Periods as powerful data: User understandings of menstrual app data and information

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110402
Author(s):  
Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Data User ◽  
Menstrual Health ◽  
Using Data

Digital apps for tracking menstruation are widely used. Taking a critical menstruation and critical digital health approach, this research asks how menstrual app users perceive their data. Interviews with 25 menstrual app users across Aotearoa New Zealand, were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Some participants only track their period, while others track additional symptoms. They appreciated having a choice of data to track, entering extensive amounts of data. Most participants had not given much thought to their data, viewing it as uninteresting and unproblematic. A small group were concerned by the data risks and managed this in several ways. Participants across both groups supported using data for menstrual health research. This research demonstrates a need for digital literacy and for limits on the use of menstruation information, where menstruators themselves are controlling and benefitting from their data.

scholarly journals Promoting positive interactions between midwives and obstetricians at the primary/secondary interface

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Rachel Cassie ◽  
Christine Griffiths ◽  
George Parker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Maternity Care ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Positive Interactions ◽  
Health Board ◽  
District Health ◽  
Interprofessional Communication ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

Background: Interprofessional communication is a critical component of safe maternity care. The literature reports circumstances in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas when interprofessional collaboration works well between midwives and obstetricians, as well as descriptions of unsatisfactory communication between the two professions. Aim: To explore and define effective collaboration between midwives and obstetricians at the primary/secondary interface in maternity care, in order to generate suggestions to foster positive collaboration. Method: Eight primary care midwives, three obstetricians and two obstetric registrars from a single District Health Board in Aotearoa New Zealand were interviewed about their interactions at the primary/secondary interface and their understanding, and use, of the Referral Guidelines. The theoretical perspective was Appreciative Inquiry. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings: Results indicate usually positive interprofessional interactions. Dominant emergent themes are the need to negotiate differing philosophies, to clarify blurred boundaries that sometimes lead to lack of clear lines of responsibility, and the importance of three-way conversations. Of the three themes, this article focuses on three-way communication between midwife, obstetrician/registrar and woman. Participants reported that, when effective three-way communication between woman, midwife and obstetrician occurred, philosophical difference could be negotiated, blurred boundaries clarified and understanding of the respective roles of the LMC midwife and the obstetric team promoted. Participants value the Referral Guidelines but report some limitations to their applicability. Conclusion: Effective three-way communication promotes good maternity care. This study has identified ways to support optimal communication.

scholarly journals The New Zealand Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD): A new suite of indicators for social and health research in Aotearoa, New Zealand

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. e0181260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel John Exeter ◽  
Jinfeng Zhao ◽  
Sue Crengle ◽  
Arier Lee ◽  
Michael Browne
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Multiple Deprivation ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Indices Of Multiple Deprivation

scholarly journals Reconstructing dancer identities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Cosgrave
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Practice Performance ◽  
The Way

The Coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to reshape many lives socially, politically, and economically. Choreographic practice, performance, and those involved in dance are also affected in different ways. This article investigates the research question: How might the event of Covid-19 prompt the transformation of freelance dancers’ identities? Through a qualitative narrative inquiry, three freelance contemporary dancers from Aotearoa/New Zealand were interviewed. From a thematic analysis of the data, the theme of alienation and adaptability were drawn out. This research reveals that the event of Covid-19 has caused freelance dancers to question their identity and precarity within their communities and shifted their position to advance a sense of security. The stories shared by the dancers revealed that industry practices and conditions for freelance contemporary dancers in Aotearoa/New Zealand need redevelopment for greater sustainability, relevance and inclusion, which could pave the way for industry changes to occur post-covid-19.  

Friends tell it like it is: Therapy culture, postfeminism and friendships between women

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110575
Author(s):  
Maree Martinussen ◽  
Margaret Wetherell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Creative Identity ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Using Data

Feminist cultural studies researchers have produced a rich body of work showing how postfeminism and therapy cultures pervade a range of media. However, receiving less attention are questions of exactly how the neoliberal technologies of self implicated in these two cultural persuasions ‘land’, and are practised in everyday life. In this article, we forward an identity practice approach to understand the interrelated cultures of therapy and postfeminism using data from a qualitative investigation of women’s friendships in Aotearoa New Zealand. We are interested in how the cultural resources concerning postfeminism and the ‘psy complex’ are used flexibly within friendship interactions in concert with other identities, such as national identities and caring identities. Overall, aligning with previous feminist analyses of media artefacts, we find that as postfeminist and therapeutic subjectivity-making entwine with the moral orders of women’s friendships, women carry out their self-surveillance and self-transformation work collaboratively. Yet, remaining attentive to how women tailor cultural resources in their creative identity work leads us to a more hopeful reading. We suggest that the confidence gained by women through their therapised friendships should also be acknowledged for its nourishing qualities.

scholarly journals Māori social workers’ experiences of care and protection: A selection of findings

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paora Moyle
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
World Views ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Family Group Conferencing ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Selection Of

This article explores the challenges faced by seven Māori social workers who are also members of Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) working within the child protection system in Aotearoa. Their views on what has improved for Māori whānau around recent legislation changes to family group conferencing (FGC) and newer policy initiatives such as Whānau Ora are examined. The study used a Māori-centred research approach and a thematic analysis of participants’ accounts was undertaken. From this analysis it was found that: (a) the participants walked creatively between two world views in order to best meet the needs of their own people; (b) these Māori practitioners felt over-worked and under-valued; and (c) the participants viewed the practices within FGCs as biased, demonstrating a lack of bicultural ability and contributing to significant barriers that whānau Māori experience in care and protection.

