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SPEaR funding

2005

Round 7 - May 2005

Postgraduate Scholarships

  • An Evaluation of Four Community Service Organisations in Tai Tokerau(Northland), New Zealand
    Tina Darkin for PhD - Auckland University of Technology (awarded three year scholarship)

 

Research Methods Workshop Awards

  • Key Statistics Conference
    Statistics New Zealand
  • HRC Pacific Health Research Fono
    Health Research Council
  • Towards 2020 - Challenges for the Social Sciences Community
    Social Science Committee
    Royal Society of New Zealand
  • The New Zealand Definition of Asian
    Samson Tse - The Centre for Asian Health Research and Evaluation

 

Social Policy Research Awards

  • When the going gets tough: What happens to worn-out workers
    Hazel Armstrong and Rob Laurs - School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University

 

Visiting Speaker Awards

  • Achieving social outcomes: design, delivery and impact of policy
    Christine Cheyne, Massey University - Palmerston North
    Speaker: Professor Marilyn Taylor - Cities Research Centre, University of the West of England, UK

Round 8 - August 2005

Postgraduate Scholarships

  • Separation, segregation or mixing: housing issues for young female offenders in NZ prisons
    Sophie Goldingay for MA - University of Canterbury

 

Research Methods Workshop Awards

  • Using Mixed Methods in Research and Programme Evaluation
    Professor Peter Davis - The University of Auckland
  • Growing research in practice for social work and social services workshop series
    Neil Lunt - Massey University, Auckland Campus
  • Motu Public Policy Seminar Series
    Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

 

Social Policy Research Awards

  • A comparison of kinship and foster care outcomes
    Philippa Wells - Child, Youth and Family

 

Visiting Speaker Awards

  • Social Simulation - A new technique for social research and social policy development
    University of Auckland
    Speakers: Professor Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey and Professor Klaus Troitzsch, Universitat Koblenz-Landau
  • Tenth Australasian Conference of Child Abuse and Neglect
    Ministry of Social Development
    Speaker: Anna Pinto, Centre for Organisation Research and Education, Manipur, India
  • Reconciling work and family: an international policy perspective
    Paul Callister, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
    Speaker: Janet Gornick, City University of New York

Round 9 - November 2005

Postgraduate Scholarship Awards

  • Domestic violence following natural hazard events in NZ
    Rosalind Houghton for PhD in Social Policy - Victoria University (awarded three year scholarship)
  • Retirement savings and taxation policy: a trans-tasman comparison
    Lisa Marriott for PhD - Victoria University of Wellington (awarded two year scholarship)
  • Evaluation of Rongo Atea alcohol and drug youth residential treatment service: Te Rununga O Kirikirioa Trust
    Helen Paki, Masters Social Science (Psychology) - University of Waikato
  • Primal youth: realising the potential of young people through positive youth development
    Phoebe Pollock for MA (Applied) Social Science Research - Victoria University of Wellington
  • Assessing the cultural and identity issues of refugees in furthering their integration into NZ society
    Sophie Debski for MA (Applied) in Social Science Research - Victoria University of Wellington