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Relevant Research - July 2020

Welcome to this month's issue with a varied selection of research by our staff and students. We would like to invite you to join us for Prof Mary Butler's Inaugural Professorial Event on 31 August. Please register online if you would like to attend. This event has been rescheduled from March due to COVID-19 lockdown.

We would like to congratulate Scott Eady, Dunedin School of Art, who has been named as the 2020 Ōtepoti Dunedin Public Art Gallery Artist in Residence. Lucy Hammonds, Curator at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, says "We are excited to announce that we will be working with Scott Eady as artist in residence, supporting Eady in realising a number of long-term projects that are deeply grounded in the community and location of Ōtepoti Dunedin. Nationally and internationally recognised, Eady brings experience and insight to this project and we’re looking forward to seeing how this project evolves over the upcoming months."

Prof Leoni Schmidt
Director: Research and Postgraduate Studies
ISSN 2624-084X

Contents

Tamatea: Legacies of Encounter by the Kaihaukai Art Collective 

Engaging with place through food - Ka hono ki te wāhi mā te kai

by Ron Bull

Food and art are a storytelling tool to connect people to place and identity. He taputapu kōrero paki kā kai me kā toi kia hono i kā tākata ki te wāhi me te tuakiri.

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person typing on keyboard

Business intelligence

by Kim Fulton

Two students have been developing their IT skills through a real-world project.

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Extract from video produced for the University of Otago's Legal Issues Centre

Deciphering jargon

by Lesley Brook

A student's animations are helping to explain legal terms.

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Occupational Therapy

To modify or move?

by Lesley Brook

Housing modifications for those living with disability need to be prompt and sustainable in the long-term.

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Recycling centre, corner of Forth and St David Streets, Dunedin

Encouraging recycling

by Shane Gilchrist

Four Otago Polytechnic Bachelor of Architectural Studies students have received Dunedin City Council Emerging Architecture Awards.

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Computer refurbishment

Out with the old

by Lesley Brook

How might we improve the sustainability of computing?

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Dunedin bus

Bus behaviour

by Lesley Brook

Drivers and passengers alike need to treat each other with respect.

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Strong Extratropical Cyclone Over the US Midwest

Model making

by Lesley Brook

Our theories to explain the world are flawed because our understanding is incomplete.

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Lynn Taylor's book Solander's Signatures displayed on Chris Fersterer's box

Precious package

by Lesley Brook

A special book in a box celebrates botanist Daniel Solander's contribution to New Zealand's history.

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