August 2014 Newsletter

August 2014
P O Box 2006, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
www.nzfgw.org.nz
Editor: Gail Hutcheson
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Editorial Piece for New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women
By Lianne Dalziel, Mayor of Christchurch
I was honoured to be asked to write a guest editorial for the NZ Federation of Graduate Women. Finding the
time to do so wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.
I have been asked to speak as a woman who has left 23 years in Parliament and is now serving as the Mayor of
Christchurch.
I had the privilege of serving two electorates: Christchurch Central, then Christchurch East. I stood as a List only
candidate for the one term in between, then realised I didn’t want to be an MP without an electorate base. I
didn’t represent a community of interest or identity, which is what I believe the List positions are good for, nor
was I planning to retire from politics at the end of the following term.
The shift from First Past the Post to MMP in 1996 increased the percentage of women in parliament from a
quarter to a third. But we have got no further towards the time that women make up the same proportion as
they do in the population in general.
IN THIS EDITION
Guest Editorial: Lianne Dalziel
Conference 26-28 Sept programme
NE August Meeting Notes
AFGW Bursary
North Shore Mid-Winter Lunch
Manawatu FGW Charitable
Trust Awards
Education not sinful – support a
girl’s education / Adopt a
widow
2013 Fellow: Emma Peart
2014 Fellow: Wendy Sweet
Harriet Jenkins Award closes 30
Sept
Susan Byrne Awardee: Dr
Adrienna Ember
Mgmt, Leadership and
Governance Conf – call for
papers (Feb 2015)
I think many women are put off by the Westminster style of politics, which is
very adversarial. The debating chamber has been referred to as a bear pit and
it can be pretty bruising.
The biggest privilege for me though was to represent Christchurch East when
the earthquakes struck. I found an inner strength that I didn’t realise I had. I
sought answers to the questions people were asking. I produced earthquake
information updates with no political spin – just the facts. I learned a lot about
post-disaster recovery and I learned a lot about people and communities. I
worked alongside faith-based organisations, community groups and individuals
who contributed to a wonderful network of emergent leaders. I made friends
who will be friends for life.
In my Valedictory Speech, I talked of my time in politics from opposition to
government and back again, and how much I had learned as a result of the
earthquakes. From Welfare State to Resilient Nation was the name I gave my
personal journey.
I wasn’t planning to leave Parliament so soon, but I was persuaded that it was
my duty to run for Mayor. My city had done a lot for me and it was time I gave
something back.
I am not the first woman to lead the city of Christchurch. That honour goes to
Vicki Buck, who has returned to support me as the Deputy Mayor. Only four of
the fourteen of us are women, but we have an inclusive council all the same.
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I am pursuing a resilience agenda as Mayor of Christchurch and I will not be satisfied with democracy being
defined as a vote every three years. We are going to engage our communities in participatory budgeting and
collaborative decision-making.
It may take a village to raise a child, but it only takes a TV to raise a consumer and we can do better than that in
Christchurch. We want to raise active citizens who have a real say. It’s the stuff of legacy befitting the home of
Kate Sheppard.
