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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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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 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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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., ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
New Zealand Government Social Research Literature Study
(Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), 2018)No abstract. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...