Research Team

Penelope Carroll, MA (Politics), Grad Dip Psychology, Post Grad Dip Cognitive Therapy, PhD (Health Sciences)

Penelope Carroll is a researcher in public health at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, School of Public Health, Massey University, Auckland.  She obtained her PhD in health sciences from Otago University (Wellington, New Zealand) and has an extensive background in media and communications.  Current research activities include the interface between social science research and policy, housing and health inequalities and the well-being of children and in urban environments.

email: p.a.carroll@massey.ac.nz

Publications

Carroll, P., Dew, K., & Howden Chapman, P. (2011). The heart of the matter: using poetry as a method of ethnographic inquiry to represent and present experiences of the informally housed in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Qualitative Inquiry, 17(7), 623-630. A286

Oliver, M., Witten, K., Kearns, R., Mavoa, S., Badland, H., Carroll, P., . . . Ergler, C. (2011). Kids in the city study: research design and methodology. BMC Public Health, 11(587). A284

Carroll, P., Casswell, S., Huakau, J., Howden Chapman, P., & Perry, P. (2011). The widening gap: perceptions of poverty and income inequalities and implications for health and social outcomes. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, 37, 1-12. A281

Witten, K., & Carroll, P. (2011). Intensification, housing affordability and families: Learning from the Auckland CBD. In K. Witten, W. Abrahamse & K. Stuart (Eds.), Growth Misconduct? Avoiding Sprawl and Improving Urban Intensification in New Zealand (pp. 79-89). Wellington: New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, University of Otago. SB55

Carroll, P., Witten, K., & Kearns, R. (2011). Housing Intensification in Auckland New Zealand: Implications for Children and Families. Housing Studies, 26 (3), 353-367. A278

Blewden, M., Carroll, P. & Witten, K. 2010. The use of social science research to inform policy development: case studies from recent immigration policy. Kotuitui, 5, 13-25. A257

Carroll, P., Casswell, S., Huakau, J., Perry, P. & Howden Chapman, P. (2009) The Relationship between Environmental Attitudes, Beliefs about Social Justice and Interest in Politics: are there Lessons for the New Zealand Green Party? Environmental Politics 18(2), 257-278. A232