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Broker Capitalism, Pandemic Profiteering, and UK Financial Scandals: How Consultancy Firms Leverage Public Money, Defy Regulation, and Help the Rich
(Springer Nature, 2024) Shore, Cris
British governments frequently profess commitment to fighting corruption yet the UK’s financial services industry facilitates crony capitalism and London remains a leading global centre for money laundering. This contradiction arises partly from the growing influence of private consultancy firms over government. Using two case studies of scandals during the Covid-19 pandemic, I illustrate how private firms leverage public funds. The first concerns the supply chain finance company Greensill Capital and its lobbyist, former UK Prime Minister and Foreign Minister David Cameron. The second concerns the government’s ‘fast lane’ procurement policy which saw vast sums of money lost, stolen, or wasted on contracts awarded to Conservative Party allies. Strangely, none of these actions were technically illegal. Drawing on anthropological approaches to corruption and theories of broker capitalism I ask, what made these scandals possible? I conclude that performative anti-corruption combined with weak regulations and deliberate blurring of the public/private boundary effectively legalise corrupt financial practices.
Future Universities in a Generative AI World Navigating Disruption to Direction
(APRU, 2025-02-01) APRU Team
This report is one of the main outcomes of the project “Generative AI in Higher Education” conducted by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). The report provides a narrative of the project’s activities in the past 18 months - including the abstracts of case studies submitted by participating universities and a recount of all three workshops conducted throughout 2024.
Transdisciplinarity in Teaching and Learning Around the Globe
(2023-11-16) Kolandai, Komathi; Barber, Charmaine
News: International Transdisciplinary Conference 2024
(2023-11-16) Kolandai, Komathi; Marie, McEntee
Facilitators and Barriers to Transdisciplinary Learning in Tertiary Education
(2023-10-13) Kolandai, Komathi; Kemp, Susan; King, Jaime; Gillen, Jamie; McEntee, Marie
Scholarship on Transdisciplinary Learning in Higher Education
(2025-02-16) Kolandai, Komathi; McEntee, Marie
Transdisciplinary Content Pedagogy
(University of Auckland, 2024-04-12) Kolandai, Komathi; Kemp, Susan; King, Jaime
This working document captures key insights from the research literature on transdisciplinary pedagogy and learning in higher education.
Te Puna Ora o Mātaatua: A case study of how Māori organisations support older workers
(2023-11-01) Mika, Jason Paul; Niu, Xiaoliang
This report sets out a case study of a Māori organisation - Te Puna Ora o Mātaatua - and its approach to supporting older workers. The case study is part of a long running research programme at Massey University studying health, work, retirement, and ageing in the New Zealand population, with a particular focus on older workers.
A Comparative Study of Community-led Relocation in the United States and Aotearoa New Zealand: Lessons from the Buyout of Hazard-Prone Properties
(2025-01-10) Smith, Gavin; Saunders, Wendy; Beattie, Lee; Chuang, I-Ting; Briley, Lauren; Wingate, Brae; Von, Lesley; Li, Zeqing; Shen, Danjie
This report describes an international comparative study of managed retreat in the United States and New Zealand, where the acquisition of hazard-prone housing (buyouts) in both countries are used to highlight key issues that are germane to this evolving climate change adaptation measure. Based on this assessment, specific policy recommendations are provided for both countries, which is timely as both the United States and New Zealand are exploring the possible development of national managed retreat programs. As part of this assessment, including a review of existing literature, buyout lessons have not been effectively translated from those who have undertaken buyouts to others considering this process (Greer and Brokopp-Binder 2016; Vila and Smith forthcoming). Nor are specific buyout lessons learned being translated into national, state, and local policy recommendations advancing community led relocation (Smith 2014a; National Academies of Science 2024). Given these concerns, an important part of this report includes 68 recommendations describing how this issue can be addressed and how to use these recommendations to improve community-led relocation.
