The purpose of applied research is to inform action. Since our lives are built on the choices we make, critical evaluation, experiential learning and knowledge-sharing are developed competencies that ultimately transform our lives, our communities, and our future. The vision of Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus is to develop ‘New Zealand’s most employable graduates’; research capability and co-publication are meaningful, empowering and leverageable mechanisms in that purs…
Student-centred learning and teaching (SCLT) is gaining interest internationally in tertiary education institutions. SCLT is an indicator of quality assessment in higher education, and scholars and educators are seeking ways to implement SCLT to boost engagement, participation, agency, and confidence in students. This paper considers some of the practical benefits of SCLT and discusses a unique inter-departmental experiential project, used to augment assessment in an international tert…
Strategy and risk are two sides of the same coin. Hindsight has proven that risk from a global pandemic was underestimated; Coronavirus forced organisations to re-evaluate their strategy. Furthermore, sophisticated assessments of risk are not only the trend, but they are also prudent and opportune. For organisations, the growing move to assess climate change risk is important from a mitigation perspective, but vitally, as an opportunity gauge as well. This paper will be a summary revie…
Crime risk prediction and predictive policing can lead to safer communities, by focusing on crime hotspots. Yet predictive tools should be reliable, and their outputs should be valid, especially across diverse cultures. Machine learning methods in policing systems are topical as they seem to be causing unintended consequences that exacerbate social injustice. Research into machine learning algorithm bias is prevalent, but bias, as it relates to predictive policing, is limited. In this…
The second United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is Zero Hunger. The issue stems from multiple root-causes that must be recognised and managed, to reduce the consequences of acute hunger and undernourishment. Two closely related topics are food security and food poverty. While the characterisation of these two problems is different, their causes are closely related. Aotearoa, New Zealand is confronting these problems as well, even though the country is exporting a significant amo…