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Item Out of the rabbit hole: new research shows people can change their minds about conspiracy theories(2024-02-19) Williams M; Kerr J; Marques MItem New research challenges the idea of a ‘vicious cycle’ between psychological distress and conspiracy beliefs(2025-10-13) Fox N; Williams M; Hill SItem Making sense of bodily experiences: Interpreting signs and symptoms(Massey University, 2025-07-16) Morison T; Gibson A; Riley SThis chapter is about how people make sense of the changes experienced in their bodies as an indication of illness. How do we know when a physical sensation is serious or just a fleeting discomfort? Deciding whether to seek medical care or ignore a symptom is a daily reality, but the process of interpreting bodily signals is far more complex than it might seem. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to understand symptom interpretation as more than a straightforward process. Instead, you will see it as a complex, socially negotiated act with significant implications for individual health, healthcare practices, and broader public health outcomes.Item Diagnosis as a social and political practice(Massey University, 2025-07-16) Morison T; Sarah RIn this chapter, we examine diagnosis not just as a process of labelling diseases, but as a practice that establishes a shared understanding of what constitutes sickness—an understanding shaped by values, norms, and biology, and imbued with significant social consequences (Jutel, 2024). We begin by asking, “What is diagnosis?”—exploring how naming and framing create diagnostic systems that often struggle with ambiguity. Next, we examine diagnosis as a social tool. In medical interactions, healthcare providers wield the “power to name,” raising questions: Who benefits from specific diagnoses? What role do they play in maintaining the status quo and, hence, social inequity? We also consider diagnosis in the context of medicalisation, whereby everyday experiences are reframed as medical issues through diagnostic classifications. We discuss the benefits, such as validation and care, and drawbacks, including stigma and oversimplification, associated with this practice.Item The unravelling of person-centred care: The value and necessity of analysing power relations in contraceptive services(SAGE Publications, 2025-04-30) Morison T; Macleod CI; Ndabul YGlobal research indicates ongoing challenges in delivering person-centred contraceptive care. Much of the contraceptive research investigates this issue using systems-focussed approaches to map institutional constraints (e.g. institutional or health system barriers to accessing contraception). The assumption underlying this research approach is that simply removing structural barriers can address issues and enhance contraceptive autonomy, but this is not the case. Our research shows how discursively constructed power relations undermine bodily integrity and contraceptive agency even as contraceptive providers endorse the principles of patient-centred care. Using a synthetic narrative/discourse approach to analyse provider interviews in South Africa and New Zealand, we draw on Foucauldian analytics of biopower to show how an idealised person-centred care narrative collapses under the weight of discourses of medicalised risk, protectionism, and biomedical expertise, signalling practices of power through confession, responsibilisation and surveillance. Our findings highlight an essential perspective frequently missing in systems-focussed research on contraceptive care: the crucial dimension of power and reproductive politics. Thus, we argue for the necessity of investigating this dimension, in addition to systemic challenges. Our work demonstrates the value of frameworks that illuminate power dynamics, such as the Foucauldian analytics of biopower we undertook. Expanding the range of research perspectives in contraceptive research can deepen understandings of how systems constraints and power relations together undermine relational person-centred contraceptive care.Item GADAG: A genetic algorithm for learning directed acyclic graphs(2017-04-11) Champion M; Picheny V; Vignes MSparse large Directed Acyclic Graphs learning with a combination of a convex program and a tailored genetic algorithm.Item Wellington Symphonic Bands(2022-02-01) Murnieks AThe Wellington Symphonic Bands Inc. consists of three community bands: the Wellington City Concert Band (WCCB), the Capital City Wind Band (CCWB), and the Wellington Youth Concert Band (WYCB). The bands give several exciting concerts a year, performing a range of music including classical transcriptions, jazz, swing, and modern symphonic works. The bands are led by professional conductors, with workshops and tutorials by some of Wellington's finest musicians.Item Māori in Engineering Podcast, Episode 9: Georgina Stokes: designing how we experience and understand spaces(Māori in Engineering Podcast, 2022-12-07) Stokes G; Lysaght AEpisode 19 of The Māori in Engineering podcast is now live! A long time coming in getting episodes out, mō taku hē. So it was great to dust off the mic! Awesome to catch up with Georgina Stokes (Ngāi Tahu) - someone who is an incredible thinker in the spatial design space and inspiration to those she lectures at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts at Massey University kei Te Whanganui a Tara. Georgina is an overall awesome wahine, pretty evident in the way she communicates so passionately with the work. Really interesting points of discussions was her mahi in whakapapa plotting to better how we experience spaces and the alignment in her studies and her Māoritanga 🤯 Available on all podcast platforms and the website https://lnkd.in/gPkURGxB Listen on Spotify here: https://lnkd.in/gz3xkQyj #MāoriinEngineering
