People, environment and planning research , Te Kura Tangata, Taiao me te Whakamahere - Rangahau

The HOPE Collective is an interdisciplinary research collective exploring hope and hopeful teaching in higher education to reimagine university learning as a space for transformation.

Hope in Higher Education survey

We are a group of researchers from Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University, undertaking a national survey exploring how tertiary educators in Aotearoa New Zealand understand and apply hope in their teaching practice. Whether you see hope as central to your pedagogy or view it more critically, we’re interested in your experience.

Our expertise is in sociology, digital education, planning and critical pedagogies. 

We thank our advisory panel for their input into this survey, particularly Associate Professor Te Hurunui Clarke (Te Arawa, Ngāi Tahu), University of Waikato.

Participate in the research survey

Research team members

Dr Alice Beban, Associate Professor Elaine Khoo, Dr Clare Mouat and Lisa Vonk.

Contact us at hopeinhighered@gmail.com

Re-imagining South Pacific tourism

This project explores how indigenous people in tourism have been affected by COVID-19, and how they have responded. It investigates how tourism can be re-imagined in more sustainable and equitable ways by building on indigenous knowledge.

Reimagining South Pacific tourism post-pandemic

Understanding change in the Pacific from the inside

Professor Glenn Banks

Climate refugees and disappearing islands loom large in predictions of Pacific futures. But local knowledge has been marginalised in academic and policy discussions. This research, led by palagi and Pacific researchers, will produce a co-constructed understanding of change.

Professor Bethan Greener, Dr Nina Harding, Major Amy Brosnan (Massey University), Professor Megan Mackenzie (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Dr Kate Lewis (Newcastle University, UK)

This project is systematically examining how gender operates within the army — including gendered ideal types, stereotypes, and gendered expectations. It will theorise about how militaries might be ‘regendered’ and will help the army to become a more inclusive and effective institution.

The project began in 2020 and runs through 2023. It uses surveys, questionnaires, interviews and observation to collect data for coding and analysis.

Associate Professor Russell Prince, Associate Professor Matt Henry, Dr Carolyn Morris, Dr Aisling Gallagher

Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms. But they operate, succeed and fail in specific places. How do markets and places shape each other?

Massey staff are collaborating with colleagues from around New Zealand to explore this growing area of research. The project brings together geographers, sociologists and anthropologists, studying markets selling goods as diverse as livestock, apples, childcare, data and Māori potatoes.

Books published from this research

Markets in their Place: Context, Culture, Finance

Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times: The Marketization of Care

Associate Professor Sita Venkateswar

Massey researchers have been part of a Taranaki initiative, Farm Next Door, to collaborate with small-scale growers who farm sustainably, organically or regeneratively to earn money and supply produce for the community. The project aims to better understand this growing movement and shift mindsets around food production.

Dr Cadey Korson, Dr Alice Beban, Professor Jonathan Procter, Dr Janet Reid

The phrase ‘social license to operate’ sometimes refers to communities’ acceptance of primary industries in their regions.

If New Zealanders are to take a more environmentally responsible approach to farming, we need to build on the shared perspectives in our diverse communities. This project aims to develop new tools for connecting producers and consumers, by better-understanding perceptions of farming and food production. It will include surveys of iwi and other stakeholders and will generate articles, graphics and a mini-documentary.

Funded by the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge/Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai.