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Relevant Research - May 2018

Welcome to this month's issue of Relevant Research, featuring stories from several design disciplines, as well as Sport, Business, Nursing, Engineering Technology and Information Technology. We were involved with many events during TechWeek and are particularly pleased with how well the TEXpo went - you can read more about that below.

This coming month we are launching our Education series of public seminars, to complement the other events we have planned for the year. The first two of these are on 26 June and 3 July, with Associate Professor Caro McCaw and Philippa Kearney presenting on global partnerships, and Dr Glenys Ker talking about her model for facilitating learning. Details of these are available online here. These seminars will be of interest to all those interested in innovative and research-informed best practice in education.

Professor Leoni Schmidt
Director: Research and Postgraduate Studies

Contents

Zhouzhuang water village, China

But how do you feel?

by Lesley Brook

Dr Ross T Smith wants the spaces we spend time in to appeal to our senses.

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Texpo: IT student project

TEXpo Event

by Rachael Shriffer

TEXpo was one of eight events Otago Polytechnic was involved with during TechWeek 2018.

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Dented wire fence

A New Zealand inventor

by Gavin O'Brien

An early New Zealand industrial designer was the subject of a recent presentation by senior lecturer Gavin O'Brien, celebrating innovation during TechWeek 2018.

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Otago Museum foyer

Contributing creativity

by Lesley Brook

Communication Design students have been working with Otago Museum.

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Seger down

Treating head injuries

by Lesley Brook

How can a person's cultural safety be respected while their physical injury is treated?

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Tony Heptinstall in the kitchen

Looks so good you could eat it

by Lesley Brook

An innovative food design technique takes presentation to a new level.

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Who's to blame?

by Lesley Brook

Matt King uses his expertise to resolve disputes about liability for traffic accidents.

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Otago Harbour

Dunedin visitor KPIs

by Lesley Brook

Michelle Lai has been analysing visitor data to help Dunedin businesses.

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Information Technology student Richard Horne

Revealing confidence and engagement

by Lesley Brook

An easy data collection tool is helping lecturers understand whether students find exercises difficult or boring.

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Bruise

When home is not safe

by Lesley Brook

Laurie Mahoney reports that nurses can facilitate disclosure of domestic violence.

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