Research expertise - Social Sciences and Public Policy

ArionWhere applying and enrolled students can access AUT course information, check your enrolment status, make fee payments, update your personal details and view your academic results.
AUTOnlineOnline access to course resources and learning activities through AUT's central learning management system.
UnicentralUniCentral is the AUT University Student Portal. Here you will find useful information about you as a student and quicklinks to all the important online systems you will need to use while studying at AUT University.

Study areas

Social Sciences and Public Policy

Home > Study at AUT > Study areas > Social Sciences and Public Policy > Research > Research expertise

Research expertise - Social Sciences and Public Policy

There is a great depth and range of research expertise in the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at AUT University, with strong links to the AUT Institute of Public Policy (IPP).

	Role	Research expertise
	Charles Crothers Head of Social Sciences Department	Social research methods; sociological theory; interface social research and policy; New Zealand society and Auckland; settler societies; sociology of social knowledge and the social sciences, quantitative survey data analysis.
	Dr Marilyn Waring (IPP) Professor of Public Policy	Governance and Public Policy; Political Economy; Gender Analysis; Human Rights.
	Dr Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop (IPP) Professor of Pacific Studies	Sustainable development; Pacific Small Island States; Gender; youth and development issues; Family security (domestic violence and Child abuse and neglect issues); Education.
	Dr Sharyn Graham Davies Associate Professor of Social Sciences	Gender; sexuality; Indonesia; Asian Studies; Islam; policing; Southeast Asia.
	Dr Antje Deckert Lecturer Criminology	Sociology of criminal law; the media in the criminological context.
	Jane Verbitsky Senior Lecturer	New Zealand politics, conflict resolution, regional studies, international relations, refugee/human rights/security nexus, justice institutions and processes, and peace education and conflict resolution fields.
	Camille Nakhid Senior Lecturer	Sociology of education; the social construction of identity; appropriate research methodologies for marginalised and minority groups; race and ethnicity; Maori and Pasifika academic achievement.
	Erik Landhuis Lecturer	Quantitative methodology; perception, illusion and delusion; creativity; health psychology; epidemiology; pseudoscience.
	Evan Te Ahu Poata Smith Senior Lecturer	Iracism and ethnicity; anti-racist movements; identity politics, research and indigenous peoples.
	Dr John Buttle Senior Lecturer Criminology	Police studies; police use of force and non-lethal weapons; police legitimacy and accountability; police reform; rural crime and policing; public and media understandings of crime and policing.
	Cristina Parra Programme Leader BA Psychology	Dehumanisation; intergroup perception; ethnic identification processes; social hierarchies; evolutionary psychology.
	Kate Nicholls lecturer Political Science	Political science; comparative politics; political economy; the state; public policy; organized labour; European integration; democracy; Australasian politics.
	Dr Robert Webb Senior Lecturer Criminology	Crime and safety issues for Maori in Auckland; Maori criminogenic needs and risk factors; Maori criminology and sociology; research methods; identity and organ donation.
	Keryn McDermott Senior / Lecturer programme Leader Criminology	Cooperative Education; refugee resettlement; cross-cultural research methodologies; bilingual delivery of ESOL programmes for beginners.

Last updated: 16 May 2012 4:15pm

AUT - Research expertise - Social Sciences and Public Policy

Social Sciences and Public Policy

Research expertise - Social Sciences and Public Policy

There is a great depth and range of research expertise in the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at AUT University, with strong links to the AUT Institute of Public Policy (IPP).