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Tessa Mackenzie

Tanja Rother

I live in the Eastern Bay of Plenty where I've been working with various iwi and hapū, the wider community as well as agencies and ...

Penny Fitzpatrick

I specialise in research, evaluation and learning. An anthropologist by training and a jack-of-all trades by experience, I bring qualitative and quantitative research techniques, and ...

Sheree George

Papers for the 2775 claim Te tiriti o Waitangi Hauora

Jaleh Virginia McCormack

My research experience spans twenty years in academic, not for profit, and government organisations with an emphasis on social issues, education and healthcare. I am ...

Rachael McMillan

I work in strategy and regional collaboration in local government. In this role I have been working with elected representatives, senior council staff, iwi, business ...

Beth Neill

I'm a registered community psychologist working in Northland, with a special interest in community wellbeing, social research and evaluation. I've been involved in applied research ...

Karthiga Kanesha

I have been involved a number of co-design initiatives undertaking empathy interviews ranging from Family violence, youth employment, poverty, driver licensing, early years, financial capability ...

Suzanne Grant

I have 15 yrs University research and teaching in the areas of social enterprise, community development, not for profit organisations and organisation behaviour. My specific ...

Pete McMillen

Experienced research, evaluation, data science and analytics practitioner, having worked for 20+ years in official statistics (Australia and NZ), market research (Australia and NZ), and ...