Working in the Pacific, working in Asia: the challenges of sustaining international partnerships in a pandemic.
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Fraser, Catherine
Honeyfield, Judith
Honeyfield, Judith
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2023
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Conference Contribution - Paper in Published Proceedings
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Nursing
Aged Healthcare
COVID-19
International Research Collaboration
Effective leadership
Relationship building
Aged Healthcare
COVID-19
International Research Collaboration
Effective leadership
Relationship building
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Fraser, C., & Honeyfield, J. (2023). Working in the Pacific, Working in Asia: the Challenges of Sustaining International Partnerships in a Pandemic. In International Academic Forum(Eds.), Asian Conference on Education & International Development 2023 Official Conference Proceedings (pp.1-12). Tokyo, Japan: IAFOR. https://papers.iafor.org/submission66930/
Abstract
In early 2020, members of the international, nursing and research teams at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand, met with a number of education and practice providers in China, to explore an education and research collaboration. These discussions facilitated the establishment of the Sino-New Zealand Aged Healthcare Association (SNZAH) which currently has 15 inaugural New Zealand members including academic staff, medical and healthcare practitioners, and aged care professionals. Membership is growing with the launch of a website, and interest from other Chinese universities and technical institutes. The advent and impact of COVID-19 has certainly stymied our progress. However, our early adoption of cultural lens theory as a way of understanding one another’s contexts and drivers has enabled us to ‘keep calm and carry on’, and even begin to thrive. We have conducted an initial iterative review into good practice in aged healthcare in New Zealand and achieved several co-authored research publications; we have held an online symposium with simultaneous translation options; and we have established a Learning Centre in Chengdu – all from our New Zealand base, and despite a raft of challenges. This paper outlines the roles of effective leadership and management in pursuing goals of internationalisation, when all the usual protocols of relationship-building have had to be revisited. We are also interested in connecting with readers who may be involved in similar collaborations in the aged healthcare and nursing sector.
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ACEID
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https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-101X.2023.4
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This paper is part of the ACEID2023 Conference Proceedings
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