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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Review of Greg Marston, Louise Humpage, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld and Zoe Staines (2022) Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? Bristol: Policy Press.
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Review of Greg Marston, Louise Humpage, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld and Zoe Staines (2022) Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? Bristol: Policy Press. -
Research Note on Experiences and Attitudes Going Forward with and Beyond Omicron (July)
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The attitudinal base of support for the current Covid strategy in NZ is assessed using current and recent survey data – covering attitudes and reports in relation to switching to the traffic light system, vaccination, ... -
The Social Demography of Covid-19 Delta
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Publically available information concerning the scanning, testing, vaccination, covid-catching are examined both to describe the over-time patterns but also to indicate possibly causal linkages to underlying social patterns. -
New Zealand Pew Survey ‘Spring 2021’ COVID-Related Results
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)NZ results relating to Covid of a ‘Spring’ Pew Research center survey are presented. NZers tend to be strong supporters of NZ’s handling of the Covid outbreak. -
Multidimensional Quality of Life of Older Adults in South Africa
(Springer, 2022)It is estimated that by 2050, the world population over the age of 65 will reach 1.5 billion. The United Nations predicts that the fastest growth will be in Africa, which suffers from extreme poverty and inequalities. ... -
Research Note on Experiences and Attitudes Going Forward with and Beyond Omicron (March)
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The attitudinal base of support for the current Covid strategy in NZ is assessed using current and recent survey data – covering attitudes and reports in relation to vaccination, Covid-management issues and the various ... -
Positive Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Vaccines: A Cross-Country Analysis
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022)COVID-19 severely impacted world health and, as a consequence of the measures implemented to stop the spread of the virus, also irreversibly damaged the world economy. Research shows that receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is ... -
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 ...