Biocoal Trial at MOTAT
(2024) Pilkington, Scott; Messenger, Tony
Submission To He Arotake Pōtitanga Motuhake Independent Electoral Review
(2022-11-10) Roberts, Marcus
A submission making recommendations in response to Questions 2.1 and 2.2 of the Consultation Document relating to the minimum voting age and other potential changes to voter eligibility rules. These questions relate to the “demos” or who makes up the voting public in our democracy and where the boundary should be drawn between voters and non-voters.
Rainbow-washing: Marketing strategies used by the alcohol industry to target LGBTQ+ people
(Centre for Addiction Research, 2025-02-28) Souto Pereira, Sandra; Sing, Fiona; Lyons, Antonia
Alcohol consumption is associated with both immediate and long-term negative health consequences, as well as significant social burdens. Drinking alcohol is highly prevalent among ‘rainbow communities’ (people who identify as LGBTQ+, including but not limited to gay, lesbian, bisexual, takatāpui, gender diverse, queer, transgender, and intersex). Members of these communities have been found to drink at higher levels compared to heterosexual and cisgender people, placing them at increased risk of experiencing alcohol-related harm. This higher alcohol consumption may stem from chronic and unique stressors that members of rainbow communities face. For many rainbow people, drinking commonly happens in the ‘gay scene’ such as pubs, bars, clubs, and pride events. These spaces are crucial for community building, feeling safe in romantic pursuits, and exploring gender and sexuality without feeling marginalised. Alcohol companies and brands have infiltrated these spaces and actively target the rainbow population through various advertising and promotional strategies specifically crafted to appeal to gender and sexual minorities. The primary goal of this research was to identify the strategies used by the alcohol industry to target rainbow communities and to inform policy development. We conducted an online search for publicly accessible documents related to industry marketing strategies. We used thematic analysis to examine the language used in 54 documents from articles on industry websites, online magazines and reports. This led to the identification of four key themes: 1) Social responsibility towards LGBTQ+ communities: alcohol companies are portrayed as socially responsible and supportive of LGBTQ+ communities. 2) Aligning values: alcohol companies construct value alignment with LGBTQ+ communities by claiming partnerships with community representatives. 3) Profitable allyship: the alcohol industry actively manages the challenge of balancing business motives with portraying authentic support for rainbow communities. 4) Genuine and authentic partnerships: alcohol companies position themselves as genuine allies and partners, aiming to mitigate perceptions of rainbow-washing. Alcohol companies position themselves within industry texts as having noble objectives, while deflecting concerns about their authenticity and motives. Despite claims of impactful advocacy and genuine support, these companies are promoting alcohol products to a group that is particularly vulnerable to higher rates of alcohol consumption and its negative effects. Increased regulation is needed to prevent alcohol companies using rainbow-washing tactics. Addressing this issue is crucial to tackling the significant prevalence of harmful alcohol use among rainbow populations and mitigating the impact of alcohol marketing on their consumption patterns.
Proceedings: Sensemaking Workshop for the ‘Generative AI in Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions in Asia and the Pacific’ Initiative
(APRU, 2024-12-12) APRU Team
The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) initiative “Generative AI in Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions in Asia and the Pacific” started the Sensemaking Workshop that lasted from March 14 to 15, 2024. The workshop aimed to: 1. Identify common patterns and trends across case studies (collected in the project Phase I in 2023) on the use of AI in universities that can inform effective strategies for adoption. 2. Recognize gaps and opportunities for additional AI applications in universities.
