John Fairweather
Biographic Data
| ID | 118571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Fairweather |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairweather |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRWEATHER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lincoln University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3854-6311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Characterisation of rock varnish at Murujuga (Western Australia): Implications for climate records and petroglyph dating
The aim of this study is to describe the textural, chemical, mineralogical and microbiome characteristics of rock (desert) varnish and assess its potential as a paleoclimate archive, with particular attention to the challenges of reconstructing climate variability in Northwest Australia. Rock samples from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia) with visible varnish were collected from Rosemary Island, the Burrup Peninsula and Dolphin Is…
Provenance analysis of stone artefact assemblages using petrography and pXRF at Murujuga (the Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia
Seeing and managing rock art at Nganjarli: A tourist destination in Murujuga National Park, Western Australia
The Nganjarli site complex, which includes a rich body of rock art, shell middens and artefact scatters, has been identified by the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) as the primary location within Murujuga National Park for tourism and interpretation facilities. Murujuga National Park lies on the north-west coast of Western Australia, and within the Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) National Heritage Place. MAC owns and co-mana…
Personality, Nations, and Innovation: Relationships Between Personality Traits and National Innovation Scores
Research has shown relationships between personality factors and innovation at the level of the individual person. Recently, data have become available that would allow testing of these relationships at the nation-state level. Based on theoretical aspects of the Big Five factors of personality, and on empirical work conducted using individuals as the unit of analysis, the authors hypothesize that mean national scores of Openness to Experience, Ag…
Hofstede and Shane Revisited: The Role of Power Distance and Individualism in National-Level Innovation Success
Hofstede’s value dimensions offer a measure of one component of culture (cultural values) and are a means of gaining greater understanding of the role culture plays in national innovation success. Hofstede’s (1980) cultural measures of individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and power distance, for example, have been shown to be correlated to the number (per capita) of trademarks ( Shane, 1993 ). Via multivariate multiple linear regression, we asse…
Computer-Assisted, Self-Interviewing (Casi) Compared to Face-to-Face Interviewing (FTFI) with Open-Ended, Non-Sensitive Questions
This article reports results from research on cultural models, and assesses the effects of computers on data quality by comparing open-ended questions asked in two formats-face-to-face interviewing (FTFI) and computer-assisted, self-interviewing (CASI). We expected that for our non-sensitive topic, FTFI would generate fuller and richer accounts because the interviewer could facilitate the interview process. Although the interviewer indeed facilit…
Clarifying a basis for qualitative generalization using approaches that identify shared culture
While the topic of generalization is well documented for quantitative research, it is less well documented for qualitative research. Addressing this issue, Williams (2000) proposes the concept of 'moderatum generalization' in which generalization is based on the presence of shared culture, and Gobo (2009) proposes idiographic sampling theory via three modes of inference. This article builds on Williams (2000) by considering two mixed-method appro…
A Mixed Methods Approach: Using Cultural Modeling and Consensus Analysis to Better Understand New Zealand’s International Innovation Performance
This article highlights the benefits of jointly using cultural modeling and cultural consensus analysis for the purpose of triangulation in research in which a cultural group’s point of view is desired. Cultural models are those presupposed, taken-for-granted models of knowledge and thought used in the course of everyday life to guide a person’s understanding of the world. These models can be identified by discourse analysis. Cultural consensus a…
The social practice of sustainable agriculture under audit discipline: Initial insights from the Argos project in New Zealand
Modelling cultural, national and innovation identities in order to understand New Zealand's modest innovation performance
In a world that has moved swiftly to global trade, innovation rates have become one of the tools by which nations achieve success in the world. New Zealand is a middling international performer with regards to innovation. Utilizing discourse analysis and cultural consensus analysis we built models of New Zealand culture, national identity and innovation identity in order to gain insights into cultural and identity attributes that help and hinder …
Assessing a farm's sustainability: Insights from resilience thinking
Research on sustainability in agriculture often focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of production systems. However, environmentally friendly production methods may not be sufficient to ensure the long-term economic and social sustainability of a farm. Taking a systems approach to sustainable farming, we turn to resilience thinking with its focus on the interdependence of social and ecological systems. We apply this approach to farming b…
Space, time and nature: Exploring the public reception of biotechnology in New Zealand
