Either ‘a blessing in disguise’, or ‘I couldn't get help,’ : Australian and Aotearoa NZ women's experiences of early infant feeding during COVID-19
- Authors: Atchan, Marjorie , Graham, Kristen , Hartney, Nicki , Martis, Ruth , Kearney, Lauren , Davey, Kym , Daellenbach, Rea , Hall, Helen , Sweet, Linda
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Women and Birth Vol. 36, no. 3 (2023), p. e305-e313
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- Description: Background: To manage the COVID-19 pandemic, public health restrictions and a rapid pivot to telehealth occurred. Peripartum services were significantly affected by a strained infrastructure. Decreased face to face access to health services and support affected maternal experiences and confidence internationally, yet little was reported with the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand context. Aim: To explore the early parenting and infant feeding experiences of new mothers from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand in the context of a pandemic. Methods: An interpretive qualitative approach and thematic analysis obtained an in-depth understanding of the experiences of 27 mothers who gave birth during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Findings: Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand women reported similar experiences, which varied contextually. Restrictions and requirements impacted favourably and unfavourably. Many women found the peace and space of social distancing an unexpected benefit and were proud of their achievements, whilst others shared feelings of isolation and distress. Some women felt they instinctively did what they needed to do. Experiences correlated with differing levels of self-efficacy. Discussion: While many women relished the freedom from social obligations when faced with feeding challenges, there was general dissatisfaction with the level of support available. Care was fragmented, and health care needs were unmet, impacting feeding and parenting decisions and mental health. Conclusion: Access to timely and appropriate professional support is an important factor in establishing breastfeeding and developing parenting confidence, particularly in the context of a pandemic and should be a health policy priority. © 2023 Australian College of Midwives
Integrating MLP and 'after ANT' to understand perceptions and responses of regime actors to Airbnb
- Authors: Prayag, Girish , Ozanne, Lucie , Martin-Neuninger, Rosemarie , Fieger, Peter
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Current issues in tourism Vol. 25, no. 19 (2022), p. 3150-3167
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- Description: Using the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) and Actor-Network-Theory and After (After ANT), we explore how regime actors from the formal accommodation sector perceive and respond to Airbnb. We evaluate regime actors' perceptions of Airbnb's network and its key characteristics. Based on in-depth interviews with 14 stakeholders, we found that Airbnb is perceived as impacting both the landscape and the regime. Perceptions of Airbnb are not uniform across accommodation types. The findings also suggest that through principles of translation, negotiation, and lack of acquiescence, the niche player, Airbnb, is perceived as attempting to create a new 'collectif'. The regime has responded through strategies including, financial responses, marketing responses, and lobbying for regulations. Implications for theory and practice are offered.
Beyond panic buying : consumption displacement and COVID-19
- Authors: Hall, Michael , Prayag, Girish , Fieger, Peter , Dyason, David
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Service Management Vol. 32, no. 1 (2021), p. 113-128
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- Description: Purpose: This study evaluates consumption displacement, the shift in consumption that occurs when consumers experience a change in the availability of goods, services and amenities to which they are accustomed as the result of an external event, and which is characterised by the points in space and time where consumption occurs and by the movements to, from, and between those points, that is occurring as a result of the effects of COVID-19 on the services sector in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach: Based on consumer spending data, the authors identify patterns of consumption displacement for the hospitality and retail sectors as defined by ANZSIC. We answer where, when, how, what and why consumption displacement happens. Findings: The findings provide evidence of spatial and temporal displacement of consumption based on consumer spending patterns. Evidence of increased spending in some consumption categories confirms stockpiling behaviours. The hospitality sector experiences a sharp decline in consumer spending over lockdown. Originality/value: Given the lack of studies analysing the impacts of crises and disasters on the services sector and consumption displacement, this study provides evidence of different forms of consumption displacement related to COVID-19. © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited.
