Research Team

Taisia Huckle, MA (Hons)

Taisia Huckle is the quantitative team leader at Centre for Social & Health Outcomes Research & Evaluation (SHORE). She is involved with proposal writing, quantitative research study design, implementation and quantitative analysis and statistics. She has a particular interest in survey methodology and often collects data for SHORE and Whariki projects using the Centre's Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing system. She is responsible for sampling, programming questionnaires, day-to-day running of the data collection survey software including managing phone numbers, data quality and troubleshooting.   She has overseen the collection of around 15,000 survey interviews to date. She has taken a lead role in many research projects and is currently studying towards a PhD in public health. The topic for her PhD is to assess the impact of a liberalised alcohol policy environment in New Zealand. Her main area of research interest is alcohol.

Email: t.huckle@massey.ac.nz


Publications

Journal Articles

Huckle T, You RQ and Casswell S (2010) Increases in quantities consumed in drinking occasions in New Zealand 1995 to 2004, Drug and Alcohol Review, in press

Huckle T, You RQ and Casswell S (2010). Lower socioeconomic status independently predicts consumption but not alcohol-related harm, Addiction 105, 1192-1202

Huckle, T., Huakau, J., Sweetsur, P., Huisman, O. & Casswell, S. (2008) Density of alcohol outlets and teenage drinking: living in an alcogenic environment is associated with higher consumption in a metropolitan setting. Addiction 103:1614–1621. A222

Huckle, T., Sweetsur, P., Moyes, S. & Casswell, S. (2008) Ready to drinks are associated with heavier drinking patterns among young females. Drug and Alcohol Review, 27, 398-403. A217

Huckle, T., Greenaway, S., Broughton, D., Conway, K. (2007) The use of a evidence-based community action intervention to improve age verification practices for alcohol purchase. Substance Use and Misuse 42, 1899-1914. A207

Huckle, T., Pledger, M. and Casswell, S. (2006) Trends in alcohol-related harm in a liberal alcohol environment. Addiction 101, 232-240.

Huckle, T., Conway, K., Casswell, S. and Pledger, M. (2005) A regional community action intervention succeeds in improving age checks at off-license premises. Health Promotion International 20, 147-155

Casswell, S., Huckle,T., and Pledger, M. (2002) Alcohol surveys need not underestimate alcohol consumption. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 26, 1561-1567

Horsburgh, M., Trenholme and Huckle,T. (2002) Paediatric palliative care: A literature review. Palliative Medicine 16(2):99-105

Conferences

Huckle, T., You, R. and Casswell, S. (2009). Socioeconomic status predicts drinking patterns but not alcohol-related consequences independently. Kettil Bruun Society 33rd Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium, Denmark, 4th-8th June.

Huckle, T; Huakau, J, Sweetsur, P, Huisman O & Casswell, S. (2009) Density of alcohol outlets andteenage drinking: living in an alcogenic environment is associated with higher consumption in a metropolitan setting.  Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC) conference, Wellington May 5th-7th

Huckle, T., Moyes, S., Sweetsur, P. and Casswell, S. (2007) Do RTD consumers in New Zealand have heavier drinking patterns? Kettil Bruun Society 33rd Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium, Budapest, 4-8 June.

Huckle, T. (2005) Invited speaker: The use of an evidence-based community action intervention to improve age verification practices for alcohol purchase, Community Action as a Means of Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, Scarborough, Western Australia, 4 March.

Huckle, T., Greenaway, S., Broughton, D. and Conway, K. The use of evidence-based community action intervention to improve age verification practices for alcohol purchase. Sixth Kettil Bruun Society Symposium on Community Based Prevention of Alcohol and Drug-Related Problems, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 27 February - 3 March 2005

Conway, K; Huckle, T, Liggins, S; Woolgrove, M; and Casswell S; Maximizing resource and minimizing harm: Using limited resources to best effect. International Research Symposium Evidence-based Policy, Perth, Feb 24-27 2003

Horsborgh, M; Trenholme A, Huckle T ‘Respite needs in Paediatric palliative care: a New Zealand pilot study’ The Paediatric Society of New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting, Auckland Oct 30th – Nov 2nd 2002.

Huckle T., Littleton, J. One for the boys: Is risk taking a male phenomenon? The Australian Society of Human Biology, Sydney December 6th, 1999

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