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Faculty Experts List for Secondary Schools
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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; Ethnic conflict.
Associate Professor Michael Goldsmith
ext: 6426 or email: mikegold@waikato.ac.nz
> Culture and ethnic relations in New Zealand; Pacific politics, history, religion and cultures, with particular reference to Tuvalu.
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.
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.
Gemma Piercy
ext: 6827 or email: gemma@waikato.ac.nz
> Applied political economy; Learning in the workplace (high performance work-place systems); Tertiary education and industry training and practice.
Sociology
Dr Maxine Campbell
ext: 6115 or email: maxine@waikato.ac.nz
> Classical social theory; Family sociology; Popular cultures; Social policy; Gender at 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
> Alternative agriculture; Qualitative methods in social research; Religious agricultural groups in North America; Small farming in NZ; Theoretical conceptualizations of modern agriculture.
Women's & Gender Studies
Dr Carolyn Michelle
ext: 6828 or email: caro@waikato.ac.nz
> Audience reception; Gender and the new technologies of assisted reproduction; Motherhood and family; Popular culture.
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