scholarly journals Negotiating the hairless ideal in Āotearoa/New Zealand: Choice, awareness, complicity, and resistance in younger women's accounts of body hair removal

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Terry ◽  
Virginia Braun ◽  
Shanuki Jayamaha ◽  
Helen Madden
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Hair Removal ◽  
Body Hair ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Choice Awareness

Hair removal amongst Western women is ubiquitous, and research continues to highlight the ongoing conformity of almost all women with hair removal practices. Often women are presented as either cultural dupes, following the expectations of the Western hairless ideal without question, or highly engaged participants in the rigours of aesthetic labour, using it for their own agentic purposes. This paper seeks to explore the various ways that younger women (18–35) made sense of their own and others’ hair removal practices. We report on a thematic analysis of data generated from an online (mostly) qualitative survey with 299 female-identified respondents. Four themes were constructed: (1) women should do what they want with their body hair, (2) removing hair is socially shaped, (3) begrudging complicity, and (4) resistance to hair removal norms takes a particular kind of woman. We discuss the ways in which women described their practices and thinking where they seemed simultaneously complicit with and resistant to idealised notions of feminine embodiment.

Educating Gen Z in a digital world

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Valintine
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Thought Leader ◽  
Hall Of Fame ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Contemporary Practice

Keynote Address for ANZEA Conference, 16–19 July 2018, Waipuna Lodge, Auckland Frances Valintine is a “Futurist” thought-leader in emerging and disruptive technologies and has 20 years’ experience across business, technology, and education. In 2013, Frances founded The Mind Lab, a unique collaboration between a public education provider and a specialist education lab dedicated to digital literacy capability and contemporary practice in the teaching profession. In 2016, she launched Tech Futures Lab to navigate the new world of technology-enabled businesses. In 2018, Frances was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of her lifetime of contribution to education and technology. She has won a number of awards, including the New Zealand Flying Kiwi Award, a Sir Peter Blake Leader Award, the Westpac New Zealand Woman of Influence (Innovation), and the NEXT New Zealand Woman of the Year (Education). She has also been inducted into the New Zealand Hi-Tech Hall of Fame. Frances was invited to keynote at the ANZEA Conference to share her insights on future prospects for Aotearoa New Zealand. She spoke about the need for our education system to be responsive to young people who have grown up as digital natives surrounded by technologies that open the world up to them. Conference participants shared that it was riveting to contemplate the responsiveness of evaluation to a data-rich and digitally defined world that young people took for granted.

Honoring the Treaty: School Leaders’ Embrace of Indigenous Concepts to Practice Culturally Sustaining Leadership in Aotearoa**Aotearoa is the Indigenous name for New Zealand.

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 588-603
Author(s):  
Jessica T. Shiller
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Field School ◽  
Using Data ◽  
School Leadership Practices

As a field, school leadership has maintained a colorblind stance, marginalizing practitioners’ awareness of culturally sustaining practice, and erasing the experiences of Indigenous and other minoritized groups of students, teachers, and families. Looking to research and practice that attempts to embrace racial and cultural difference in order to make schools more culturally sustaining places to be is imperative in order for the field to respond to the growing diversity in schools. This article specifically explores culturally sustaining and Indigenous school leadership practices. Using data collected from interviews with ten school leaders in Aotearoa (New Zealand) as well as school documents, this article presents new insights into the implementation of culturally sustaining school leadership, which has implications for theory and practice in the field of educational leadership, which has been too long dominated by white ways of knowing.

scholarly journals Community resilience demonstrated through a Te Ao Māori (Ngāti Manawa) lens: The Rāhui

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila-Dawn Ngaroimata Kauri Rewi ◽  
Jeanette Louise Hastie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Conservation Measure ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Public Health Planning ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Negative Impacts

INTRODUCTION: This research project is associated with a small rural community utilising the Te Ao Māori (Ngāti Manawa) understanding of Rāhui, as a means of decreasing the possibility of negative impacts for their mostly Māori population, during the Covid-19 pandemic that was experienced in March 2020 in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rāhui is a conservation measure shrouded in tapu designed to limit, restrict or prevent access to the natural environment. For example, Te Wao Tapu nui a Tāne protecting in the process the mauri of our rivers, lakes, streams following a mishap or misfortune such as a drowning. Equally as important, Rāhui was used as a proactive means of conservation.METHOD: Using mixed methods, this study highlights both positive and challenging experiences in the statistical and thematic analysis that may inform future public health planning for the inevitable and ongoing effects of pandemic responses in Aotearoa New Zealand which are potentially transportable beyond Aotearoa New Zealand.IMPLICATIONS: This research identified how Nga ̄ti Manawa of Murupara, utilised Rāhui as a mechanism of resilience in order to keep local residents thriving and healthy during and after the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown by setting up checkpoints on the borders of their rohe, and restricting the vehicle and human traffic into Murupara. Support for the Rāhui was significant from five hapū leaders and from the community survey illuminating a sense of safety that the checkpoints offered to a vulnerable and mostly Māori rural community.

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