Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE) and Te Ropu Whariki
 
SHORE and Whariki were established at Massey University on 1 July 2002 . The team of twenty to thirty social science researchers are based at 90 Symonds Street Auckland in Massey University House. SHORE is directed by Professor Sally Casswell and Whariki is directed by Dr Helen Moewaka Barnes. The Centre is funded through external research grants and contracts to undertake public good research of relevance to the health and social sectors. SHORE and Whariki work in partnership. 

Nau Epiha, who has had a long-standing relationship with the Centre’s researchers, is the kaumatua for SHORE and Whariki.  The Centre in its relationship with Whariki and in its research aims to operationalise the Treaty of Waitangi.
 
SHORE and Whariki together are a multi disciplinary research group that has a strong strategic focus to its work.  
 
The research team has expertise in a number of fields including alcohol and other drugs, Maori health research, Pacific health research, effects of place on health, identity, youth mental health, gambling, and sustainability. The team’s methodological expertise is wide ranging and includes the design and implementation of social survey research, formative, process and outcome evaluation, community action research, GIS, kaupapa Maori research and the use of a number of qualitative methodologies including discourse analysis. Three statisticians support the Centre’s quantitative research.
 
In addition to the research staff, SHORE and Whariki have a well-trained field force of survey interviewers and supervisors who operate the Centre’s CATI (computer assisted telephone interviewing) laboratory. The CATI system enables the collection of high quality social and health survey data.
 
The Centre aims to be responsive to end users of its research in the design, implementation and dissemination of its research.  Past research has been carried out in collaboration with community partners, including iwi and pan tribal organisations, local government and ministries and NGOs at the national level.  SHORE researchers have also managed World Health Organization projects and participated in a number of international projects. SHORE was recently designated a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Alcohol and Drug Abuse.

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