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I was very intrigued by Jennifer Frost's lecture on the history of the 26th amendment and the voting rights of young people. Historically this related heavily to comparing how men at age 18 could be drafted for war, and women could legally marry. So if they could hold...
What is perhaps most striking about Dr. Winter's paper "Redressing historic abuse in New Zealand: a comparative critique" is the way he draws together two similar worlds to show where one world falls short. Dr. Winter uses a comprehensive comparative institutional...
While talking about international campaigns and how they work, Thomas Nash talked about there being three key things to consider; who we want to influence, how we want to influence and what we can use to influence. This short phrase really got my mental gears turning...
Something I appreciated immensely about Erin and Victoria's session was their ability to give such direct advice when presenting a somewhat abstract topic. Erin holds a passion for her beauty works that has allowed her to structure a clear and functional research...
Reflecting on Stephan Winter's research readdressing historic abuse in Aotearoa, one question stood out to me, (or maybe it was the very appealing image of the biscuit on the slide) What biscuit to serve? When research is built around such sensitive topic, it can be...
To achieve a long-term goal, one must have the passion and perseverance to reach it. This is the basic concept of grit and it is something that I find keeps popping up in these discussions with researchers, and here in my bubble of isolation, the reminders are...
Dr Patrick Thomsen's research was my favourite out of all senior researchers. Solely because it was inspired by unexpected life experience, and it reinforces the idea that every, single, little, thing in our lives can become a topic of research. And these researches...
Orientalism that Patrick consulted with in his research is really interesting to me. This bias toward Western knowledge in academia may often hide in plain sight. As he had noted that even his framing of the question, “Why Korean gay men do not come out?” is...
Throughout the power and inequity research panel, I noticed they recommended us to grow a “thicker skin.” While this is excellent advice, I’m dissatisfied. Within earlier lectures, many guest lectures were unable to give a satisfactory or specific answer as to how...
What Counts as Knowledge? Lectures in the Arts Scholars course on power and inequity in research begged the question: What counts as knowledge? In these lectures, various scholars presented their work and touched upon power and inequity in their research methods, and...
Anthropology is fascinating. I love the way it makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar. However, whilst studying it I have often thought about the ethical nature of producing research on a culture that is not your own. As the written word holds great power...
Reflecting upon the power and inequity in research panel seems to stir up ideas about the negotiation of power in the research setting. It appears as though this is a complex issue with many answers, however, no completely right or wrong ones. One idea I was...