NZFGW 30th CONFERENCE
WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN AS LEADERS
Friday 26-Sunday 28 September
Rydges Hotel, 75 Featherston Street, Pipitea, Wellington
3 pm onwards
4.00 - 4.30pm
4.30 - 6.30pm
6.30 - 7:30pm
Registration
Official Opening
(Announce Members Emeritae/ Fellowship Winners presentation)
Cocktail Function
Pacific Graduate Women’s Network Face-to-face/virtual meeting
Saturday 27 September, Rydges Hotel, 75 Featherston Street, Pipitea, Wellington
8.00 - 8.30am
8.45 -10.00am
10.00 - 10.30am
10.30 - 12.30pm
12.30 -1.30pm
1.30 - 2.15pm
2.15 - 3.15pm
3.15 - 3.45pm
3.45 - 4.00pm
4.00 - 5.00pm
6.30pm
Registration
Business Session One
Morning Tea
Panel Discussion: Women in Leadership
 Boards - Dr Roseanne Hawarden (Director, Computer Support Enzed Ltd)
 Local government - Julie Hardaker (Mayor Hamilton)
 International - Dr Gill Greer (Global Women, CEO VSA)
Lunch
Keynote speaker on Women in Leadership Lucy Duncan (MFAT) TBC
Business Session Two
Afternoon Tea
NZFGW Conference Photograph
Workshops (attend one)
 Writing press releases – Cathy Strong, Massey University
 Writing policy papers – Christine Ross
 Analysing statistics – Deb Potter, Women’s Affairs (Seconded from Statistics NZ)
 The value of CEDAW and the Beijing Platform for Action – Rae Duff
 Financial Literacy – Dr Pushpa Wood
Dinner at Parliament House (Grand Hall) Carol Beaumont, sponsor) After dinner speaker
Jeannette Maxwell (first woman on Board of Federated Farmers)
Sunday 28 September, Rydges Hotel, 75 Featherston Street, Pipitea, Wellington
8.00 - 8.25am
9.00 - 10.15am
10.15 -10.45am
10.45 - 11.30am
11.30-12.00pm
12.00 - 1.00 pm
1:00pm
Interfaith Service Pushpa Wood
Business Session Three
Morning Tea
Keynote Speaker Women in Leadership - Prof Brigid Heywood Assistant Vice-Chancellor
Research, Academic and Enterprise, Massey University
Any remaining business and Close
Specialist meetings (Academic Dress; PAC; CIR)
Paper Bag Lunch
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National Executive August meetings
NZFGW Charitable Trust meeting
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There are 49 Fellowship Award applications
The panel considering the applications consists of Dr Ann Pomeroy, Dr Elizabeth Eppel, Dr Rowena
Taylor, Dawn Patchett, and Andrea Thomson.
Total Donations received for 2014 year $132,200 (2013 year $131,300).
Any funding for the Susan Byrne Memorial Award from Branches (and independent members) will be
warmly welcomed.
The issue concerning the (lack of) receipt of funds from Waikato Branch of the FGW Charitable Trust is
yet to be resolved.
NZFGW NE meeting
1) Christine Ross was welcomed back and Catherine Guernsey and the Waikato Branch were thanked for
their role in maintaining the PAC work in Christine’s absence.
2) The Strategic Plan and report against progress of the Plan is now available on the website.
3) A request from IFUW for New Zealand to develop a concept paper on the holding of a ‘side event’ at
CSW59 (March 2015) in New York was discussed. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is receptive to the
idea, and will follow-up.
4) We have been approached for information regarding Sheila Natusch by some local film-makers. Sheila
Natusch graduated from Otago University in 1949 with an MA Hons in English. She is probably best
known for her books on native plants and animals and for her historical and biographical works, which
include On the edge of the bush: women in early Southland, which she was commissioned to write by
the Southland IWY Committee. She was the first and only English graduate ever on the Council of the
Royal Society of New Zealand, and one of only seven women to be members of the Council in the 34
years since its inception in 1933 and the centennial of the Society in 1967 (Quote: “I am no scientist
turned writer, but an arts graduate with an inherited interest in natural history. Grateful as I am to my
scientific advisors, I am equally so of all those of C.P. Snow's 'other culture' who have taught me to read
and write and think.”) (Quote: “When the [RSNZ] celebrated its centenary, I was invited to join the great
academic march. What a scramble to hire M.A. Robes, let alone dig out a long dress! My last long dress
had been folded up and sewn into a cushion. It took me all night to unpick it...”). Does anyone know if
she was a member of NZFGW?
5) Members of the Southland Branch have established a Charitable Trust to cover their on-going work with
awards. The Southland FGW Trust includes a clause which says “Any amendments to the purposes of
the Trust shall be agreed with the National Executive of the New Zealand Federation of Graduate
Women.” This clause was specifically included to ensure that the link with NZFGW is maintained.
6) The IM subscription form is on the website. Further discussion will be needed at Conference regarding
the standardization of the form for all users, given Branches have different subs.
CONFERENCE PLANNING
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Early-bird registrations have been extended to the end of the month (31 August).
IFUW President Catherine Bell has signalled that it is likely she will attend.
The After-Dinner Speaker has been confirmed, as have all panellists. Unfortunately our keynote for
Saturday Bridget Liddell has commitments in the USA which will prevent her returning to NZ to attend
our conference. We are now awaiting confirmation of a replacement speaker.
