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Research in Category: "People and Society"

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
Advocacy

PSN Users of Violence Literature Review 2024

By: Dr Simon Duff
Published: 2024-10-01

Violence within families and relationships is a widespread and critical issue confronting New Zealand society. Intervention programmes that work with perpetrators are essential for reducing reoffending and protecting those who…continue reading

Advocacy Family Violence & Abuse
Law and Justice

Voices from the Margins: Aotearoa/New Zealand Young Carers Reflect on Their Experiences

By: Dr Lauren Donnan, Professor Janet Gaffney, Professor Toni Bruce
Published: 2023-08-01

Young carers are a largely invisible and unsupported population of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) children and youth aged 25 years and under who physically, emotionally, socially, and/or spiritually support loved…continue reading

Advocacy Health & Wellbeing Whānau
Advocacy

Methodological sensitivities for co‐producing knowledge through enduring trustful partnerships

By: Alison Greenaway, Holden Hohaia, Erena Le Heron, Richard Le Heron, Andrea Grant, Gradon Diprose, Nicholas Kirk, and Will Allen
Published: 2021-11-19

Indigenous ways of caring for the environment have long been marginalised through research methodologies that are blind to a range of ways of knowing the world. Co-production of knowledge across…continue reading

Advocacy Environment Indigenous Partnerships Research & Evaluation Te Tiriti O Waitangi
Law and Justice

Who Cares About Us? The Hidden Population of Current and Former Aotearoa/New Zealand Young Carers Reflect on Their Experiences

By: Dr Lauren Donnan
Published: 2020-12-01

New Zealand [NZ] young carers are an invisible and disadvantaged population of children, youth, and young adults aged 25 years and under providing significant, ongoing care for a family member…continue reading

Advocacy Health & Wellbeing Whānau
Leadership

Bringing Life to Leadership: The emergence of principal leadership practice for educational success in low socio-economic schools

By: Victoria University of Wellington
Published: 2019-12-11

The persistent educational achievement gap and historically haphazard nature of progress for students in impoverished contexts in New Zealand primary schools is a deep-seated problem needing urgent attention. This multifaceted…continue reading

Advocacy Children & Youth Education & Training Leadership
People and Society

Ngā Kōrero Hauora o Ngā Taiohi; A community-powered report on conversations with 1000 young people about wellbeing

By: Laura O'Connell Rapira
Published: 2018-08-28

In 2018, the government announced plans to develop a Child Wellbeing Strategy to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. While this is an…continue reading

Advocacy Children & Youth Health & Wellbeing
Advocacy

Moving beyond love and luck: building right relationships and respecting lived experience in New Zealand autism policy

By: Hilary Stace
Published: 2012-12-19

PhD thesis in Public Policy which looks at the policy problems arising from the rapidly increasing diagnoses of autism in recent decades. Considers history and construction of the concept of…continue reading

Advocacy Children & Youth Disability & Neurodivergence Families, Whānau and Parenting Health & Wellbeing Research & Evaluation Social Services
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