ResearchHub
Leadership Team:
Dr Tara Coleman, Social Science for Public Health programme
Dr Jemaima Teatia-Seath, Pacific Studies, Te Wananga o Waipapa
Prof Judith Littleton, Anthropology
Members:
Dr Tom Baker
Tom Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Auckland. His research examines how policy knowledge is produced, mobilized and applied to address social and
environmental challenges. He recently co-edited Public policy circulation: Arenas, agents and actions (2019, Edward Elgar) and is an editor of the International Journal of Housing Policy.
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/t-baker
Dr Heather Battles
My research applies a holistic, biocultural approach to understanding the evolution and ecology of infectious diseases in human populations and their impacts (both biological and social). As such, my interests span the disciplines of biological and medical anthropology, historical demography, and social history. My current work examines the history of epidemic polio in Aotearoa New Zealand.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/h-battles
Professor Linda Bryder
Professor Linda Bryder DPhil (Oxford), from History, has taught, supervised and researched in the field of the social history of health and medicine, with a particular emphasis on twentieth-century Britain and New Zealand. Subjects have included tuberculosis, reproductive health, childbirth, infant care, nursing, and public health provision.
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/l-bryder
Dr Jesse Grayman
Jesse Hession Grayman (PhD in Social and Medical Anthropology; MPH in Epidemiology, MA in Southeast Asian Studies) is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies. His current research in Indonesia examines community-driven development policies in the health sector. Prior research in Aceh province studied post-conflict and post-tsunami humanitarian recovery, particularly through international organizations and local NGOs.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/jgra282
Dr Lara Greaves
Lara Greaves (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kuri) is a lecturer in New Zealand Politics. Her research covers
the broad areas of political science, social psychology, and Māori/Indigenous studies. Her particular interests in the health space include hauora Māori, sexuality, survey methods, and data collection/governance.
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/lara-greaves
Dr Pauline Herbst
Pauline Herbst is a medical anthropologist who has conducted research on the lived experience of patients and how their selfhood is affected by their entangled relationships with biomedicine at Waitemata District Health Board and Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) in New Zealand. She has explored chronic illness and the socio-cultural effect of screening and diagnosis with the metabolic condition MCADD, respiratory disease COPD, and hysterectomy.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pauline_Herbst
Professor Robin Kearns
Robin Kearns is Professor of Geography in the School of Environment. He is interested in the nature of place in health services and patient experience. Recent books include The Afterlives of the psychiatric asylum and Children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments. He has also published over 200 papers and chapters on topics across breadth of social and cultural geography. Robin is an editor of Health and Place.
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/r-kearns
Professor Judith Littleton
I research, publish and supervise in the field of bioarchaeology. I also work in the area of medical anthropology specifically researching tuberculosis and syndemics in New Zealand and the Pacific. My focus in both fields is on developing concepts and methods that allow us to understand the interaction of biology and culture.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/jlit018
Rochelle Menzies
My doctoral research conceptualises whānau wellness for contemporary Māori, to better inform more effective policy. Located within a Transformative Paradigm, the project is grounded in Kaupapa Māori methodology. Previously, I worked in research assistant/associate roles, specialising in Māori health, for multiple School of Population Health projects/departments. My MHSc research employed Kaupapa Māori methodology to explore healthcare access of Māori solo mothers.
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/rochelle-menzies
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rochelle_Lee
Dr Barry Milne (Compass)
Barry Milne is Director of the Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS) at the University of Auckland. He leads a team investigating the life-course development of health and social outcomes using data collected from surveys and administrative sources.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/b-milne
Dr Jessica Parr
Jessica Parr received her PhD in 2018 from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in history at the University of Auckland. Her current areas of
interest include the history of obesity, psychiatry, and addiction and drug use in the twentieth century.
Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath
Jemaima Tiatia-Seath is the Co-Head of School, Te Wānanga o Waipapa, School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies, University of Auckland. She is of Samoan descent and has a community and public health background. She was one of six panellists on the New Zealand Government’s 2018 Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry. Her research interests include: Pacific Studies, mental health, wellbeing, Pacific suicide prevention and postvention, youth development, Pacific health inequities.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/stia002
Dr Nichola Shackleton (Compass)
Nichola Shackleton is a Senior Research Fellow and deputy director of COMPASS Research Centre. She is also Principal analyst at the Social Investment Agency. She applies advanced quantitative methods to help understand inequalities in, and potential ways to improve, child and adolescent wellbeing.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/n-shackleton
Associate Professor Susanna Trnka
Susanna Trnka is a social and medical anthropologist whose research centres on issues relating to the body, citizenship, and subjectivity. Much of her recent work focuses on redefining state, corporate, collective and personal responsibility in light of patient self-care practices. Her current research examines the ethical implications of young people’s use of digital technologies for supporting mental wellbeing.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/strn001
Dr Manuel Vallee
Dr Vallée’s research takes an upstream approach to disease, by examining the social processes that contribute to disease and the social institutions that perpetuate those processes. As part of his research he has examined the social construction of pesticide use, water distribution inequities, the absence of pollution in mainstream depictions of disease, and the role universities play in perpetuating the toxification of society. Dr Vallée also teaches and supervises research in the areas of environmental sociology, the sociology of science, and the social of health, illness and medicine.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/m-vallee
Dr Cheryl Ware
Dr Cheryl Ware is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland. She is currently undertaking an oral history project into the lives of women sex workers in Aotearoa from 1978 to 2008, and is supported by a Marsden Fund Fast Start Grant.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/c-ware