Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll
Biographic Data
| ID | 657865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahuriri-Driscoll |
| SIGNATURE | AHURIRI-DRISCOLL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4046-5019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grieving Assisted Dying
The recent legalization of assisted dying (AD) in New Zealand has reshaped experiences of dying and grief, yet AD-related grief remains under-theorised. Guided by the questions of whether particular forms of grief are more prominent at different stages of the AD process, and how these manifestations can inform a grief framework tailored to AD, this qualitative study explores and explains how grief theories apply to AD. Using appreciative inquiry,…
‘She Got Me Through the Toughest Times
Introduction In a context of eroding trust in health care, understanding high‐quality relationships between health care providers and service users is important. Engaged relationships are linked to greater engagement in therapy, increased access and utilisation of services and improved outcomes. This study aimed to examine how unregulated health workers (kaimahi) develop and sustain high‐quality relationships with whānau (families) in three effec…
Institutional objection to assisted dying
As more countries legalize assisted dying (AD), one issue increasingly debated is institutional objection. This is when an institution decides it does not want to provide AD and wishes to prohibit some or all aspects of the AD process from occurring onsite. Aotearoa New Zealand legalized AD in 2021 but its legislation does not address institutional objection. This paper presents the first detailed examination of this issue in Aotearoa New Zealand…
Adoptee Activism
In this article, we, three adoptee scholars, share collectively our experiences of adoption while engaging in activism that contests adoption practices. We apply autoethnographic and reflexive strategies to unpack our shared conversation in order to foreground the plight of adoptees and offer insight into adoption and the importance of the current law reform in Aotearoa New Zealand. We draw on a model of adoptee consciousness to frame the complex…
Daily Temperatures and Child Hospital Admissions in Aotearoa New Zealand
The influence of global climate change on temperature-related health outcomes among vulnerable populations, particularly young children, is underexplored. Using a case time series design, we analysed 647,000 hospital admissions of children aged under five years old in New Zealand, born between 2000 and 2019. We explored the relationship between daily maximum temperatures and hospital admissions across 2139 statistical areas. We used quasi-Poisson…
Agency support for at‐risk families
There is an urgent need to locate effective interventions for parents involved with child protection services (CPS), Oranga Tamariki in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article describes a qualitative research study that sought to understand: (1) the nature of service provision to families; (2) workers’ perceptions of challenges and effective treatment components in delivering intervention; and (3) effective practices for working with Māori. Participan…
Investigating the spatial and temporal variation of vape retailer provision in New Zealand
Smoking rates have decreased in Aotearoa New Zealand in recent years however, vaping has shown a dramatic upward trend especially among young people; up to 10% of young New Zealanders are now regular vapers. Importantly, the long-term health consequences for their future life are largely unknown. The accessibility of vape retailers is important, particularly in relation to the youths' daily activities and places such as schools where they spend a…
Contesting the margins of coloniality
Over the past two decades, understandings of Mori identity have been enriched through emphases on non-binary categorizations, processual 'becoming', and flexible 'routes' rather than rigid 'roots'.While this work is commendable for expanding the range of identity options for Mori, it has not accounted for the unique position of Mori adoptees.This article presents the findings of research focused on the identity-related experiences of Mori adopted…
Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai
Closed stranger adoption has not commonly been recognised as a tool of Indigenous oppression in Aotearoa New Zealand, yet it was a colonial practice that caused great harm to Māori. This article narrates some of the ways in which adoptees who identify as Māori demonstrate resilience and resistance to the pernicious effects of closed stranger adoption. Using a mana (strengths-based values) enhancing approach, meaning we champion respect and unders…
Broaching Client Identities
Cultural competence and, to a lesser extent, cultural safety for developing culturally responsive practice have been the dominant paradigms in the helping professions in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article focuses on a paradigm shift toward critical and structural consciousness in a masters-level counselling curriculum. Authors in this study undertook a qualitative inquiry in exploring counselling students’ experiences of a critically conscious cu…
The Paradoxes of Closed Stranger Adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
Transracial adoptees continually navigate the paradoxes of adoption, which arise in bio-normative and racialized contexts. “Being-adopted-and-Māori” was explored with 15 Māori adult adoptees. Hermeneutic phenomenological analysis revealed experiences of adoptive and racial “differentness,” centered around four key paradoxes: “as if born to”; the lived experience of transracial adoption; post-reunion biological kinship; and whaka-papa. Examining t…
A ‘forgotten’ whakapapa
The era of closed stranger adoption is a significant part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s social and colonial history; some 80,000 children were legally adopted between the years 1955–1985. Māori children constituted a considerable proportion of these legal adoptions, although little attention has been given to their experiences. The relative silence surrounding this phenomenon exists alongside narratives of colonisation and a professed abhorrence by M…
A city profile of Ōtautahi Christchurch
