Justice reinvention How can we transform a broken justice system?
Professor Elizabeth Stanley is using Justice Reinvestment to reimagine a community-led approach to justice.
The School of Social and Cultural Studies brings together the teaching, research and scholarship strengths of Criminology, Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies, Social Policy and Sociology.
You’ll study the current analyses of how societies and cultures are formed, how they are governed, how they break down and how we might envisage new and viable future social and cultural systems.
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New Anthropology Books Published
The Anthropology Programme celebrates the publication of three new books
Religious Studies PhD Student Interning with UN
Star Ge's Passion for development paves the way for his PhD and a UN internship
Vale, Dr Diane O'Rourke
We are sad to inform the University community of the passing of Dr Diane O’Rourke.
Inspector for the Office of the Inspectorate at the Department of Corrections
Since graduating with a degree in Criminology, I have also worked at the Court of Appeal, the National Intelligence Centre (New Zealand Police) and the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
Read more about Kymberley JackFrom Sociology Graduate to Graduate Policy Analyst.
"Sociology offers a good foundation for policy work and the skills I developed are transferable. Policy work is meaningful and a great transition from university to the workforce" says Bex Kidson
Read more about Bex
Sociology graduate a staff member at Spark
Having a degree in Sociology showed my employer that I could grasp complex concepts, meet deadlines and articulate myself clearly with logic and reasoned argument.
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Whanganui gangs moral panic being repeated with emergency housing, says PhD graduate
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington criminology graduate Dr Feona Haakman says New Zealand media are displaying signs of moral panic relating to emergency housing tenants, much like the panic around gang insignia in Whanganui between 2004 and 2013.
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School Prize Winners 2020
The 2020 School Prizes were awarded to seven recipients at the end of last year.
Upcoming events
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Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19
A/Prof Susanna Trnka - The University of Auckland Citizens do not merely respond to states…
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Humanitarian Confessions: Ethnography, Autobiography and the Locations of Religion in Aidland
Philip Fountain—Religious StudiesHumanitarian autobiographies provide compelling windows for analysing the locations of religion within the…
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“Pacifism in Churches of Christ in New Zealand: Tensions between Purity, Unity and Peace”
John Davis Jones The first appearance of Stone-Campbell Movement churches in the Southern Hemisphere occurred…