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Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

In 2010 and 2011, Aotearoa New Zealand was hit by a number of major disasters involving loss of human life and severe disruption to social, ecological and economic wellbeing. The Pike River mine explosions were closely followed by a sequence of major earthquakes in Christchurch, seismic events that have permanently altered the lives of thousands of people in our third largest city, the closure of the central business district and the effective abandonment of whole residential areas. In early October 2011, the ship, Rena, grounded on a reef off the port of Tauranga and threatened a major oil spill throughout the Bay of Plenty, where local communities with spiritual and cultural connections to the land depend on sea food as well as thrive on tourism. The Council for Social Work Education Aotearoa New Zealand (CSWEANZ), representing all the Schools of Social Work in New Zealand, held a ‘Disaster Curriculum’ day in November 2011, at which social workers and Civil Defence leaders involved in the Christchurch earthquakes, the Rena Disaster, Fiji floods and the Boxing Day tsunami presented their narrative experience of disaster response and recovery. Workshops discussed and identified core elements that participants considered vital to a social work curriculum that would enable social work graduates in a range of community and cultural settings to respond in safe, creative and informed ways. We present our core ideas for a social work disaster curriculum and consider a wide range of educational content based on existing knowledge bases and new content within a disaster framework. http://www.swsd-stockholm-2012.org/

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of an All Right? Canterbury Rollercoaster on a whiteboard in a school classroom. Children have written their initials on the cab magnets and placed them on the rollercoaster to show how they are feeling. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 21 July 2014 at 11:00am.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of an All Right? Canterbury Rollercoaster on a whiteboard in a school classroom. Children have written their initials on the cab magnets and placed them on the rollercoaster to show how they are feeling. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 21 July 2014 at 11:00am.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a Canterbury Rollercoaster fridge magnet, which was used as a cover photo on the All Right? Facebook page. The Canterbury Rollercoaster was designed to raise awareness around emotional literacy in Canterbury. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 2 May 2014 at 8:53am.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of boxes of flowers ready to be given out during All Right?'s 'Flower Bombing' project on 4 September 2013. Moffatts Flower Company donated thousands of flowers for the All Right? 'Flower Bombing' project. With the assistance of BNZ 'Closed for Good' staff, flowers were given out at the EQC call centre, Lyttelton Main, Lyttelton West and Phillipstown Schools, Eastgate Mall, and SCIRT rebuild sites. All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook page on 21 February 2014 at 3:05pm.