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.
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Validation of the Chinese Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index (C-MFPDI) Among Patients With Inflammatory Arthritis
(BioMed Central, 2019)Background The Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index (MFPDI) is a patient-reported outcome tool used to measure foot pain and foot-related disability. The English version of the MFPDI has been successfully translated ... -
Climate Finance Landscape for Aotearoa New Zealand: A Preliminary Survey
(Mōhio and Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This report, prepared by consultancy Mōhio, examines climate finance in New Zealand. It includes a snapshot of key existing climate finance flows and a look at the instruments available to the Government and private sector ... -
The Christchurch Principles
(The Helen Clark Foundation and Auckland University of Technology, 2019)November 2019: We believe that the public sphere should be a place of equal participation. As the internet, and social media especially, becomes an increasingly influential public space, these digital media have greater ... -
Development and Validation of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale for Youth Across Six Continents
(BioMed Central, 2019)Background: The IPEN International Physical Activity and Environment Network Adolescent project was conducted using common study protocols to document the strength, shape, and generalizability of associations of perceived ... -
The Interwoven World Te Ao I Whiria: Towards an Integrated Landscape Approach in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The Policy Observatory, AUT, 2018)In this discussion paper, The Policy Observatory’s Dr David Hall explores the ways that New Zealanders think about the landscape, and how these ideas influence actual decisions about land use. To put New Zealand on the ... -
New Zealand’s Living Standards Framework: What Might Amartya Sen Say?
Amartya Sen’s capability approach is a guiding light for international efforts to improve the measurement of national well-being. This article compares Sen’s nuanced philosophical ideal with the New Zealand Treasury’s ... -
A State of Licence: The Social Licence to Operate as an Opportunity for the Forestry Sector
(New Zealand Institute of Forestry, 2019)This paper discusses the paradox of social licence faced by the forestry sector today. It explores how the idea of the social licence of operate (SLO) relates to the tradition of social contract theory. This philosophical ... -
Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-analog Environment
(Frontiers Media, 2019)Sediments in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert are a terrestrial analog to Mars regolith. Understanding the distribution and drivers of microbial life in the sediment may give critical clues on how to search for ... -
Ko Wai Ko Au Ko Au Ko Wai – I Am Water, Water Is Me
(LIBRUM Publishers & Editors LLC, 2019)Kaupapa Moana, Kaupapa Wai Maori, Kaupapa Awa Ocean, fresh water and rivers Water is both life-giving and life-destroying. Today, the purity of all water sources are threatened or impacted upon by a range of factors. Both ... -
School-based Physical Activity Intervention for Older Adolescents: Rationale and Study Protocol for the Burn 2 Learn Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
(BMJ, 2019)Introduction This trial aims to investigate the impact of a school-based physical activity programme, involving high-intensity interval training (HIIT), on the physical, mental and cognitive health of senior school ... -
Time Course Changes in Confirmed ‘true’ VO₂max After Individualized and Standardized Training
(Thieme, 2019)This study sought to examine time course changes in maximal oxygen consumption (VO₂max) confirmed with verification testing following 12 weeks of standardized vs. individualized exercise training. Participants (N=39) were ... -
Leptin: A Pleitropic Factor in Physiology
Leptin, a 16 kDa protein and a product of the ob/ob gene, has a tertiary structure similar to that of a cytokine. It is primarily secreted by white adipose tissue and its levels in the blood correlate positively with ... -
Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours (KAB) Surveys on Concussion in Sports: Parents 2018 Survey Report #2 to Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)
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Do Gender Diversity Recommendations in Corporate Governance Codes Matter? Evidence from Audit Committees
Motivated by two opposing views, the limited supply view and the discrimination view, we examine the impact of gender diversity guidelines on the strength of the association between the presence of female audit committee ... -
Investigation of Dynamic Incentive of Supply Chain Under Information Asymmetry for Screening
(Hindawi Limited, 2019)More and more high-end brand companies are exploring new markets by extending low-end product lines. When selecting agents in new markets, a principal often faces the problem of identifying the promotional ability of agents. ... -
Teaching (with) Empathy and Creativity in Design
(Design Research Society (DRS), 2019)Empathy and creativity are desirable core design competencies. The relationship between these concepts, however, has remained largely unexplored. This work unfolds the creases between empathy and creativity, ... -
Sanjha Punjab – United Punjab: Exploring Composite Culture in a New Zealand Punjabi Film Documentary
This paper examines the third author’s positionality as the researcher and storyteller of a PhD documentary film that will be shot in New Zealand, Pakistan, and North India. Adapting insights from writings on Punjab’s ... -
Qualities of Design Briefs for Studio Learning
(Design Research Society (DRS), 2019)The design brief is considered a pivotal component in studio-based learning, yet there is a paucity of studies on the student brief genre in design education research. This work seeks to contribute by examining brief ... -
Agility Practices for Software Development: An Investigation of Agile Organization Concepts
(Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2019)In the context of agile software development in New Zealand and Australia, this paper examines the organizational agility related practices with agile software development. The paper looks at ...