This research critically examines the extent to which the Reserves Act 1977, the primary legislative framework governing many parks and reserves, especially those associated with territorial local authorities, aligns with…continue reading
RECENT RESEARCH
LGBTQIA+
‘We are celebrated but not included’: heteronormativity and cisnormativity in Aotearoa New Zealand workplaces
By: Le Cui
Published: 2025-08-19
Using survey comments from organisations across various sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand, this qualitative study examines the workplace climate for Rainbow employees. It employs the theoretical frameworks of heteronormativity and…continue reading
Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Ethnicity and Diversity
The im/possibility of home: Chinese queer international students’ homing experiences in New Zealand
By: Le Cui; Lin Song
Published: 2025-08-14
This paper explores the experiences of Chinese queer international students in New Zealand as they leave behind a heteronormative past home and seek a new queer home and future. Departing…continue reading
Law and Justice
The impacts of Child to Parent Violence and Abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand
By: Lee Tempest & Olivia Bloom
Published: 2025-06-23
This executive summary is the first data on Child to Parent Violence and Abuse (CPVA) in Aotearoa—an issue that many of us have seen but struggled to define, name, and…continue reading
Children & Youth Families, Whānau and Parenting Health & Wellbeing
Non-profit Sector
Community Sector Insights
By: Community Research
Published: 2025-06-02
This document presents key messages from a synthesis of nine substantive research reports relevant to the community and voluntary sector in Aotearoa New Zealand, published between 2020-2024. It has been…continue reading
Community Development
Advocacy
He Whare, He Taonga: Hauraki Wāhine and the Fight for Housing Sovereignty
By: Paora Moyle
Published: 2025-03-12
Hauraki Māori wāhine, through Te Whariki Manawahine O Hauraki, are asserting their right to secure housing on their whenua, resisting a system that has long denied them stability, dignity, and…continue reading
Advocacy
Integrating Māori Ecological Wisdom and Civil Defence: A Contrasting Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Resilience in Hauraki Māori Communities
By: Paora Moyle
Published: 2025-01-31
This article explores the response of Hauraki Māori communities to the housing crisis in Hauraki, which was intensified by Cyclone Gabrielle. It contrasts Indigenous disaster response strategies with existing civil…continue reading
Community Development Emergency & Disaster Māori
Advocacy
“I know – that’s the system. The system is wrong”: Allyship and social justice in community interpreting from a service-user perspective
By: Agustina Marianacci
Published: 2024-12-30
Defined as the practice of gaining awareness and acting upon the oppression of marginalized groups, allyship can account for the power interpreters hold in systems of oppression and can contribute…continue reading
Advocacy Allyship Social justice
Ethnicity and Diversity
Webinar – CTA Community of Practice – Kia Tipu He Tipua: Evolving the Community Funding Model at Hāpai Hapori ki Te Tari Taiwhenua
By: Marlene Wilkinson, Leonie Matoe, Maria Ngawati, Hāpai Hapori ki Te Tari Taiwhenua
Published: 2024-11-12
Hāpai Hapori (Community Operations) provides Secretariat services for the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board, the Crown Community Voluntary Sector and a range of Trusts contributing to community, hapū, iwi and…continue reading