Foreword – Volume Two, Issue One
Kia ora koutou,
As the framework for Te Pūkenga develops and we build an understanding of how we might work together in the future, it is exciting to bring together research from across the network in the second issue of Hauora Research.
I encourage you all to take time to read about the inspirational research by our colleagues, and to use this as a catalyst to grow research collaborations across Te Pūkenga network. This is also an opportunity to share our research with industry stakeholders and community groups to strengthen these important links.
In this issue, we are yet again delighted to include eight exceptional contributions to health and wellbeing in Aotearoa.
We feature Dr Andre McLaclan's research into traditional Māori pathways of wellbeing. His model, Whiti Te Rā provides a guide for practitioners that responds to Māori aspirations and preferences for pathways to wellbeing. McLachlan's work emphasises the importance of not only promoting traditional pathways, but actively developing these pathways locally so whānau can access them.
Our other featured researchers bring diverse subjects illustrating the breadth and depth of health and wellbeing research across the Te Pūkenga network, including:
- learnings from the world's largest recorded campylobacter outbreak,
- perceptions of nursing students regarding a career in aged care,
- a midwifery perspective on the care of women with increased BMI,
- an investigation of antioxidant levels in homemade and commercial apple cider vinegar,
- adults with selective mutism reflecting on their experiences of education,
- an exploration of the role of nurse practitioners in surgical settings, and
- 'escape rooms' adapted as a teaching aid for nursing students.
Please share this pānui with your colleagues and external stakeholders, and encourage them to subscribe.
Ngā mihi nui,
Lotta Bryant
Co-ordinator, Research Futures: Health and Wellbeing Working Group.
About Hauora Research
The Hauora Research pānui is an initiative of the Research Futures: Health and Wellbeing Working Group. The working group represents health and wellbeing research across the 16 subsidiaries of Te Pūkenga.
The working group consists of:
- Lotta Bryant, Wintec – Working group co-ordinator
- Prof. Sally Baddock, Otago Polytechnic – Pānui editor
- Megan Allardice, Eastern Institute of Technology
- Dr Anita Jagroop-Dearing, Eastern Institute of Technology
- Dr Lee Smith, Weltec and Whitireia Institutes of Technology
- Dr John Stanfield, NorthTec
- Campbell Macgregor, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
Contact the Research Futures: Health and Wellbeing Working Group.
- See the previous issue of Hauora Research, Volume One, Issue One.
- Content in this issue of Hauora Research was produced by freelance writer Heather Wilson.
Call for submissions
Are you a health and wellbeing researcher at one of the 16 subsidiaries of Te Pūkenga network? If you have a research project you would like to see featured in a future issue of Hauora Research, you can request a submission form.