Hazel Ashton - Last updated: 07/11/2008

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Merivale, Christchurch

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Hazel is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
The main aim of her post-doc is to further develop a transdisciplinary methodology for grounded, locally-based civic cosmopolitan projects piloted in her doctoral thesis.
The starting point for this project is the fact that we all live somewhere. We also all live in a world that is increasingly interdependent. The basic research question for the project is how locally-constructed agency, based on what we really care about, can be developed within and thence much more effectively beyond localities.
Hazel has long been engaged in researching local development in the context of the wider, interdependent world - development that balances socio-cultural, economic and ecological (“triple-bottom line”) factors. She is particularly interested in exploring the new affordances of screen interfaces (film and Internet) for inclusive, narrative-based local development.
Hazel's research is focused on her website www.village-connections.com. To build the website Hazel engaged web designer Kate Hindin, who managed to stretch the available open-source technologies so the website could function as a virtual village and an academic hub.
Hazel welcomes views and suggestions as well as more developed contributions to discussion of these issues such as articles or blogs.

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