Darrin Hodgetts

Professor Hodgetts has a PhD from Massey University. His research is in the field of social psychology, looking at homeless and working class communities' identities, health and poverty.

Research

Professor Hodgetts has authored 152 journal articles (across various international journals: Nature; Review of General Psychology; Political Psychology; Journal of Health Psychology; Theory and Psychology; Urban Studies; Human Geography; Health and Place; Journal of Community Psychology; American Journal of Community Psychology; Military Psychology; Sustainability; Applied Science; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Lond B - Biological Science; Sustainability Science; Social Science & Medicine; Ethnography; Visual Studies; Journal of Medical Case Reports; Scientific Reports). Professor Hodgetts has also published 59 chapters and commissioned reports and delivered 17 conference keynotes and plenary addresses.

His book length texts include:

• Tackling Precarious Work - Toward Sustainable Livelihoods.
• Social Psychology and Everyday Life.
• SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology.
• Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Intercultural Psychology.
• Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities – A Relational Approach.
• Towards Rethinking the Primacy of Epistemology in Psychology.
• The Place of Class - Considerations for psychology.
• Case-Based Research in Community and Social Psychology.

Professor Hodgetts has also engaged in numerous knowledge translation collaborations (e.g., facilitated workshops, written briefs, and supported a documentary theatre production) private sector organisations and trusts, city authorities, public audiences, and central government agencies (NZ Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Ministry of Social Development; Institute of Judicial Studies; Productivity Commission; Auckland City Mission; British Ministry of Health; Welcome Trust). Some examples include:

• Social regeneration framework for Murihiku (Southland). Commissioned Report for Murihiku Regeneration: Hokonui Rūnanga: Ngāi Tahu.
• Project Salaam: Evaluation report. For the Ministry of Social Development & Massey University.
• Single Parents & Tertiary Education. Commissioned Report for The Auckland City Mission.
• Understanding Employer Motivations and Challenges to Living Wage Accreditation. Commissioned Report for the Principle Partners Council of the Living Wage Campaign Aotearoa.
• Knowledge and experiences of government income-support efforts to alleviate in-work poverty.Health Research Council in-work poverty and wellbeing project. Ministry of Social Development.
• Precariat Māori households today: The need to reorient policy to cultivate more humane understandings of whānau in need. Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Te Arotahi Series Paper. Ministry of Social Development.
• Urban design impacts on safety and liveability in Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty. Commissioned Report for Tauranga City Council and Safer Cities.
• Te Iwi Māori: Community people, agencies and services provided. Commissioned Report for the Community Trust of Southland.