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
2021 ALPSSGRAD Graduate and Postgraduate Conference
(November 10th and 11th, 2021)
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
2020 ALPSSGRAD Postgraduate Digital Conference
(November 4th and 5th, 2020)
Many thanks to those who helped with the ALPSS Postgraduate Conference. The standard of presentations was very high, and it was a good opportunity for the presenters to practice communicating their research in a supportive virtual environment, and for the rest of us to find out about the wide range of postgraduate research that is going on in Te Wānanga o Ngā Kete and elsewhere.
Day 1
Best paper
- Claire Lacey (English/Anatomy, Otago) - Concussion episodes: representing brain injury through poetry
Runners up
- Ben Young (Philosophy, Waikato) - What is the past?
- Melody May (English, Waikato) - Representations of women's bodies in chronic invisible pain
People's choice awards
- Claire Lacey
Day 2
Best paper
- Sandra des Forges (Geography, Waikato) - Turangawaewae or tokenism?
- Amanda Lowry (Te Huatahi - School of Health, Waikato) - Who cares? The lived and embodied experiences of highly impaired, high-performance para-sport athletes
Honourable mention
- Heather Tribe (Peace and Conflict Studies, Otago) - Covid-19 and gender-based violence in the Waitakere area: an intersectional, feminist political ecology approach to a systems-based synthesis
People's choice awards
- Amanda Lowry
- Peyton Bond (Gender Studies, Otago) - Indoor sex work in Aotearoa: What impacts the workplace?
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.
Joint winners of the Rangahau Māori award
- Kelly Klink, Breaking the Barrier: Māori spiritual and religious entanglements at Aotea
- Moana Rarere, Exploring the cultural influences on Māori family formation and fertility trends
Day 1
Best paper
- Renee Boyer, Storytelling and the importance of looking out the window
Highly commended paper
- Xi Wang, The use of social media by NZ and Chinese environmental and conservative non-profit organisations and the perspectives of their audiences
Day 2
Best paper
- Timo Rangelov, Ahamb (Vanuatu): Language context and endangerment
Joint Highly Commended Paper
- Hayley Phillips, A sea of voices: Deep sea mining and the Solwara 1 project in Papua New Guinea
- Juliana Brown, Gender, sex, and sexuality diversity at the University of Waikato
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