AUT Research Institutes and Centres
AUT's research institutes bring focus to research activity. The objectives are to:
- Ensure that resources are concentrated in areas where AUT has capability
- Be the key concentration of research activity
- Provide an education, mentoring and training role for postgraduate students
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Online Information for Visitors About the Accessibility of Museums in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Research attests to the reality that people with disabilities are not provided for, or offered the same opportunities as those without disabilities; nor are they seen as a valued market segment of the tourism sector. ... -
Connecting Through Family Tourism and Social Inclusion During COVID-19 Times
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Fun Time, Finite Time: Temporal and Emotional Dimensions of Grandtravel Experiences
(Elsevier Masson, 2019)Grandtravel, a growing but under-researched aspect of family tourism, appears to be a rich site for exploring temporal and emotional dimensions of tourism. This interpretive study draws on interviews with grandparents and ... -
The Role of Children in Tourism and Hospitality Family Entrepreneurship
(MDPI AG, 2021)This paper reports on a systematic scoping review of peer-reviewed academic literature in the areas of tourism and hospitality family entrepreneurship. Specifically, it explored how and to what extent existing literature ... -
Investigating Cuisine Experiences in the Maldives: A Novel Research Method Utilising Tasting Buffets
(Ingenta, 2021)Food as a tourist activity offers the rare prospect of fulfilling all five senses, especially taste, and heightening experiences. For food studies in tourism, taking part in the act of eating and drinking as part of the ... -
Co-Designing a Medication Notification Application with Multi-Channel Reminders
(Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2021)Evidence suggests that medication adherence applications (apps) are one of the most effective methods to remind patients to take medication on time. Reminders via apps are overwhelming today, consumers discard using them ... -
Insights of Medication Adherence Management: A Qualitative Study with Healthcare Professionals and Technology Designers
(Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2020)Poor Medication Adherence (MA) remains a major challenge to ensuring good patient health. This qualitative study examines health professionals’ and health technology designers’ insights for improving this problem using ... -
Stakeholders’ Perceptions of the Future of Accessible Beach Tourism in New Zealand: A Case Study of Mount Maunganui and Pāpāmoa
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This research intends to contribute an understanding of a significant type of tourism for New Zealand for a segment of the population that is consistently underserved; that is, access to beaches for tourists with disabilities. ... -
Enhancing Immersiveness in Paramedicine Education XR Simulation Design
(Centre for Learning and Teaching (CfLAT), AUT University, 2021)The Multiple Environments Simulation Hub (MESH360) research cluster was established in 2016 to explore ways of making critical care simulation environments more authentic learning experiences for students (Cochrane et al., ... -
Developing Culturally Responsive Practice Using Mixed Reality (XR) Simulation in Paramedicine Education
(Centre for Learning and Teaching (CfLAT), AUT University, 2021)The department of Paramedicine at Auckland University of Technology is committed to establishing informed evidence and strategies representative of all ethnicities. The MESH360 team propose that immersive mixed reality ... -
The ‘MeBox’ Method and the Emotional Effects of Chronic Illness on Travel
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Within tourism studies, there has been a gap in attempting to understand chronic illness within the context of travel. Researchers examining affective tourism have noted that much of everyday life endeavours to create order ... -
When Words Become Difficult: A Critical Reflection of the ‘MeBox’ Method in Understanding Senior Travellers’ Responses to Loss
(Edward Elgar Publications, 2021)Multiple dimensions of our experiences such as visual, embodied and sensory experiences cannot always be easily expressed in words. Traditional qualitative methods may struggle to access these deep-rooted complex and ... -
Stakeholder Perspectives of a Future of Accessible Tourism in New Zealand
(Emerald, 2015)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to put forward the argument that New Zealand’s tourism industry generally fails to acknowledge the importance of the access market. Despite anecdotal evidence of the market’s value and ... -
Hospitality Training As a Means of Independence for Young Adults With Learning Disabilities
(School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Employment is a core plank of independent living for people with disabilities and a key part of their identity and self-esteem. Nevertheless, it is widely recorded that people with disabilities have lower employment rates ... -
How Hospitable Is Aotearoa New Zealand to Refugees?
(School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Following the tragic events of the Christchurch shooting on 15th March 2019, New Zealanders projected a national image of hospitality towards Muslim New Zealanders, involving an Islamic call to prayer in Parliament, and ... -
Bridging Hospitality Education and Community
(School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The hospitality industry is not immune from the social issues facing our society. There are cases of hospitality initiatives for social change, including philanthropy and social enterprise [1]. In our academic work, the ... -
Extending Hospitality to Customers With Epilepsy
(School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2020)According to the World Health Organization,1 around 50 million people worldwide live with the invisible disability epilepsy. Research has found that the neurological condition is generally shown to reduce an individual’s ... -
Online Communications of Accessibility in Hotel Restaurants
(School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Previous attention to examining how well hotels cater to the access needs of customers with disabilities has predominantly focused on problematic hotel infrastructure, bathroom facilities, service failures and a lack of ... -
Co-creating Knowledge in Tourism Research Using the Ketso Method
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)Tourism scholars have called for critical engagement with transformational co-creative methodologies. Within this call, there is a need for researchers to be positioned as facilitators and co-creators; rather than lone ... -
Refugee-focused Service Providers: Improving the Welcome in New Zealand
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)When refugees are resettled into a destination, refugee-focused service providers offer frontline services to ease refugees’ experiences of trauma and marginalisation, providing advocacy and welcome through reception ...