Anechoic chamber calibration using sweep signals
(2024) Zhu, Huachen; Kong, xianghao; Kingan, Michael; Schmid, Gian; Teh, Jin
ISO 26101-1:2021 specifies a standard method for qualifying a space as being anechoic. The method involves placing a source within the chamber and checking whether the sound pressure decays in accordance with the inverse square law at different frequencies and in different directions. In the method adopted in this study, a microphone was traversed along a wire away from the source and the sound pressure level measured as the microphone traversed. The standard recommends using pure tones at the centre frequencies of the standard one-third octave bands as the noise signal. In order to speed up testing, multiple tones can be played simultaneously. However, using multiple tones which includes tones at harmonics of others results in beating which affects the measured sound pressure level over the short period required when using a traversing microphone. This article describes how a swept sine signal was used instead during the calibration of the anechoic chamber at the University of Auckland. The results obtained using the proposed method were compared with those obtained using single pure tones and the results were observed to be consistent. It is also noted that the measured cut-off frequency of the anechoic chamber at the University of Auckland is below 50 Hz.
On Parallel Tracks: Examining the Coexistence of bicycles and trams in 20th Century Aotearoa New Zealand
(South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society Limited, 2024) Pilkington, Scott
Bicycles and trams were at their peak, particularly in New Zealand, in the 1920s and 1930s, before losing popularity over the rest of the 20th century, although both have experienced a resurgence more recently.
What's in a hat? MOTAT's extensive Hills Hats collection
(2024) Pilkington, Scott
Asian communities’ well-being in Aotearoa during Covid-19
(University of Otago Library, 2023-07-26) Jaung, Rebekah; Park, Lynne Soon-Chean
This study examines the effects of racism on the well-being of Asian communities in Aotearoa during the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore how a sense of belonging can protect against the negative impacts of racism on life satisfaction. The study involved 1341 participants who completed an online survey. We found that experiencing racism was associated with decreased life satisfaction. However, participants who had a stronger sense of belonging, including pride in their ethnic identity and feeling at home in Aotearoa, reported higher life satisfaction despite facing racism. These findings highlight the importance of fostering a sense of belonging as a protective factor alongside anti-racism efforts. The study's practical implications extend beyond Asian communities and can support other marginalized ethnic groups experiencing racism during the pandemic and other times of crisis.
Feeling out feelings: The rogue archives of WildStar
(2025-02-06) Mannings, James; May, Lawrence
n this paper, we explore the potential to reconstruct otherwise ‘lost’ and unplayable videogames through their paratextual remnants. The rogue and unkempt archives comprised of these remnants afford particular access, we will show, to the feelings and sensations that emerge from playing videogames. The ruins of increasing numbers of failed, forgotten and abandoned videogames collect all around us, rendered inoperable as services, servers, and circuitry are retired, discontinued, and fall into obsolescence. Conventional approaches to videogame preservation consider this a technical problem, proposing software emulation as the solution (Guttenbrunner et al. 2010; Pinchbeck et al. 2009). However, focusing solely on reproducing playable artefacts overlooks important context of use (Winget 2011), further eroding a sense of the player’s involvement in coconstituting videogame experiences (Giddings and Kennedy 2008; Morris 2003; Newman 2012). Our proposed methodological intervention allows situated encounters of play to be reconstructed from the past by connecting in more vernacular ways to alternative modes of remembrance driven by videogame players. We modify the approach of ‘platform anarchaeology’ (Apperley and Parikka 2015)—a method for constructing speculative media histories of failed, experimental, and long-vanished platforms derived from earlier media anarchaeological approaches (Zielinski 2006)—and adapt it for videogames. The platform anarchaeological approach crystallises a means by which to “speculate on alternative yet complementary trajectories for platforms” that have failed, and uses digital ephemera to piece together “speculative, alternative, minor, and even imaginary perspectives” of platform and media experiences (Apperley and Parikka 2018, 360).
An aeroacoustic index for objectively measuring singing-voice fatigue: A proof-of-concept study
(2023-08-24) Baker, Calvin; Purdy, Suzanne; Rakena, Te Oti; Bonnini, Stefano
Fundamental frequency, intensity, and vibrato extent significantly affect traditional acoustic perturbation and noise measures
(2023-08-23) Baker, Calvin Peter; Brockmann-Bauser, Meike; Purdy, Suzanne; Rakena, Te Oti

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