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Featured researchers
Researchers at Wellington School of Business and Government are striving to advance knowledge in their fields. Learn more about their work.
A New Frontier for Disaster Insurance
Associate Professor Rebecca Bednarek’s global research project qualitatively explores the paradoxes of reimagining disaster insurance.
The Curious Case of Meta-Science: Why One Study is Not Enough
Senior Lecturer Jan Feld's research explores meta-science, which is the study of how the scientific process works.
Lay Theories of Expertise: Revealing the Roots of Expert Recognition
Lecturer Ben Walker's research explores organisational behaviour by mapping and examining the "lay theories" of expertise.
Research on Crisis Contagion - Global Impact
Associate Professor Dan Laufer's research uncovers strategies for pre-emptive communication and pro-active monitoring to mitigate the risk of crisis contagion.
If Tattoos Could Speak
Associate Professor Maja Krtalić's research views tattoos through the lens of information experience to reveal their complexity that extends beyond aesthetics.
The extreme costs of climate change and the Loss and Damage Fund
Professor Ilan Noy's research aims to guide resilience policies by examining the economic impacts and mitigation strategies of natural disasters.
“You don’t own me”—Protecting Workers’ Right to a Private Life
Dr Amanda Reilly's research highlights the current gaps and challenges in protecting employees' privacy.
Supporting invisible knowledges
Professor Jessica Lai’s research is focused on seeing changes to intellectual property law that protect and support Mātauranga Māori.
Developing people capability in Māori organisations
Dr Jesse Pirini’s distinctive research explores the role that iwi and hapū based organisations can play in their communities—particularly in people development.
Discerning patterns in supposed chaos
Associate Professor Markus Luczak-Roesch is leading a team that aims to understand and predict random events that occur within complex systems.
Busting management myths
Professor Stephen Cummings’ research explores the barriers to innovation that ingrained management practices create, and how to overcome them.
Applying an economic lens to cannabis laws
Dr Luke Chu’s research brings an economic perspective to the impact of cannabis laws.
Creating a fairer society
Associate Professor Jonathan Barrett’s research seeks to bring a human rights perspective to tax policy.
Ensuring technology benefits all
Associate Professor Mary Tate’s research is focussed on making sure that technology creates benefits that are share equally across society.
The future of AI in business
Dr Yi-Te Chiu’s research is focused on the growing adoption of artificial intelligence by organisations and the impact it has on them and their employees.
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