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Art and culture
Professor Huhana Smith
- Indigenous Art
- Māori Renaissance
- Environmental art
Climate change and natural disasters
Professor Chris Anderson
BSc(Hons), PhD
Doctoral Mentor Supervisor
Professor Bruce Glavovic
- Climate change resilience
- Mitigation issues
- IPCC report
Professor Jonathan Procter
- Volcanology
- Volcanic hazards
- Computational modelling
- Geomorphology
- Emergency management
- Māori environmental participation
- Māori natural resource management
- Treaty of Waitangi historical research
Defence and security
Profess Bethan Greener
- International security
- the rise of police in international peace support operations
- liberalism and the use of force
- gender and peacebuilding
- security issues in the South Pacific
Associate Professor William Hoverd
- Research Methods
- Religious Diversity
- New Zealand Society
- Social Change
- New Zealand Security
Dr Anna Powles
- Geopolitics and strategic competition in the Pacific Islands
- Security sector governance and cooperation
- Private Military Security Companies
- Pacific Islands regional security, conflict and politics
- New Zealand defence and foreign policy
Development studies and tourism
Dr Samantha Gardyne
- Sustainable development goals
Dr Apisalome Movono
- Sustainable tourism
- Social and economic impacts on indigenous communities
Professor Regina Scheyvens
- Sustainable Tourism
- Sustainable Development
- Foreign Aid
- Resilience and Poverty Reduction
- Regions: Pacific islands, especially Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands
Education
Professor Jodie Hunter
- Mathematics education
- Pasifika education
- Equity and diversity
- Early Algebra
- Student perspectives
- Professional development
- Culturally responsive teaching
Dr Raewyn Laurenson
- Counselling and coaching in workplaces
- Counsellor education and supervision
Dr Nicola Leete
- Education Law
- Inclusive Education
- Human Rights
- Administrative Law and Leadership
- Mixed Methods Research
- Sociolegal Research
Dr Nicola McDowell
- Blind
- Low Vision
- Cerebral visual impairment,
- Learning support
- Disability rights
- Empowerment
Emeritus Professor Tom Nicholson
- Literacy and social justice
- Indigenous literacy achievement
- Reading wars
- Contemporary phonics
- Out-of-school reading programs
- Cross-age literacy tutoring for struggling readers
- Dyslexia
- Literacy and behaviour problems,
- Prison illiteracy
- Policy issues in literacy
- History of reading instruction
- The Lake Wobegon effect in reading
Maximiliano Pierret
- Autism
- Autism Spectrum
- Neurodiversity
- Inclusive Education
- Special Education
Professor Jenny Poskitt
- Educational assessment
- Professional learning in assessment
- Assessment for learning
- Action research to improve professional learning
- Improving adolescent learning and engagement
Gender issues
Dr Nicola Brown
- Gender and equality within engineering
Governance
Dr Bill Kirkley
- Strategic management
- Governance
- Change management and entrepreneurship management and governance issues
Dr James Lockhart
- Corporate governance and agribusiness
- Governance of agri-sector cooperatives and organisations
- Corporate failures
- Strategic performance
- Land and farm management
International and foreign affairs
Professor Rouben Azizian
- Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
- Asia-Pacific security and geopolitics
- Regional organisations
- National security strategy
- US policy in the Asia-Pacific
- Russian politics and foreign policy
- Security dynamics in South and Central Asia
- Regional security architecture in the Pacific Islands region
Dr Damien Rogers
- New Zealand foreign policy, defence and security
- The United Nations (Security Council and the Secretary-General)
- Contemporary armed conflict and war crimes, genocide
- The International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court at The Hague
- International arms control and disarmament
- United Nations peacekeeping operations, sanctions regimes, and arms embargoes
Professor Christoph Schumacher
- Theoretical microeconomics
- Game theory
- Health economics
- Sports economics
- Forecasting
- Economic growth theory
Professor Ted Zorn
- Organisational communication
- Organisational change
- Communication technology
- Technology implementation
- Organisational uses of social media
- Ageing
- Meaningful work
- Workplace wellbeing
- Dialogue and deliberation
Māori media
Dr Steve Elers
- Analysis of Māori news media
- Māori public relations
- Advertising
Planning
Dr April Bennett
- Environmental planning
- Resource Planning
- Māori Resource Planning
Politics
Professor Richard Shaw
- Political commentary,
- New Zealand government
- Elections
- Parliament
- Cabinet
- Voting behaviour
- Political parties
Psychology
Dr Shaun Garea
- Media psychology
- Cyberpsychology
- Learning by playing
- Video games
- Table-top role playing games
- Gambling
- Cooperation
- Quantitative research
Associate Professor Stephen Hill
- Psychology and climate change
- Philosophy of mind and philosophy of science
- Cognitive psychology and experimental psychology (especially memory, executive function, reasoning and decision making, ageing and cognition, evolution of cognition, development of cognition)
Professor James Liu
- Cross-cultural, social, and political psychology
- Social representations of history and their relationship to identity
- Prejudice
- International relations
- Global consciousness and digital influence
Rainbow issues
Dr Ilana Seager van Dyk
- LGBTQ+ mental health
- Evidence-based psychological assessment and intervention with youth and their families
- Emotion science and affective science
- Development (particularly childhood through young adulthood)
- Psychopathology (particularly internalising symptoms)
- Human sexuality
Retirement / KiwiSaver
Associate Professor Claire Matthews
- Retail banking
- The provision of financial advice
- Financial literacy
- Kiwisaver
- Internet banking
- Payment systems
- Consumer’s financial behaviour
- Decisions and attitudes, with a particular interest in payments as well as financial capability
Social work
Associate Professor Shirley Julich
- Child sexual abuse
- Stockholm syndrome
- Justice for victim-survivors
- Sexual violence
- Costs of sexual violence
- Restorative justice
- Alternative pathways for justice
Associate Professor Ksenija Napan
- Transformative learning processes
- Integration of science and spirituality
- Embodiment and whole people learning
- Psychotherapy and social psychiatry
Professor Kieran O'Donoghue
- Social work as a profession
- Social workers registration and professional issues
- Social worker education and training
- The supervision and management of social workers
Professor Jackie Sanders
- Social and community work practice
- Theory and research
- Community development
- Disability; children, youth and families
- Family support and wellbeing
- Bicultural frameworks
- Family and community Evaluating and planning for social service
Treaty of Waitangi
Dr Peter Meihana
- Maori history
- Tribal history and colonisation
- Māori privilege
Women's health
Dr Claire Badenhorst
- Iron deficiency and nutrition
- How the menstrual cycle in females may influence their health, wellbeing and performance
- Menstrual cycle literacy and understanding the menstrual cycle as a market of health for females (both recreationally active and athletes)
- hormone interactions and the impact on health and training performance
- Nutritional disorder in endurance athletes
Professor Marlena Kruger
- Bone health
- Osteoarthritis
- The effect of dairy foods, long chain fatty acids, seafood extracts and other bioactives on biomarkers of bone and joint health
- Body composition, physical performance and muscle strength i.e. mobility in older people
- Post-menopausal women
Dr Marta Rychert
- Cannabis law reform
- Medicinal cannabis
- Harm reduction
- Drug policy
- Professional misconduct
- Women's health