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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Seekers and Magic: the search for spirituality in the Rainbow Temple. NSW, Australia
The Rainbow Temple in NSW, Australia is a spectacular site in a sense that a complex array of cultural and religious behaviours occur. Based on ethnography and fieldwork in the…continue reading
Posted on 28 November 2013 |
Spirituality, Culture and Place: The Rainbow Temple in NSW, Australia
This Research is about the Rainbow Temple in Byron Shire, NSW, Australia. The diverse belief systems and the symbolic behaviours practiced and described by people who live at the Rainbow…continue reading
Posted on 27 November 2013 |
Understanding and accelerating community-led development in Aotearoa New Zealand.
This document is the final accountability report for a Lottery Community Sector Research Fund grant for Inspiring Communities to contribute to “understanding and accelerating community-led development in Aotearoa/New Zealand”. This…continue reading
Posted on 18 November 2013 |
Grassroots Community Preparedness Plans Resource
This resource is not a summary of research but has been created as a result of academic research into grassroots responses to disasters. In this resource I pull together several…continue reading
Posted on 11 November 2013 |
Ongoing resilience from the ground up research report
This report summarises the Masters thesis of the same title (also found in this directory). I briefly discuss methodology and background to the case study of Project Lyttelton before explaining…continue reading
Posted on 11 November 2013 |
Ongoing resilience from the ground up: A relational place based approach to grassroots community resilience
When the devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, at 12.51pm on 22nd February 2011, the psychological and physical landscape was irrevocably changed. In the days and weeks…continue reading
Posted on 11 November 2013 |
Canterbury NGO Workforce Survey
Although a small sample size of only 15 respondents, this Canterbury survey into the health sector workforce needs of non-profit organisations provides some of the only available information on the…continue reading
Posted on 14 October 2013 |
Kaiti Neighbourhood Survey (2010)
This report shares results of a survey of community needs in Kaiti, Gisbourne. The survey was conducted in 2010. The results from the surveys have been collected, entered and analyzed…continue reading
Posted on 1 October 2013 |
Kaiti Community Cohesion Project Report
The suburb of Kaiti in Gisborne is characterized by established families with a strong affinity to their community and a desire to challenge the negative reputation of Kaiti by making…continue reading
Posted on 1 October 2013 |
Gisborne Voter Participation Project: Evaluation report
Ka Pai Kaiti facilitated a project to increase voter turnout and participation in the local council and district health board elections in Gisborne 2010. The purpose of research project was…continue reading
Posted on 1 October 2013 |
Window on Waikato Poverty (Issue 5): Imbalances and Inequalities
Growing inequalities are leading to imbalances in the way people are able to live well and care for each other and the environment. I this issue we report on the…continue reading
Posted on 30 September 2013 |
Talk about poverty: Reporting back and moving forward
Poverty is experienced in many different ways and certainly involves much more than a lack of money or even economic power. This report brings together stories of the ways in…continue reading
Posted on 30 September 2013 |