University of Auckland Sociology and Criminology

27/09/2018

Congratulations to Sociology & Criminology's Book Prize Winners from Semester 1, 2018 - students who earned top grades in their respective courses. Keep up the hard work. Cheeeee-hooooooo!!!!!

13/06/2018

Hello, we’re the Nudie Project! We’re a research team led by Dr Claire Meehan at the Uni Auckland and we’re investigating attitudes to sexting, sharing nudes, and revenge p**n in NZ (ethics reference 020717). Check out our page here! https://www.facebook.com/nudieprojectnz/

We're a NZ-based research team (Uni of Auckland) interested in hearing your thoughts on consensual a

08/04/2018

Awesome volunteering opportunity!!

Youth organisation Life Beyond School (LBS) are looking for volunteer mentors. This would involve helping to run/facilitate discussions with young people/ recent school leavers. LBS have enough facilitators at the moment, so no new facilitators would need to run a session alone, you can start out just by going along. If you would like to get in touch for more information, you can email LBS directly at [email protected].

Check out the LBS website:

About Overview Becoming educated requires more than just acquiring knowledge. A complete education should also produce a healthy, compassionate and critical mind that has a confident sense of direction in life. The Life Beyond School program aims to help provide that complete education. We hope to h...

21/02/2018

Such a great initiative by one of our very own! Check it out!! 😊👍

Stardust is a book written for children who have a parent in prison. Please message us to find out more!

17/01/2018

Are you a student at the University of Auckland? Are you interested in ‘sexting’ and/ or ‘revenge p**n’? Would you like to have your say? If so, we’re (Dr Claire Meehan and Zhiyan Zhang) holding a series of focus groups in Jan and Feb 2018 to explore these issues. We’d love you to join us! You can contact me at [email protected] to participate.

Thank you!

This project has been approved by the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee on 3rd November 2017 for (3) years, Reference Number 020244

11/10/2017

Dr David Mayeda was on TVNZ's Breakfast this morning discussing children, toy guns and masculinity. Click on the link, below, to respond to the question, "Should we let children play with toy guns?" Or, comment if you think there's a deeper issue here when it comes to mass shootings.

https://www.facebook.com/Breakfaston1/photos/a.444980022718.243928.337418942718/10155681467337719/

04/10/2017

Are you interested in the use of social media in your learning?

If you are a UoA student at any stage in your degree, Drs Claire Meehan and Luke Goode would love to hear your thoughts. Take part in our survey and focus group discussions at

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XS9SNSL

Have a say in how social media is used in your university!

APPROVED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND HUMAN PARTICIPANTS ETHICS COMMITTEE ON 11th July 2016 for (3) years, Reference Number 017530

Thank you :)

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26/09/2017

Check out University of Auckland Sociology/Criminology student and Arts Tuākana, Tejay Rimoni, who was featured on Māori Television's Native Affairs last night. Also a few cameo appearances from Sociology Tuākana, Robyn Lesatele and Courtney Fruean, Dr David Mayeda, and some of our SOCIOL 100 students. 8-minute piece on racism in New Zealand's education systems. Chee-hoo!

http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/native-affairs-racism-nz-educate-me

A recent unconscious bias in education report claims some teachers have lower expectations of Māori students and this may influence their achievement. The...

12/09/2017

Dr Cremin making international news...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/absurd-man-dress-warrants-discussion-stared-every-time-go/

When I hear stories of enraged parents like Nigel Rowe, 44, and his wife Sally, 42, who removed their six-year-old son from an unnamed school after a male classmate was allowed to attend the primary school in a dress, it makes me wonder what some parents must think about me.

05/09/2017

Check this out!! :)

31/08/2017

Ciara Cremin, featured in Times Higher Education.

The sociologist and author of on finding her voice, tights and superheroes, and why people are told to ‘man up’ but never to ‘woman up’

21/08/2017

Shout out to our CRIM 204 class 😞😢