The tourism value of international freedom campers to New Zealand
- Authors: Fieger, Peter , Prayag, Girish , Hall, C. Michael , North, Chris
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Tourism Recreation Research Vol. 45, no. 2 (2020), p. 265-270
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- Description: This study evaluates the economic contribution of international freedom campers to New Zealand over the period 1997–2018. Using the International Visitor Survey (IVS) data, we categorise tourism activities undertaken by freedom campers as free, low value and high value and estimate whether over this period the proportion for each category increases or decreases. We also compare the economic value of the activities undertaken by freedom campers with those undertaken by tourists staying in commercial accommodation. The findings show that over the last 21 years, freedom campers have undertaken more free activities compared to those staying in hotels, motels and luxury accommodation. However, their uptake of high expense activities are similar to tourists staying in B&Bs or homestay, and camping/national park. Accordingly, this research note demystifies the perception that freedom campers are cheap tourists with nothing to contribute economically. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Developing ‘good buggers’ : Global implications of the influence of culture on New Zealand club rugby coaches’ beliefs and practice
- Authors: Hassanin, Remy , Light, Richard , Macfarlane, Angus
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sport in Society Vol. 21, no. 8 (2018), p. 1223-1235
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- Description: Despite recognition of how experience shapes sport coaches’ beliefs and practice empirical investigation into how this occurs is limited. This article redresses this gap in the literature by presenting the findings of a study that inquired into the influence of culture on three New Zealand rugby coaches’ beliefs and practice to identify the powerful influence of interaction between a ‘local’ traditional culture of club rugby in New Zealand shaped by the resilient ‘amateur ideal’, intensified by the perceived threat of professional rugby and the global culture of the sport industry to club rugby. © 2018,
Electrical power engineering education down under : Australia and New Zealand are adding energy to their University Curricula
- Authors: Nair, Nirmal , Martin, Daniel , Saha, Tapan , Islam, Syed , Watson, Neville
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IEEE Power and Energy Magazine Vol. 16, no. 5 (2018), p. 64-73
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- Description: On 4 August 1888, Reefton became the first town in New Zealand to have its own public electricity supply powered by hydrogeneration. In Australia, the first supply of electricity to the public at large was in two small country towns in New South Wales. Tamworth, with a population of 3,000, switched on arc and incandescent street lighting on 9 November 1888. In April 1889, the smaller town of Young switched on its incandescent street lighting and shortly thereafter went on to connect shops, offices, and homes within reach of its lines. However, the history of electricity supply in Australia traces back earlier, with Brisbane as one of the first cities in Australia to use electricity commercially, in 1882. Thus, electricity utilization down under coincided with the history of its emergence among the countries of the Northern Hemisphere.
Analysis of education and practical relevance of project management topics in New Zealand
- Authors: Gunawan, Indra
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Project Organisation and Management Vol. 7, no. 2 (2015), p. 174-183
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- Description: The objective of this paper is to analyse the education of project management (PM) and its practical relevance in New Zealand. The research has been done through a survey analysis of PM practitioners and academics. The PM practitioners were asked which PM topics are widely used in the industry. The academics were also asked through a parallel survey which PM topics are considered important at a tertiary level and taught to students. It can be seen from the results that contemporary education of PM has improved vastly and is relevant with its practice. The findings are important for both practitioners and academics to identify the gap between project management education and industry needs. Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Mineralogical domains within gold provinces
- Authors: Hughes, Martin , Phillips, Neil
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science Vol. 124, no. 3 (2015), p. 191-204
