2022 ALPSSGRAD Postgraduate Conference
(November 9th and 10th, 2022)

Many thanks to those who helped chair, judge and present during the ALPSS Postgraduate Conference, as well as organise the event! It was wonderful to all come together in person again after the Covid lockdowns and to rekindle our joint excitement for the innovative and inspiring research that our graduate students are involved in.

Rangahau Māori prize

Winner

• Michael W Taiapa:  An introduction to a semantic description of the Māori language

Special commendation

• David Trye:  Language identification for Mixed Māori-English Tweets

Day 1

Best paper

• Saikrishna Srinivasan:  Virtual 360-degree Dramatic Theatre: A New Branch in Experimental Theatre

Runner up

• Joint runners up:
  • Kristyn Rayner:  Impacts on Cyberstalking Victims’ Coping Strategies
  • Jess Leov:  A Light in the Dark; An Investigation into Fetal Visual Perception

Day 2

Best paper

• Youjeong Jang:  South Korea’s number one intercultural city? Exploring the gap between policy rhetoric and lived reality

Runner up

• Bridget O'Keefe:  Understanding Child-to-parent Violence

Special commendation

• Anthea Visage:  When worlds & experiences of child abuse collide: Safely embracing my ‘survivor-researcher’ positionality

Te Wānanga o Ngā Kete held its annual Postgraduate Conference on November 10th - 11th, on Zoom. As well as locals, we had presenters from NYU, the University of Canterbury and AUT, and students currently overseas who presented from Pakistan and Japan. 33 students presented, with a variety of topics covered.

Rangahau Māori prize

This prize was shared between:

• Sam Iti Prendergast (NYU): Possession, Containment, Deportation: Settler Colonialism and the S 501 Deportations
• Edmond Carrucan (Te Piringa):  Ko Tikanga Te Mātāmua: ngā purākau me ngā pakiwaitara, me mihi, ka tika

Moananuiākea prize

• Mere Taito (FMIS): Feathered, not gold nor foiled: Extracting a ‘waywriting’ stance for Rotuman heritage language returning in Nālani

Day 1

Best paper

• Jessie Burnette (English/Linguistics): Thinking about the ‘bubble’ of #lockdownnz: The language of containment in #Covid19nz tweets

Highly commended

• Katya Krylova (University of Canterbury): Pets of Precarity: On User-centered Design of Companion Animals

People's Choice award

• Katjo Buissink (Sociology): Restaurant Employees’ Experiences of Workplace Informal Collective Action

Day 2

Best paper

• Mere Taito (FMIS): Feathered, not gold nor foiled: Extracting a ‘waywriting’ stance for Rotuman heritage language returning in Nālani

Highly  commended

• Edmond Carrucan (Te Piringa):  Ko Tikanga Te Mātāmua: ngā purākau me ngā pakiwaitara, me mihi, ka tika

People's Choice award

• David Simes (English):  What a Queer Medium: Adapting Fun Home for the stage.

The judges also made Honourable Mention of:

• Annelore Spieker (Screen and Media Studies):  Perceptions of ethnicities in global animated films by the eyes of the children
• Brent Commerer (Politics): How to Measure Gerrymandering Law Reform in US States
• David Simes (English):  What a Queer Medium: Adapting Fun Home for the stage
• Sam Iti Prendergast (NYU): Possession, Containment, Deportation: Settler Colonialism and the S 501 Deportations

2019 ALPSSGRAD Conference
(November 7th and 8th, 2019)

Day 1

Best paper

• Ann Afadama - Why Nigeria sought military support from its neighbours in the war against Boko Haram
• Brent Commerer - See How She Runs: How and Why US Presidential Primaries Have Changed

Day 2

Best paper

• Juliana Brown - Mixed Methods Research: When Your Participants and Your P-Values Meet
• Margaret Crawford - Scent Detection dogs' acqusition of the lung cancer concept

Winner of the Rangahau Māori award

• Taniwha Williams - "Why does my whanau not speak te reo Maori?"

2018 FASSGRAD Conference
(November 8th and 9th, 2018)

To download the conference program and abstracts click here.

Day 1

Best paper 

Highly commended paper  

Joint Highly Commended Paper 

FASSGRAD 2017

Awards for Best Paper were made to:

• Chelsa Bowden – Transgendering Binairies: Gender, Expression and Intentity in Laurie Frankel's This is How it Always Was
• Kimberley Jackson – "The Milk of Human Kindness?" The Birth and Re-Birth of Free School Milk In New Zealand

Awards for Highly Commended papers were made to:

• Fiona Wells-Lakeland – What Word is Witch?
• Juliana Brown – Negotiating Sex in a University Residential Setting

FASSGRAD 2016

Awards for Best Paper were made to:

• Cheri Ang – Using the Violin to Support Elderly People in a Residential Setting
• Alex Lodge – Intersectional Feminism and Creative Practice in Contemporary Aotearoa Theatre

Awards for Highly Commended papers were made to:

• Fiona Wells-Lakeland – What Word is Witch?
• Juliana Brown – Negotiating Sex in a University Residential Setting

FASSGRAD 2015

Awards for Best Paper were made to:

• Mark Bond – This is Not an Exit: Hypermasculinity and Transgression in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991)
• Teresa Marie Connors – What is Here? A Descriptive Account of Ecological Performativity: A Creative-Research Practice

Awards for Highly Commended papers were made to:

• Lisa Melville – Lesbians Making Babies: The Matter of Sperm
• Sunita Basnet – Home and Home-making Practices: Former Bhutanese Refugee Women and Girls in New Zealand
• Suzanna Ellington – To Doubt or Not to Doubt: The Hinges on which Fictions Turn

FASSGRAD 2014

Awards for Best Paper were made to:

• Daryl MacDonald –  Number in Oceanic Languages is More than Singular or Plural
  Sangion Appiee – Kinship, Equity and Social Inclusion in Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Papua New Guinea

Honourable Mention Awards were made to:

• Joel Gordon – Solving Hades' Identity Crisis: Antiquity and Modern Mass Culture Working Together.
  Emma Nelson – Darwinian Evolution in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds

FASSGRAD 2013

Awards for Best Paper were made to:

• Jade Aikman Dodd – Tuia te here tangata! Fastening the Threads of Marae Communities
  Nick Braae – Every Analysis Tells a Story: The Case of New Zealand Popular Music