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The Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS) is based within the Faculty of Arts of The University of Auckland. It comprises a team of researchers with a wealth of experience and expertise in a range of disciplines and research methodologies.
Currently COMPASS holds a number of externally-funded grants, including from the Health Research Council (HRC), the Marsden fund and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST). The research centre has established collaborative links with Statistics New Zealand, AUT University, University of Otago's Wellington School of Medicine, University of Canberra and The Australian National University. COMPASS collaborates on projects both nationally and internationally in the social sciences, health and statistics.
In addition, the centre provides management and infrastructure for the New Zealand Social Statistics Network (NZSSN) and the New Zealand Social Science Data Service (NZSSDS). This latter allows for online analysis of archived data sets via an interface powered by BeSTGrid and running Nesstar Software. The COMPASS advisory board has been formed – see members to date. Mission COMPASS’s mission is to be a national and international centre of excellence in social science research that is theoretically informed and empirically grounded. The centre will bring to bear advanced methods across all its research themes, taking advantage of developments in information technology, the power of computing and new theoretical and methodological developments, particularly in modelling how individuals or groups can be expected to behave under certain situations, and testing those models experimentally or by simulation informed with empirical data.   
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