by Suzanne Woodward | Nov 10, 2025 | News
COMPASS PhD Student Alexia Searchfield won the New Investigator Award at the Paediatric Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) conference in Manukau!! Congratulations to Alexia! https://forumpoint2.eventsair.com/psnz-76th-annual-meeting-2025/
by Suzanne Woodward | Nov 7, 2025 | News
COMPASS Researcher Natalia Boven was awarded an Associated New Zealand ME Society (ANZMES) grant with a project titled, “Identifying child and adolescent predictors of adult ME/CFS and Long Covid”. The project is supported by a multidisciplinary team, including Dr...
by Suzanne Woodward | Nov 4, 2025 | Events, News
12.00 pm – 1.30 pm Wednesday 19 November 2025 Via Zoom: https://massey.zoom.us/j/87871336956 Zoom passcode: PHONZ The Panellists Professor Richard Arnold Richard Arnold is a Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Victoria University of Wellington. His research...
by Suzanne Woodward | Oct 13, 2025 | News
COMPASS Associate, Arezoo Malihi, led a paper investigating the mental health service use of refugees in New Zealand. Malihi, A. Z., Milne, B., Petrović-van der Deen, F. S., Ameratunga, S., Exeter, D. J., McLay, J., San Diego, R., Soosay, I., Othmani, K., &...
by Suzanne Woodward | Sep 11, 2025 | News
PhD student, Fran Anns, led a paper on neurodegenerative disease outcomes among former rugby players, supported by senior author and project leader, Steph D’ Souza, COMPASS Director, Barry Milne, and national and international colleagues. This paper received...
by Suzanne Woodward | Sep 2, 2025 | Events
Our next Virtual Health Information Network webinar takes place on Wednesday 10 September from midday. What: Vaccine effectiveness and vaccine safety of herpes zoster vaccination Who: James Mbinta, School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington When: Wednesday 10...
by Suzanne Woodward | Sep 1, 2025 | News
PhD Student Mohammad Shahbaz successfully defended his PhD!! Mohammad’s PhD, “Quality of linked data to assess the long-term outcomes of a neonatal trial” was part of the ANCHOR project, and was supervised by Jane Harding, Greg Gamble, and Barry Milne. Well done,...
by Suzanne Woodward | Sep 1, 2025 | News
Barry Milne worked with colleagues from University of Otago and (formerly) Ministry for Pacific Peoples to produce a paper describing the Tivaivai model for analysis of data in the IDI to understand Pacific mental health. Forrest Samu, K., van der Veer, A., Ruhe, T.,...
by Suzanne Woodward | Sep 1, 2025 | News
A new article from our Research Associate, Komie. Kolandai, K. (2025). Doing the Bare Minimum to Ease the Suffering of Animals We Choose to Eat: A Critical Examination of the Status Quo on Alternatives to Farrowing Crates. Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research...
by Suzanne Woodward | Aug 19, 2025 | Events, News
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Barry Milne COMPASS Director, Barry Milne, gave his professorial lecture on August 6, 2025. You can watch the recording below. About the lecture My research career has focused on understanding various aspects of the human...
by Suzanne Woodward | Aug 12, 2025 | News
COMPASS’s work with collaborators at the Liggins Institute has led to a paper by student, Libby Lord, on outcomes for the grandchildren of women exposed to antenatal corticosteroids. Grandchildren showed no ill-effects of the grandmother’s antenatal corticosteroid...
by Suzanne Woodward | Aug 11, 2025 | News
Ofa Dewes and Stephanie D’Souza attended the International Life Course Conference 2025: A roadmap for the future, hosted by the Life Course Centre in Brisbane, Australia, along with our collaborators at iNZight Analytics, Andrew Sporle and Nicole Satherley....
by Suzanne Woodward | Aug 11, 2025 | News
COMPASS Researchers, Barry Milne and Natalia Boven, were successful with MBIE ‘Smart Ideas’ funding with a project titled, “Pathways out of poverty: removing barriers to upward social mobility”. This project is led by Andrew Sporle at iNZight Analytics and also...
by Suzanne Woodward | May 26, 2025 | News
Barry Milne worked with a team of researchers led by Tristram Ingham at University of Otago Wellington to publish a paper describing the health, wellbeing, and cultural identity of a representative sample of Māori. Ingham TR, Jones BH, Perry MA, Sporle A, Elliott T,...
by Suzanne Woodward | May 14, 2025 | News
The Royal Society Marsden Fund project application, “Developing methods for economic mobility research using New Zealand’s administrative data”, involving COMPASS’s Barry Milne (PI) and Natalia Boven, with Andrew Sporle and Nicole Satherley, has made it through...
by Suzanne Woodward | May 14, 2025 | News
COMPASS PhD student, Eileen Li, has been awarded her PhD!! Eileen’s thesis, “Investigating Linkage Bias in the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) Using Census and Education Data”, received positive reviews from her examiners, who recommended minor revisions,...
by Suzanne Woodward | May 14, 2025 | News
The HRC programme bid, “Reducing burden of traumatic brain injury in children, adolescents, and families”, led by Kelly Jones at AUT, is through to the interview stage! The interview will take place 6 May 2025.
by Suzanne Woodward | Mar 24, 2025 | Events, News
28 Feb to 8 March 2025 Senior Research Fellow Lisa Underwood had a busy week representing COMPASS and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex NZ at various Rare Disorders NZ events in Wellington to mark Rare Disease day and the start of Rare Disorders month. On 28th February,...
by Suzanne Woodward | Mar 9, 2025 | News
Research fellow Komathi Kolandai published a review on organisations that use various engagement with nature to promote wellbeing. Kolandai, K., & Harré, N. (2025). Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing. Current Opinion in Psychology, 62, 101998....
by Suzanne Woodward | Feb 26, 2025 | Events
Unseen Heroes – The Challenges and Impact of Young Carers webinar Wed, 26 Feb 2025 Details Lisa Underwood presented at the Unseen Heroes – The Challenges and Impact of Young Carers webinar, along with Dr Lauren Donnan and David Jones (Commonwealth...
