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Associates

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Professor of Asian History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
nationalism in South Asia; caste system and social conflict in South Asia; decolonisation in South Asia; Indian Diaspora in New Zealand.

Kelly Barclay
PhD student, School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
Democratic theory and practice, justice and specifically ‘relational justice’, spatial and discourse theory, New Zealand identities, indigenous politics and human rights, coastal sustainability in the face of international capital.

Claudia Bell
Senior Lecturer, Auckland University, New Zealand
Research Interests:
cultural studies; sociology of the arts; environmental issues.

Stephen Bochner
Visiting Professor, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Research Interests:
psychology of culture contact with a special interest in managing interpersonal relations in culturally diverse work places including international education.

Andrew Butcher
Director, Policy and Research Asia:NZ Foundation
Research Interests:
international education; migration settlement and policy; tertiary education policy.

Giselle Byrnes
Senior Lecturer, History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
New Zealand history, especially the history of Maori-Pakeha cultural interaction; New Zealand intellectual and cultural history; post-colonial histories; the Treaty of Waitangi and the Treaty claims and settlement process; comparative colonial history, especially indigenous-settler relations.

Paul Callister
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
ethnicity measures, ethnic intermarriage and social policy: the transmission of ethnicity to children.

Love Chile
Research and Development Programme Leader [Community Development], Institute of Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Research Interests:
community and social development; migration and refugee developments; indigenous peoples’ issues; international development assistance; African migration and settlement in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Ruth Desouza
Centre Co-ordinator/Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Asian and Migrant Health Research National Institute for Public Health and Mental Health Research; Director of Wairua Consulting.
Research Interests:
Immigration and settlement, mental health, maternity, identity and ethnicity issues, impact of technology on ethno-religious diasporic communities, gender and discourse.

John Duckitt
Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Research Interests:
Intergroup hostility and conflict, Prejudice and stigmatization, Authoritarian personality and attitudes,Group and social identification,Social attitudes and values.

Stephen Epstein
Senior Lecturer in Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
globalisation and hybridisation and the transference of cultural forms (literary, musical and material) from one society to another.

Bob Frame
Senior Researcher, Sustainable Business and Government Group, Landcare Research, New Zealand
Research Interests:
Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility: strategic planning, capacity building and research for local government / private sector organisations
Institutional development: Strategic planning, policy development, project design, monitoring, evaluation and review in South Asia, China and Latin America.

Anne Henderson
Associate Researcher, Psychology Department, Massey University,Palmerston North, New Zealand
Research Interests:
Languages policies (including in immigration and ESOL) Immigration policy; settlement and integration; Chinese immigration ; Identity and ethnicity issues.

Elsie Ho
Senior Research Fellow, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Research Interests:
  Asian transnational communities; migrant adaptive strategies; migrant entrepreneurship; international students; mental health issues.

Darrin Hodgetts
Senior Lecturer in Community Psychology, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Research Interests:
Darrin’s research explores how people of lower socio-economic status (SES) use shared cultural resources to construct their views on concerns such as social reform, homelessness, health professionals, men’s health, aging, and unemployment.

Janet Holmes
Head of School, Professor of Linguistics, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
  cross-cultural communication; gender and discourse; leadership and discourse; workplace communication.

Prue Holmes
Senior Lecturer – Management Communication, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Research Interests:
Chinese interpersonal communication; critical/interpretive research methods; ethnography; information communication technologies in intercultural communication; information communication technologies in writing; intercultural communication; intercultural communication competence.

Galumalemana Alfred Hunkin
Senior Lecturer and Programme Director, Samoan Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
A Word Frequency List of the Samoan Language; Language and Culture Under Threat; Researching the concept of Väfealoa'i.

Manying Ip
Associate Professor, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Research Interests:
migration studies; overseas Chinese; Asian New Zealanders

Brad Jackson
Associate Professor/Director, Centre for the Study of Leadership, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
leading change in inter-cultural contexts with a particular interest in the creative industries and the management advice industry.

Annick Janson
Research Partner, Excelerator: New Zealand Leadership Institute.
Research Interests:
Leadership in education, The social construction of leadership, Change management and cross-cultural leadership.

Deborah Jones
Senior Lecturer in Management , Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
  identity in organisations; competence, creativity and capability; New Zealand film industry.

Hal Levine
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, School of Social & Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
ethnicity; social organisation and social change; New Zealand; the Pacific.

Mingsheng Li
Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication, journalism and marketing, Massey University
Research Interests:
Intercultural communication, culture and language teaching, international education.

gKevin Lo
Lecturer, The University of Auckland Business School, Management & International Business
Research Interests:
cross-cultural management and training, guanxi and networks, time orientation, cross-cultural organizational behavior.

Catherine Love
Research Interests:
Indigenous psychology, Indigenous mental health issues, Maori and Indigenous models of therapy, Maori development.

Tim McCreanor
Senior Researcher, Whariki Research Group, Massey University, Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand; Senior researcher SHORE (The Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation); Member of Management Group of BRCSS(Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences)
Research Interests:
Maori development; racism; youth wellbeing; sustainability; critical methods.