Proposed constitutional changes and remits are on the website. The Conference papers will be posted
on the website after the Council meeting on 6 September.
Dr Ann Pomeroy
President
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AFGW – ACT INC ACCOMMODATION BURSARY
The Australian Federation of Graduate Women – ACT Incorporated offers residential accommodation for up to
four (4) weeks at the Australian National University, Canberra to a woman graduate or final year honours student
from a university or equivalent institution in Australia, New Zealand, Papua-New Guinea or South Pacific countries.
Preference may be given to applicants who are members of the International Federation of University Women.
Canberra residents are ineligible. The Bursary will be available during 5 to 30 January 2015.
The award is open to women of any age who wish to carry out a short project, in any field, which will benefit from
a short stay in Canberra, for example, to use libraries, museums or special equipment. The successful applicant
will be required to make a brief report to AFGW-ACT Inc. following completion of her projectGraduate Women
Applications close on 30 September 2014 (send applications to Ms Heather Nash, Email:
[email protected]. using the application form available on the web at: www.afgw-act.org.au
Enquiries to Ms Nash Ph (02) 6295 9214 and 0405 056 533
North Shore Mid-Winter Lunch 26 July 2014
Graduate Women North Shore (left to right): Helen Sturm, Charlene Lutes, Helen Bishop, Christine Ball, Jenny Laycock
(GWNS Scholar of the Year), Dr Jennifer Curtin, Jan Tan, Carolyn Harvey, Elizabeth Lind-Mitchell
Graduate Women North Shore held their annual mid-winter lunch on Saturday 26 July at the Masonic
Centre in Albany. Forty-four members, family and friends enjoyed a delicious lunch of soup, savouries,
slices and fruit which were prepared by members of the branch committee and others.
Dr Jennifer Curtin, Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations from the School of Social
Sciences at the University of Auckland, addressed us on Women in Politics. Jennifer reminded us about
trends during the last election in 2011 and commented on the representation of women on party lists
for the coming election.
Jennifer pointed out that currently, women were poorly represented on some party lists. While
women were represented at the highest political level in 2008, (prime minister, attorney general, and
governor- general) this has not been the case since.
The gathering also heard from Jenny Laycock, North Shore’s scholar of the year 2014 who spoke briefly
about her doctoral research into an introduced species of newt which carry a fungal disease that is
decimating the New Zealand frog population. (Jenny was pursuing her studies in Queensland at the
time of the GWNS awards ceremony in June).
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Graduate Women Manawatu award nine scholarships to Massey post-graduate
students
Nine Massey University postgraduate students were recipients of Graduate Women Manawatu (GWM)
Charitable Trust grants, when these were presented by the Vice-Chancellor, Steve Maharey at Wharerata on the
Manawatu campus on Saturday, 21 June 2014.
The Trust is the business unit of the Federation of Graduate Women Manawatu Inc, and funding for the grants
comes from profits generated from the hiring-out of academic gowns used by students at graduation. The
profits are invested and passed-on to women students to support their continued study at post-graduate level.
The gown hire business in Palmerston North started from small beginnings over 50 years ago when graduate
women, often wives of academic staff, hired out gowns to graduating students and invested the profits into the
Trust. Last year, the gown hire business moved to refurbished premises at Massey University’s Manawatu
campus.
The Trust donates over $100,000 to women’s education annually. Of this, $60,000 is awarded to female
students studying at the postgraduate level at Massey University. The Trust also supports the national-level
Fellowship programme run by the Federation of Graduate Women New Zealand. In addition to these grants,
the Trust supports a range of women’s education in the Manawatu region including awards to students from
the Teen Parent School who are progressing to tertiary study, and to women who are taking up second-chance
education opportunities. Since 2012 the Trust has also partnered with the Zonta Club of Manawatu to support
an annual postgraduate travel award for a woman completing a PhD in science and technology.