Amplifying Indigenous voice and curriculum within the public health academy – the emergence of Indigenous sovereign leadership in public health education
In April 2019, educators from around Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia came together to share their experiences of teaching Indigenous public health. The inaugural International Indigenous Public Health Education Leadership Symposium provided an opportunity to (i) discuss the range of challenges of this work, and (ii) to affirm a collective aspiration to strengthen the contribution of public health education to improved Indigenous outcomes. Ta…
Māori views of forensic DNA evidence
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DNA profiling is just one of many tools available to police in a criminal investigation. However, unlike any other criminal investigative tool, DNA profiling has captured the public imagination. Its portrayal in popular fiction has given rise to the “CSI effect”, whereby the weight and credibility of science, combined with the predictive potential of DNA, produce an aura of infallibili…
Living with and beyond cancer
Purpose to provide a bicultural perspective on the views of people who have completed cancer treatment and, of health providers. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with 29 individuals (people who had recently completed cancer treatment and health providers). General inductive analysis was undertaken with all interview data, and a Kaupapa Māori approach was employed with the data from Māori participants.…
Enacting Kaitiakitanga
This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a "governance" gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māor…
Scientific Collaborative Research with Māori Communities
The phrase 'for Māori, by Māori, with Māori', synonymous with Kaupapa Māori research, reflects the strong community participatory orientation and aims of this paradigm. Its use has evolved from glib reference and catchphrase, to a 'checklist'/gauge of how well a research project has enacted community participatory principles, and to what extent Māori participation in the research process is meaningful and empowered. Description of research accord…
Scientific Collaborative Research with Māori Communities
The phrase 'for Māori, by Māori, with Māori', synonymous with Kaupapa Māori research, reflects the strong community participatory orientation and aims of this paradigm. Its use has evolved from glib reference and catchphrase, to a 'checklist'/gauge of how well a research project has enacted community participatory principles, and to what extent Māori participation in the research process is meaningful and empowered. Description of research accord…
Contesting the margins of coloniality
Over the past two decades, understandings of Mori identity have been enriched through emphases on non-binary categorizations, processual 'becoming', and flexible 'routes' rather than rigid 'roots'.While this work is commendable for expanding the range of identity options for Mori, it has not accounted for the unique position of Mori adoptees.This article presents the findings of research focused on the identity-related experiences of Mori adopted…
The Paradoxes of Closed Stranger Adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
Transracial adoptees continually navigate the paradoxes of adoption, which arise in bio-normative and racialized contexts. “Being-adopted-and-Māori” was explored with 15 Māori adult adoptees. Hermeneutic phenomenological analysis revealed experiences of adoptive and racial “differentness,” centered around four key paradoxes: “as if born to”; the lived experience of transracial adoption; post-reunion biological kinship; and whaka-papa. Examining t…
A ‘forgotten’ whakapapa
The era of closed stranger adoption is a significant part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s social and colonial history; some 80,000 children were legally adopted between the years 1955–1985. Māori children constituted a considerable proportion of these legal adoptions, although little attention has been given to their experiences. The relative silence surrounding this phenomenon exists alongside narratives of colonisation and a professed abhorrence by M…
Enacting Kaitiakitanga
This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a "governance" gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māor…
Scientific Collaborative Research with Māori Communities
The phrase 'for Māori, by Māori, with Māori', synonymous with Kaupapa Māori research, reflects the strong community participatory orientation and aims of this paradigm. Its use has evolved from glib reference and catchphrase, to a 'checklist'/gauge of how well a research project has enacted community participatory principles, and to what extent Māori participation in the research process is meaningful and empowered. Description of research accord…
Enacting Kaitiakitanga
This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks exist which provide a minimum standard for researchers to meet when working with Māori, what our experience has highlighted is there is currently a "governance" gap in terms of who should hold stewardship of research data collected from Māor…
Māori views of forensic DNA evidence
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. DNA profiling is just one of many tools available to police in a criminal investigation. However, unlike any other criminal investigative tool, DNA profiling has captured the public imagination. Its portrayal in popular fiction has given rise to the “CSI effect”, whereby the weight and credibility of science, combined with the predictive potential of DNA, produce an aura of infallibili…
Living with and beyond cancer
Purpose to provide a bicultural perspective on the views of people who have completed cancer treatment and, of health providers. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with 29 individuals (people who had recently completed cancer treatment and health providers). General inductive analysis was undertaken with all interview data, and a Kaupapa Māori approach was employed with the data from Māori participants.…
Amplifying Indigenous voice and curriculum within the public health academy – the emergence of Indigenous sovereign leadership in public health education
