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FRN (Faculty Research Network) Database
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ROGER BARNARD <rbarnard@waikato.ac.nz>
General & Applied Linguistics |
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Research interests:
- Second language and culture acquisition from a socioculture/activity theory perspective. |
CATHY COLEBORNE <cathyc@waikato.ac.nz>
History |
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Research interests:
- History of health; institutions
- Oral history interviews
- Colonialism, law, psychiatry
- Gender and sexuality |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Marsden applications (have had success)
- Working with community funds and projects
- Collaborative work (worked with colleagues in Australia and elsewhere in NZ) |
MIKE GOLDSMITH <mikegold@waikato.ac.nz>
Societies & Cultures |
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Research interests:
- Cultural and ethnic identity in NZ, especially conceptualisations of (settler) identity in biculturalism
- History, culture and politics in the Pacific, with particular reference to Tuovalu. Earlier work focused on history of religion but is increasingly turning to issues of politics and political economy; state, governance, post-colonialism, etc |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- I teach qualitative methods/ethnography and am willing to talk to those who are interested in learning more in this area
- I have numerous reading lists in this area that I am prepared to make available to genuinely interested/needy parties. |
ANN HARDY <a.hardy@waikato.ac.nz>
Screen & Media Studies |
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Research interests:
- The media and dialectical processes of social change. Specifically interaction between religion as a cultural force and the media
- Also interactions between the politic/economic structures of NZ media institutions and audiences
- Media and tourism
- Media and the reporting of crime |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Experience of working in the governnent sector and in bicultural teams. |
CAROL JARMAN <cjarman@waikato.ac.nz>
Policy, Cultural & Social Studies, School of Education |
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Research interests:
- On a Royal Society Teaching Fellowship for 2006- researching NZ household life since 1945, focussing on cookery books as history
- Social history |
MAIRI JAY <mairij@waikato.ac.nz>
Geography, Tourism & Environmental Planning |
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Research interests:
- Social science perspectives and analyses as they apply to environmental issues, especially biological issues such as ecological restoration, biodiversity, conservation, environmental sustainability
- Resource management; community conservation |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Publishing articles in journals
- Developing a research design
- Giving encouragement |
STAN JONES <sjones@waikato.ac.nz>
Screen and Media Studies |
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Research interests:
- Political economy of NZ film-making (and identity politics ?concomitant?)
- Lord of the Rings Int-reception project
- Co-productions (??? with Germany)
- General film reception
- ?Film Vendors? |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Lord of the Rings Int-reception project |
GEOFF LEALAND <lealand@waikato.ac.nz>
Screen and Media Studies |
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Research interests:
- Media audiences
- Children and Media
- National Cinemas
- Media teaching (tertiary and secondary)
- Journalism training |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Research methodology
- Research publication and disemmination
- Media in the public discourse
- Moderation and assessment of research |
MICHAEL O'DRISCOLL <m.odriscoll@waikato.ac.nz>
Psychology |
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Research interests:
- Individual well-being in the workplace
- Causes and consequences of work-related sress
- The work-family nexus |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Surveys
- Questionnaire design
- Statistics |
JOHN PERRONE <jpnz@waikato.ac.nz>
Psychology |
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Research interests:
- Development of computational models of visual motion processing in the primate brain
- Human visual navigation
- Visual cues used by drivers and pilots
- Developing sensors for robots based on our knowledge of the human eye and brain |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Experience in collaborating with overseas researchers (mostly via email) |
JACQUE POOT <jpoot@waikato.ac.nz>
Population Studies Centre |
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Research interests:
- Economics of population (migration, fertility, labour force, ageing)
- Meta-analysis
- Monopsony in local labour markets
- The "New Economic Geography" and implications for New Zealand
- Regional Development
- Globalisation
- Empirical evidence for endogenous growth
- Transportation and environmental policy
- Housing markets
- Forecasting |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- BRCSS
- Associate Editor of the new journal Kōtuitui - New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences |
OTTILIE STOLTE <oees@waikato.ac.nz>
Psychology |
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Research interests:
- Social policy: the funding - implementation interface
- Labour market policy issues
- 'Social participation' and 'disadvantage'
- Community-led responses to social issues |
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Capacity-building knowledge for sharing:
- Contributing to the discussion on the value of indepth, community-based or academically-based research to the social policy research process
- Discussing the role of the social researcher in bridging the 'gaps' between theory and practice
- Policy and implementation |
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