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Decolonization Paradigm and Liberation Criminology
PROFESSOR ONWUBIKO (BIKO) AGOZINO Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia USA I Seelye Visiting Fellow The criminology discipline is closely tied to the project of colonization and patriarchal...
Black Lives Matter, Otherwise All Lives Do not Matter
PROFESSOR ONWUBIKO (BIKO) AGOZINO Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia USA I Seelye Visiting Fellow Long before three African American women registered the twitter handle, #BlacklivesMatter, and...
The Climate Change Crisis: Where on Earth are We Going? Will Steffen
Date And Time: Wed, 3 July 2019 5:30PM – 6:30PM Location: Lecture Theatre 346, Social Sciences Building (201N-346) 10 Symonds Street University of Auckland REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT The Climate Change Crisis: Where on Earth are We Going? Will Steffen Emeritus...
What is the difference between an impact and an outcome? Impact is the longer term effect of an outcome
Andrew Harding looks closely at the terminology and theoretical differences between an impact and an outcome in welfare research. Outcomes tend to be pre-defined and can be measured objectively, but the personal experiences and nature of impact is intuitively...
Where does gender equality fit into the Budget?
By Jennifer Curtin and Suzy Morrissey - The University of Auckland's Jennifer Curtin and Suzy Morrissey discuss how gender differences might impact the Government’s budget priorities The Wellbeing Budget is a new initiative for New Zealand. However, asking states...
Media must interrogate menacing privacy breaches
By Susan St John - The media continues to miss the 19th century morality behind an out of control punitive culture at MSD. It's time to step up, writes Susan St John. A mentally ill beneficiary whose malicious neighbour dobbed her in for so-called ‘relationship...
Smart cities are age-friendly cities
By M. Claire Dale - *These are some of the key findings from the University of Auckland Summer Scholar research paper written by Nancy Chen, co-supervised by M. Claire Dale and the Public Policy Institute. For our cities to be smart, they'll have to cater for our...
Transfers, self-enforcing agreements and climate cooperation
By Suzi Kerr, Steffen Lippert and Edmund Lou - International agreements addressing climate change must overcome the difficulties implied by the absence of an institution with the power to ensure compliance. They have to be self-enforcing: the threat of future...
Negative Impact – Is it possible to manage potentially harmful research findings?
What do you do with research that produces potentially harmful results? In this post Andrew Crane, explores how research can produce negative as well as positive impacts on society and discusses how his own research group has approached dealing with the complex...
Watch: Marcia Langton – Ancient Wisdom for Modern Problems
* Delivered on Tuesday 30 April for the Public Policy Institute, as part of the Global Speakers Series Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia maintained knowledge traditions with their own philosophies and epistemologies that originated in...
Professor Kenneth Benoit Seminar: ‘The Ten Most Important Things I’ve Learned about Quantitative Text Analysis’
Hosted jointly by the Public Policy Institute and Compass, on 24 January 2019. Following nearly two decades of applied text analytics for social science and ten years actively developing analytic software for text analysis, this talk represents my top ten list of...
Marcia Langton: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Problems
WHEN: Tuesday 30 April, 6-7pm WHERE: Maths Lecture Theatre (Room 102, Building 303), 38 Princes Street, University of Auckland REGISTER FOR THIS TALK Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia maintained knowledge traditions with their own...
Hamid Mamdouh – Challenges to the Multilateral Trading System
PUBLIC LECTURE: Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh PLEASE NOTE THE NEW DATE FOR THIS TALK: Monday 20 May, 12-1pm University of Auckland Conference Centre, 22 Symonds Street Building 423, Room 340 RSVP Essential: ppi@auckland.ac.nz International trade has always played a critical...
Education in Extraordinary Times
'The Education Sector after Trump, Brexit and Christchurch: https://youtu.be/S9z6hXvC-do Hosted by the Europe Institute at the University of Auckland, featuring Prof. John Morgan (Education), Prof. Elizabeth Rata (Education), Dr Claire Meehan (Sociology). Recorded...
Equality for some: the challenge of poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand – a Panel Presentation
New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice - Substantive Equality Month 2018 More information on The New Zealand Centre for Human Rights, Law, Policy and Practice. 'Equality for some: the challenge of poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand' was the topic...
Invisible impact and insecure academics: structural barriers to engagement and why we should do it anyway
Originally published on the LSE Impact Blog. Republished with permission. Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a form of research that involves prolonged and deep engagement with local communities and can produce profound social impacts. In this post, Dr Katrina...
A climate-neutral NZ? Yes, it’s possible
By Professor Myles Allen - New Zealand has a chance to show much larger emitters how climate change policy can be ambitious, fair and above all transparent, writes the University of Oxford's Myles Allen Last week showed me New Zealand at its best. I spent it, at...
Climate Change: The Carbon Challenge – Prof Myles Allen
This lecture was delivered for the Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland on Tuesday 19 March 2019, as part of the Global Speakers Series. Leading the World to Net Zero: The opportunities and challenges of New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Act New Zealand's...
We need more solution-oriented social science: on changing our frames of reference and tackling big social problems
By Mark Western - This article originally appeared on the LSE Impact Blog. Reproduced with permission. Solution-oriented social science makes solving problems the object of social science, and working on other people’s problems becomes the key driver of the...
New Zealand can lead the world on net zero emissions
New Zealand's decisions in 2019 could help frame the global climate agenda for many decades to come, believes an eminent British climate change scientist. As part of the Institute's 2019 Global Issues Speaker Series, Professor Allen gave a free public lecture:...
