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The connection the Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa-New Zealand, have to the land is threatened by the effects of colonisation, urbanisation and other factors. In particular, many Māori suffer significant health and wellbeing inequalities compared to the non-Māori population. In an effort to reduce such inequalities, there is a growing consciousness of the need to better understand the cultural and place-specific determinants that affect the health and wellbeing of population groups in different environments. This article explores how environmental and cultural connections to land enable the development of place-specific and culturally-driven principles that promote the health and wellbeing of Māori populations. It argues that concepts of place, belonging, landscape and wellbeing play an important role in linking environment and culture as well as in contributing to creating therapeutic spatial environments that promote both human health and ecosystems. A set of principles i...

Since the 1970s disability advocates have called for a more inclusive on-screen representation of intellectual disability. But despite these initiatives, broadcast media continues to resort to the stereotypical representations of triumph or tragedy. This research analyses recent representations of intellectual disability on screen and identifies a broadcast model of intellectual disability that still uses these stereotypes. In response to this model and informed by insights from visual anthropology, the studio research employs poetic documentary as a framework to produce videos for the Kew Cottages History Project and the What Next? documentary projects. It is argued that the poetic mode of documentary emphasises the sensual qualities of the image, evoking the lives of the subjects instead of speaking for them. The production methodology involved in the applied research has relevance to the role and purpose of video documentary in health and social research.

The Researcher, Fall 2016, Vol. 29 No.1<br>"School Violence: The School Environment and Its Impact on Learning" by Brian E. Anderson, Trenia L. Allen, & Patrice R. Jenkins<br>"Tweeting for Votes: How Candidates Utilize Twitter as a Campaign Tool" by Allison Pingley<br>"Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Stemming Public Health Challenges: Are Historically Black Colleges and Universities the Answer?" by Jan Hill, Felix Okojie, Thomas J. Durant, Jennifer N. Simms<br>"Cultural Insiders' Narrative Writing: A Thematic Analysis" by Kalpana Mukunda Iyengar<br>"Mississippi Academy for Science Teaching (Project MAST) Capturing Teachers' Long-Term Change: A Follow-Up Study of Professional Development in Science: by Nisaa Kirtman & Mehri Fadavi<br>"Community Partnership Curricular Support through a Domestic Violence Forum" by Kristie J. Lipford, Shonda Lawrence, & Regina Lacking <br><br...

This study examines the effect of contextual clues on the use of strategies (inferencing and ignoring) and knowledge sources (semantics, morphology, world knowledge, and others) for processing unfamiliar words in listening comprehension. Three types of words were investigated: words with local co-text clues, global co-text clues and extra-textual clues. Data were collected from 20 participants using the procedures of immediate retrospection without recall support and of stimulated recall. The results indicate that contextual clues are an important factor in learners’ treatment of unfamiliar words in listening comprehension. Contrary to what some theories of inference generation predict, this study reveals that learners use the inferencing strategy more frequently for words with global co-text clues and words with extratextual clues than for words with local co-text clues. In terms of the use of knowledge sources for inferring word meaning, the learners in this study use the knowledg...

The connection the Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa-New Zealand, have to the land is threatened by the effects of colonisation, urbanisation and other factors. In particular, many Māori suffer significant health and wellbeing inequalities compared to the non-Māori population. In an effort to reduce such inequalities, there is a growing consciousness of the need to better understand the cultural and place-specific determinants that affect the health and wellbeing of population groups in different environments. This article explores how environmental and cultural connections to land enable the development of place-specific and culturally-driven principles that promote the health and wellbeing of Māori populations. It argues that concepts of place, belonging, landscape and wellbeing play an important role in linking environment and culture as well as in contributing to creating therapeutic spatial environments that promote both human health and ecosystems. A set of principles i...

While clarity and explicitness in responding to a request are highly desirable, there are conventionally indirect strategies people use when responding. This indirectness cannot be deemed as always indicating impoliteness as different people have different strategies in giving a response; it is determined by the cultural norms and values in which they are brought up. In this paper, we will look at the strategies Indonesians use when responding to a request at times when their circumstances pressure them to make refusals. The study reported here found that apart from giving refusals, in which indirect refusal strategies are preferred, in situations where the ranking of imposition of a request is high, they tend to accept the request. It appears that their strategies of responding are closely related to their strong willingness to maintain the (existing) harmony between them and their interlocutors.

<b>Images Of Research 2016 Winners:</b> Damian Roland – 'Spotting the Sick Child – Development of the 'POPS' tool' - Winner of the Best Image from the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology Sarah Hainsworth – 'Fly Pupae' - Winner of the Best Image from the College of Science and Engineering Stevie-Jade Hardy – 'A Human Right' - Winner of the Best Image from the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Chris Nixon – 'Star Eaters' - Winner of the Peoples Choice Award Mark Williams – 'Creature From the Black Lagoon' - Winner of the Best Postgraduate Researcher Image Josephina Sampson – 'Clustered centrosomes in cancer' - Second Place for the Best Postgraduate Researcher Image <br> <b>Images Of Research 2016 successful submissions:</b> Aarti Patel – 'Untitled' Alex Sutton – 'Visualisations to assist the analysis of "Which treatment is best?": a collaboration between medical statisticians and computer scientists from academia and industry' Andrew Fry – 'Understanding the mechanics of cancer cell division' Andrew Hopper – 'Leicester historians with the wheelchair of Sir Thomas Fairfax at the National Civil War Centre' Benjamin Hall – 'The Martian Space Plasma Environment' Chee Kay Cheung – 'Shining a light into the kidney' Christine Pulla – 'The web of life' Clare Gunby – 'The Pocket' Dan Stewart – 'Geophysical Survey of Roman Knossos' David Siveter – 'Spectacular 430 MILLION-YEAR-OLD 'VIRTUAL FOSSILS' help interpret the evolution of life' Dawn Watkins – 'Law in Children's Lives ' Duncan Murdock – 'Fossils Are Rotten' Elizabeth Jones – 'Small Town Urbanity in Nineteenth-Century Wales.' Emma Jones – 'An invitation to imagine a world where complete accounts of research are always published' Emma Raven – 'Iron Heart of the Crystal – Neutron crystal structure of ascorbate peroxidase compound II' Geoff Belknap – 'Citizen Science, and the Uncovering of History of Female Scientists' Giannis Koukkidis – 'Salads and <i>Salmonellas'</i> Giovanna Puppin – 'Advertising Cul [...]