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- Description: Mineralogical domains use hypogene minerals (i.e. minerals not modified by weathering) and related geochemical characteristics of mineral occurrences, not only ore deposits, to subdivide large mineralised regions. Their use in the Victorian gold province is described using readily available historical data and field checking, and this is a scheme that has not required modification since 1997.The Victorian province is typical of sediment-hosted hydrothermal ores in metamorphic terrains (often termed orogenic gold deposits). Five distinctly different mineral assemblages are used to subdivide all Victorian gold occurrences into eight domains up to hundreds of kilometres in length and tens of kilometres in width. These parallel the regional structural trend and most are closely associated with, or sharply bounded by, major regional-scale faults. Seismic work has shown these faults to be listric thrusts, which flatten into a zone of duplexed greenstones overlying older basement rocks in the deeper crust. Although not defined genetically or temporally, mineralogical domains provide an additional variable related to fluid flow to assist genetic interpretation such as the scale at which a combination of processes operates, permitting predictions as to the origin of the fluids and their pathways. The variations in mineralogy in Victorian gold occurrences indicate that ore fluid compositions differed significantly between adjacent domains, and between areas overlying different regions of deeper crust. The pattern of domains gives clues to the existence of multiple mineralising events and to the degree of overprinting of these events. Domains also assist genetic comparisons by projection into similar adjoining regions to create new domains, for example Tasmania (Mathinna domain and Lefroy sub-domain), NSW (Cobar domain) and New Zealand (Reefton domain). The domainal pattern has application to mineral exploration, metallurgy and environmental issues. Mineralogical domains could be applied elsewhere, particularly in the study of difficult-to-subdivide sedimenthosted gold ores and Archaean greenstone-hosted gold, and possibly for other commodities, especially those that occur as hydrothermal ores. © 2015 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and The AusIMM.
Nursing 'our boys' during the Great war
- Authors: Wood, Pamela
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand Vol. 21, no. 3 (2015), p. 14-16
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- Description: More than 500 New Zealand nurses served overseas in World War 1. At the end of the war, nearly a quarter of the country’s nursing workforce was still overseas. Most nurses served with the New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS) but, in the early months of the war, before the NZANS had been sufficiently organised to send nurses, some joined the Australian service. Others went independently to Britain or were already there and joined services such as the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QAs), the French Flag Corps and Red Cross, or worked in British military hospitals or hospitals in France run by wealthy British women.
Towards understanding Lepidocyrtus Bourlet, 1839 (Collembola, Entomobryidae) I : Diagnosis of the subgenus Setogaster, new records and redescriptions of species
- Authors: Mateos, Eduardo , Greenslade, Penelope
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Zootaxa Vol. 4044, no. 1 (2015), p. 105-129
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- Description: The taxonomic status of the subgenera of Lepidocyrtus Bourlet is confused. Currently ten subgenera are recognised but their separation, using the existing set of diagnostic characters, is not clear. Collections over the last forty years have shown that species of Setogaster Salmon, originally described as a genus (Trichogaster Handschin) and currently considered a subgenus of Lepidocyrtus, are common and widespread in Australia. The diagnostic characters of Setogaster, as given by Handschin, are: 1) the basal mucronal spine with spinelet; 2) lack of scales on antennae, legs, ventral tube and dorsal region of manubrium; and, for some species, 3) tufts of long filaments laterally on abdomen III. These three diagnostic characters for Setogaster are shared with some other subgenera, making their delimitation unclear. We provide here an array of new characters that are associated with Handschin's characters which separate Setogaster from all European species of the subgenera Lanocyrtus and Lepidocyrtus s. str. On this basis we define subgenus Setogaster more in detail, redescribe some species in the subgenus, corroborate the presence of the subgenus in many Australian localities, and confirm three records of exotic, introduced species in Australia. Lepidocyrtus nigrofasciatus Womersley, Lepidocyrtus praecisus Schott, and the Hawaiian Lepidocyrtus kuakea Christiansen & Bellinger, are placed in Setogaster subgenus; Lepidocyrtus (Trichogaster) pallida Salmon from Singapore is placed in the subgenus Acrocyrtus; Merapicyrtus Yoshii & Suhardjono is considered a synonym of Setogaster. Erratum: Towards understanding Lepidocyrtus Bourlet, 1839 (Collembola, Entomobryidae) II: New Australian species (Zootaxa (2021) 4981 (365-387) DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4981.2.9). On page 365, please include additional address for Penelope Greenslade: School of Science, Psychology and Sport, Federation University, Mt Helen, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. © 2021 Magnolia Press.
