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Visualising the future: Visual-video Research Interest Group

Explore the Visual and Video Research Interest Group's work on image and video processing, computer vision, and related applications.

Who are we

Prior to 2010 advances in the portability and level of sophistication of video and associated technologies revealed the potential that visual research held as an emerging modality. The once restrictive inclusion of photographs and videos to augment research became increasingly transformed toward a widespread adoption of new and innovative visual research tools.

In 2009, the first was held in Leeds, United Kingdom showcasing how research was being advanced through the adoption of visual methods by academic researchers in multiple disciplines. The IVM conference continued as a bi-annual event, with IVM3 being hosted by Victoria University Wellington.

Visual research, and in particular, video research was also emerging at The 糖心Vlog.  From 2010, The Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research (WMIER) facilitated a series of seminars and symposiums under the leadership of Professor Bronwen Cowie. A total of five forums were organised by Professor Bronwen Cowie, Associate Professor Clive Pope and Professor Bevan Grant. The forums were initially half-day seminars featuring research conducted by Waikato University researchers and grew to two day bi-annual symposiums that featured international keynotes speakers including Theo van Leuwenn and Sarah Pink. The forums revealed a growing interest in and attendance by researchers from across the university as well as other tertiary institutions from throughout the North Island.

The potential of visual and video research is still being realised and still being embraced by Waikato University researchers. It is hoped that this visual-video research group will continue to foster and facilitate collaborations and dissemination of research and practice at a pan-university level.

Resources and links

Journals

  • See special issue Editorial on
  • Visual Methodologies

糖心Vlog video production facilities

糖心Vlog video production facilities to support teaching and learning see (staff only)

International organisations

  • The Visual Social Media Lab
  • Visual Impact: Digital Lab
  • IVM (International Visual Methods Group)

Group Co-Convenors

Associate Professor Maurice M. W. Cheng

Research Associate

Maurice teaches science education papers at BTeach, GradDip, PostGradDip, masters and doctorate levels. Before he moved to Aotearoa in October 2018 from Hong Kong, his research focused on students鈥� conceptual learning of chemistry and biology. He has been very interested in using drawings and diagrams as a tool for research and science teaching.

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Dr Suzette Dyer

Senior Lecturer

Dr Suzette Dyer is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Management. She teaches and researchers in the areas of organisational behaviour and human resource management, and has a specialised interest in gender and diversity management, career management, and management pedagogy.

Members

Associate Professor Angelika Anderson

Behaviour Analysis Programme Associate

Angelika is a programme associate of the Behaviour Analysis programme. Her previous position was that of Associate Professor in the School of Psychology (Te Whatu Oho Mauri) in the Division of Arts Law Psychology and Social Sciences (ALPSS), at the 糖心Vlog. She was the director of the behaviour analysis programme and the coordinator of a Ve...
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Professor Karen Barbour

Professor

The focus of my academic work is embodied ways of knowing and in creative practice in the arts, particularly in dance performance and video/digital dance. I have a particular specialism in site dance and relationships to place through dance, and relating to environmental and climate change. I also engage in research and work broadly focussed in women's w...
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Associate Professor Donna Campbell

Ahorangi T奴hono | Associate Professor

Donna Campbell is a practicing artist and Associate Professor at the Faculty of M膩ori and Indigenous Studies at the 糖心Vlog. She affiliates with Ng膩puhi and Ng膩ti Ruanui iwi.