The 2014 recipients are:
Vicki Campbell, Institute of Education - studying literacy development
Amanda Death, Institute of Agriculture and Environment - analysing lahar avulsion hazards
Hannah Gibson, School of People, Environment and Planning - researching equine assisted development and
counselling
Megan Gildersleven, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biological Sciences – analysing the effects of age on
pharmacokinetics of analgesic drugs
Carmel Hancock, School of Psychology – reviewing women’s issues from a feminist perspective and violence
against women
Tamyra Matthews, School of Psychology – researching future housing for older New Zealanders
Amber Mellor, Institute of Agriculture and Environment – researching environmental management
Poppy Miller, Institute of Fundamental Sciences – applying computational statistics to genetics and infectious
disease epidemiology
Nicole Steele, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biological Sciences – researching mastitis in dairy cows
L to R: Tamyra Matthews, Nicole Steele, Hannah Gibson, Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey, Megan Gildersleve, Vicki
Campbell, Chair Graduate Women Manawatu Charitable Trust Jean Corbin-Thomas, Poppy Miller, Amber Mellor
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EDUCATION IS NOT SINFUL!!
In last month’s report on the July NE meeting, I mentioned that this month I’d expand on an idea which
emerged from discussions following Margaret Kouvelis’ speech at the Manawatu FGW Charitable Trust awards
ceremony. A key part of Margaret’s speech concerned the kidnapping of over 300 teenage girls at Chibok
Government Girls Secondary School in Nigeria by Boko Haram, whose name declares education is sinful. This
event inspired international outrage, compassion, and calls to action. Most action related to tweeting.
Margaret put the kidnapping in context. She said: What are the facts?
1. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2013 shows that where the gender gap is closest to
being closed in a range of areas—including access to education, health survivability, economic participation,
and political participation—countries and economies are more competitive and prosperous.
2. Half of the reductions of child mortality between 1970 and 1990 can be attributed to increased education for
women of reproductive age.
3. A 2011 World Bank report found that investing in girls’ education and opportunities in Nigeria and 13 other
developing nations could increase a country’s gross domestic product by 1.2% in a single year.
4. A 2002 study on the effect of education on average wages estimates that primary school education increases
girls’ earnings by 5 to 15 % over their lifetimes.
What are the gaps that remain?
1. Girls and women continue to make up the largest share of the world’s illiterate population (61.3%), and
literacy rates in Nigeria hover around 50 to 60%.
2. Gender gaps are especially wide in places like Sub-Saharan Africa, where 40.1 % of girls and 33.1 % of boys
are not enrolled in secondary schools like Chibok. This translates into 11.8 million girls in the region not
accessing the education they need to attend university, find work, achieve financial independence, and
contribute to a growing economy.
3. Girls also face early marriage as a barrier to education, and should the girls from Chibok be sold into slavery
or forced marriages, their chances of achieving their dreams will be all but dashed. In a study conducted in
Kenya, researchers found that a marriage partner is associated with a 78 % increased risk of termination of
secondary schooling.
4. Globally, there are 37.4 million girls not enrolled in lower secondary school compared to 34.2 million boys, a
gap of 3.2 million.
Margaret finished by saying that “It’s an unfortunate reality that it takes an act of courage to seek an education
in places like Nigeria. But the girls at Chibok, despite the threats, pursued an education because they and their
families understood just how valuable it is. Their resolve will set an example for generations to come and
exemplifies the importance of working for the advancement of girls and women across the world so that every
girl has a chance to go to school, fulfill her dreams, and break the ceilings and barriers she encounters.”
So what can we do that’s more practical than tweeting?
We thought that we should set up a programme to financially support the education of Nigerian girls through a
suitable NGO. Some examples include:
World vision: http://www.worldvision.org/m/10x10/index.html?xxwvGender=F&campaign=10892981
Save the Children:
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6196511/k.846C/Girls_Education.htm
A New Zealand charity has been set up by Charlotte Greenfield and her mother to pay for orphan girls in Kenya
to attend boarding school. It's the Education and Care for Kenyan Orphans Trust (ECKO) CC44208
https://www.charities.govt.nz/charities-in-new-zealand/the-charities-register/search-the-register/
phone: 04 934 3681 email: [email protected]
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An alternate might be to adopt a widow!!
A book released in conjunction with International Widow’s Day on June 23 chronicles the desperate plight of
the 63 million women in Sub-Saharan Africa who are widows, many of them young with young children.
The estimate is grim: thanks to HIV/AIDS, relentless wars, and the harsh realities of poverty, an estimated one in
four women in Sub-Saharan Africa, or 63 million women in all, are widows. Many of them are young, have small
children, and are desperately poor.
