title: Understanding kava's impact on driver fitness [Poster]

authors: Aporosa, S. 'Apo'

abstract: Kava is a culturally significant Pacific drink with similar effects to Benzodiazepine. Traditionally influenced kava use sessions last, on average, six hours in which attendees consume 3.6 litres each of the beverage kava, with many then driving home. Research participants’ (n=20) neurological functioning was tested during, and immediately following, kava consumption and compared against control (n=19). Kava at traditional use volumes is not shown to impact the participants focus, accuracy, time perception, plasticity or fatigue, although has a significant negative impact on temporal order judgement (TOJ). TOJ is associated with Executive Function “including decision making, behavioural control, and information processing” and sequencing. This poster presentation summarises the study findings which are both unique and new and suggests kava at traditionally consumed volumes compromises driver safety, impairment that manifests vastly different to alcohol, cannabis and hallucinogens. The study was followed up with a culture-friendly kava drink-driving awareness campaign.

text: Understanding kava's impact on driver fitness [Poster] Kava is a culturally significant Pacific drink with similar effects to Benzodiazepine. Traditionally influenced kava use sessions last, on average, six hours in which attendees consume 3.6 litres each of the beverage kava, with many then driving home. Research participants’ (n=20) neurological functioning was tested during, and immediately following, kava consumption and compared against control (n=19). Kava at traditional use volumes is not shown to impact the participants focus, accuracy, time perception, plasticity or fatigue, although has a significant negative impact on temporal order judgement (TOJ). TOJ is associated with Executive Function “including decision making, behavioural control, and information processing” and sequencing. This poster presentation summarises the study findings which are both unique and new and suggests kava at traditionally consumed volumes compromises driver safety, impairment that manifests vastly different to alcohol, cannabis and hallucinogens. The study was followed up with a culture-friendly kava drink-driving awareness campaign.

year: 2021

title: Wendy Wallace moving on gracefully

authors: Cheesman, Sue

subjects: dance

abstract: Wendy Wallace has been the associate director and head of contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance, in Wellington for over eight years. She is now moving to Auckland to become rehearsal director for Black Grace. Sue Cheesman talks to her about her time with the school and her new role with the company.

text: Wendy Wallace moving on gracefully Wendy Wallace has been the associate director and head of contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance, in Wellington for over eight years. She is now moving to Auckland to become rehearsal director for Black Grace. Sue Cheesman talks to her about her time with the school and her new role with the company.

year: 2007

title: Grounding our collective Talanoa, Enabling open conversations

authors: Fa'avae, David Taufui Mkiato

abstract: As co-editors in this special issue of the Waikato Journal of Education (WJE), we share our talanoa thoughts and open conversations from the University of Waikato in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), a place and space that has a special relationship with Waikato-Tainui and the Kīngitanga. We acknowledge our ties with Māori as tangata moana (people of the ocean), noting the past as well as the existing vā connections between the Kīngitanga and other Pacific peoples and leaders, including the House of Tupou, the royal family of Tonga. We are also mindful of our responsibility to honour Te Tiriti and to the honouring of tangata whenua and their mana whenua. At the same time, we embrace the ancestral connections between Māori and Pacific people through shared common heritages (Te Punga Somerville, 2012), of voyaging, wayfinding, knowledge and ako by which they settled Moananuiākea (the Hawaiian term for the Pacific Ocean) in one of “the greatest feats in human history” (Hawaii State Legislature, 2021, n.p.). We hope this volume honours those relationships and our shared whakapapa, whanaungatanga, and kaupapa.

text: Grounding our collective Talanoa, Enabling open conversations As co-editors in this special issue of the Waikato Journal of Education (WJE), we share our talanoa thoughts and open conversations from the University of Waikato in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), a place and space that has a special relationship with Waikato-Tainui and the Kīngitanga. We acknowledge our ties with Māori as tangata moana (people of the ocean), noting the past as well as the existing vā connections between the Kīngitanga and other Pacific peoples and leaders, including the House of Tupou, the royal family of Tonga. We are also mindful of our responsibility to honour Te Tiriti and to the honouring of tangata whenua and their mana whenua. At the same time, we embrace the ancestral connections between Māori and Pacific people through shared common heritages (Te Punga Somerville, 2012), of voyaging, wayfinding, knowledge and ako by which they settled Moananuiākea (the Hawaiian term for the Pacific Ocean) in one of “the greatest feats in human history” (Hawaii State Legislature, 2021, n.p.). We hope this volume honours those relationships and our shared whakapapa, whanaungatanga, and kaupapa.

year: 2021