiscible alloys.

year: 2021

title: Haumanu hauora: A commentary on strengthening health institution responsiveness to Māori health in the face of climate change

authors: Masters-Awatere, Bridgette

abstract: Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity through compounding ecological disasters. A focus on global averages tends to hide dramatic differences and mask health disparities that exist for Indigenous people. For 21 years, district health boards (DHBs) were responsible for providing or funding the provision of health services across Aotearoa. The introduction of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 disestablished DHBs and offered an opportunity to reshape health in ways that give serious consideration to climate change impacts. The need to give greater consideration to Indigenous people in climate change conversations is essential. The Waitangi Tribunal highlights areas where the Crown needs to work to improve Māori health outcomes. A clear deficit in existing policy process means a lack of preparedness for the intersecting health crises vulnerable Māori will experience in the face of climate change. Structural change is needed to strengthen health institution responsiveness to Māori health needs.

text: Haumanu hauora: A commentary on strengthening health institution responsiveness to Māori health in the face of climate change Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity through compounding ecological disasters. A focus on global averages tends to hide dramatic differences and mask health disparities that exist for Indigenous people. For 21 years, district health boards (DHBs) were responsible for providing or funding the provision of health services across Aotearoa. The introduction of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 disestablished DHBs and offered an opportunity to reshape health in ways that give serious consideration to climate change impacts. The need to give greater consideration to Indigenous people in climate change conversations is essential. The Waitangi Tribunal highlights areas where the Crown needs to work to improve Māori health outcomes. A clear deficit in existing policy process means a lack of preparedness for the intersecting health crises vulnerable Māori will experience in the face of climate change. Structural change is needed to strengthen health institution responsiveness to Māori health needs.

year: 2025