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COMPASS Colloquium
Head along to the 19th annual COMPASS UoA Research Centre colloquium! Friday 26 September 2025Stats NZ, 8 Willis Street, WellingtonLivestreaming via Zoom Register to attend Full agenda available here. Hear from Stephanie D'Souza, PhD, Sophie Moullin, Ph.D., Arezoo...
Event: Inaugural Lecture
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...
Publication: Antenatal corticosteroid exposure
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...
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
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...
New Publication: Need for Easier Access to ADHD Treatment
Stephanie D'Souza worked with a team of expert researchers to publish an article describing the imminent need for easier access to ADHD treatment in the population. Wheaton B, Rangiwai B, Bowden N, D'Souza S (2025). More than meds: why easier access to ADHD...
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
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.,...
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...
New Publication: Māori Health, Wellbeing and Disability
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...