- Description: The taxonomic status of the subgenera of Lepidocyrtus Bourlet is confused. Currently ten subgenera are recognised but their separation, using the existing set of diagnostic characters, is not clear. Collections over the last forty years have shown that species of Setogaster Salmon, originally described as a genus (Trichogaster Handschin) and currently considered a subgenus of Lepidocyrtus, are common and widespread in Australia. The diagnostic characters of Setogaster, as given by Handschin, are: 1) the basal mucronal spine with spinelet; 2) lack of scales on antennae, legs, ventral tube and dorsal region of manubrium; and, for some species, 3) tufts of long filaments laterally on abdomen III. These three diagnostic characters for Setogaster are shared with some other subgenera, making their delimitation unclear. We provide here an array of new characters that are associated with Handschin's characters which separate Setogaster from all European species of the subgenera Lanocyrtus and Lepidocyrtus s. str. On this basis we define subgenus Setogaster more in detail, redescribe some species in the subgenus, corroborate the presence of the subgenus in many Australian localities, and confirm three records of exotic, introduced species in Australia. Lepidocyrtus nigrofasciatus Womersley, Lepidocyrtus praecisus Schott, and the Hawaiian Lepidocyrtus kuakea Christiansen & Bellinger, are placed in Setogaster subgenus; Lepidocyrtus (Trichogaster) pallida Salmon from Singapore is placed in the subgenus Acrocyrtus; Merapicyrtus Yoshii & Suhardjono is considered a synonym of Setogaster.
Birth weight and adult health in historical perspective: Evidence from a New Zealand cohort, 1907-1922
- Authors: Roberts, Evan , Wood, Pamela
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Social Science and Medicine Vol. 107, no. (2014), p. 154-161
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- Description: We provide new historical evidence on the developmental origins of health and disease in a cohort of boys born between 1907 and 1922 in Wellington, New Zealand. Using a dataset of 1523 birth records that include birth weight and length we find 852 (58%) of the adult cohort in World War II records measuring stature, body mass and blood pressure. On average, the boys weighed 3.5kg at birth, similar to Australian and American babies of the era, and nearly identical to full-term New Zealand babies in the 1990s. Using OLS regression models we estimate the effect of birth weight on adult stature and systolic blood pressure. We find an increase in birth weight of 1kg is associated with an increase in stature of 2.6cm (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.6cm-3.6cm), and a decrease in systolic blood pressure of 2.1mm/Hg (95% CI - 5.00 to 0.67). This is the earliest cohort by fifty years for whom the fetal origins hypothesis has been examined in early adulthood. Our estimates of the effect of birth weight on blood pressure are towards the upper end of the range of published estimates in modern cohorts. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Boards of directors in New Zealand: What do they reveal about governance?
- Authors: Wells, Philippa , Mueller, Jens
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Business and Globalisation Vol. 12, no. 3 (2014), p. 334-357
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- Description: The debate around corporate governance has been particularly vigorous in this part of the 21st century. Theoretical frameworks have been tested by spectacular corporate failures that also raise questions as to the effectiveness of different approaches. Empirical, contextually-based research into how governance theory informs practice assists in understanding these questions. This paper explores findings from empirical research conducted into the make-up of boards of directors in New Zealand, an export focused economy dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises. These findings are revealing in demonstrating that despite the challenges faced by the New Zealand industry in a volatile global environment, the skill-sets and other characteristics present in, and sought from, directors appear to be both narrow and traditional. However, there is also evidence to suggest shifting expectations and requirements are to some extent and will continue to propel change in both boards and in contributions expected of individual directors.
New records of springtails in New Zealand pasture : How well are our pastoral invertebrates known?
