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Relevant Research - October 2020

Welcome to this month's issue. We hope you enjoy reading our selection of recent staff and student research.  

The video recording of Mary Butler's recent Inaugural Professorial Lecture is now available online. If you would like to watch that you can access it here.

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

Contents

Southern District Health Board Rehabilitation Centre courtyard development

Rehab resources

by Lesley Brook

Two Occupational Therapy students have given a small internal courtyard a new lease of life.

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Social Services student with children

Human services

by Lesley Brook

Understanding themselves is a useful starting point for human-centred social services practitioners.

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Wolf design

SKIN in the game

by Lesley Brook

Our Communication Design and Information Technology students are hunting in a pack.

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Port Chalmers, Otago, New Zealand

Walking with eyes open

by Lesley Brook

The origin of discarded objects illustrate the extent of globalisation.

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Frisbee

Cultural context

by Lesley Brook

Nursing students have been working on a locally appropriate resource to help address Type 2 diabetes.

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Night Journal (Blue Head with Apples), oil on linen on canvas 715 x 920 mm, 2020

Night Journal

by Lesley Brook

Graham Fletcher's recent works zoom in on the tabletop.

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Electricity meter

Switching to the cloud

by Lesley Brook

A local not-for-profit benefits from a lecturer's IT expertise.

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Jassmyn Walker, Flex Fitness Green Island

Meeting goals

by Lesley Brook

A Business student investigates how to increase gym members' level of engagement.

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Nursing students on the new Senior Persons' Health course

Senior persons' health

by Lesley Brook

With a growing older population, we need more nurses who have the confidence and capability to work in aged residential care.

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