Research areas and methods

Find out about the School's research areas, methods and staff involved.

We welcome you to get in touch if you are interested in working with any of our staff in either a study or research capacity.

Research area	Staff
Ageing	Mary Breheny, Joanne Crawford, Anne Haase, Agi Szabo, Jessica Young, Steve Bowe
Alcohol, smoking and drug use	Denise Blake, Antonia Lyons, Jessica Young, Steve Bowe
Chronic health conditions	Ally Gibson, Chloe Parton , Joanne Crawford, Steve Bowe
Digital health	Octavia Calder-Dawe, Fran Kewene, Terry Fleming, Ally Gibson, Jessica Young
Disability	Octavia Calder-Dawe, Kirsten Smiler, Fran Kewene
Dying and death	Jessica Young, Steve Bowe
Gender, sexuality and sexual health	Clive Aspin, Octavia Calder-Dawe, Ally Gibson, Katie Graham, Sue Jackson, George Parker, Chloe Parton, Annemarie Jutel
Global health & epidemiology	Anna Matheson, Clive Aspin, Colin Simpson, Steve Bowe
Health promotion	Anne Haase, Eva Neely, Victoria Chinn, Anna Matheson
Health systems and policy	Anna Matheson, Lesley Middleton
Māori health	Clive Aspin, Denise Blake, Fran Kewene, Kirsten Smiler
Maternal/parental health	Eva Neely, George Parker, Chloe Parton, Mary Breheny
Medicalisation and diagnosis	Ally Gibson, Annemarie Jutel, Jessica Young
Mental health	Terry Fleming, Sunny Collings, Clive Aspin, Steve Bowe
Migrant health	Agi Szabo, Steve Bowe, Danaë Anderson
Nutrition, obesity, fat studies	Anne Haase, Victoria Chinn, Annemarie Jutel, Eva Neely, George Parker, Jessica Young , Steve Bowe
Occupational health & safety	Joanne Crawford, Chris Peace, Danaë Anderson
Pacific health	Aliitasi Su’a Tavila,
Physical education/activity	Anne Haase, Annemarie Jutel, Steve Bowe
Population health	Terry Fleming, Colin Simpson, Agi Szabo, Anna Matheson, Steve Bowe
Social determinants of health	Anna Matheson, Steve Bowe
Women’s health	Denise Blake, Victoria Chinn, Ally Gibson, Eva Neely, Chloe Parton, George Parker, Aliitasi Su’a Tavila, Steve Bowe
Youth health and wellbeing	Terry Fleming, Octavia Calder-Dawe, Aliitasi Su’a Tavila

Research methods

Visual and arts-based methods	Octavia Calder-Dawe, Ally Gibson, Annemarie Jute, Fran Kewene, Eva Neely , Jessica Young, Chloe Parton
Case study	Joanne Crawford, Anna Matheson, Lesley Middleton, Chris Peace
Cultural history	Annemarie Jutel
Digital methods	Terry Fleming, Ally Gibson, Jessica Young
Discursive analytic methods	Mary Breheny, Octavia Calder-Dawe, Ally Gibson, Jessica Young, Chloe Parton
Ethnography	Annemarie Jutel, Eva Neely
Evaluation	Anna Matheson, Lesley Middleton, Victoria Chinn
Interviews and focus Groups	Mary Breheny, Octavia Calder-Dawe, Victoria Chinn, Joanne Crawford, Ally Gibson, Katie Graham, Fran Kewene, Anna Matheson, Eva Neely, Chris Peace, Kirsten Smiler , Agi Szabo, Aliitasi Su’a Tavila, Jessica Young, George Parker, Terry Fleming, Chloe Parton
Kaupapa Māori	Clive Aspin, Denise Blake, Fran Kewene, Kirsten Smiler
Mixed-methods	Victoria Chinn, Terry Fleming, Anna Matheson, Agi Szabo, Mary Breheny, Chloe Parton , Steve Bowe, Chris Peace
Narrative approaches	Mary Breheny, Ally Gibson, Annemarie Jutel, Anna Matheson
Philosophical and historical analysis	Annemarie Jutel, Anna Matheson
Physiological measures	Victoria Chinn, Colin Simpson, Steve Bowe
Survey research	Terry Fleming, Anne Haase, Justin Richards, Colin Simpson, Agi Szabo , Mary Breheny, Joanne Crawford, Victoria Chinn, Steve Bowe
Systematic reviews and rapid evidence assessments	Joanne Crawford, Steve Bowe
Trials	Terry Fleming, Anne Haase, Colin Simpson, Steve Bowe