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Featured researchers
Researchers at Wellington School of Business and Government are striving to advance knowledge in their fields. Learn more about their work.
Supporting Mātauranga Māori
Associate Professor Jessica Lai’s research is focused on seeing changes to intellectual property law that protect and support Mātauranga Māori.
Entrepreneurship in the age of social media
Dr Mohammad Saud Khan is investigating how entrepreneurs can, and do, harness the power of social media.
Family matters
We may not be able to choose our families, but Dr Kate Prickett has chosen to study everything about them.
The delicate art of managing a crisis
The psychology of blame, how crises unfold, ‘crisis contagion’, and what we can learn from them are the focus of Associate Professor Dan Laufer's research.
Supporting New Zealand exporters
Associate Professor Hongzhi Gao is engaged in research that seeks to help New Zealand exporters weather trade wars and other political disruptions to trade.
Developing people capability in Māori organisations
Dr Jesse Pirini’s distinctive research explores the role that iwi and hapū based organisations can play in their communities—particularly in people development.
Discerning patterns in supposed chaos
Associate Professor Markus Luczak-Roesch is leading a team that aims to understand and predict random events that occur within complex systems.
Busting management myths
Professor Stephen Cummings’ research explores the barriers to innovation that ingrained management practices create, and how to overcome them.
Equal treatment
Whether people are treated equally when it comes to welfare, pensions and sentences for financial crimes reveals a lot about New Zealand society.
Fast rise through the ranks of ethics research
Micheal Macaulay's research in public administration has a focus on ethics and has included an investigation into culture change in the New Zealand Police.
Examining tax behaviour
Award-winning economist Norman Gemmell’s research aims to create tools to analyse and predict how people will respond to tax and welfare changes.
Building our resilience
Ilan Noy, thought to be the world’s first professorial Chair in the Economics of Disasters, examines lessons from events such as the Christchurch earthquakes.
Analysing the analysts
Karl Löfgren has been examining how policy analysts work, and delving into public sector autonomy.
Taking armchair travel to new heights
Dr Christian Schott is experimenting with technology that enables students to travel without leaving the comforts of home.
Providing a voice on copyright issues
The voice of the Asia–Pacific region on copyright issues is growing thanks to the efforts of Associate Professor Susan Corbett.
Exploring leadership through Cleopatra
Sally Riad often uses ancient Egypt as a way to examine management issues.