International Life Course Conference 2025

International Life Course Conference 2025

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....
Project funding: Pathways out of poverty

Project funding: Pathways out of poverty

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...
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...