Story: Social sciences

More links and websites

• eSocSci – Hui Rangahau Tahi

  eSocSci connects social scientists in New Zealand across disciplines, sectors, universities and other institutions.

• Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit

  This organisation works independently, and in collaboration with other groups, to carry out social and economic policy research and evaluation.

• Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences

  This international, open-access journal of the social sciences is of particular relevance to New Zealand.

• New Zealand Psychological Society

  This society is the largest professional association for psychologists in New Zealand.

• Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand

  SAANZ aims to further sociology in New Zealand, to provide a network for New Zealand sociologists, and to establish and maintain links with other sociological associations.

More suggestions and sources

• Barrowman, Rachel. Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: A history. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999.

• Garlick, Tim. Social developments: an organisational history of the MSD and its predecessors. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2012.

• Robb, James Harding. The life and death of official social research in New Zealand: 1936–1940. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington, 1987.

• St George, R., ed. The beginnings of psychology in New Zealand: a collection of historical documents and recollections. Palmerston North: Department of Education, Massey University, 1979.

• Somerset, Hugh Crawford Dixon. Littledene: patterns of change. Wellington: NZCER, 1974 (originally published in 1938).