Recent Research

See also Current Projects

Research Programmes

Building a Culturally Diverse Workforce in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Project Leader: Dr Astrid Podsiadlowski)

Projects, papers and reports

Identity, Acculturation and Adaptation in First and Second Generation Samoan Youth
(2008; Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward)

Acculturation and Adaptation in First-Generation Immigrants
(2008; Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward)

Ethno-Cultural Identity Conflict
(2008; Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward)

National Survey on Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration
(2008; Investigators: Professor Colleen Ward and Dr Anne-Marie Masgoret)

The experiences of migrant youth: A generational analysis
(2008; Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward).
Part of a larger international project, the International Comparative Study of Ethno-Cultural Youth (see this presentation). Based on a subset of the New Zealand data and provides a generational analysis of the experiences of migrant youth, including the first generation, the 1.5 generation, and the second generation. This report can be viewed on the Department of Labour website.

Facilitating Migrants' Entry and Integration into the Workplace
(2007; Principal Investigator: Dr Astrid Podsiadlowski)

International Comparative Study of Ethno-Cultural Youth (ICSEY): The New Zealand Data
(2007; Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward)

Acculturation, Adaptation and Intercultural Relations
James Cook Research Fellowship
(2007; Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward)

Immigrant Employment: A study of recruitment agencies' responses to New Zealand and Chinese candidates
(2007; Investigators: Professor Colleen Ward and Dr Anne-Marie Masgoret)

When do I become a Kiwi?
(2007; Principal Investigator: Sally Robertson)

Asian students in New Zealand - From a Cultural Invasion to a National Conversation
(2007; Principal Investigator: Andrew Butcher)

Friends and Allies:  The Impacts of Returning Asian Students on New Zealand-Asia Relationships.
(2007; Terry McGrath, Paul Stock & Andrew Butcher; in Asia:NZ Outlook Paper No 5.)

Progress in Asian Social Psychology: Casting the Individual in Societal and Cultural Contexts, Volume 6.
(2007; Co-editors: Associate Professor James Liu, Professor Colleen Ward, Dr Ronald Fischer and others.)
Reporting the results of the 6th biennial meeting of the Asian Association of Social Psychology held in Wellington in 2005.

Restorative justice and practices in New Zealand: Towards a restorative society
(2007; Co-editors: Associate Professor James Liu and Gabrielle Maxwell.)
Focuses on an interdisciplinary movement in restorative justice, an effort to get grassroots communities involved in reducing crime and resolving conflict.

Biculturalism in employee selection or ‘Who should get the job’?
(2007; Investigators: Dr Ronald Fischer and Bryony Jackson.)

Tearing the down the ‘wall in the heads’: Culture contact between Germans.
(2007; Investigators: Dr Ronald Fischer and others.)
Fischer, R., Maes, J., & Schmitt, M. (2007). Tearing the down the ‘wall in the heads’: Culture contact between Germans. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 31, 163-179.

Identity, Acculturation and Adaptation in Migrant Youth.
(2007; Principal Investigator: Professor Colleen Ward)
Presentation at the End-User Conference organised by the Migration Research Group, Waikato University.

Managing Culturally Diverse Workforces in New Zealand
(2007; Principal Investigator: Dr Astrid Podsiadlowski)
Presentation at the End-User Conference organised by the Migration Research Group, Waikato University.

Migrants in New Zealand: A pilot study on perceptions of discrimination and organizational outcomes
(2007; Principal Investigator: Soc Diego)
Presentation at the End-User Conference organised by the Migration Research Group, Waikato University.

International Students Survey - Step by Step guide
(2006; Principal Investigator: Dr Anne-Marie Masgoret)

Research Needs Assessment for the NZ Federation of Ethnic Councils (NZFEC)
(2006; several projects)

Rights of Passage: A dialogue with Young Australians about Human Rights
(2005; Principal Investigator: Stephen Bochner)