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Fellows and their research reports

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Recipients of Fellowships from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust are required to submit a full report on their project within six months of their return to New Zealand. These reports are circulated by the Trust.

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2012 Fellows and their research reports

  • Lynette Adams - Community sport and recreation programme
  • Carol Bagnall - Ultrasound technologies as a diagnostic tool
  • Michael Bell - Short-tailed albatross in Japan
  • Elizabeth Bigwood - Australian and American heritage organisatons
  • Denise Bijoux - Incorporating community voices into governance systems
  • Kevin Crutchley - European business resource efficiency programmes
  • Alan Fleming - Australian Land for Wildlife Scheme
  • Sarah Gaitanos - Biography of Shirley Smith: classicist, university lecturer, pioneer lawyer, champion of justice, and campaigner for human rights
  • Patricia Green - Community-based out-of-home care placements for children and young people with severe intellectual disabilities
  • David Hookway - A model for reducing alcohol-related harm to youth
  • Marisa Maepu - German colonisation of Samoa
  • Elizabeth McNaughton - Post-disaster recovery and preparedness programmes
  • Tony Merriman - A health survey of the population of the Pacific island of Pukapuka in Rarotonga
  • Claire Murdoch - Models for content development, production and delivery of digital non-fiction materials
  • Louise Tu'u - Arcola Theatre in London

2011 Fellows and their research reports

  • Christina Barruel - Conflict resolution and peer mediation programmes for school children and their parents
  • Rodney Bell - Preventing young people from becoming victims or offenders of crime
  • Brian Cox -  Use of wood and other fuel crops
  • Belinda De Mayo - ‘Creative Partnerships’, the British government's flagship learning programme
  • Sarah Forster - Educational writing programmes for children
  • David Macpherson - Integrated transport systems and alternate transport modes in suburban and regional centres
  • Nicola Marshall - International Children's Film Festival organisation
  • Shona McCahon - Conservation covenants and natural habitats
  • Patrick Morgan - Cycling skills
  • Garry Nash - Hand making opalino and transparent glasses during the pre-industrial machine-made glass age
  • Libby Robins - Female prisoners and their infants
  • Kate Spence - ‘Orff Schulwerk’, a method of teaching children
  • Rachel Teulon - Paediatric palliative care for children with life limiting illnesses
  • Mason Tolerton - ‘Raven Aboriginal Youth Employment Programme’ in Canada 
  • Kaye Vessey - ‘HomeShare’ programme, open homes to older people for a day a week

2010 Fellows and their research reports

  • Deborah Hager (.pdf) 1.3mb* - Provision of specialised domestic violence and refuge services for women who currently find it hard to access mainstream services
  • Ruth Harvey (.pdf) 3.3mb* - Engaging youth and young adults in cultural institutions
  • Gary Holmes (.pdf) 778k* - Transportation and traffic issues
  • Kiri Jarden (.pdf) 1.08mb* - Funding and prioritising public art projects
  • Donald Kerr - New Zealand book collector, Dr Thomas Hocken
  • Jennifer Margaret (.pdf) 1.44mb* - Support of the aspirations of indigenous peoples and other marginalised groups
  • Graeme North (.pdf) 3.1mb* - Appropriate building technology
  • Phillippa Pitcher (.pdf) 3.8mb* - Trusts and not-for-profit organisations that provide community services to increase community wellbeing
  • Sarah Pritchett (.pdf) 1mb* - Successful engagement of the UK public in waste minimisation
  • Sally Raudon - Funerals and death care in countries with strong secular traditions
  • Francis Stark - Use of digital technology to preserve and access audiovisual archives
  • Margaret Stewart (.pdf) 2.7mb* - Dyslexia friendly schools
  • Janis Walker (.pdf) 1.75mb* - Synergies between Sweden’s Natural Sustainability Framework and the tangata whenua view of the natural environment

2009 Fellows and their research reports

  • Neil Bruce (.pdf) 467k* - Social support programmes for men in the community
  • Rose Evans (.pdf) 4.29mb* - International museums
  • Patricia Flanagan (.pdf) 485k* - Culturally appropriate self-management programmes for indigenous and ethnic minority people with long term health conditions
  • Andrew Hall - Lobbying and advocacy skills of the New Zealand Spinal Trust
  • Jennifer Harding (.pdf) 620k* - Workplace literacy providers
  • Betsan Martin (.pdf) 555k* - Health of water ecosystems in the Pacific region
  • Christopher Paulin (.pdf) 968k* - 18th century Māori fishing artefacts collected by Captain James Cook and other early explorers
  • Ian St George - Reverend William Colenso's letters and plant specimens in Kew Gardens; Reverend Richard Laishley's album of paintings
  • Patricia Wallace (.pdf) 491k* - Pre -1840 Māori cloaks
  • Jan White - The writer, Janet Frame; Artists, Len Lye and Colin McCahon

2008 Fellows and their research reports

  • Robin Allison (.pdf) 1.4mb* - Sustainable town centres and communities
  • Yvonne Bray (.pdf) 2.4mb* - Family carers and public education in palliative care
  • Patricia Cook - Supported accommodation for young people coming out of Child, Youth and Family care placements
  • John Cooney (.pdf) 709k* - Service workplaces applying system thinking to improve performance
  • Peter Dean - Criminal justice adversarial systems and criminal justice investigatory systems deal with child witnesses
  • Kelsang Demo (.pdf) 418k* - Meditation classes in prisons
  • Jill Goldson (.pdf) 75k* - Child inclusion in dispute resolution in Britain
  • Christina Green (.pdf) 551k* - Investigating quality in the equivalent out of of school care and recreation centres in Denmark and the UK
  • Peter Hambleton (.pdf) 85k* - Investigating theatre practionioners who explore the relationship with their audience through Shakespeare
  • Gaylene Lawrence (.pdf) 405k* - Foster care models in four Canadian provinces
  • Nicolette Lee (.pdf) 2.3mb* - Volunteer management in cathedrals and National Trust properties in England
  • Sharon Thorburn - Satellite system of choirs for troubled or severely disadvantaged children and youth
  • Philip Townshend (.pdf) 407k* - Internet gambling issues
  • Alta van Wyk - Organisational growth for book reader groups
  • Gareth Watkins (.pdf) 948k* - When minority becomes mainstream

2007 Fellows and their research reports

  • Zoe Drayton - Sound-art culture and experimental music
  • Sarah Gibb - Natural history societies in the United States
  • Sandra Hall - Australia’s Mental Health First Aid Programme
  • Lynda Hannah - Natural funeral movement
  • Stephanie McIntyre (.pdf) 589k* - Wet housing for chronically relapsing alcoholics
  • Lucy Shieffelbien - Poison prevention and education programmes
  • Carol Wrathall - Indigenous models of whänau/family violence prevention

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