- Authors: Greenslade, Penelope , Boyer, Stéphane , Wratten, Steve
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 56, no. 2 (2013), p. 93-101
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- Description: Twenty-four collembolan species are recorded from improved pastures and clovers in New Zealand, of which 17 can be named to species or probable species, the others only to genus. Of the 17 named species, nine have been recorded before from New Zealand but the other eight are new records for the country. All named species are considered as introduced to New Zealand, probably originally from Europe and are unlikely to colonise native habitats. As all named species reported as new records can be abundant at times, this indicates poor knowledge of a major part of New Zealand's agricultural fauna. Collembola are a group of important microarthropod detritivores that make a significant contribution to ecosystem services. The absence so far of quantification of the contribution this and other soil groups make to ecological resilience and function is a serious problem. © 2013 The Royal Society of New Zealand.
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The Audit We Had to Have : The Economic Record, 1960-2009
- Authors: Millmow, Alex , Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Economic Record Vol. 88, no. 284 (2013), p. 112-128
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- Description: The Economic Record, one of the world's oldest economic journals, has a distinguished history. The flagship journal of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand was launched in 1925 and is approaching its 100th birthday. We undertake a forensic examination of the journal over the last 50 years, exploring issues like its content, most-cited articles and most frequent contributors. This article discusses the journal's internationalisation but also identifies how Australia's top economists have, for the most part, faithfully persisted with it. The changing nature of academic publishing is explored through the patterns of collaboration, citations and dry holes. © 2013 Economic Society of Australia.
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The Australasian-Intimate project special volume
- Authors: Barrows, Timothy , Alloway, Brent , Reeves, Jessica
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Quaternary Science Reviews Vol. 74, no. (August 2013), p. 1-3
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- Description: This special issue, produced by the members of the Australasian INTegration of Ice core, MArine and TErrestrial records (AUS-INTIMATE) group, represents the culmination of a project spanning just on ten years. INTIMATE was first established as a core programme of the INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission in 1995 at the XIVth INQUA Congress in Berlin and aimed to establish a more detailed knowledge of the nature, timing and regional-to-global extent of climatic and environmental changes associated with Termination I (the end of the last glaciation). Facilitated through a series of international workshops, the project aimed to improve precision in correlating climatic events and associated ages for Termination I (e.g. Bjorck et al., 1998; Lowe and Hoek, 2001). INTIMATE then gradually expanded its focus from the North Atlantic to other regions.
Forging imperial and Australasian identities: Australian rules football in New Zealand during the nineteenth century
- Authors: McConville, Chris , Hess, Rob
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of the History of Sport Vol. 29, no. 17 (November 2012 2012), p. 2360-2371
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- Description: The localised successes but geographic boundedness of Australian Rules football raise interesting questions about the relationship of sports to the regional character of the South-West Pacific. Although it is called Australian, the game has historically been restricted to roughly half of the population of the colonies and states, failing to capitalise on its initial flowering in Queensland and New South Wales. In the nineteenth century, it was better known by its urban (Melbourne) and colonial (Victorian) origins. Although sport historians have occasionally sought to explain the game's failure to win popular followings in northern Australia, the more intriguing question is why it failed to survive in New Zealand-the colony that had most in common with the game's birthplace in Victoria. This paper explores the diffusion of the code to New Zealand during the colonial era, and discusses the wider ramifications for its eventual loss of purchase across the Tasman Sea.
