Research briefs
Roy, R., Tu’inukuafe, E., & Collins, F.L. (2024). Beyond paternalism and racism in Pacific labour migration (Publication: 1). WERO, the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/16902
Waitoki, W., Tan, K., & Hamley, L. (2024). Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi through addressing racism in universities (Publication 2). WERO, the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17280
Terruhn, J. & Collins, F.L. (2024). “Landlords wouldn’t give my application a second look.” Discrimination exacerbates inequalities in access to private rental housing (Publication 3). WERO, the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17282
Southey, K. & Terruhn, J. (2025). Policy solutions to social housing stigmatisation in Aotearoa (Publication 4). WERO, the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/17283
Non-Peer Reviewed Published Articles
Collins, F.L. and Nandedkar, G. (2020). New Zealanders in Australia: migration, life and aspirations. National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis Working Paper No. 8.
Collins, F.L. and Pawar, S. (2021). Temporary Migration, Employment and Income Inequality. National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis.
Kukutai, T., Prickett, K., Atatoa-Carr, P., & Rata, A. (2020). Poipoia te kākano kia puawai. Family structure, family change and the wellbeing of tamariki Māori. Commissioned report for the Ministry of Social Development.
Lee, S., Collins, F.L. and Simon-Kumar, R. (2021). Healthy Diversity? Report on research into workplace diversity in a New Zealand District Health Board. University of Waikato and University of Auckland.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Rata, A., Waitoki, W., Abdul Rahman, N. H., & The WERO Research Team. (2025). Takarangi: Developing a framework for a large program of research towards decolonisation and racial justice. First Nations Health and Wellbeing – The Lowitja Journal, 3, Article 100067. Download here.
Edmonds, M., Tan, K., Simon, H., Waitoki, W., Black, R., & Rae, N. (2025). “It is about enabling tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake”: An analysis of submissions on the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill 2021 endorsing a Māori Health Authority. MAI Journal, 14(2), 270–282. Download here.
Waitoki, W., Rowe, L., Brittain, E., Clifford, C., & Skirrow, P. (2025). Marginalisation, migration, and movement: Responding to the underrepresentation of Māori in the clinical psychology workforce in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, 35(1), 2–20. Download here.
Tan, K., Johansson, S., Hamley, L., & Waitoki, W. (2025). Anti-racism allyship amongst psychologists and students in psychology training in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, 35(1), 65–79. Download here.
Chan, J., Tan, K., Hamley, L., Waitoki, W., & Scarf, D. (2025). Two decades after Siaan Nathan’s (1999) study: Revisiting the responsiveness of professional clinical psychology programmes. Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, 35(1), 21–35. Download here.
Wairoa-Harrison, S., Waitoki, W., Tan, K., Hamley, L., Stolte, O., Chan, J., & Scarf, D. (2025). Māori-focused course content in undergraduate psychology programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 54(2), 59–66. Download here.
King, P. T., … Cormack, D. et al. (2025). The undercounting of Indigenous Māori imprisoned by the New Zealand carceral state: A national record study. Health & Justice, 13(48). Download here.
Cranney, J., … Waitoki, W., et al. (2025). Considering cultural responsiveness in the creation of the International Competences for Undergraduate Psychology (ICUP) model: What can psychology learn? Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Download here.
Cranney, J., … Waitoki, W. et al. (2025). Collaborative processes in the development of the International Competences for Undergraduate Psychology (ICUP) model. International Journal of Psychology, 60, e70061. Download here.
Tan, K., Waitoki, W., Scarf, D., & Phillips, J. B. (2025). Problematic reasoning under the guise of anti-Māori talk: A case study of the Three Waters tweets. Howard Journal of Communications. Download here.
Roy, R., & Collins, F. L. (2025). Paternalism and racism in pacific labour migration: A critical discourse analysis of the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme. Ethnicities. Download here.
Stolte, O., Tan, K., Scarf, D., & Black, R. (2025). Beyond Pākehā paralysis: Exploring the journeys and experiences of Pākehā allyship in psychology. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 132–144. Download here.
Tan, K., Waitoki, W., & Scarf, D. (2025). Racism and bullying as correlates for considering ending psychology training in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 110–119. Download here.
Tan, K., & Tan, V. (2025). “Pushing an irritational button”: Asian psychologists making sense of racialization in psychology training in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Asian American Journal of Psychology. Download here.
Hamley, L. (2025). ‘The school is really an English school, so, I guess you just speak English’: settler colonialism’s impact on te reo Māori use by young Māori men. Settler Colonial Studies, 15(1), 61–80. Download here.
Cormack, D., Gooder, C., Jones, R., Lacey, C., Stanley, J., Paine, S-J., Curtis, E., & Harris, R. (2024). Māori medical student and physician exposure to racism, discrimination, harassment, and bullying. JAMA Network Open, 7(7), e2419373. Download here.
