Sociology and Anthropology

Summary

Sociology researchers are engaged in research that cuts across science and technology studies, policy studies, sociology and political science. This research involves collaboration with other members of the University, with researchers in other Tertiary Institutions, Crown Research Institutes and Government agencies, and with Maori organisations. Research strengths in Sociology are pooled around four main areas: new technologies (ICT and bio-technologies), public policy, migration, ethnicity, and development and culture and identities.

Anthropology has research strengths in: cultural performance; ethnicity, nationalism and violence; religion and modernity; globalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism; kinship and family; visual and media anthropology; human-animal relations; occupational communities and apprenticeship learning; and Hinduism.

Researchers

• Alison Loveridge
• Cindy Lee Zeiher
• Gretchen Perry
• Jarrod David Gilbert
• Kate van Heugten
• Maria-Victoria Perez-Y-Perez
• Marozane Spamers
• Michael Patrick Grimshaw
• Nik Taylor
• Ruth McManus
• Shinya Uekusa
• Tiina Marie Vares
• Victoria Marion Grace
• Zhifang Song

• Social Science Research Centre (SSRC)
• Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences Network (BRCSS Network)
• New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies (NZCHAS)
• New Zealand South Asia Centre (NZSAC)
• Resilience: Social Research

• Care in New Zealand
• How do earthquakes affect academic performance?
• Stories of Movement: Experiences of disruption and adjustment in post quake city
• City of Flows: Household Water Practices in Christchurch, New Zealand
• Challenges in the human services in the aftermath of a natural disaster
• Building Resilient Infrastructure through Effective Leadership and Management of Infrastructure Organisations
• Bio-cremation: Sustainability, bodily disposition and the uptake of new technologies
• Older informal caregiver experiences following the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa
• Exploring Asian migrant caregiver experiences of the dual pandemic of COVID-19 and (re)surgence of anti-Asian sentiment in Aotearoa: A pilot study
• Transforming crisis communication for linguistic minority communities

• Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown

• Development Studies: Development Studies
• Human Geography: GIS
• Resilience: Social: People and Community; Health and Wellbeing; Psychology and Relationships; Media and Communication; Emergency Management Planning
• Anthropology and Archaeology: Anthropology
• Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Criminology; Gender & Sexuality; Sociology; Social Policy; Social Work; Feminist Studies; Methodology; Social Science; Sport; Intergenerational Studies
• Human-Animal Studies: Human-Animal Studies
• Music, Literary Arts and Other Arts: Music History and Musicology
• Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy: International Relations; Political Theory; Philosophy
• Health and Health Sciences: Other Health Studies; Critical Health Studies; Mental Health; Wellbeing; Population health
• Religious Studies and Theology: Religious Studies; Theology
• History, History of Art, Classics and Curatorial Studies: Modern History: World; New Zealand History; India; South Asia - Ancient to Modern History
• Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies; Popular Culture
• Philosophy: Continental Philosophy
• Management, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, International Business and Other Business: Organisational Behaviour and Theory
• Theatre and Dance, Film and Television and Multimedia: Multimedia
• Psychology: Psychotherapy
• Law: Criminal Law; Human Rights
• Family Studies: Childhood Studies; Resilience
• Communication, Journalism and Media Studies: Communication; Media Studies

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