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Review of Adult Palliative Care Services in New Zealand

This review presents a refreshed strategic direction for adult palliative care and proposes a suite of initiatives to help manage future increases in demand for palliative care. …

Evaluation of the Advance Care Planning Programme

The Health Quality & Safety Commission and Health Workforce New Zealand recently commissioned an independent evaluation of the advance care planning programme and training. The purpose…

Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in New Zealand

The research report Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in New Zealand  (led by Professor Gail Pacheco from AUT) tells us about the factors behind…

Measuring the value of the contribution of Māori language and culture to the New Zealand economy

This study offers new perspectives into the economic contribution of Te Reo Māori and Tikanga Māori to the New Zealand economy. The report aims to provide…

New models of tertiary education

Evidence rating scale

Good intentions for social policies, programmes, services and practices are not always enough. Decision-makers need quality evidence to know whether the programmes or services and they…

Effect of motherhood on pay

Effect of motherhood on pay – methodology and full results presents the methodology and analysis we used in our investigation of a ‘motherhood penalty’ in New Zealand.…

Explaining ethnic disparities in bachelor’s qualifications: participation, retention and completion in New Zealand

There are substantial ethnic gaps in higher education in NZ, despite more than a decade of considerable policy effort aimed at this concern. This study uses…

Extending their language - expanding their world: Children’s oral language (birth-8 years)

Research evidence shows early in a child’s life is a critical time in terms of the rapid language development that takes place, particularly in the first…

Off-benefit transitions

The research looked at 140,000 people who moved off a benefit from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011. This period was chosen because it allowed…