COMPASS 2025 Community Session

COMPASS 2025 Community Session

We ran our second annual Community Session on Friday 9 May 2025, hosted by Langimalie Research Centre in Manukau. Many thanks to all of our academic colleagues and the community groups that attended! Megan Fowlie wrote us an article to cover the events of the day:...
New Publication: Activity limitations for Māori

New Publication: Activity limitations for Māori

Barry Milne worked with a team of researchers led by Tristram Ingham at University of Otago Wellington to publish a paper describing activity limitations for a representative sample of Māori. Ingham, T. R., Perry, M. A., Jones, B. H., King, P. T., Sporle, A., Elliott,...
Media: Increase in MS prevalence

Media: Increase in MS prevalence

Research on the epidemiology of MS in Aotearoa New Zealand, led by Natalia Boven, was written up in Multiple Sclerosis News Today. This study, recently published by the New Zealand Medical Journal, found that the estimated prevalence of MS rose by around a third...
Event: Inaugural Lecture

Event: Inaugural Lecture

Inaugural Lecture of Professor Barry Milne Wednesday, August 6 6 – 8pm NZST Register here COMPASS Director, Barry Milne, will give his professorial lecture on August 6. Registration details are below for those who want to attend. About the lecture My research...
Marsden Fund update

Marsden Fund update

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...