Call for Papers Social Movements, Resistance and Social Change in New Zealand Two day workshop August 28-29 (Palmerston North) Massey University, School of Management Keynote Speakers Prof. Shiv Ganesh (Massey University) – Activism and...Read more
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After two-day Workshop on ‘Social Movements, Resistance and Social Change in New Zealand’
December 10, 2014
In the end of August 2014, more than 40 people including academics, activists, practitioners and students came together at Massey University Palmerston North campus in order to discuss the current situation of social movements in Aotearoa New Zealand from various perspectives. It was organised by Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar and funded by Massey University Research Fund (MURF) and Te Kāhui Kahurangi/The School of Management. There were 2 keynote speeches and 22 presentations for two days. The first day began with a welcome speech by Jason Mika and Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar in order to explain the motivation behind this workshop and gathering. Following lunch, first keynote Campbell Jones invited academics to get dirty in the challenging path of...Read more
The Other Side of Union Organising
March 5, 2014
Last week MPOWER (a research group in Massey University’s School of Management) organised a very pleasant forum on the topic ‘Strategic Employment Relationships’. From the call it was declared that two CEOs, two Human Resources / Employment...Read more
Who stole my house of cards?
October 16, 2013
There is a great deal of hand wringing, mudslinging and general finger pointing as a result of the Reserve bank announcement of Loan to Value Ratio (LVR) regulations. The regulations in essence limit the amount of low deposit loans a bank may make...Read more
The Million Student Classroom
August 26, 2013
What would it be like to have a million students in the same classroom? This is a ridiculous question, of course. But, two years ago, what if the question had been “what would it be like to have 100,000 students in the same classroom?”...Read more
Is Fonterra Good For New Zealand?
August 15, 2013
New Zealand’s dairy giant, Fonterra, was in the news for the wrong reasons again recently regarding the withdrawal of a contaminated dairy product. When the New Zealand Government pressed for more information, Fonterra was slow to respond with...Read more
Is the University of Auckland about to join Coursera?
July 30, 2013
It isn’t often an academic like me gets a “scoop”, the chance to say “you heard it here first”. In this case, my close monitoring of the MOOC world has uncovered several threads that when woven together suggest a...Read more
The on-going disputes surrounding the Christchurch City council raise a number of issues in regards to the limits, duties and care of local government and by inference local government management. Take the latest debacle to hit the council. The...Read more
A MOOC Experience
May 9, 2013
Last weekend I was a student again. For the first time in 27 years I was in a course as a student with an assignment due by 4.00pm on Sunday. Here I record a few thoughts about my first MOOC experience. A MOOC is a massive open online course. The...Read more
By Craig Prichard email: C.Prichard@massey.ac.nz I spent last weekend at the ‘Creativity Challenge’, a two day conference on things artistic, self-helpful and activistic held in the always awesome, Taranaki. ...Read more