In Half a Piece of Cloth, the Courage of Africa’s Countless Widows, author Jane L. Crane exposes the daily
realities these women face. In this reader-friendly book, Crane examines the plight of nearly 60 widows in seven
different African countries, giving first-hand accounts from widows who survived the genocide in Rwanda, ran
from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, survived the "rape capital of the world" in the Democratic Republic
of Congo, fought for their land in Zambia, and cope with HIV/AIDS in a black township in South Africa.
Half a Piece of Cloth also documents how cultural factors and superstitions often compound the widows’
suffering, putting their children at great risk for little or no education and a life of poverty and despair. Among
other atrocities, widows in multiple African countries are blamed for their husbands’ death, stripped of assets,
at times subjected to dehumanizing widowhood rituals, and are frequently left desperate, without welfare or
other safety nets.
Part I of Half a Piece of Cloth tells the widows’ stories. Part II offers solutions – among them education,
economic empowerment, and individual, grassroots, and other efforts to bring about change – with the goal of
helping Africa’s widows to have a full and satisfying life, or what Crane calls "a whole piece of cloth." She
comments, "When I heard a speaker from Zambia at the United Nations describe the horrors that widows go
through culturally after the death of a husband, my life was changed. Eventually, I travelled to Africa multiple
times to see for myself. Half a Piece of Cloth is the result."
AUTHOR: After interviewing dozens of desperate widows in Africa, Jane L. Crane founded Adopt A Widow.
Similar to a sponsored-child program, Adopt A Widow helps African widows learn a skill to support themselves
and their children in a one-year program while experiencing emotional healing. The author of the "Map for
Gender Reconciliation," she holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Justice and is currently working on her
doctorate in Oxford, England, on Africa’s widows. Jane’s contacts are as follows: [email protected]
www.halfapieceofcloth.com
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Report from Emma Peart (2013 Fellow)
I have now finished my year as an LL.M. student at the University of Cambridge and I graduated on
Thursday 26 June with a First Class Master of Law. I have had a fantastic year, and am overjoyed that it
has resulted in a First!
I have really enjoyed my time at Cambridge. My studies this past year have helped develop my legal
understanding, and have given me the tools to succeed in my chosen field of commercial litigation. I
have enjoyed having the opportunity to think in-depth about a wide
range of areas of law. I have also really enjoyed engaging in
debates on issues and concepts of law with my fellow LL.M.
students.
I have decided to spend a bit of time working in London before
returning home. I am hoping to find work in the area of
commercial litigation. I believe that working in one of the world’s
largest commercial hubs will expand my skill-set as a commercial
litigator, which I will be able to use when I return to New Zealand to
work in commercial litigation.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Federation for
their generous financial support of my LL.M. I really appreciate
having had this opportunity, and the honour of being a New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women
Fellow.
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Mid-Year Report to New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Inc
Whakaminenga Wahine o Aotearoa kua whiwhi Tohu
Fellow: Wendy Sweet, PhD Student, University of Waikato
Putting together this report offers an opportunity to reflect on the past few months
and the realization that, whilst seemingly ‘swimming in mud’, as a part-time PhD
student I am actually ‘on-track’ and ‘on-task’. So staying true to the reflective nature
of the interpretive paradigm guiding my research I offer NZFGW readers an insight
into the past six months of my research journey.
My study explores the meanings ‘younger’ Baby-boomer women (50 – 60 years) attribute to the role of physical
activity in their lives and, to gain insights into their experiences of ageing actively through and with a Personal
Trainer. This resonates with recent a call from Sir Peter Gluckman, New Zealand’s Chief Science Advisor to the
government that research about ‘ageing well’ to head the science agenda for the next decade. My study fits into
this agenda given mid-life women are part of the next generation of older adults and over 50% of those
between the ages of 50 and 60 have opted for a sedentary lifestyle. This means their levels of physical activity
are insufficient to mitigate the negative health changes that are exacerbated after menopause, specifically
hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and depression (Ministry of Health, 2012). They
may well swamp the health system in future years. The women in my study at this stage of their life are taking
responsibility for their active-ageing and hopefully we can learn from their actions.
