2006 News

November

Re-launch of the new CACR website produced by postgraduate students Diana Boer and Katja Hanke. Browse through the information and services available through the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research.

CACR will host visiting speaker Dr Johnny Fontaine - research interests include: the development of a behavioural acculturation measure and its relationships with emotions, somatization and intelligence; cross-cultural guilt and shame.

CACR hosted visiting speaker Dr Paul Pedersen - general research interests include: counsellor education, cross-cultural psychology, communication, intercultural training, international education, constructive conflict management, alternative and complementary therapies and educational development.
More information about Dr Paul Pedersen: http://suedweb.syr.edu/chs/pedersen/vita.htm

December

The School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, is accepting applications for the 2007 intake of students for the MSc in Cross-cultural Psychology commencing February, 2007. Click here for more information.

The second issue of the Aotearoa Ethnic Journal is now available. Following on from the success and interest in the first issue, it features contributions from key thinkers in the ethnic sector in New Zealand and overseas.
This open-access online publication offers a refreshing and challenging new perspective on what's going on in ethnic communities. The journal can be read online or downloaded in full or per article for free at http://journal.aen.org.nz.