School of Social Sciences and Public Policy
There is a wide range of research activity in AUT's School of Social Sciences and Public Policy. The school has an active research community, with staff and postgraduate research in areas such as psychology, sociology and public policy.
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Temporal Orders and Y Chromosome Futures: Of Mice, Monkeys, and Men
(Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), the University of Toronto, 2019)We bring together conceptual readings of time and temporality to discuss evolutionary theories of Y chromosome degeneration as they are spoken about in scientific and popular forums. In doing so, we suggest that debates ... -
On the Promise and Reality of New Zealand-China Trade
(The Policy Observatory, Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Over the past half century New Zealand’s trade policy has focused on evolving away from a traditional reliance on Britain and Europe as the main markets for its primary export activities. The goal has been to secure more ... -
New Zealand Government Social Research Literature Study
(Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), 2018)No abstract. -
The NZ Social Science Journal System: Characteristics and Visibility
(Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), 2017)Academic journals are central to the social science knowledge of any society. The set of social science journals sourced in New Zealand or focusing on New Zealand is described in terms of the characteristics of its constituent ... -
The Social Condition of the New Zealand People: A Pre-election Review of Social Indicator Information
(The Royal Society of New Zealand, 2017)Many social commentators have considered that alongside the fiscal transparency enjoined by contemporary New Zealand governments, there should be a complementary social responsibility reporting. This task is usually assigned ... -
Pursuing Equal Pay: The Perspectives of Female Engineers and Potential Policy Interventions
(Sage, 2016)The gender pay gap of higher paid women working in traditionally male-dominated sectors has received less analysis in equal pay research than low paid, female-dominated and undervalued women’s work. This article explores ... -
The impact of economic and social human rights in New Zealand case law
(The Australian Human Rights Centre, 2015)Although New Zealand has traditionally relied on ‘positive progressive realisation’ of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) through public policy decision-making, recently there has been small number of cases relying ... -
South Africa, Antarctica and the ATS: an unrealized foreign policy opportunity
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Although South Africa is a founding member of the Antarctic Treaty, the southernmost continent has played little part in its post-apartheid foreign policy. This article, however, argues that vigorous engagement with ... -
Just transitions and a contested space: Antarctica and the Global South
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This paper suggests that Global South states should prioritize Antarctica as a core trans-national issue because of the potential rewards it offers in terms of opportunities for advancing their common political and development ... -
New Zealand’s boardroom blues: time for quotas
(Women's Studies Association (NZ), 2014)Abstract Gender inequality in boardrooms remains a stubbornly pervasive feature of the story of women in New Zealand. Despite benchmarking and monitoring, a flurry of initiatives and the introduction of policy panaceas ... -
Antarctica: environment, justice, sustainability & development
(United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 2014)This paper focuses on Antarctica and its status as a commons area with potential to facilitate both the human rights objectives and development agendas of global south states. It suggests that, using a combined and ... -
Stepping forward for gender equality: initiatives by the New Zealand Human Rights Commission
(National Women's Education Center of Japan, 2014)No abstract. -
New Zealand’s experiment: closing the gender gap in higher education leadership through cumulative cultural change
(The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, 2014)The subject of this paper is a long-standing New Zealand (NZ) national university women’s leadership programme, NZWiL . Formally established in 2006, with the first program delivered in 2007, NZWiL was designed to address ... -
Fighting complacency and retrogression: reawakening gender equity activism In New Zealand
(International Sociological Association (ISA), 2014)New Zealand enjoys an impressive reputation for gender equality. It was the first self- governing nation to grant women’s suffrage in 1893 and scores highly in international indexes such as the World Economic Forum’s Global ... -
Fight the power: comparing and evaluating two measures of French and Raven’s bases of social power
(University of Iowa, 2014)Social power, or potential for social influence, has traditionally been conceptualized according to French and Raven’s (1959) power typology. The purpose of this analysis was to examine the relationship between a commonly ... -
Editorial: social class and inequality in New Zealand and Overseas: introduction to special issue
(New Zealand Sociology, 2013)No abstract. -
Appendix: the New Zealand literature on social class/inequality
(New Zealand Sociology, 2013)No abstract. -
Measuring changes in family wellbeing in New Zealand 1981 to 2006
(New Zealand Sociology, 2013)Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has experienced extensive economic, social and political reforms. The economic impact of these changes has been closely monitored and much commented upon. However, the social impacts of the ... -
An approach to teaching the writing of literature reviews [Online]
(Zeitschrift Schreiben, 2008)Students face difficulties in writing literature reviews that relate in particular to limited knowledge of the genre (Bruce, 1992; E. Turner, 2005). While there has been valuable research relating to genre and discourse ...