Submission to NZCARN Inaugural Research Symposium Proceedings Proforma

Please write your extended Abstract of your Research (current and future) under the headings below as a Word file (compatible with Windows XP) in Times New Roman, 11 pt, to be printed on 1 page of A4. Please help us map research in New Zealand.

This extended abstract will be used in three ways:

1. Analysed by the review board to identify NZCARN themes (a start of the mapping)
2. Published at the symposium in the symposium proceedings
3. During mapping sessions I and II

Headings to use:

• Name:
• Organisational affiliation:
• Email address:
• These two lines are to assist symposium planning and will be edited out:
• Do you wish your submission to be peer reviewed? Yes or No
• Do you plan to present 1-2 poster(s) (optional)? Yes or No
  

• Title: Please indicate your current and possible future research activities

• Current work: Outline of current (and recent) research, including substantive focus,‘kind’ of research (e.g. ‘Action Research’, ‘Kaupapa Maori’, Practitioner Research, Evidence-based Inquiry etc.), research methods used, findings / outcomes to date, names of any individual or organisational partners, URLs for any on-going work or publications.
  

• Possible future work: A brief statement of your area of interest and up to three researchquestions likely to be addressed in your forthcoming work.

Up to 2 pages only please, emailed by 15 May 2009 to be confident of inclusion in the proceedings.
Please email your extended abstract to Louise.Clark@canterbury.ac.nz; and Donna.Morrow@canterbury.ac.nz.


Jo Fletcher, Donna Morrow, Anne McGrath, Niki Davis & Bridget Somekh, NZCARN Research Symposium Proceedings Editors