Dr Rogena Sterling

Research Officer
Qualifications: PhD, LLM (1st Class Honours), LLB, Cert. TESOL
About Rogena
He tangata Irarua, Pākehā of ngāti Stirlingshire, Pict (Scotland) descent
Dr. Rogena Sterling was the first Intersex person to get a PhD in New Zealand and is a legal and multidisciplinary scholar. They are the chairperson of Intersex Aotearoa and a board member of Pacific Women’s Watch. Their research focus is on human rights, Identity and well-being, biopolitics of data and statistics, intersex issues, tikanga and environmental law, and Gaelic/Pict Customary law. They have been on human rights and intersex advisory panels and bodies in New Zealand.
Papers Taught
Recent Publications
Long, N. J., Tunufa’i, L., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., . . . Sterling, R. (2022). ‘The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘COVID’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of COVID-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand. Mortality. doi:10.1080/13576275.2022.2049527
Holroyd, E., Long, N. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., . . . Tunufa’i, L. (2022). Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after COVID‐19 lockdown: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand. Health & Social Care in the Community. doi:10.1111/hsc.13720
Sterling, R. (2021). Science fiction and the jurisprudence of gender in International Law and its erasing of ambiguity. In Law and Love (in and beyond Pandemic Times): Images and Narratives, Histories and Cultures [Online and In-Person]: 2021 Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia. Hosted by The University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Martin-Anatias, N., Long, N. J., Davies, S. G., Pounamu, J. A., Appleton, N. S., Deckert, A., . . . Tunufa'i, L. (2021). Lockdown Ibuism: Experiences of Indonesian migrant mothers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, April(45).
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Keywords
Health; Human Rights; Indigenous Rights; Intellectual Property; Philosophy; Social Policy
Identity and well-being, Sex/Gender and Intersex issues