Month: August 2017
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Rotary Global Grant Blog August 2017
August has been another full and exciting month in Wellington! At the beginning of the month, I competed in Victoria University’s Three Minute Thesis Competition. The Three Minute Thesis competition challenges postgraduate students to explain their thesis research to a non-specialist audience in just 3 minutes. The goal is to clearly outline your research, engage…
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How does restorative justice counter biases?
Over the last couple months, I have started interviewing restorative justice facilitators as part of my research. The insight I have gained from these conversations has been incredible and I look forward to sharing more as I write up my findings. Most of the facilitators I have interviewed are in New Zealand, but I am…
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How do you design a circle process?
For some conflicts and wrongdoings, a traditional restorative justice conference process with clear victim and offender roles may not be appropriate or necessary. Sometimes multiple people are both responsible for harm and have experience harm. For example, at the university, there is a lot of conflict around every day things like a messy shared apartment…
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Rotary Global Grant Blog July 2017
Starting this term, my PhD studies in New Zealand are generously supported by a Rotary Global Grant Scholarship. I am honored and so grateful to have received this support from Rotary. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity, while home in Colorado, to visit a couple of the local clubs to say thank you…
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Restorative Pedagogy
This year, Victoria University has begun offering a Graduate Certificate course in Restorative Justice. Last week, Dr. Tom Noakes-Duncan delivered a fascinating class on Restorative Pedagogy, raising the question, “How should restorative practices be taught?” He introduced the old paradigm of teaching, often referred to as the Transmission Model. The teacher transfers knowledge to the…
Lindsey Pointer, PhD 