Te Whakatere Au Papori Navigating Social Currents
About the project and the researchers investigating how children and young people navigate and negotiate their social worlds.
Te Whakatere au Pāpori (Navigating Social Currents) 1 was instigated in 2012 to bring together researchers interested in how children and young people navigate and negotiate their social worlds.
We ask how children and young people:
- Come to understand their social worlds and their place within them through lenses such as identity, citizenship, participation, community or children’s voice
- Make sense of unexpected happenings in their social worlds through lenses such as resilience, disaster response and recovery, transience, migration or becoming refugees
- Make sense of the social issues they face such as poverty, friendships or bullying
Since its launch Te Whakatere au Pāpori has hosted an international conference, presented symposia at four international conferences and held regular faculty-wide research seminars as well as producing three special issues of peer reviewed journals and a range of other research outputs.
1With thanks to Hemi Dale with his help in finding a suitable name and metaphor.
Meet our members
Members of Te Whakatere are drawn from across the Faculty and have links to researchers across the wider university and in other institutions.
Read about Te Whakatere au Pāpori - Navigating social currents | A research unit based at University of Auckland.
Director
Members
Dr Jennifer Tatebe
Jack Webster
Tom Pearce
Tania Fu
Timothy Kerr
Wendy Choo
Marta Estellés
Pip Jones
Noah Romero
Juan Carlos Ochoa Lopez
Manal El Mazbouh
Carolina Castro
Associate members
Associate Professor Lisa Gibbs, Jack Brockhoff Child Health & Wellbeing Program, The McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne
Professor Colin MacDougall, Flinders University, School of Health Sciences
Dr Annie Weir, Director, Impact Research NZ (Honorary Research Fellow, CRSTIE)
Libby Gawith, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch
Dr Nozomu Takahashi, Gunma University, Japan
Dr Wataru Suzuki, Miyagi University of Education, Japan
Professor Ruth Irwin, University of Fiji
Dr Cathy Fagan, University of Glasgow
Student members
Te Whakatere offers the opportunity for postgraduate students and Summer Scholars to be part of a community of researchers and to participate in seminars, symposia and publications.
Selected theses
Deanna Johnston (2015) Lost in translation? Key competencies from vision to reality
Adam Driver (2015) Cultural leadership: the reciprocities of right relationship at Kia Aroha College
Over the years, a number of University students have joined our community as Summer Scholars, CRSTIE Summer Interns and Research Assistants.