Dr Sandra Grey

Senior Lecturer,
School of Social and Cultural Studies

Qualifications

MA (Hons) (Auck), PhD (ANU)

Survey: The role of NGOs in political decision-making

NGOs are essential to a healthy democracy, both for the work they carry out on the ground with communities and for the active political voice they offer on behalf of the most marginalised in our society. The research being carried out by Charles Sedgwick (VUW) and I aims to understand the opportunities and hindrances for political participation by NGOs involved in providing social and human services. To understand this issue it is crucial to gather the views of NGOs’ large and small on their experiences of advocating for political and social change. We hope your organisation will take time to complete our survey.

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Research Specialties and Current Research

My research interests centre 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 though both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary means. I am currently working on a major research project looking at the interaction of the union, women’s, and anti-poverty movements with the New Zealand since the late 1960s

Selected Publications

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