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Relevant Research - October 2016

Each month we bring you a selection of research stories from students and staff, and across the variety of disciplines at Otago Polytechnic. Many of them are partnering directly with a business or other organisation to meet a need or solve a real world issue. If there is something our students or staff could help you with, please get in touch because we'd love to help if we can.

We hope you enjoy reading this month's stories. Please feel free to forward this newsletter or share any particular article if you think others would be interested too.

Alistair Regan
Director: Research and Enterprise

Contents

Balclutha bridge at sunset

Strengthening rural communities

by Lesley Brook and Jean Ross

Nursing students have been working to meet health needs of rural communities.

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Planes in Space 001, 2016, oil on canvas, 400 x 300 mm.

Ideas v Objects

by Lesley Brook

Alexandra Kennedy's paintings explore the inner rather than the outer world.

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Shane Gallagher, Welby Ings and Samuel Mann

How to do business sustainably

by Samuel Mann

Imagine you had a pair of glasses that had a sustainability mode.   What would you see if you looked at the world through a “sustainable lens”? 

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Moeraki Boulders

Teaching the teachers of teachers

by Lesley Brook

Nola Tipa is exploring the value of providing authentic cultural experiences for facilitators who work with school teachers.

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Glamping

Keeping New Zealand beautiful

by Simon Harvey

Tourism operator Kiwi Experience realised that growing sustainable business value was not going to be about simply putting more buses on the road.

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Video: A Helping Hand | A Limbitless & Otago Polytechnic collaboration

A helping hand

by Lesley Brook

Otago Polytechnic worked with Limbitless Solutions from the USA to create a bionic arm.

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Fishing boat, Timaru, trialling the new app

Transforming the fishing industry

by Lesley Brook

Rimu Boddy is making New Zealand's Quota Management System easier to use, improving compliance, and adding value to the fishing industry.

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Mornington Health Centre waiting room

Sustainable primary health care

by Lesley Brook and Anna Askerud

Anna Askerud is interested in how our primary health care system will cope with an aging population and increasing numbers of patients with chronic conditions.

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Extract from animation

Animation at work

by Lesley Brook

Wayne Alexander, of FYI Media, is delighted with the work of student Bruce Li.

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