Postgraduate Student Network in Cross-Cultural Research

The Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research (CACR) has established the Postgraduate Student Network in Cross-cultural Research to encourage networking and collaboration between researchers in cross-cultural study.

To register, please complete the registration form and email to cacr@vuw.ac.nz.

Registration Form

Stephie Adrian
MA-Student, School of Psychology, University of Münster, Germany
Research Interests: Acculturation, Culture Shock, Attitudes towards migrants and Cross-cultural communication .

Romy Bauer
MA Student, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology/ Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
Research Interests: Intercultural communication, social psychology of expatriate management in regard to expatriates’ families, cross-cultural research methods.

Diana Boer
Phd Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: values and identity in adolescence, cross-cultural psychology and methodology, social psychology of music.

Petra T. Buergelt
Phd Candidate, Massey University, New Zealand
Research Interests: Psychosocial factors influencing migration, disaster preparedness, bricolage research design

Sharon Chan
School of Management, USTC-CITYU Joint Advanced Research Institution
Research Interests: Chinese traditional culture and innovation behaviour, perceived organizational support, conflict, justice and employees’ well-being, game theory and knowledge sharing.

Linjie Chou
PhD Candidate, School of Business, University of Iceland
Research Interests: Cross-cultural management, cultural ecology, networking, Chinese values, SME (Small medium enterprise) internationalization.

Soc Diego
PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Research Interests: Migrant settlement, Diversity management in multi-cultural organizations, I/O Psychology and HRM structures, Social justice and discrimination, Methodologies in cross-cultural research

Stephen Fox
Phd Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Acculturation, ethnic identity, transcultural social processes, ethnomusicology.

Michelle Gezentsvey
Phd Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Acculturation, Social Representations, Ethnic marriage and dating.

Yulan Han
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Research Interests: Negotiation, conflict management, team work.

Katja Hanke
Phd Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: the meaning of forgiveness across different cultures, intergroup forgiveness and relations, conflict resolution, peace and justice research, research methods.

Marieke Jasperse
Masters Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Acculturation and adaptation of refugees and migrants, ethnic and religious identity, prejudice and discrimination, diversity, intergroup relations, intercultural communication and transcultural mental health.

Rilla Khaled
PhD Candidate, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: persuasive technology; cultural usability; cross-cultural consumer research; social marketing.

Sammyh Khan
PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Intergroup Relations with a Specific Focus on Hindus and Muslims in the Indian Subcontinent and the Indian-Pakistani diaspora; Diversity, Prejudice, Discrimination, Social Contact and Social Harmony; Political and Social Policy.

Larissa Kus
PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Acculturation and adaptation of immigrants, Interethnic relations, Research methods and Environmental Psychology

Carmen Leong Lai Yin
Honours Student, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: social psychology like achievement motivation across cultures; organisational psychology, especially training and development and leadership.

Vivian Miu-Chi Lun
PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Social cognition, cross-cultural interactions and training, interpersonal relationships.

Elena Maydell-Stevens
PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Ethnic and cultural identity, Adaptation of immigrants, Minority discourse, Social construction of emotions, Cultural psychology, including clinical cultural psychology

Karin Menon
PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Massey University Auckland, New Zealand
Research Interests: Culturally diverse perspectives in psychology, self and identity, migrants and employment, pasifika issues, adjustment to changes, qualitative research, culture and leadership skills.

Samuel Ndoro
PhD Candidate, Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Interests: community psychology, psychology of teaching and learning, language acquisition of second language, health psychology and behaviour change, political philosophy and democracy, equality, inclusion and exclusion of ethnic minorities.

Shivon Roos
Masters candidate, Victoria University of Wellington
Research Interests: individual and family wellbeing in the acculturation process;  acculturation gap between parents and adolescents;  intercultural communication;  discrimination;  ethnic and cultural identity

Katrin Schmelz
Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, IMPRS-Uncertainty, Jena (Germany)
Research Interests: cross-cultural psychology, cognition , cross-cultural research methods, intercultural economics

Marcus Schrameyer
MA Student, School of Psychology, University of Münster, Germany
Research Interests: organizational psychology, personnel training, personel development, cross-cultural management and work behaviour, organizational justice.

Jaimee Stuart
MSc Student, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: immigrant well-being as related to the family; inter-generational conflict; cross-cultural comparisons of acculturation.

Melanie Vauclair
PhD Candidate, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Interests: Values and morality on both individual- and country-level; cross-cultural research methods; applied topics such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Jolanda van der Noll
PhD Candidate, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany
Research Interests: Inter-group relations, prejudice, integration, attitude formation, value orientation.

Marieke van Egmond
PhD Candidate, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Research Interests: Cross-cultural psychology, educational psychology, values, intercultural communication

Hong Wang
PhD Candidate, School of Sociology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Research Interests: immigration and globalisation; knowledge economy and society; environmental sociology gender and feminism.