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Item Indigenous Perspectives and Gene Editing in Aotearoa New Zealand(Frontiers Media SA, 2019-04-11) Hudson M; Mead ATP; Chagné D; Roskruge N; Morrison S; Wilcox PL; Allan AC; Robienski JGene editing is arguably the most significant recent addition to the modern biotechnology toolbox, bringing both profoundly challenging and enabling opportunities. From a technical point of view the specificity and relative simplicity of these new tools has broadened the potential applications. However, from an ethical point of view it has re-ignited the debates generated by earlier forms of genetic modification. In New Zealand gene editing is currently considered genetic modification and is subject to approval processes under the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). This process requires decision makers to take into account Māori perspectives. This article outlines previously articulated Māori perspectives on genetic modification and considers the continuing influence of those cultural and ethical arguments within the new context of gene editing. It also explores the range of ways cultural values might be used to analyse the risks and benefits of gene editing in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Methods used to obtain these perspectives consisted of (a) review of relevant literature regarding lessons learned from the responses of Maori to genetic modification, (b) interviews of selected 'key Maori informants' and (c) surveys of self-selected individuals from groups with interests in either genetics or environmental management. The outcomes of this pilot study identified that while Māori informants were not categorically opposed to new and emerging gene editing technologies a priori, they suggest a dynamic approach to regulation is required where specific uses or types of uses are approved on a case by case basis. This study demonstrates how the cultural cues that Māori referenced in the genetic modification debate continue to be relevant in the context of gene editing but that further work is required to characterize the strength of various positions across the broader community.Item Why public health practitioners and researchers must stop using the term ‘culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)’(CSIRO Publishing, 2025-08-21) Pourmarzi D; Murray L; Zulfiqar T; Kaur G; Olsen AThe term ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ (CALD) is used in Australia to describe some groups of migrants. Implicitly, the term defines ‘others’ who are ‘different’ to the dominant normative Australian. The use of the term as standard language in health literature and public discourse has increased dramatically over the past decade. Australians who are labelled as CALD have argued that the term affects their sense of belonging to the Australian community. As public health researchers and practitioners, we must minimise potential risks of harm, maximise health benefits and ensure the rigour of our data collection, analysis and reporting methods. We argue that we must refrain from continuing to use this concept and that there is no need for a new label to categorise some members of our diverse Australian population as ‘others’.Item Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis(SAGE Publications, 2025-06-26) Walters VM; Beban A; Ashley N; Cain TThis paper puts forward a model of feminist research practice, termed ‘TROVE’. This model emerged through methodological reflections on research ethics for a project exploring women's experiences of gender inequality over the life course. The paper discusses five relations of care that became core to the research: relations within the team; between researchers and participants; in participants' connection with their past, present, and future selves; among participants as a group; and across generations. Reciprocity, both in discourse and practice, played a pivotal role in these care relationships. The TROVE model highlights reciprocated relationships based on trust, recognition, openness, vulnerability, and empathy. These elements demonstrate the inherent value of care and reciprocity in feminist praxis and ethical research. They help to navigate tensions between procedural and situated ethics, and thereby have potential applications beyond explicitly feminist studies.Item Contemporary jewellery as affective experience : resisting biopolitics : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand(Massey University, 2024-11-05) Zellmer, JohannaThrough this creative, practice-led research I consider the affective aesthetic experience of contemporary jewellery as an interactive event of resistance. ‘Contemporary jewellery’ is a field of visual art practice distinct from commercial, fashion and costume jewellery. Its objects relate the body to the world through affective events, through which they may be considered as a mode of political intervention. As a jeweller, I am working in the space between craft and bioart, where materials are in a continuous visceral process of transformation. My project focusses on the making of collars and chokers out of used Illumina flow cells, waste products of the data collection technology known as DNA sequencing. Encircling and adorning a neck with these materials can create a significant affective experience. The human neck is a site of vulnerability and affect, where acts of power are displayed and experienced. Both jewellery and genomics are instruments of identity construction: the former a technology of the self and the latter a study of human bodies through scientific observation. Contemporary scholars such as Pravu Mazumdar, Elizabeth Povinelli, Stefan Muecke, and Thomas Lemke have undertaken extended research on such biopolitical conditioning. As an outcome of my craft training, my research inquiry is led by a creative, object-based practice. I have adopted the methodological framework known as speculative experimentation. This approach aligns with jewellery’s affective aesthetics through ‘critical hesitation, reflective questioning and thinking with unthinkable futures’. The experience of the resulting work can be destabilising and in turn creates hesitation, tension, and resistance. Artists and theorists Lauren Kalman, Tiffany Parbs, Agnieszka Wołodźko, and Renée Hoogland draw on these affective qualities of contemporary art and adornment. Informed by these key sources, this research project considers the agency of collars and chokers made from DNA sequencing tools as resistive ‘noise’ or irritants undermining the biopolitical standardisation of life and self. By fastening adornments firmly around the bare skin of a human neck, I am seeking to channel the haptic experience of these affective material objects into modes of resistance.Item Comments on recent International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants Exposure Drafts regarding sustainability assurance and the use of external experts(John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2024-07-12) Hay