Faculties
The research activities within each of AUT’s five faculties are overseen by an Associate Dean of Research who works closely with the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise. We encourage you to explore the broad suite of research activities from each faculties. Full text digital files are available open access for all items.
Items in these collections are protected by the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand). These works may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use:
- Any use you make of these works must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person.
- Authors control the copyright of their works. You will recognise the author’s right to be identified as the author of the work, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate.
- You will obtain the author’s permission before publishing any material from the work.
Sub-communities within Faculties
Recently Added
-
Therapeutic Relationships in Aphasia Rehabilitation: Using Sociological Theories to Promote Critical Reflexivity
(Wiley, 2020)Background Therapeutic relationships are fundamental in aphasia rehabilitation, influencing patient experience and outcomes. While we have good understandings of the components of therapeutic relationships, there has been ... -
Attitudes Towards Science Among Senior Secondary Students in Fiji
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2020)In order to investigate gender and ethnicity-based differences in scientific attitudes among Fijian students, the widely studied Test of Scientific Related Attitudes (TOSRA) was administered to 1401 senior secondary Fijian ... -
Conceptual Images in Advertising: Premises of the Advertising Image Powered by Technology and Interactivity
(Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, 2020)With the increasing advance of information technologies, speed, confidence and precision in the transmission and reception of messages have become a constant in people's lives, mainly due to the powerful communication ... -
Undergraduate Student Course Engagement of an Ethnically Diverse Population in Auckland, New Zealand
Increasing student engagement leads to improved educational outcomes, promotes positive student experiences, and reduces attrition rates. In Aotearoa (New Zealand), Māori students now account for 20% of university enrolments, ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Puzzle-based Learning on Creativity, Engagement and Intuition of STEM Tertiary Students
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2020)CONTEXT In recent years, some universities in Australia, Europe and the USA, have introduced formal academic courses or seminars for their first-year STEM students based on a Puzzle-Based Learning (PzBL) pedagogical ... -
An Interactive Multi-agent System for Game Design
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)This paper presents a novel approach to procedural generation of game maps for multi-player, competitive video games. A multi-agent evolutionary system is employed to place streets, buildings and other items, resulting in ... -
Bidirectional Causal Control in the Dynamics of Handstand Balance
(Nature Publishing Group, 2020)The aim of this study was to identify motor control solutions associated with the ability to maintain handstand balance. Using a novel approach, we investigated the dynamical interactions between centre of pressure (CoP) ... -
Confabulations: Estranged Memories and the Unfolding Home
(enigma: he aupiki charitable trust, 2020)Confabulation denotes a memory disorder in which lapses in memory are reconstituted through falsely recalled experiences. In turn, this research considers the effects of confabulation, estrangement, and deceit on domestic ... -
Designing Slow Cities for More than Human Enrichment: Dog Tales—Using Narrative Methods to Understand Co-Performative Place-Making
Designing for slow cities and the need to design for future urban environments that include the more than human is a major priority for our times. This position paper problematizes the nature–culture divide in research ... -
Pharmacist-led Counselling Intervention to Improve Antiretroviral Drug Adherence in Pakistan: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(BioMed Central, 2020)BACKGROUND: Pakistan is facing a growing population of people living with human immunodeficiency (HIV). In this randomized controlled trial, we investigate if a pharmacist-led intervention can increase adherence to ... -
Management of Patients With Early Stage Lung Cancer - Why Do Some Patients Not Receive Treatment With Curative Intent?
(BioMed Central, 2020)BACKGROUNDS: This study aims to understand the factors that influence whether patients receive potentially curative treatment for early stage lung cancer. A key question was whether indigenous Māori patients were less ... -
A Framework for Re Thinking the Pedagogy of Studio-based Design Classrooms
This paper explores the application of a design-based research (DBR) methodology to inform the re-design of pedagogical strategies for studio-based classrooms within undergraduate higher education programmes. The goal is ... -
Indigenous Perspectives on Breaking Bad News: Ethical Considerations for Healthcare Providers
Most healthcare providers (HCPs) work from ethical principles based on a Western model of practice that may not adhere to the cultural values intrinsic to Indigenous peoples. Breaking bad news (BBN) is an important topic ... -
Preschoolers' and Adults' Animism Tendencies Toward a Humanoid Robot
(Elsevier, 2021)This study examined whether three- and five-year-old children and adults changed their perceptions of a robot after a naturalistic interaction with it. We examined whether participants exhibited animism errors (i.e., ... -
In-Bag Dry- vs. Wet-Aged Lamb: Quality, Consumer Acceptability, Oxidative Stability and In Vitro Digestibility
(2020)The aim of this study was to produce in-bag dry-aged lamb and compare its meat quality, consumer acceptability, oxidative stability and in vitro digestibility to the wet-aged equivalents. Significantly higher pH, weight ... -
Interpretability of Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Brain Processes Followed by Mindfulness Intervention in a Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Network Architecture
Mindfulness training is associated with improvements in psychological wellbeing and cognition, yet the specific underlying neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning these changes are uncertain. This study uses a novel ... -
Flight, Climate Change, and Dangerous Times for Art and Pedagogy
(Brill, 2020)In his last book Chaosmosis, Felix Guattari (1995, p. 129) argues that both “intellectuals and artists have got nothing to teach anyone,” and that they produce “toolkits composed of concepts, percepts and affects, which ... -
Lived Spirituality: Exploring the Richness of Inner Work
(2020)This article investigates and documents inner processes which underlie and support my professional life – a livingeduational- theory based on what I term 'lived spirituality'. Influenced strongly by the work of Rudolf ... -
Stabilising Collaborative Consumer Networks: How Technological Mediation Shapes Relational Work
(Emerald, 2020)Purpose This paper aims to examine the role of technology in shaping the interplay between intimate and economic relations in collaborative consumer networks (CCNs). Design/methodology/approach This research is based ...