Our projects

This project will partner with communities to learn more about their stories, histories, and experiences within their neighbourhoods. Primarily qualitative in nature, we will utilise Citizen Science methodologies to assist communities to advocate for positive change in the places they live. It is our first step towards understanding what places have the most meaning in people’s lives.

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This project will utilise next-generation technologies to better understand how people’s wellbeing is affected by how much they move and the places they move through. We will use a custom-designed smartphone app to allow people to tell us how they are feeling during the day. When paired with motion sensors over several seven-day periods, we can provide participants with feedback about how their time use and travel patterns affect how they feel. We are particularly interested in how neighbourhoods that are being redeveloped affect people’s movement patterns and wellbeing.

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This project examines the impact of both urban redevelopment and house conditions on occupant wellbeing. The project seeks to capture through a House Condition Survey and an Occupant Wellbeing Survey, how occupants’ homes and urban redevelopment, such as impact of nearby construction, effects their wellbeing. This information will help us move towards people-centred housing design that prioritises individual and whānau wellbeing. It will also assist industry and government to mitigate any negative impact of urban redevelopment on residents and communities.

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This project focuses on the wellbeing of Kāinga Ora tenancy customers through a nationwide online wellbeing survey, circulated to primary tenancy customers once per year for three years. The survey has been developed for the programme to examine different components of wellbeing at individual, whānau and community levels over time.

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This project looks to identify and quantify the area-level wellbeing impacts of urban regeneration using administrative data from Stats NZ’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI). Wellbeing outcomes are adapted from the Treasury’s Living Standards Framework (1) human capital measures such as education and labour market outcomes, (2) physical and mental health measures such as hospital admissions and mental health access and (3) crime and safety such as victimisation and accident rates.

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