D; Harding N; Botica Redmayne N; Khan J; Singh H; Sultana N; You JWe commend the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants for the initiative in releasing the two related Exposure Drafts regarding sustainability assurance and the use of external experts. There is a need for assurance over sustainability information, and for that assurance to be provided by professional people who have the appropriate guidance on ethical issues. There is an increasing need to draw on the work of experts and an increasing possibility that inappropriate reliance on that work by professional accountants and sustainability assurance practitioners may threaten compliance with the fundamental principles of the code of ethics.Item The micro-politics of caring: Tinkering with person-centered rehabilitation(Taylor and Francis Group, 2019-04-12) Gibson BE; Terry G; Setchell J; Bright FAS; Cummins C; Kayes NMPurpose: In this paper, we critically investigate the implementation of person-centered care with the purpose of advancing philosophical debates regarding the overarching aims and delivery of rehabilitation. While general agreement exists regarding person centered care’s core principles, how practitioners reconcile the implementation of these principles with competing practice demands remains an open question. Materials and methods: For the paper, we drew on post-qualitative methods to engage in a process of “diffractive” analysis wherein we analyzed the micro-doings of person-centered care in everyday rehabilitation work. Working from our team members’ diverse experiences, traditions, and epistemological commitments, we engaged with data from nine “care events” generated in previous research to interrogate the multiple forces that co-produce care practices. Results: We map our analyses under three categories: scripts mediate practice, securing compliance through “benevolent manipulations”, and care(ful) tinkering. In the latter, we explore the notion of tinkering as a useful concept for approaching person centered care. Uncertainty, humility, and doubt in one’s expertise are inherent to tinkering, which involves a continual questioning of what to do, what is best, and what is person centered care within each moment of care. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for rehabilitation and person-centered care.Item Pain Management in Farm Animals: Focus on Cattle, Sheep and Pigs(MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2021-05-21) Steagall PV; Bustamante H; Johnson CB; Turner PV; Small APain causes behavioral, autonomic, and neuroendocrine changes and is a common cause of animal welfare compromise in farm animals. Current societal and ethical concerns demand better agricultural practices and improved welfare for food animals. These guidelines focus on cattle, sheep, and pigs, and present the implications of pain in terms of animal welfare and ethical perspectives, and its challenges and misconceptions. We provide an overview of pain management including assessment and treatment applied to the most common husbandry procedures, and recommendations to improve animal welfare in these species. A cost-benefit analysis of pain mitigation is discussed for food animals as well as the use of pain scoring systems for pain assessment in these species. Several recommendations are provided related to husbandry practices that could mitigate pain and improve farm animal welfare. This includes pain assessment as one of the indicators of animal welfare, the use of artificial intelligence for automated methods and research, and the need for better/appropriate legislation, regulations, and recommendations for pain relief during routine and husbandry procedures.Item Book Review: Skin in the Game(Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-09-04) Perezgonzalez JD; Soylu, MYItem Conceptualizing Indigenous Human-Animal Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Ethical Perspective(MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), 2021-10-06) Woodhouse J; Carr A; Liebergreen N; Anderson L; Beausoleil NJ; Zobel G; King M; Ankeny RThis article considers the complexity and diversity of ethical concepts and beliefs held by Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand (hereafter New Zealand), relating to animals. A combination of interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with individuals who identify as Māori and were working with wildlife, primarily in an eco-tourism and conservation context. Two main themes emerged from the data: ethical concepts relating to the environment, and concepts relating to the spiritual relationships between people, animals and the environment. These findings highlight that the connections between humans and animals through a Māori lens are nuanced in ways not typically accounted for in Western philosophy. This is of particular importance because of the extent to which standard Western thought is embodied in law and policy related to human treatment of animals and the environment. In New Zealand, relationships and partnerships are informed by Te Tiriti ō Waitangi, one of New Zealand's founding documents. Where these partnerships include activities and environments involving human-animal interaction, policy and legislation should account for Māori knowledge, and diverse of thought among different hapū (tribal groups). We conclude by exploring ways of including Māori ethical concepts around animals in general, and wild animals in particular, in law and policy, providing a case study relevant to other bicultural or multicultural societies.Item Diagnostic processes and disclosure: A survey of practitioners diagnosing cognitive impairment(New Zealand Psychological Society, 2014-07) McKinlay A; Leathem J; Merrick PThe literature reports widespread variation in practitioners’ disclosure of a dementia diagnosis, though it is currently unclear what factors influence this difference in practice. 57 New Zealand based practitioners completed an online questionnaire relating to how they reach a diagnosis of cognitive impairment and under what circumstances (if any) a diagnosis might be withheld from a client. The findings indicate that a diagnosis of cognitive impairment is never completely withheld by practitioners. All qualitative responses were analysed using conventional content analysis. Practitioners noted more positive consequences associated with disclosing a diagnosis to their clients, suggesting that providing a diagnosis is perceived by practitioners as helpful for people experiencing cognitive impairment. This study adds to the field of ethics and diagnostic disclosure in that it highlights what specific factors are considered when a practitioner chooses how to relay a cognitive impairment diagnosis to their client. Such considerations include when disclosure conflicts with the clients wishes, lack of insight, and the presence of other illnesses. Ongoing research on the subject of disclosure is needed as the number of adults who will experience cognitive impairment is predicted to rise.