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Relevant Research - November 2022

The start of this month was a milestone for us with Otago Polytechnic becoming part of Te Pūkenga, and you'll notice a new logo on this issue. Acting Chief Executive Peter Winder has affirmed the importance and value of research in Te Pūkenga, and we look forward to working even more closely with our friends and colleagues in the research offices across Te Pūkenga. 

Project work by our students has been on show this month, and you can read about three of our Art students in this Otago Daily Times article. Also this month, we enjoyed Yvonne Thomas' Inaugural Professorial Lecture. If you were unable to attend in person, you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel.

We will continue to bring you interesting stories about a range of research by staff and students in our Otago Polytechnic division. We hope you have a well deserved break over the summer and we look forward to partnering with you in research in 2023.

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

Contents

Sweets at work

Fruit or sweets?

by Prasadie Manawaduge Silva and Lesley Brook

What are the barriers and facilitators to healthy eating and physical activity of office-based workers?

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Mawera Karetai and Samuel Mann with interviewee Henk Roodt

Blowing Bubbles

by Lesley Brook

A radio show has been connecting people throughout the challenges of COVID-19 restrictions.

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Open doors

Prisoner rehabilitation

by Lesley Brook

Why do former prisoners not access health and social services after release from prison?

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Cultural collaborations in the classroom - He mahi tahi ā-ahurea ki te akomanga

by Lesley Brook

Māori values are being modelled for learners through teaching practice. He mahi tahi ā-ahurea ki te akomanga.

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Plastic shredding machine, built by Otago Polytechnic students for Connections Centre

Milk bottle top recycling

by Lesley Brook

An interdisciplinary student project is supporting people with disabilities in meaningful work collecting, sorting, and shredding coloured milk bottle tops.

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Road to the back country

Growing Rural Health - Tipu Haere Tuawhenua Hauora

by Lesley Brook

A new book captures and celebrates the development of rural general practice in the last 30 years.

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Matsutake scramble

Cedar meets harakeke

by Lesley Brook

Students from two countries engage with the "more-than-human" world.

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Male occupational therapists

by Lesley Brook

Strategies to support male students may help address gender imbalance in the occupational therapy profession.

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