Nature is widely acknowledged to be a fluid, contested, material-semiotic construction, historically and spatially grounded. This is certainly the case for New Zealand, where a number of constructions of nature have been mobilized as a means to make judgments over the viability of particular biotechnologies that have entered into public debate. In this paper, we utilize Mikhail Bakhtin’s space-time matrix, the chronotope, to explore a series of c…
Challenging a place myth: New Zealand's clean green image meets the biotechnology revolution
The ‘clean green image’ of New Zealand is a well‐known example of what has been called a ‘place myth’. But more recently, emerging alongside this place myth is an image that the government is trying to co‐create of New Zealand as an innovator in biotechnology. In nationwide focus groups, whilst a matter of pride, participants typically saw this clean green myth as a temporally distant utopia. However, when considered alongside the futures propose…
Dilemmas and decisions over on or off-farm work
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn FairweatherJohn Fairweather is a full-time research socioogist in the Agribusiness and Economies Research Unit, Lincoln University. While his primary research interest is with topics fitting within the sociology of agriculture, he is involved in a wide range of topics, including research on forestry and tourism
The social practice of sustainable agriculture under audit discipline: Initial insights from the Argos project in New Zealand
Hofstede and Shane Revisited: The Role of Power Distance and Individualism in National-Level Innovation Success
Hofstede’s value dimensions offer a measure of one component of culture (cultural values) and are a means of gaining greater understanding of the role culture plays in national innovation success. Hofstede’s (1980) cultural measures of individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and power distance, for example, have been shown to be correlated to the number (per capita) of trademarks ( Shane, 1993 ). Via multivariate multiple linear regression, we asse…
Personality, Nations, and Innovation: Relationships Between Personality Traits and National Innovation Scores
Research has shown relationships between personality factors and innovation at the level of the individual person. Recently, data have become available that would allow testing of these relationships at the nation-state level. Based on theoretical aspects of the Big Five factors of personality, and on empirical work conducted using individuals as the unit of analysis, the authors hypothesize that mean national scores of Openness to Experience, Ag…
Challenging a place myth: New Zealand's clean green image meets the biotechnology revolution
The ‘clean green image’ of New Zealand is a well‐known example of what has been called a ‘place myth’. But more recently, emerging alongside this place myth is an image that the government is trying to co‐create of New Zealand as an innovator in biotechnology. In nationwide focus groups, whilst a matter of pride, participants typically saw this clean green myth as a temporally distant utopia. However, when considered alongside the futures propose…
Seeing and managing rock art at Nganjarli: A tourist destination in Murujuga National Park, Western Australia
The Nganjarli site complex, which includes a rich body of rock art, shell middens and artefact scatters, has been identified by the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) as the primary location within Murujuga National Park for tourism and interpretation facilities. Murujuga National Park lies on the north-west coast of Western Australia, and within the Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) National Heritage Place. MAC owns and co-mana…
Clarifying a basis for qualitative generalization using approaches that identify shared culture
While the topic of generalization is well documented for quantitative research, it is less well documented for qualitative research. Addressing this issue, Williams (2000) proposes the concept of 'moderatum generalization' in which generalization is based on the presence of shared culture, and Gobo (2009) proposes idiographic sampling theory via three modes of inference. This article builds on Williams (2000) by considering two mixed-method appro…
A Mixed Methods Approach: Using Cultural Modeling and Consensus Analysis to Better Understand New Zealand’s International Innovation Performance
This article highlights the benefits of jointly using cultural modeling and cultural consensus analysis for the purpose of triangulation in research in which a cultural group’s point of view is desired. Cultural models are those presupposed, taken-for-granted models of knowledge and thought used in the course of everyday life to guide a person’s understanding of the world. These models can be identified by discourse analysis. Cultural consensus a…
Computer-Assisted, Self-Interviewing (Casi) Compared to Face-to-Face Interviewing (FTFI) with Open-Ended, Non-Sensitive Questions
This article reports results from research on cultural models, and assesses the effects of computers on data quality by comparing open-ended questions asked in two formats-face-to-face interviewing (FTFI) and computer-assisted, self-interviewing (CASI). We expected that for our non-sensitive topic, FTFI would generate fuller and richer accounts because the interviewer could facilitate the interview process. Although the interviewer indeed facilit…
Dilemmas and decisions over on or off-farm work
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn FairweatherJohn Fairweather is a full-time research socioogist in the Agribusiness and Economies Research Unit, Lincoln University. While his primary research interest is with topics fitting within the sociology of agriculture, he is involved in a wide range of topics, including research on forestry and tourism
Space, time and nature: Exploring the public reception of biotechnology in New Zealand
Nature is widely acknowledged to be a fluid, contested, material-semiotic construction, historically and spatially grounded. This is certainly the case for New Zealand, where a number of constructions of nature have been mobilized as a means to make judgments over the viability of particular biotechnologies that have entered into public debate. In this paper, we utilize Mikhail Bakhtin’s space-time matrix, the chronotope, to explore a series of c…
