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Item Community use of school grounds outside of school hours(Taylor and Francis Group, 2024-07-13) Lin E-Y; Witten K; Carroll P; Parker KPhysical activity in childhood is essential for healthy development and wellbeing and school grounds can provide neighbourhood access to safe play spaces. This study examines the relationship between school demographics (school size, school decile, ethnicity of students and population density) and whether school grounds are open or closed for community use outside school hours. Data were gathered from 391 primary and intermediate schools across Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand (84% of Auckland schools) with 250 schools participating in the full survey. The results indicate that higher school decile and lower population density are associated with school grounds being available for community use. This result is concerning. With closed school grounds more likely to be in lower socio-economic and higher population density areas, the children most affected are the same group who have fewer opportunities and less spaces for active play. The main reason schools closed their grounds was ‘vandalism /graffiti/theft concerns’. Low decile schools whose grounds were open outside of school hours shared a similar commitment to involve their communities widely in school activities and found doing so decreased the levels of vandalism. Their approach may offer useful insights to schools that are currently closed.Item “Looks like a lot of awesome things are coming out of the study!”: Reflections on researching, communicating and challenging everyday inequalities(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-12) Calder-Dawe O; Witten K; Carroll P; Morris TIn recent years, a growing interest in so-called ‘everyday’ inequalities is raising intriguing questions for qualitative research in psychology. How best might we canvass people's mundane experiences with inequalities given that these experiences are often normalized or entrenched to the extent that they disappear from view, or are otherwise hard to articulate in the course of a conventional qualitative research encounter? And, should we find ourselves as custodians of data that do pinpoint inequalities, what options and opportunities exist for reporting and sharing participants' narratives in challenging and transformative ways? In this article, we present a response to these questions. Moving against the attachment to standardisation that characterises much psychological inquiry, we outline a project where methodological flexibility and a focus on collaborative documentation helped us to surface rich experiential data on everyday ableism. By spending time with participants, and equipped with a toolbox of creative, collaborative and conventional methods, we built the relational foundations necessary for participants to show, tell and share their encounters with ableism with us. From here, we discuss how our experiences with creative and collaborative data collection emboldened us to experiment with a new (to us) way of sharing research findings: the comic. Outlining our research team's collaboration with illustrator Toby Morris, we show and tell the potential of illustrated narratives for sharing research on everyday inequalities – and challenging them.Item Mobility barriers and enablers and their implications for the wellbeing of disabled children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-sectional qualitative study(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-02-06) Smith M; Calder-Dawe O; Carroll P; Kayes N; Kearns R; Lin E-Y; Witten KActive participation in community and cultural life is a basic right of all children and young people (CYP) and is central to wellbeing. For disabled CYP, mobility can be constrained through a range of environmental and social/attitudinal barriers. The aim of this research was to understand the enablers and barriers to mobility from the perspectives of disabled CYP. Thirty-five disabled CYP aged between 12 and 25 years took part. Data were collected in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand from mid-2016 to early 2018. Face-to-face interviews and go-along interviews were conducted and were transcribed verbatim. An iterative, thematic approach to analysis was undertaken. Mobility played an essential role in enabling wellbeing, connecting CYP to people, places and possibilities. While the possible impediments to smooth transit appeared infinite, numerous examples of overcoming barriers to mobility were evidenced across a range of factors. Dis/ableism was a pervasive barrier to mobility. The rights to access and experience the city for young people in this study were compromised by transport networks and social norms as well as values that privilege the movement of non-disabled bodies. The findings demonstrate that reducing ableist presumptions about preferences and abilities of disabled CYP, alongside ensuring practical enablers across the transport system must be key priorities for enhancing the wellbeing of this group.Item The relationship between children’s third-place play, parental neighbourhood perceptions, and children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-09-27) Lin E-Y; Witten K; Carroll P; Romeo JS; Donnellan N; Smith MThis study takes a child-centred approach to examine the relationship between children’s third-place play, parents’ perceptions of their neighbourhood environment, and time spent by children in physical activity and sedentary behaviour during weekday out-of-school hours. A total of 1102 children aged 8–13 years from 19 schools across Auckland, New Zealand took part in a public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) survey utilising closed- and open-ended questions and child mapping of destinations. The results suggested that playing in green places near home were associated with more time spent in light physical activity and less sedentary behaviour. Children who played in street places near home (e.g. driveways, footpath, carpark) spent more time in moderate to vigorous physical activity. Although parental perceptions of their neighbourhood environment were not directly associated with children’s time spent in physical activity, children with parents who perceived their neighbourhood as more connected were more likely to engage in third-place play.