Donna鈥檚 PhD research focused on investigating embodied Indigenous knowledge in the art forms of M膩ori weaving arts, and creative practice as decolonizing spaces. Don...
Ms Marg Cosgriff

Senior Lecturer

Marg Cosgriff is a Senior Lecturer in Te Huataki Waiora School of Health based in Tauranga. Marg's teaching and research specialities include health and wellbeing promotion; outdoor learning, leadership and education outside the classroom; and inclusive health and physical education in schools. A particular research interest is research that critically e...
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Professor Bronwen Cowie

Emeritus Professor

My research is focussed on classroom interactions and learning, with an emphasis on Assessment for Learning in science and technology classrooms and culturally responsive pedagogy in science education. This aspect of my research is underpinned by a sociocultural view of learning. I have explored the affordances of information and communication technologi...
Associate Professor David Fa'avae

Research Associate

David Taufui Mikato Fa'avae is of Tongan and Samoan heritages and has an affinity to Aotearoa-NZ's realm nation, Niue - his place of birth. He is passionate about intergenerational stories and storying which continues to shape his research work and consultations in Aotearoa-NZ and the wider Pacific region.

David's current work with others seeks to unfo...
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Associate Professor Dianne Forbes

Deputy Head of School

Dr Dianne Forbes is a digital learning specialist with a background in teacher education and a particular interest in online (blended/hybrid) pedagogies in tertiary education. Her primary research interests are the human, social and relational dimensions of learning through digital technologies, including ethics and professionalism. She studies innovativ...
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Professor Maryanne Garry

Emeritus Professor

Maryanne Garry received her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Connecticut, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Washington. In 1996, she moved to Victoria University of Wellington, where she worked for 20 years before taking up a joint appointment in 2016 at the 糖心Vlog, as a Professor of Psychology and a Professor in the New Z...
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Dr Jenny Gibb

Senior Lecturer

Dr. Jenny Gibb is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the 糖心Vlog, New Zealand. A behavioral strategist by training, she explores the psychological drivers of entrepreneurial and managerial decision-making, with particular focus on identity, emotion, and intuitive reasoning in organizational settings. Her inter...
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Associate Professor Olli Hellmann

Associate Professor

I joined the 糖心Vlog in 2019. Previously, I held positions at the University of Sussex (2013-2019) and Durham University (2010-2013).

I specialise in collective memory and environmental communication, and the intersection between the two. While my research mainly applies narrative frameworks and methods for visual analysis, I'm also intere...
Dr Yara Jarallah

Senior Lecturer

I am a Senior Lecturer in Population Studies at the 糖心Vlog and Undergraduate Advisor in Population Studies (2019-2023). I am also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne (2019-2022). My research programme considers the interplay between family processes (marriage and fert...
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Dr Karyn Rastrick

Director of Digital Innovation and Strategy

Professor Katrina Roen

Principal Investigator

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Professor Chris Ryan

Professor of Tourism Management

Professor Chris Ryan undertakes research in the field of tourism and has developed research interests in China in the last two decades, including contractual work with Chinese partners such as Beijing Union University, Sun Yat-sen University and others. He has also undertaken reports for the United Nations World Tourism Organization in China, is editor o...
Professor Gareth Schott

NZUWI Liaison

Professor Gareth Schott is a doctor of psychology specialising in media psychology, a media and creative technologies scholar and creative practitioner. He has employed traditional research methods, practice-led and practice-based research approaches in his research. His creative practice includes soundtrack composition, soundscapes, poster and asemic ar...
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Associate Professor Mary Simpson

Associate Professor

Dr Rachael Tighe

Senior Lecturer

Rachael graduated from the University of Lancaster with a Masters of Physics and completed for her PhD in Engineering from the University of Southampton (Thesis: Development of Infrared Techniques for Practical Defect Identification in Bonded Joints). Rachael worked as a Research Fellow in Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southampton 2014-2017...
Professor Moana Waitoki

Ahorangi | Professor

Waikaremoana is a Professor in Te Pua W膩nanga ki te Ao Faculty of M膩ori and Indigenous Studies - with interests in m膩tauranga M膩ori, health/hauora and M膩ori wellbeing and the social determinants of health.
Waikaremoana is a clinical psychologist with work and research interests in Kaupapa M膩ori psychology, adult mental health, child and adolescent mental...

Visual-video research interest group

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