Sandra Grey
Senior Lecturer
Sandra has taken on the position as President of the Tertiary Education Union for one term and will return to to her role as a senior lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy thereafter.
During her time at the TEU Sandra continues working on her research topic on social movements, citizen activism, and NGOs. She is currently working on a major project examining activism by the New Zealand women’s, union, and anti-poverty movements since 1970. Sandra is also working with Dr Charles Sedgwick on a project into the role of community and voluntary sector organisations in democratic decision-making.
Qualifications
MA (Hons) (Auck), PhD (ANU)
Research Specialties and Current Research
My research interests centres on the ways in which citizens can bring about social and political change. In particular I am interested in developing a greater understanding of the changes brought about by collective actions such as social movements and interest groups.
This interest in social and political change has encompassed examination of the substantive political representation of women through both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary means.
Selected Publications
Grey S J, 'When no official record exists', Politics and Gender, 6, 4, December (2010), pp. 622-629.
Davey J A, Grey S J, 'New Zealand: from early innovation to humanizing the market', in International Social Policy - Welfare Regimes in the Developed World (Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 88-108.
Grey S J, 'Women, politics, and protest: rethinking women's liberation activism in New Zealand', in Rethinking women and Politics New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives (Wellington, Victoria University Press, 2009), pp. 34-61.
Grey S J, Nickel P M, 'Kiwibrand globalisation: banking on pre-packaged artificial resistance', Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 9, 3 (2009), pp. 1-9.
Grey, Sandra J. Women's movements worldwide: Flourishing or in abeyance, co-edited with Marian Sawer, Includes sole authored chapter, Out of sight, out of mind: The New Zealand women's movement (Routledge, UK, 2009).
Grey, Sandra J. New Zealand: The myth of egalitarianism with Judith Davey, in International Social Policy, Pete Alcock and Gary Craig (eds.) (Palgrave, 2008).
Grey, Sandra J. Housing voluntary social services in the Hutt, Commissioned by the Hutt Council of Social Services, funded by Hutt City Cuncil and Wellington Community Trust, 2007.
Grey, Sandra J. Assessing 'networked governance' in Aotearoa/New Zealand, refereed conference paper at the TASA and SAANZ joint conference Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparison, (Auckland University, 2007).
Grey, Sandra J. Numbers and Beyond: The relevance of critical mass in gender research, Politics & Gender, 2 (4), pp.492-502, (2006)
Grey, Sandra J. The new world? Women and poltical representation in New Zealand, in Representing women in parliament: A comparative study, pp. 134-187 Marian Sawer, Linda Trimble, and Manon Tremblay (eds). (Oxon, Routledge, 2006).
Grey, Sandra J.and Marin Sawer. Australia and New Zealand, in Sharing Power: Women in parliament in consolidated and emerging democracies, Yvonne Galligan and Manaon Tremblay (ed), pp 171-187, (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005).
Grey, Sandra J. Changing Frames: the Discursive influence of the women's movements of Australia and New Zealand, PhD thesis, Australian National University 2004.
Grey, Sandra J. Takling about children and housework: The discursive influence of the women's movement in New Zealand, in Women talking politics: Newsletter of the Aotearoa/New Zealand women and politics network, summer 2003 (6), pp.12-15