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 International Visual Research Methods (IVM) Conference 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 University of Waikato.  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

University of Waikato video production facilities

University of Waikato video production facilities to support teaching and learning see University FutureLearn MOOC course support site (staff only)

International organisations

Group Co-Convenors

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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’ 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.
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Members

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Associate Professor Angelika Anderson

Teaching Fellow

Angelika's current position is 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 University of Waikato. She is the director of the behaviour analysis programme and the coordinator of a Verified Course Sequence (VCS).
Previously she was at the Faculty of…
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Associate Professor Karen Barbour

Head of Arts

Creativity and embodiment frame the focus of my academic work in dance performance, video/digital dance and creative practice in the arts. I have a particular interest in site dance, relationships to place and environmental change. I also engage in wider work in women's holistic wellbeing and movement practices, including as a yoga teacher and somatic mo…
+64 7 837 9813
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Associate Professor Donna Campbell

Associate Dean of Academic

Donna Campbell is a practicing artist and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. She affiliates with Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Ruanui iwi.

Donna’s PhD research focused on investigating embodied Indigenous knowledge in the art forms of Māori weaving arts, and creative practice as decolonizing spaces. Donna …
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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

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…
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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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Dr Dianne Forbes

Senior Lecturer

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

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 University of Waikato, as a Professor of Psychology and a Professor in the New Z…
+64 7 837 9556
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Dr Jenny Gibb

Senior Lecturer

Jenny Gibb is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She holds a PhD from the University of Waikato. As a behavioural strategist, her research intersects the fields of entrepreneurship, psychology, and strategic decision making. She is interested in the psychological antecedents of key fi…
+64 7 837 9261
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Associate Professor Olli Hellmann

Associate Professor

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

I specialise in political communication, with a particular focus on two broader questions. How do societies collectively remember their past through media? How do visual images shape our understanding of the…
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Dr Yara Jarallah

Senior Lecturer

I am a Senior Lecturer in Population Studies at the University of Waikato 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…
+64 7 838 4685
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Dr Janette Kelly-Ware

Senior Lecturer

My research explores the taken-for-granted assumptions and traditional understandings commonly seen in relation to early childhood education (ECE) pedagogy.

Diversity, the arts, and nature-based education connected to sustainability are all areas where it is possible for adults and children to see, think, and act differently. Particularly in relation to…
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Mr Roy Larke

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Karyn Rastrick
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Professor Katrina Roen

Professor

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Professor Chris Ryan

Professor

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…
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Professor Gareth Schott

FASS-ZUCC Liaison

Professor Gareth Schott is a media psychologist, media studies scholar and creative practitioner. He has employed traditional research methods, practice-led and practice-based research approaches in his research. His own creative practice includes soundtrack composition and soundscapes.

His psychological interests sit within self-concept theory in whic…
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Associate Professor Mary Simpson

Associate Professor

Mary's goal as a researcher and teacher is to use her knowledge and experience developed in the field of ageing and wellbeing, to promote the health, independence and well-being of older people, and to address health inequities experienced by Māori kaumātua.
+64 7 837 9278
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Dr Rachael Tighe

Programme Leader - Mechanical Engineering

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…
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Associate Professor Moana Waitoki

Research Associate

Waikaremoana is an Associate Professor in Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies - with interests in mātauranga Māori, health/hauora and Māori wellbeing and the social determinants of health.
Waikaremoana is a clinical psychologist with work and research interests in Kaupapa Māori psychology, adult mental health, child and adoles…

Visual-video research interest group

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