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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Impact of School-Based Support on Educational Outcomes of Teen-Mothers: Evidence From Linked Administrative Data
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Teen Parent Units (TPUs) provide education and support for high school students who are pregnant or parents in New Zealand. They provide childcare, links to health and other social services, guidance and mentoring. Because ... -
Trust Predicts Compliance to COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence From Ten Countries Using Big Data
(Quaderni Del Dipartimento, 2021)Previous evidence indicates that trust is an important correlate of compliance with Covid-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over ... -
The Impact of Exogenous Shocks on National Wellbeing. New Zealanders’ Reaction to COVID-19
(Springer, 2021)In this paper, we explore the response of an aggregate measure of subjective wellbeing to the arrival and passage of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small, geographically separate economy in the South Pacific. Studies of national ... -
The Ugly Truth About Social Welfare Payments and Households' Subjective Well-being
(Global Labor Organization, 2021)Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate ... -
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-being Data From Twitter. Evidence From Ten Countries
(EconStor - Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2021)In this article we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being ... -
Preschoolers' and Adults' Animism Tendencies Toward a Humanoid Robot
(Elsevier, 2021)This study examined whether three- and five-year-old children and adults changed their perceptions of a robot after a naturalistic interaction with it. We examined whether participants exhibited animism errors (i.e., ... -
Beyond Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning: An Attempt with SVM
(The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020)A big challenge in continual learning is avoiding catastrophically forgetting previously learned tasks. The possibility of improving existing knowledge whilst integrating new information has been much less explored. In ... -
Estimating the Economic Costs of Ethnic Health Inequities: Protocol for a Prevalence-based Cost-of-illness Study in New Zealand (2003-2014)
(BMJ Journals, 2018)INTRODUCTION: There is significant international interest in the economic impacts of persistent inequities in morbidity and mortality. However, very few studies have quantified the costs associated with unfair and preventable ... -
Social Network Sites, Fear of Missing Out, and Psychosocial Correlates
(Masaryk University, 2020)The use of Social Network Sites (SNSs) has grown to become a ubiquitous aspect of daily life in developed countries throughout the world. This rise of social media has resulted in increased public concern regarding the way ... -
Climate Finance Landscape for Aotearoa New Zealand: A Preliminary Survey
(Mōhio and Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This report, prepared by consultancy Mōhio, examines climate finance in New Zealand. It includes a snapshot of key existing climate finance flows and a look at the instruments available to the Government and private sector ... -
The Christchurch Principles
(The Helen Clark Foundation and Auckland University of Technology, 2019)November 2019: We believe that the public sphere should be a place of equal participation. As the internet, and social media especially, becomes an increasingly influential public space, these digital media have greater ... -
The Interwoven World Te Ao I Whiria: Towards an Integrated Landscape Approach in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The Policy Observatory, AUT, 2018)In this discussion paper, The Policy Observatory’s Dr David Hall explores the ways that New Zealanders think about the landscape, and how these ideas influence actual decisions about land use. To put New Zealand on the ... -
New Zealand’s Living Standards Framework: What Might Amartya Sen Say?
Amartya Sen’s capability approach is a guiding light for international efforts to improve the measurement of national well-being. This article compares Sen’s nuanced philosophical ideal with the New Zealand Treasury’s ... -
A State of Licence: The Social Licence to Operate as an Opportunity for the Forestry Sector
(New Zealand Institute of Forestry, 2019)This paper discusses the paradox of social licence faced by the forestry sector today. It explores how the idea of the social licence of operate (SLO) relates to the tradition of social contract theory. This philosophical ... -
Embracing the Muddle: Learning From the Experiences From Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning Collaboration
(School of Education, Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Interdisciplinary, collaborative teaching and learning is recognised as important for twenty-first century tertiary education that seeks to build students’ critical thinking, cultural competence and global understanding. ... -
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 ...