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Adaptation Finance: Risks and Opportunities for Aotearoa New Zealand
(Mōhio Research and AUT, 2022)Methodology: This report was developed through the co-design process of Mōhio’s Climate Innovation Lab, a fixed-term initiative which works with stakeholders to envision financial instruments to mobilise capital for ... -
Research Note on Experiences and Attitudes Going Forward with and Beyond Omicron (July)
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The attitudinal base of support for the current Covid strategy in NZ is assessed using current and recent survey data – covering attitudes and reports in relation to switching to the traffic light system, vaccination, ... -
Review of Greg Marston, Louise Humpage, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld and Zoe Staines (2022) Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? Bristol: Policy Press.
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Review of Greg Marston, Louise Humpage, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld and Zoe Staines (2022) Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? Bristol: Policy Press. -
Multidimensional Quality of Life of Older Adults in South Africa
(Springer, 2022)It is estimated that by 2050, the world population over the age of 65 will reach 1.5 billion. The United Nations predicts that the fastest growth will be in Africa, which suffers from extreme poverty and inequalities. ... -
Positive Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Vaccines: A Cross-Country Analysis
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022)COVID-19 severely impacted world health and, as a consequence of the measures implemented to stop the spread of the virus, also irreversibly damaged the world economy. Research shows that receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is ... -
Research Note on Experiences and Attitudes Going Forward with and Beyond Omicron (March)
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2022)The attitudinal base of support for the current Covid strategy in NZ is assessed using current and recent survey data – covering attitudes and reports in relation to vaccination, Covid-management issues and the various ... -
Pathways and Obstacles to Social Recovery Following the Elimination of SARS-CoV-2 From Aotearoa New Zealand: A Qualitative Cross-sectional Study
(Oxford University Press, 2022)Background Many public health experts have claimed that elimination strategies of pandemic response allow ‘normal social life’ to resume. Recognizing that social connections and feelings of normality are important for ... -
‘The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘COVID’s gift to me’? Differential Experiences of Covid-19 Funerary Restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)In 2020, the government of Aotearoa New Zealand imposed some of the most stringent funerary restrictions in the world as part of its efforts to eliminate COVID-19. This article explores how people experienced this situation, ... -
New Zealand Pew Survey ‘Spring 2021’ COVID-Related Results
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)NZ results relating to Covid of a ‘Spring’ Pew Research center survey are presented. NZers tend to be strong supporters of NZ’s handling of the Covid outbreak. -
The Impact of Exogenous Shocks on National Wellbeing. New Zealanders’ Reaction to COVID-19
(Springer, 2021)In this paper, we explore the response of an aggregate measure of subjective wellbeing to the arrival and passage of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small, geographically separate economy in the South Pacific. Studies of national ... -
The Social Demography of Covid-19 Delta
(School of Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Publically available information concerning the scanning, testing, vaccination, covid-catching are examined both to describe the over-time patterns but also to indicate possibly causal linkages to underlying social patterns. -
The Ugly Truth About Social Welfare Payments and Households' Subjective Well-being
(Global Labor Organization, 2021)Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate ... -
Trust Predicts Compliance to COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence From Ten Countries Using Big Data
(Quaderni Del Dipartimento, 2021)Previous evidence indicates that trust is an important correlate of compliance with Covid-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over ... -
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-being Data From Twitter. Evidence From Ten Countries
(EconStor - Global Labor Organization (GLO), 2021)In this article we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Our measure of well-being ... -
Preschoolers' and Adults' Animism Tendencies Toward a Humanoid Robot
(Elsevier, 2021)This study examined whether three- and five-year-old children and adults changed their perceptions of a robot after a naturalistic interaction with it. We examined whether participants exhibited animism errors (i.e., ... -
Negotiating Risks and Responsibilities During Lockdown: Ethical Reasoning and Affective Experience in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)Over forty-nine days of Level 4 and Level 3 lockdown, residents of Aotearoa New Zealand were subject to ‘stay home’ regulations that restricted physical contact to members of the same social ‘bubble’. This article examines ... -
Lockdown Ibuism: Experiences of Indonesian migrant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Social Network Sites, Fear of Missing Out, and Psychosocial Correlates
(Masaryk University, 2020)The use of Social Network Sites (SNSs) has grown to become a ubiquitous aspect of daily life in developed countries throughout the world. This rise of social media has resulted in increased public concern regarding the way ... -
Beyond Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning: An Attempt with SVM
(The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020)A big challenge in continual learning is avoiding catastrophically forgetting previously learned tasks. The possibility of improving existing knowledge whilst integrating new information has been much less explored. In ...