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Relevant Research - November 2018

This  month we celebrated Richard Mitchell's appointment as a Professor in Food Design with a very special culinary event.  You can read more about it in this issue of Relevant Research, our last for this year. We hope you have a good break over the summer and look forward to working with you again next year.

Prof Leoni Schmidt
Director: Research and Postgraduate Studies

ISSN 2624-084X

Contents

Richard Mitchell's professorial event

Designing culinary experience

by Lesley Brook

Professor Richard Mitchell celebrated his professorial appointment with a unique event that put his research and teaching into practice.

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Animation by Otago Polytechnic students for Mercy Hospital

Explaining medical procedures

by Lesley Brook

Our students have made an animated video for Mercy Hospital to provide information to patients in a user-friendly way.

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Kotahitanga Manaakitanga Te Kawa, Dunedin, 2015

Peace-building

by Janine Joyce

Dr Janine Joyce was part of a group formed to encourage and promote the values and actions of peaceful community.

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mothers day

Supporting rural families

by Lesley Brook

Being at home with an infant can be very isolated, especially for women in rural communities.

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Moving in

Leaving home

by Lesley Brook

How can a tertiary education institution like ours encourage students to maintain healthy lifestyles?

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Oturehua, 2018, pastel on matt board, 50 x 50 cm

Perspectives

by Lesley Brook

Hannah Joynt explores how we relate to the land.

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Extract of soundtrack from "Naked and Confused"

"Naked and Confused"

by Jane Venis

Work by Jane Venis, guest artist for the Dunedin Art and Oceans exhibition, has also been heard in London.

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Te Pā Tauira Student Village

MasterBurger competition

by Lesley Brook

Could you design a winning burger?

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Yellow-eyed penguin

Step right up

by Lesley Brook

Weighing penguins might help save their lives.

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