Auckland Policy Commons
How to Create a Youth-quake Fostering political engagement amongst young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
By Esme Hall - In this blog post I draw on insights from scholarship on political participation and analysis of the New Zealand Election Study from 2008 to 2017 to suggest ways of increasing youth engagement in the policy process. At every election there is a lot...
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Swimming Against the Tide: New Zealand Revisits its Refugee Policy
By Dr Tim Fadgen - As local and regional conflicts persist around the globe, and as environmental disasters become more frequent and increasingly severe, refugees are on the move. Concurrently, many nations and states around the world have signalled that people...
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CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP: Rethinking Social Welfare Summit 2018
By Mike O'Brien - In this, the 80th anniversary of the passage of the Social Security Act 1938,...
Alan France: The poor stay poor and the rich get rich – everybody knows
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody...
A Better, But Not as Yet, Good Parliament: The UK House of Commons 2016-2018
Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender, Birkbeck College University of London and...
Equal pay starts with transparency
By Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy - If everyone knows what their peers are getting paid, it is much...
Latest Events
PUBLIC LECTURE: Accessibility Legislation: Legal and Policy Insights for New Zealand
DAVID LEPOFSKY When: Monday 12 November, 11am Where: Pat Hanan Room (2017-501) University of Auckland 18 Symonds Street Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Toronto Visiting Professor of Legal Ethics and Public Interest Advocacy, Osgoode Hall Law School...
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Latest Policy POD
Alasdair Jones: Mixed methods policy evaluation, bus fare concessions and public health impact
Alasdair Jones is an Assistant Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology at the London School of Economics, and an Associate at LSE Cities. In this episode of the Policy Pod he talks about ways of conceptualising the integration of qualitative methodologies and...
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Professor Susan Himmelweit: ‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality’ ▶️
‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality: The experience of the UK Women’s Budget Group’ Since 1989, the UK Women’s Budget Group (WBG), a group of academics, activists and trade unionists, has tried to hold successive UK governments to account for the...
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