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Late Quaternary paleolimnology of Onepoto maar, Auckland, New Zealand : Implications for the drivers of regional paleoclimate
- Authors: Augustinus, Paul , Cochran, Ursula , Kattel, Giri , D'Costa, Donna , Shane, Phil
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Quaternary International Vol. 253, no. (2012), p. 18-31
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- Description: A high-resolution record of lacustrine environments spanning ca. 30-9calkaBP was obtained from Onepoto maar, northern North Island, New Zealand. The multi-proxy record of environmental change is constrained by tephrochronology and AMS 14C ages and provides evidence for episodes of rapid environmental change during the Last Glacial Coldest Period (LGCP: 28.5-18calkaBP) and Late Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) from northern New Zealand. The Onepoto pollen record indicates that the LGCP was cold, dry and windy in the Auckland region with vegetation dominated by herbs and grasses in a beech forest mosaic. At the same time the diatom record indicates oligotrophic conditions with low lakes levels and turbulence whilst cladocerans indicate low water temperatures. The inference of cold, dry and windy conditions during the LGCP is supported by geochemical evidence for increased sediment influx, charcoal and CO 2 limiting conditions for terrestrial macrophytes. Rapid climate amelioration and forest expansion after ca. 18calkaBP corresponds with reduced sediment influx, diatom and cladoceran-inferred higher lake levels indicating increasing moisture availability and temperature. Diatom flora indicates that an oligotrophic, circumneutral lake was becoming established during the LGIT but conditions were still variable. Between ca. 13.8 and 12.5calkaBP two brief drier and possibly cooler episodes are apparent (ca. 13.8-13.2 and 13-12.5calkaBP) followed by a warm phase combined with generally stable high lake levels between ca. 12.5 and 10.5calkaBP. Subsequently the lake water chemistry became more alkaline and eutrophic, possibly because sea level had risen high enough by this time to influence ground water chemistry. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA.
Is New Zealand globally warming?
- Authors: Boretti, Alberto , Watson, Thomas
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Global Warming Vol. 3, no. 3 (2011), p. 219-231
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- Description: NIWA proposes a seven-station temperature series to assess a globally warming trend. The warming trend predicted by NIWA is a result of their arbitrary corrections of measured temperatures to account for change of site. These changes are always increasing the temperatures and they magnify the effect of the heat island build-up around urban areas. The individual analysis of the raw temperature data from different measuring stations clearly shows that there is no warming globally occurring, with warming being conversely very well localised in time and space. Copyright © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Neighbourhood identities and household location choice: Estate agents' perspectives
- Authors: Levy, Deborah , Lee, Christina
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Place Management and Development Vol. 4, no. 3 (2011), p. 243-263
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- Description: Purpose – Previous research suggests that household location choice is determined by factors, such as affordability, family life cycle, distance from work and accessibility to the city centre. The purpose of this paper is to understand other psychological factors that may influence this decision, and specifically the effects of self identity and neighbourhood identity. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative methodology using an interpretive approach is adopted, seeking to understand the complex nature of reality. In-depth interviews were carried out with eight experienced real estate agents working in two affluent suburbs close to Auckland's central business district in New Zealand. Findings – Findings suggest that, subject to factors such as affordability and availability of appropriate accommodation, individual identity and suburb identity play an important role in determining neighbourhood choice. In addition to these findings, the paper proposes a conceptual model of the construction and manifestation of suburb identity incorporating both the results of the study and an understanding of the extant literature. Research limitations/implications – The study is not an attempt to generalise its results and therefore further research into neighbourhood branding and how it links to suburb choice is recommended Social implications – The study also adds a further behavioural dimension to the understanding of a collective interpretation of cities. Since part of the unique character of a city is reflected through its residents, planners need to understand what attracts different types of people to a city. Originality/value – Whilst preliminary, the implications of this study emphasise the importance for valuers and real estate agents of understanding the type of people who are attracted to particular neighbourhoods, how these individuals perceive themselves and why they are attracted to specific locations. © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Poverty, philanthropy, and professionalism: the establishment of a district nursing service in Wellington, New Zealand, 1903
- Authors: Wood, Pamela , Arcus, Kerri
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Health and History Vol. 13, no. 1 (2011), p. 44-64
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- Description: The establishment in 1903 of a professional district nursing service in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, was a philanthropic response to the need for skilled care for the sickpoor in their own homes, as hospital and charitable aid boards believed chronic patients drained their resources. This paper argues that it was the timely combination of the individual philanthropy of Sarah Ann Rhodes, the organisational philanthropy of the St John Ambulance Association and the new professional standing and availability of registered nurses such as Annie Holgate that ensured its successful foundation. It also argues that district nursing services blurred spatial, social, and public-private boundaries in new ways. Finally, it considers the district nurse's role as the philanthropist 's proxy, the means for realising the philanthropist's desire to help the sick poor.