Challenging a place myth: New Zealand's clean green image meets the biotechnology revolution
The ‘clean green image’ of New Zealand is a well‐known example of what has been called a ‘place myth’. But more recently, emerging alongside this place myth is an image that the government is trying to co‐create of New Zealand as an innovator in biotechnology. In nationwide focus groups, whilst a matter of pride, participants typically saw this clean green myth as a temporally distant utopia. However, when considered alongside the futures propose…
Assessing a farm's sustainability: Insights from resilience thinking
Research on sustainability in agriculture often focuses on reducing the environmental impacts of production systems. However, environmentally friendly production methods may not be sufficient to ensure the long-term economic and social sustainability of a farm. Taking a systems approach to sustainable farming, we turn to resilience thinking with its focus on the interdependence of social and ecological systems. We apply this approach to farming b…
A Mixed Methods Approach: Using Cultural Modeling and Consensus Analysis to Better Understand New Zealand’s International Innovation Performance
This article highlights the benefits of jointly using cultural modeling and cultural consensus analysis for the purpose of triangulation in research in which a cultural group’s point of view is desired. Cultural models are those presupposed, taken-for-granted models of knowledge and thought used in the course of everyday life to guide a person’s understanding of the world. These models can be identified by discourse analysis. Cultural consensus a…
The social practice of sustainable agriculture under audit discipline: Initial insights from the Argos project in New Zealand
Modelling cultural, national and innovation identities in order to understand New Zealand's modest innovation performance
In a world that has moved swiftly to global trade, innovation rates have become one of the tools by which nations achieve success in the world. New Zealand is a middling international performer with regards to innovation. Utilizing discourse analysis and cultural consensus analysis we built models of New Zealand culture, national identity and innovation identity in order to gain insights into cultural and identity attributes that help and hinder …
Personality, Nations, and Innovation: Relationships Between Personality Traits and National Innovation Scores
Research has shown relationships between personality factors and innovation at the level of the individual person. Recently, data have become available that would allow testing of these relationships at the nation-state level. Based on theoretical aspects of the Big Five factors of personality, and on empirical work conducted using individuals as the unit of analysis, the authors hypothesize that mean national scores of Openness to Experience, Ag…
Hofstede and Shane Revisited: The Role of Power Distance and Individualism in National-Level Innovation Success
Hofstede’s value dimensions offer a measure of one component of culture (cultural values) and are a means of gaining greater understanding of the role culture plays in national innovation success. Hofstede’s (1980) cultural measures of individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and power distance, for example, have been shown to be correlated to the number (per capita) of trademarks ( Shane, 1993 ). Via multivariate multiple linear regression, we asse…
Computer-Assisted, Self-Interviewing (Casi) Compared to Face-to-Face Interviewing (FTFI) with Open-Ended, Non-Sensitive Questions
This article reports results from research on cultural models, and assesses the effects of computers on data quality by comparing open-ended questions asked in two formats-face-to-face interviewing (FTFI) and computer-assisted, self-interviewing (CASI). We expected that for our non-sensitive topic, FTFI would generate fuller and richer accounts because the interviewer could facilitate the interview process. Although the interviewer indeed facilit…
Clarifying a basis for qualitative generalization using approaches that identify shared culture
While the topic of generalization is well documented for quantitative research, it is less well documented for qualitative research. Addressing this issue, Williams (2000) proposes the concept of 'moderatum generalization' in which generalization is based on the presence of shared culture, and Gobo (2009) proposes idiographic sampling theory via three modes of inference. This article builds on Williams (2000) by considering two mixed-method appro…
Seeing and managing rock art at Nganjarli: A tourist destination in Murujuga National Park, Western Australia
The Nganjarli site complex, which includes a rich body of rock art, shell middens and artefact scatters, has been identified by the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) as the primary location within Murujuga National Park for tourism and interpretation facilities. Murujuga National Park lies on the north-west coast of Western Australia, and within the Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) National Heritage Place. MAC owns and co-mana…
Provenance analysis of stone artefact assemblages using petrography and pXRF at Murujuga (the Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia
Characterisation of rock varnish at Murujuga (Western Australia): Implications for climate records and petroglyph dating
The aim of this study is to describe the textural, chemical, mineralogical and microbiome characteristics of rock (desert) varnish and assess its potential as a paleoclimate archive, with particular attention to the challenges of reconstructing climate variability in Northwest Australia. Rock samples from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia) with visible varnish were collected from Rosemary Island, the Burrup Peninsula and Dolphin Is…
Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works)