Islam, A. Z., Collins, F. L., & Alimi, O. B. (2024). Temporary migration and wage inequality: The effects of skills, nationality and migration status in Aotearoa New Zealand. Population, Space and Place, 30(8), e2811. Download here.
Harris, R., Cormack, D., Waa, A., Edwards, R., & Stanley, J. (2024). The impact of racism on subsequent healthcare use and experiences for adult New Zealanders: A prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health, 24(136). Download here.
Phillips, J. B., Ingram, K. M., & Campion, K. (2024). Gendered extremism in the Pacific on 4chan: A mixed-methods exploration of Australian and New Zealanders’ concepts of Women, gender, and sexual violence on /Pol/. Terrorism and Political Violence, 1–22. Download here.
Tan, K., Hamley, L., Treharne, G.J., Fraser, G., & Scarf, D. (2024). The integration of queer-related curriculum in psychology training in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A survey with programme directors. Psychology & Sexuality. Download here.
Tan, K., Collins, F., Roche, M., & Waitoki, W. (2024). Racism and employment: A narrative review of Aotearoa New Zealand and international qualitative studies. New Zealand Sociology, 39(1), 1-21. Download here.
Hamley, L., Tan, K., Waitoki, W., & Tiakiwai, S. (2024). A Critical Tiriti Analysis of the Treaty Statement from a university in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 7(1), 1–28. Download here.
Waitoki, W., Tan, K., Roy, R., Hamley, L., & Collins, F. (2024). A critical race analysis of Māori representation in university strategic documents in Aotearoa New Zealand. Race Ethnicity and Education, 27(4), 538-558. Download here.
Hamley, L., Kerekere, E., Nopera, T., Tan, K., Byrne, J., Veale, J., Clark, T. (2024). The glue that binds us: The positive relationships between whanaungatanga (belonging), wellbeing, and identity pride for takatāpui who are trans and non-binary. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. Download here.
Tan, K., Chan, J., Jalota, N., & Tan, V. (2024). Asian Psychology Collective Aotearoa. Psychology Aotearoa, 16(2), 19-25. Download here.
McLachlan, A., Kingi, T., Waitoki, W., Wirihana, R.W., Hoeta, A., Kinred, S., Pehi, P., Harris, P., & Jones, H. (2024). The TOHU framework: Sensing and interpreting tohu to heal from trauma. Explore, 20(6), 103107.
Waitoki, W., Tan, K., Stolte, O., Chan, J., Hamley, L., & Scarf, D. (2023). Four decades after a ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’: An update on professional psychology programme responsiveness to Indigenous Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 52(3), 4-14. Download here.
Bagg W, Curtis E, Eggleton KT, … Scarf, D., …Crampton, P. (2023). Socio-demographic profile of medical students in Aotearoa, New Zealand (2016–2020): A nationwide cross-sectional study. BMJ Open, 13, e073996
Tan, K., Stolte, O., Waitoki, W., & Scarf, D. (2023). How well does psychological research in Aotearoa New Zealand reflect diversity? Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, 33(1), 79–91. Download here.
Tan, K. (2023). Talking about race and positionality in Psychology: Asians as Tangata Tiriti. Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, 33(1), 107–111. Download here.
Simon-Kumar, R. (2023). Affirming fissures: Conceptualizing intersectional ‘ethnic’ feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 44(4), 454–469. Download here.
Phillips, J. B. (2022). Covering tangata whenua in Aotearoa: A big data exploration of print media and Māori. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 18(3), 195–212. Download here.
Black, R., Rae, N., Tan, K., Waitoki, W., & Waipuka-Bain, L. (2023). The “standard story” of anti-Māori talk in Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill submissions. New Zealand Medical Journal, 136(1579), 62-69. Download here.
Waitoki, W., Tan, K., Hamley, L., Scarf, D, Stolte, O., & Chan, J. (2023). How far are we with Indigenising psychology training curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand? New Zealand Medical Journal, 136(1577), 91-95. Download here.
Islam, A.Z., Alimi, O.B., & Collins, F.L. (2023). International migration and income inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2013–2018. New Zealand Population Review, 49, 157-198. Download here.
Collins, F. L., & Stringer, C. (2023). The trauma of exploitation: Emotional geographies of temporary migration and workplace unfreedom. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(2), 303-319.
Rapana, W., Winter, T., Fox, R. Riordan, BC., Kulkarni, R., Waitoki, W., & Scarf, D. (2022). Indigenous people in Aotearoa New Zealand are overrepresented in cannabis convictions. Harm Reduction Journal, 19(1), Article number: 28
Waitoki, W. (2022). In defence of mātauranga Māori: A response to the ‘seven academics’. New Zealand Medical Journal, 135(1552), 139-142.
