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Theme Convenor
Theme Convenor
Senior Lecturer
Senior Research Officer
Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
Emeritus Professors
Professor Richard Bedford
Professor Ian Pool (1936 - 2022)
Professor Jacques Poot
Professor Dame Peggy Koopman-Boyden
Current Doctoral Students
Zohirul Islam (Temporary Migration and Income Inequality in New Zealand)
Youjeong Jang (Policy Rhetoric and Lived Realities of South Korea's Policies on Urban Diversity)
John Natua (Understanding Drivers towards better health and wellbeing for Cook Island Families in the Waikato and Midland Regions)
Moana Rarere (Understanding Contemporary Māori Demographic Reproduction Patterns)
Kyle Hefferton (Contemporary expressions of matakite)
Ella Newbold (Protecting Ngāti Tiipa hapū data sovereignty)
Byron Williams (Ethnic Discrimination in Housing: Understanding Experiences of Racism Amongst African Renters in Wellington, New Zealand)
Megan Lenny
Sarah Bashir
Recent PhD Completions
Carole McMinn (Homeless Families of Hamilton: Exposing the Invisible Homeless of Hamilton and Their Journey to Sustained Tenancies Under a Housing First Approach.)
Joke Methorst (Socio-spatial dynamics of digital nomads in Ubud, Bali)
Love Umesi (Underlying and State-level Contextual Causes of Early Childhood Mortality in Nigeria)
Research Associates
Internal
Dr Lars Brabyn BA(Hons), BSc(Hons), PhD Cant, Geography Programme
A Prof Michael Cameron BMS(Hons), PhD Waik, WMS Economics
Dr William Cochrane BSocSc, MSocSc, PhD Waik, Sociology Programme
Prof Lynda Johnston BA Otago, MSocSc PhD Waik, Deputy Dean and Associate Dean Academic FASS
Dr Naomi Simmonds BSocSc MSocSc PhD Waik, Senior Lecturer, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Prof Nicola Starkey BSc(Hons) C.Lancs, PhD Leeds, Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Sarah Jane Tiakiwai MA(Hons) Auck, PhD Waik, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Maori
Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki PhD, PGDipPsych(Clin) Waikato, MNZPsS
Prof Iain White BA(Hons), Mtpl, MRTPI, PhD Manchester, Environmental Planning Programme
Professor Francis Collins BA, BA (Hons), MA, PhD Auckland
Affiliates
Dr Len Cook BA(Hons) Otago CBE, Victoria University of Wellington/Families Commissioner SUPERU
Dr Robert Didham MSc Cant PhD Tubingen, Statistics New Zealand
Dr Natalie Jackson DipNZIMR, BSocSc, MSocSc Waik, PhD Anu, Natalie Jackson Demographics Ltd
Dr David Maré BA, BCom, MCom Auck PhD Harvard, Motu
Dr John Ryks BSocSc, MSocSc, PhD Waikato, Aria Research
Dr Janet Sceats MSc, LSHTM, PhD Lond, Medical demographer