Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research

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Yesterday, Dr Usman Afzali (@UsmanAfzali) from the University of Otago presented a CACR lecture, titled "Muslim Diversity Study: Insights into Building a National Study with New Zealand’s Muslim Communities".

The CACR Fellows Colleen Ward, @KimInkuk, and @jaimee_stuart have published a paper in Social Psychology of Education. Congrats! Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s11218… #Multicultural_diversity_climate #Norms #Intercltural_relations #Wellbeing #International_students

Last Friday, Dr Ellie Rukuwai and Dr Nuzha Saleem from our Centre presented a CACR lecture, titled "Kaupapa Māori Methodology and qualitative methods: An Endeavour to Humanise Psychology".

Call for submissions to the 2025 IAIR/IACCP joint conference, themed “Bridging Intercultural Divides in a Digitally Connected World," from June 28 to July 1, 2025, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. For more info: openconf.org/IAIRIACCP2025/…

Grateful to @ronald_fischer, former co-director of our Center, for visiting last Friday and giving a lecture titled Exploring Human Experiences within and across Cultures - A Data-Driven Approach to “Nonordinary” Experiences, Sense-Making and Mental Health.

On 6 September, Professor Adam Komisarof from Keio University in Japan delivered a CACR lecture titled Social Markers of Acceptance and Deciding “Who Is ‘One of Us’”: National Identity Criteria in Receiving Societies and Their Impact upon Migrant Well-Being in Japan and Beyond.

Trâm Thị-Bảo Nguyễn (@TramNguyenTBao), our CACR PhD Candidate, has published an insightful paper in Death Studies. Congratulations! Read it here (Open Access) -doi.org/10.1080/074811…… #Migrant #Grief #COVID19 #MediaCoverage #framing

Dr Ron Fischer (@ronald_fischer), who was Co-Director of our Centre, will be visiting and giving a talk on 27 September (Friday) from 10:30am. If you're interested, please join us at EA407, Easterfield Building, Victoria University of Wellington Kelburn campus.

Great news! Dr Rita Anne McNamara (@GuessRita), our CACR Fellow, received the IACCP Best Presenter Award at the 2024 @iaccp conference in Bali, Indonesia. Only five recipients were honoured with this award this year.

The 2024 CACR Travel Scholarship recipients, @feryl_badiani and @MelAltemus, successfully delivered their presentations at the 2024 @iaccp conference in Bali, Indonesia.

#AASP is calling for nomination of The James Liu Memorial Award, endowed in memory of Prof. James Liu. It is made possible through the generous funding of College of Healthcare Sciences, James Cook Univ., AU, and School of Psychology, Massey Univ., NZ asiansocialpsych.org/james-liu-memo…

#AJSP is calling for papers for a special issue on global consciousness dedicated to the memory and seminal contributions of Prof. James Liu. For more details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/asse…

During the CACR lecture last Friday, Professor Lena Zander from @UU_University presented "Multicultural collaboration complications: Ethnocentrism versus Inclusion".

Whiua ki te ao, whiua ki te rangi, whiua ki ngā iwi katoa 🌐 Introducing the Wellbeing Hononga Index (WeHI) - a self-report measure of Māori wellbeing grounded in the Ngaruroro model of Māori wellbeing, and validated using a comprehensive 11-step R-based Psychometric protocol.

In memory of Prof. James Liu Please share your condolences here. forevermissed.com/james-liu

We deeply regret to share such sad news that on August 11, Prof. James H. Liu of Massey University in NZ, a former President of #AASP, passed away in an unfortunate accident while visiting Indonesia. We sincerely extend our condolences and pray for his soul to rest in peace.

During the CACR lecture last Friday, Prof Matia Okubo (@matiasauquebaux) from Senshu University in Japan presented "Cultural modulation of involuntary responses and their knowledge: Pupillometry on face race lightness illusion and pupil drawing tasks."

During CACR seminar last Friday, Hafsa Tameez, a teaching fellow in Sociology, presented "Interdisciplinary insights or mad connections: cultural dynamics in mental healthcare in India." She will be presenting this talk in the New Zealand Psychological Society conference in SEP.

During CACR seminar last Friday, @JohnKempthorne presented "Real-world evidence that a sense of empowerment causally affects physical and psychological well-being and increases gratitude." He will be presenting this talk in New Zealand Psychological Society conference in SEP.