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Faculty Experts List for the Media
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Anthropology
Dr Keith Barber
ext: 8277 or email: kbarber@waikato.ac.nz
> Indigenous/state relations in Australia, urban households and informal economy in Papua New Guinea, ethic conflict.
Associate Professor Michael Goldsmith
ext: 6426 or email: mikegold@waikato.ac.nz
> Pacific politics, history, religion and cultures, with particular reference to Tuvalu; Culture identity and ethnicity in NZ.
Dr Judith Macdonald
ext: 8282 or email: jmac@waikato.ac.nz
> Cross-cultural health and medicine, gender relations, ethnographic research and writing, Tikopia and the Pacific Islands.
Dr Tom Ryan
ext: 8278 or email: tryan@waikato.ac.nz
> New Zealand and the Pacific Islands; Niue culture history; Ethnography of mining; Anthropological theory.
International Relations & Human Resource Management
Gemma Piercy
ext: 6827 or email: gemma@waikato.ac.nz
> Applied political economy, social policy focusing on post compulsory education and training, learning in the workplace.
Labour Studies
Dr Paul Harris
ext: 6825 or email: pah@waikato.ac.nz
> Employment relations issues, sociology of work, social policy, comparative labour studies.
Dr David Neilson
ext: 8392 or email: poli1215@waikato.ac.nz
> Political economy, in particular French Regulation School political economy, class analysis, sociology of work and the labour market; Fiji politics.
Sociology
Dr Maxine Campbell
ext: 6115 or email: maxine@waikato.ac.nz
> Classical social theory; sociology of childhood; social policy; family sociology; women and work.
Dr Ted Ninnes
ext: 6829 or email: leninnes@waikato.ac.nz
> Social theory, health and illness, praxis, postmodernism, contemporary social issues.
Social Policy
Dr Jo Barnes
ext: 6826 or email: jobar@waikato.ac.nz
> Quantitative and qualitative research methods; Genealogical research; Ageing; Sociological approaches to murder-suicide.
Social Science Research
Dr John Paterson
ext: 8433 or email: johnp@waikato.ac.nz
> Qualitative methods in social research, religious agricultural groups in North America, alternative agriculture, theoretical conceptualizations of modern agriculture, small farming in NZ.
Women's & Gender Studies
Dr Carolyn Michelle
ext: 6828 or email: caro@waikato.ac.nz
> Gender and the new technologies of assisted reproduction, motherhood and family; popular culture; Audience reception.
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