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Relevant Research - June 2019

We hope you enjoy reading the variety of stories about staff and student research at Otago Polytechnic in this issue of our magazine.

This month we also invite you to browse the proceedings of the 2019 ITP Research Symposium which have been jointly published online by Otago Polytechnic and Eastern Institute of Technology. These abstracts for oral presentations, artworks and posters provide a snapshot of research at Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics throughout New Zealand.

Prof Leoni Schmidt
Director: Research and Postgraduate Studies

ISSN 2624-084X

Contents

Richard II promotional photograph for the Globe Theatre, Dunedin

The play's the thing

by Lesley Brook

Our Communication Design students helped to promote the Globe Theatre's production of Richard II.

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Ossie Smith's Model Dairy

The more things change....

by Lesley Brook

Alexa Forbes considers how environmental and technological changes disrupt business as usual.

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New Zealand money

But what about me?

by Lesley Brook

Who's likely to object to the Living Wage movement and why?

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Sport fitness testing

Health vs appearance?

by Lesley Brook

Our researchers have been exploring the relationship between exercise and body image.

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St John Ambulance WA57HXN

Volunteers please!

by Lesley Brook

What are the obstacles to extending the hours of emergence service availability?

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Stills from video, Lullament, 2018, Single Channel Video with sound

Taking possession

by David Green

Artist David Green questions our subjugation of nature.

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Wearable data-gathering

Data-driven decision-making

by Lesley Brook

How might we benefit from analysis of large volumes of data?

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Mereana Rapata-Hanning and Karole Hogarth

Understanding Māori health disparities

by Lesley Brook

A chapter in an important textbook helps ensure health professionals understand the health issues of Māori.

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Painting: Hannah Joynt; cover design: Jessie-Lee Robertson

Nursing in Rural Aotearoa

by Gayle Lindley

Associate Professor Jean Ross and Lecturer Josie Crawley have produced a book of rural nurses' stories. Here is an extract from one of them.

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