Current Projects

See also Recent Research

Research Programmes

Promoting Intercultural Interaction in Education
Programme Leader: Professor Colleen Ward

Parent-Adolescent Family Dynamics in the Acculturation Process
Programme leader: Dr Paul Jose

Identity in a multicultural context
Programme Leader: Associate Professor James H. Liu

Research Projects

Youth Voices, Youth Choices
Funding agency: FRST
Lead Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward

Managing diversity in the workplace (International study)
Funding agency: Commission of the European Communities
Principal Investigator: Dr Astrid Podsiadlowski

Integration and Adaptation of Muslim New Settlers
Funding agency: BRCSS
Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward

Testing a Culture-Sensitive Model of Intergroup Forgiveness
Funding agency: BRCSS
Principal Investigator: Associate Professor James H. Liu

Leadership learning from formative experiences in the workplace
Comparing the Antipodes - France and New Zealand - Supported by the French Government and Royal Society of New Zealand (ISAT funding)
Principal Investigator: Dr Annick Janson

Tourism and Cross-cultural Psychology
Researchers: Professor Colleen Ward (CACR), Dr Tracy Berno University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Understanding Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Residence (2007-)
Funding agency:  Department of Labour
CACR Researcher: Professor Colleen Ward - sub-contracted to The Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato

Ethnic Identity and the Arts
Principal Investigator: Stephen Fox

Cross-national studies of trust and exchange (2006-)
Funding agency:  Hokkaido University (Professor Toshio Yamagishi)
Principal Investigator: Associate Professor James Liu

Realistic Conflict and Chinese Identity Politics:  Implications of Domestic and International Situations for Taiwan (2004 -)
Funding agency: The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
CACR Principal Investigator: Associate Professor James Liu 

The Jewish Cemetery Desecrations, Reactions One Year On
Researchers: Dr Hal Levine; Michelle Gezentsvey

Other CACR projects include:

• Research into gestures across cultures, led byDrs David Matsumoto and Jeff LeRoux of San Francisco State University

• Research project on “Social Support on Overseas Assignments” as part of an international research project funded by the Bavarian government (FORTRANS) on international networks for medium-sized businesses

Research partners: Erika Spiess (University of Munich), Colleen Ward, Astrid Podsiadlowski, Melanie Vauclair (PhD candidate)

• Research project on “Context specific Measurement of
  Individualism-Collectivism” with Stephen Fox (PhD candidate) and in cooperation with Ron Fischer, James Liu and Marilynn Brewer
  (UCLA)
• Data analysis of qualitative interviews and paper on the perceptions of
  cultural diversity by employees and employers in New Zealand:Astrid Podsiadlowski; Ron Fischer
• Paper on the development of a new scale to measure perceived
  discrimination as a continuation of supervision of Socorro Diego (PhD
  candidate): Astrid Podsiadlowski; Ron Fischer
• Paper on the action research project with Assyrian young women as part of my supervision of Philippa Collie (Master’s student) together with James Liu, Sara Kindon, Astrid Podsiadlowski
• Cooperation Partner in Ron Fischer’s international research project on
  “Organizational Practices” in organizations
• National organisational survey on cultural diversity in the New Zealand
  workplace Astrid Podsiadlowski
• Cultural intelligence as a predictor of adaptation in short term migrants
  (Ron Fischer/Colleen Ward)
• Project on Identity, Perceived Discrimination and Well-being in Muslim
  women (in progress). MSc by Marieke Jasperse, supervised by Colleen Ward