Tracey McIntosh
Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Equity); Associate Dean (Equity) for the Faculty of Arts; Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Auckland University, New Zealand
Research Interests:
processes of marginalisation; genocide; gross human rights abuses; issues of identity (ethnic, religious) and crime.

Cluny Macpherson
Professor, Massey University (Albany Campus), New Zealand
Research Interests:
economic and social transformation in Oceania; patterns consequences of migration in Oceania; Pacific communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand; health and medicine in Pacific societies; practice and consequences of religion in Oceania.

Dr Anne-Marie Masgoret
Senior Research Analyst, Workforce Research and Evaluation, Department of Labour
Research Interests
: acculturation processes of immigrants, sojourners, and refugees; language acquisition including adaptive variables.

Steve Matthewman
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Research Interests;
social theory; cultural studies; science, technology, society (STS) studies; sociology of popular culture; modernity and its discontents.

Stephen May
Foundation Professor and Chair of Language and Literacy Education and Research Professor, Wilf Palcolm Institute of Educational Research, School of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Research Interests;
bilingualism and bilingual education; multiculturalism and multicultural education; indigenous education; language policy and planning; minority rights, ethnicity and nationalism.

Luanna Meyer
Professor of Education (Research), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
social science research and evaluation; educational systems change; higher education; behavioural intervention; developmental disabilities; and children's social interactions and relationships.

Paul Morris
Professor , Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
religion, politics and economics; religion in New Zealand; religion and death; Jewish studies; religion and culture.

Vijay Naidu
Professor/Director of Development Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
migration; ethnicity; globalisation and development in the Pacific region; the role of the state in development; aid and development.

Jonathan Newton
Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for the Cert/Dip TESOL Programmes at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
task-based interaction, incidental vocabulary acquisition and interlanguage pragmatics.

Nicola North
Associate Professor, University of Auckland, School of Nursing
Research Interests: Settlement of immigrants in New Zealand, immigrant and refugee health and participation, workforce diversity, international migration of nurses.

David Pauleen
Senior Lecturer School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
organisational and public sector Knowledge management; virtual teams and collaboration; cross-cultural communication and management; action research.

David Pearson
Reader, Humanities & Social Sciences, School of Social & Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
the role of citizenship as a theoretical and empirical guide to ethnic social inclusion and exclusion; contrasting migrant and indigenous ethnic politics in settler societies; and the influence of transnationalism and regional devolution on ethnic and national identity in multi-cultural societies.

John Pickering
Director, IE Limited. Immediate Past President, ISANA: International Education Association, NZ Branch
Research Interests:
plagiarism as a cultural concept; pastoral care of international students; the professions of international education; engagement of migrant communities in New Zealand; insurance protection of international students.

Paul Spoonley
Research Director, Massey University, New Zealand
Research Interests;
supply and demand in the New Zealand labour market; immigrant settlement - policy and outcome; ethnic and indigenous policy in settler societies; majority group ethnic identity and politics; extreme right wing politics.

Teresia Teaiwa
Programme Director, Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
nationalism and regionalism in the Pacific; articulations of culture and politics/indigenous rights and democracy/feminism in the Pacific; Pacific studies and pedagogy.

Andrew Trlin
Associate Researcher, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Research Interests:
immigration - policy; immigrants - settlement experiences, problems in New Zealand; evaluation - policy, programmes and human services; social research - methods and practice; social policy and social change - in New Zealand.

Samson Tse
Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Auckland University, New Zealand
Research Interests:
mental health (sometimes may include mental illness); Asian health and gambling.

Keith Tuffin
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Adelaide University.
Research Interests:
Critical Psychology; Discursive Psychology; Racism and Social Psychology

Franco VaccarinoFranco Vaccarino
Senior lecturer, Department of Communication, Journalism and Marketing , Massey University.
Research Interests:
Cross-cultural communication, adult literacy, family literacy and learning, prison education

Graham Vaughan
Professor, Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Research Interests:
intergroup processes; ethnic identity; theories of attitude; attitude change; self-concept.

Jim Veitch
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
religion, terrorism and counter-terrorism; religious conflict, particularly in South East Asia and the Middle East; religion in New Zealand and the Pacific; the history of early Christianity.

Cynthia White
Associate Professor, Programme Coordinator for Linguistics and Second Language Teaching, Massey University, New Zealand
Research Interests: language and settlement issues of migrants and refugees; young migrant settlement experiences in New Zealand; online environments for language learning and use; heritage languages.

Amanda Wolf
Senior Lecturer, Public Policy, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
methodologies for policy research; interdisciplinary research and teaching; the use of knowledge and information in policy analysis; subjectivity in research and policy analysis; diversity.

Arvind Zodgekar
Senior Lecturer, School of Social & Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests:
demographic aspects of ageing & dependency in New Zealand; aspects of immigration - policy, assimilation, adaptation & diversity.

Ofer Zwikael
Associate Professor, School of Management, Marketing and International Business, Australian National University
Research Interests: Managerial cultural differences, project management, operations management, quality of planning, team development

 








 
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