In April 2019, educators from around Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia came together to share their experiences of teaching Indigenous public health. The inaugural International Indigenous Public Health Education Leadership Symposium provided an opportunity to (i) discuss the range of challenges of this work, and (ii) to affirm a collective aspiration to strengthen the contribution of public health education to improved Indigenous outcomes. Ta…
A ‘forgotten’ whakapapa
The era of closed stranger adoption is a significant part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s social and colonial history; some 80,000 children were legally adopted between the years 1955–1985. Māori children constituted a considerable proportion of these legal adoptions, although little attention has been given to their experiences. The relative silence surrounding this phenomenon exists alongside narratives of colonisation and a professed abhorrence by M…
A city profile of Ōtautahi Christchurch
Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai
Closed stranger adoption has not commonly been recognised as a tool of Indigenous oppression in Aotearoa New Zealand, yet it was a colonial practice that caused great harm to Māori. This article narrates some of the ways in which adoptees who identify as Māori demonstrate resilience and resistance to the pernicious effects of closed stranger adoption. Using a mana (strengths-based values) enhancing approach, meaning we champion respect and unders…
Broaching Client Identities
Cultural competence and, to a lesser extent, cultural safety for developing culturally responsive practice have been the dominant paradigms in the helping professions in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article focuses on a paradigm shift toward critical and structural consciousness in a masters-level counselling curriculum. Authors in this study undertook a qualitative inquiry in exploring counselling students’ experiences of a critically conscious cu…
The Paradoxes of Closed Stranger Adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
Transracial adoptees continually navigate the paradoxes of adoption, which arise in bio-normative and racialized contexts. “Being-adopted-and-Māori” was explored with 15 Māori adult adoptees. Hermeneutic phenomenological analysis revealed experiences of adoptive and racial “differentness,” centered around four key paradoxes: “as if born to”; the lived experience of transracial adoption; post-reunion biological kinship; and whaka-papa. Examining t…
Adoptee Activism
In this article, we, three adoptee scholars, share collectively our experiences of adoption while engaging in activism that contests adoption practices. We apply autoethnographic and reflexive strategies to unpack our shared conversation in order to foreground the plight of adoptees and offer insight into adoption and the importance of the current law reform in Aotearoa New Zealand. We draw on a model of adoptee consciousness to frame the complex…
Daily Temperatures and Child Hospital Admissions in Aotearoa New Zealand
The influence of global climate change on temperature-related health outcomes among vulnerable populations, particularly young children, is underexplored. Using a case time series design, we analysed 647,000 hospital admissions of children aged under five years old in New Zealand, born between 2000 and 2019. We explored the relationship between daily maximum temperatures and hospital admissions across 2139 statistical areas. We used quasi-Poisson…
Agency support for at‐risk families
There is an urgent need to locate effective interventions for parents involved with child protection services (CPS), Oranga Tamariki in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article describes a qualitative research study that sought to understand: (1) the nature of service provision to families; (2) workers’ perceptions of challenges and effective treatment components in delivering intervention; and (3) effective practices for working with Māori. Participan…
Investigating the spatial and temporal variation of vape retailer provision in New Zealand
Smoking rates have decreased in Aotearoa New Zealand in recent years however, vaping has shown a dramatic upward trend especially among young people; up to 10% of young New Zealanders are now regular vapers. Importantly, the long-term health consequences for their future life are largely unknown. The accessibility of vape retailers is important, particularly in relation to the youths' daily activities and places such as schools where they spend a…
Contesting the margins of coloniality
Over the past two decades, understandings of Mori identity have been enriched through emphases on non-binary categorizations, processual 'becoming', and flexible 'routes' rather than rigid 'roots'.While this work is commendable for expanding the range of identity options for Mori, it has not accounted for the unique position of Mori adoptees.This article presents the findings of research focused on the identity-related experiences of Mori adopted…
Institutional objection to assisted dying
As more countries legalize assisted dying (AD), one issue increasingly debated is institutional objection. This is when an institution decides it does not want to provide AD and wishes to prohibit some or all aspects of the AD process from occurring onsite. Aotearoa New Zealand legalized AD in 2021 but its legislation does not address institutional objection. This paper presents the first detailed examination of this issue in Aotearoa New Zealand…
Grieving Assisted Dying
The recent legalization of assisted dying (AD) in New Zealand has reshaped experiences of dying and grief, yet AD-related grief remains under-theorised. Guided by the questions of whether particular forms of grief are more prominent at different stages of the AD process, and how these manifestations can inform a grief framework tailored to AD, this qualitative study explores and explains how grief theories apply to AD. Using appreciative inquiry,…
‘She Got Me Through the Toughest Times
Introduction In a context of eroding trust in health care, understanding high‐quality relationships between health care providers and service users is important. Engaged relationships are linked to greater engagement in therapy, increased access and utilisation of services and improved outcomes. This study aimed to examine how unregulated health workers (kaimahi) develop and sustain high‐quality relationships with whānau (families) in three effec…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Aotearoa (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)