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 is a post-occupancy evaluation of home-based wellbeing that will be conducted in partnership with BRANZ (Building Research Association of NZ). A custom smartphone app will be designed to capture the self-reported perspectives of residents about how their homes impact their wellbeing. This information will help us move towards people-centred home design that prioritises individual and whānau wellbeing.

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This project focuses on the wellbeing of Kāinga Ora tenants. Once per year for three years, a nationwide online survey will be circulated to all Kāinga Ora tenants. With this information, we hope to better understand how movement to different neighbourhoods, or major developments within a given neighbourhood, affect tenants’ perceived wellbeing. It is intended that this survey will continue beyond the duration of this programme to enable us to better understand long-term trends in wellbeing.

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This project utilises Statistics NZ’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to examine population wellbeing trends over time. We will access population microdata contained in the IDI for a range of wellbeing outcome indicators relating to people and communities. These include measures for education and training, income and work, welfare benefits and social services, health, justice, and housing.

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