Through interviews, I want to hear their stories, learning more about the meanings they give to ageing and
physical activity. How are they defining their future years and what has influenced their thinking in this? My
research therefore is based on gathering narrative. Narratives are stories of individuals etched within the
communal stories of the time and context. What is currently understood about ageing is ‘couched mostly in the
language of science’ (Wright St-Clair, Grant & Smythe, 2013). This is especially true in fitness industry research,
which means that the subjective ‘storied-lives’ of people is missing. Nonetheless, there is richness and diversity
in people’s lives and narrative provides an alternative route from which to explore the intricacies of such. Storytelling in ageing research is recognized as being critical in defining self as well as providing ideas for policy and
practice.
I am in data-collection mode. I am honing my interviewing skills, probing more, catching a word or a phrase and
teasing it out. With the interviewing well underway, I am in a new phase of learning, that of being a ‘good
listener’ and a ‘good interviewer’. Learning to capture those moments in time, those ‘aha’ moments, when a
participant hints at meaning, articulates what or who has influenced them in their choices to be active or not
throughout their life. I write notes, then I transcribe. The joy of transcribing is getting to enjoy the conversation
all over again. I learn from this part of the process. I think, reflect, and jot down more notes. For in the next six
months, I have to return to all of this rich data. It is then that the analysis starts. I will look for themes, find
patterns in the narrative, stay close to my theoretical framework of social constructionism and write, write and
re-write. At a time when ‘ageing-well’ is on the government’s agenda and health promotion agencies struggle to
get ‘more people active, more often’ I am hoping that these active-ageing stories will resonate with, not only
other Baby-boomer women, but also those, like Personal Trainers, working as agents of health and lifestyle
behaviour change who in turn might link these findings to their own strategies and practices.
Harriet Jenkins Awards close on 30 September: https://nzfgw-applications.org/apply/3
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Mid-year report of PhD research by
Dr Adrienna Ember, Susan Byrne Memorial Awardee
Dear NZFGW Members,
Please allow me to share with you my research which is part of the “The
Everyday Lives of Women in New Zealand” research programme of the
Māori & Psychology Research Unit of The University of Waikato.
As part of a group often referred to in research and statistics merely as
‘other Europeans’, signalling both a presumed sameness of all non-British
Europeans with each other as well as a lack of interest in who they are,
women from Eastern Europe often experience marginalisation,
discrimination, and powerlessness in New Zealand. While immigrant politically they are perceived as a ‘noproblem group’ that ‘fits in’ and ‘fades in’ seamlessly into mainstream Pakeha society, there is much struggle
going on under the surface which remained both publically and academically unaddressed until today. Due to
their white skin colour they are regarded not ‘ethnic enough’ when approaching organisations supporting the
settlement of ethnic people, and when applying for jobs in their (often academic) professions they are not
perceived as ‘Western enough’ even 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
My research aims to receive insights into the everyday lives of seven Eastern European women from a
psychological perspective by learning about their psychological and psychosocial adjusting and coping strategies
through the use of narrative inquiry as research method. The principles of Kaupapa Māori Research and Positive
Psychology provide a philosophical and strategic frame for the research. The insights received should contribute
to the development of culturally more appropriate policies and practices in a variety of sectors such as
immigration, education, employment, primary and mental health care, and social services.
My plans for the second half of the year are to conduct the interviews with participants and complete their
narrative analysis based on the interview summary reports. I have made a number of presentations and plan to
present my preliminary findings at the “Contemporary Ethnography across Disciplines” conference in November
2014.
I would like to express my gratitude to NZFGW for supporting my research. It is very empowering to be part of a
group of so many enthusiastic and talented women.
3rd International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance
co-hosted by Massey University & Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Auckland, New Zealand; 12-13 February 2015
http://academic-conferences.org/icmlg/icmlg2015/icmlg15-home.htm
CALL FOR PAPERS
Track:
"The Role of Women in Sustainability Management"
Track Chair: Prof.Dr. Kiymet Caliyurt
for information see
http://academic-conferences.org/pdfs/ICMLG_2015-cfp_MT-Caliyurt.pdf
Please advise us of key events and any worthy news from your award recipients, or members undertaking
interesting activities - particularly those that promote our goals - email [email protected] with items for the
September edition of NZFGW News by 20 September 2014.
Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information in this newsletter, neither
the Editor nor NZFGW accept liability for any errors of fact or opinion.
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