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  • Family Centred Healing

    … Ramona Tiatia - PhD 2014 This doctoral study was funded by the New Zealand Health Research Council, through the Career … study builds on Ramona's Masters thesis on the exploration of Samoan traditional healers and the importance of the … Ramona's PhD is a qualitative research study about housing, health and well-being. A central question focuses on
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  • Marginally grounded: Camping ground residence in New Zealand

    … Chrissy Severinsen – PhD 2010 This study describes the nature of the experiences of camping ground residents in relation to … and place attachment, which may mediate some of the effects of poor housing and social exclusion. The findings …
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  • Household Energy Affordability

    in fuel poverty when it would need to spend more than 10% of its income on household energy in order to be adequately … He Kāinga Oranga is working to better understand the effects of high electricity prices and energy service …
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  • Housing, Insulation and Health Study

    … Methods The data collection for the Housing, Insulation and Health study was carried out over the winters of 2001 and 2002. A nominal 1400 households in 7 regions …
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  • Housing, Heating and Health Study

    The Housing Heating and Health Study (PDF 1MB) was carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Universities of Otago, Massey, … place over the winters of 2005 and 2006, to examine the effects of temperature and indoor pollutants on children’s …
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  • Housing researchers win the Rutherford Medal, NZ’s top research honour

    Housing researchers win the Rutherford Medal, NZ’s top research honour Distinguished … - Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago, Wellington, have been awarded the 2021 Rutherford … asthma and viral infections in infants; the harmful health effects from the use of unflued gas heaters; the extent and
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  • Heating Up Cooling Off

    … research on New Zealanders’ summertime home energy use as the country adapts to a warming climate. Six of New Zealand’s top ten warmest years occurred between 2010 … energy demand and emissions. We urgently need to improve housing thermal performance and consider behavioural change …
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  • Tokelau Community Housing

    The Tokelau community and the research team worked together … healthy house for extended-family living. A series of meetings talked through the community’s specific housing needs. This project was part of a research …
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  • Constructing housing quality, health, and private rental housing: a critical analysis

    … Sarah Bierre – PhD 2008 This thesis explores the social constructions of the private rental sector, housing quality and health, and the implications these have …
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  • Individual and collective action for healthy rental housing in New Zealand: an historical and contemporary study

    … - PhD 2016 Substandard, insecure, and unaffordable housing affects health, contributing to the spread of infectious disease, susceptibility to respiratory illness, …
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