Tan, K., Yee, A., & Veale, J.F. (2022). “Being trans intersects with my cultural identity”: Social determinants of mental health among Asian transgender people. Transgender Health, 7(4), 329-339.
Terruhn, J., Ye, J. (2022) Encountering neighbors: Coexisting with difference in Auckland’s Avondale. Urban Geography, 43(4), 613-631.
Case, E., Fu, M., Mio, J., & Rata, A. (2021). Ko wai tēnei e tū ake nei? Positioning ourselves in relation across racial difference. Counterfutures, 12, 56-77.
Collins, F.L. (2021). Geographies of migration I: Platform migration. Progress in Human Geography, 45(4), 866-877.
Collins, F.L. (2021). ‘Give me my pathway!‘: multinational migration, transnational skills regimes and migrant subjectification. Global Networks, 21(1), 18-39.
Collins, F.L. (2021). Migration ethics in pandemic times. Dialogues in Human Geography, 11(1), 78-82.
Collins, F.L. (2021) Temporary migration and regional development in the midst of the Covid-19 global pandemic: Invercargill and Queenstown. New Zealand Geographer, 77(3), 191-205.
Higgins, K.W., Terruhn, J. (2021) Kinship, whiteness and the politics of belonging among British migrants and Pākehā in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(15), 3564-3582.
Lee, S., Collins, F. L., & Simon-Kumar, R. (2020). Blurred in translation: The influence of subjectivities and positionalities on the translation of health equity and inclusion policy initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand. Social Science & Medicine, 288, 113248.
Lee, S., Collins, F. L., & Simon-Kumar, R. (2020). Healthy diversity? The politics of managing emotions in an ethnically diverse hospital workforce. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 41(4), 389-404.
Ngata, T., Rata, A., & Santos, D. (2021). Race based hate crime in Aotearoa 2021. MAI Journal, 10(2), 207-215.
Sidhu, R., Collins, F., Ho, K. C., & Yeoh, B. (2021). International student mobilities in a contagion:(Im)mobilising higher education?. Geographical Research, 59(3), 313-323.
Terruhn, J., Spoonley, P. (2020) Multilingual realities/monolingual ideologies: Connecting the dots between school language practices and international student wellbeing. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 4(2), 183-201.
Books, Chapters and Reports
Divakalala, C. & Simon-Kumar, R. (2025). Inter-ethnic racisms in Aotearoa: A study of South Asian communities in New Zealand. Working to End Racial Oppression in Aotearoa (WERO) publication,
Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland. Download here.
Collins, F. L., Gamlen, A., & Vallelly, N. (2025). Edges of empire: The politics of immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1980–2020. Auckland University Press. https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/edges-of-empire/
Roy, R., & Collins, F. L. (2025). Racial inequalities in engineering employment. Working to End Racial Oppression (WERO) Research Programme. University of Waikato, New Zealand. Download here.
Collins, F. L. (2025). Towards a Chinese migration studies? In H. Ø. Haugen & B. Wang (Eds.), Handbook on migration to China (pp. 396–405). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Aquino, P., Tan, K., Dam, L. (2025). Kasaysayan at mga salaysay: A bibliography of research with Asian communities in Aotearoa (2000-2024), WERO and University of Waikato. Download here.
King, P. T., & Cormack, D. (2024). Indigenous peoples, whiteness, and the coloniality of co-design. In J. Ravulo, K. Olcoń, T. Dune, A. Workman, & P. Liamputtong (Eds.), Handbook of critical whiteness (Chapter 28). Springer. Download here.
Waitoki, W., Tan, K., Hamley, L., Stolte, O., Chan, J., & Scarf, D. (2024). Systemic Racism and Oppression in Psychology: Voices from Psychologists, Academic Staff, and Students. WERO and University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Download here.
Waitoki, W., Tan, K., Hamley, L., Chan, J., Jones, S., Townsend, T., Wairoa-Harrison, S., White, T.A. (2024). WERO: A pānui for tauira Māori in psychology. Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Faculty of Māori and
Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Download here.
Moodie, H., Kong, Q., Ruffman, T., Loffhagen, J., Scarf, D., Hunter, J.A. (2024). Discrimination against Asians: The role of belonging. In: Akande, A. (eds) Leadership and Politics. Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice. Springer, Cham.
Rata, A. (2022). Foreword. In V. O’Malley, Voices from the New Zealand Wars: He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa.: Bridget Williams Books.
Rata, A. (2020). Whakapapa, separation and trauma. In S. Barber & M. Davidson (Eds.), Through that which separates us (pp. 17-27). Te Reo Kē and The Physics Room.