Interview with the DomPost: Contacts may help businesses

16 12 2009

Read an article in the DominionPost of Wednesday 16th December, which I was interviewed for. It promotes research Asia New Zealand recently published on New Zealanders in Southeast Asia.





Hope in the recession

15 12 2009

In a special issue on the recession in Refresh: The Journal of Contemplative Spirituality - the journal of Spiritual Growth Ministries of Aotearoa New Zealand – I’ve got an article called “Where is our hope?” – pp.45-46. The full journal can be accessed online here





International education conference papers

9 12 2009

The refereed papers I delivered recently in Canberra, at the 20th ISANA International Education Association conference, are now available online: one paper on foreign relations and international education and another on Asian business graduates in New Zealand.





Interview on ASB Breakfast (TV3)

25 11 2009

Watch an interview with me on ASB Breakfast, on TV3, broadcast live at 6.30am on Wednesday 25 November, about Asian students.





Friends, foreign and domestic

25 11 2009

Read a new article of mine on export education and foreign policies in New Zealand, which is published in Policy Quarterly, the journal of Victoria University of Wellington’s Institute of Policy Studies.





Subscribe to this blog

17 11 2009

You can now subscribe to this blog by email, using the button to the right of the screen.





Full NZPR article now online

10 11 2009

The full text (in PDF) of the New Zealand Population Review article on international students, which was recently published, is now available – along with the full text of many other publications – on the articles, chapters and reports section of this website.





Migrant Christian communities in New Zealand: Observations and Missiological Reflections

9 11 2009

Read the paper ‘Migrant Christian communities in New Zealand: Observations and Missiological Reflections’ that George Wieland and I presented at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Mission Studies Mini-Symposium at Laidlaw College on October 31, 2009.

A brief precis of the mini-symposium is here on the Laidlaw College website.





New article on Asian students

2 11 2009

Based on a paper presented at the International Metropolis Conference on Migration, in Melbourne, in 2007 and on a paper commissioned by the Asia New Zealand Foundation in that same year, is an article co-authored by me, Terry McGrath and Paul Stock:

A. Butcher, T. McGrath and P. Stock (2009), ‘Once Returned, Twice Forgotten? Asian Students Returning Home After Studying in New Zealand in R. Bedford, W. Friesen and A. Zodgekar (eds.), New Zealand Population Review, 33 & 34: 235-248





For whom the bell tolls

22 10 2009

An exciting and inspirational initiative from Dunedin churches, spear-headed by Otago University’s chaplain Greg Hughson

http://www.ch9.co.nz/content/churches-ring-their-bells-350-times