About the Authors

Professor Darrin Hodgetts

Darrin Hodgetts is Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to this appointment, Darrin held posts in Community Health (Memorial University, Canada), Psychology and Media and Communications (London School of Economics and Political Science, England), and Community Psychology (University of Waikato, New Zealand).

Darrin's research interests revolve around issues of poverty and homelessness. He is the founding co-coordinator of the Global Organizational Living Wage Network (GLOW), which involves scholar activists from 25 countries sharing research and strategies for promoting living wages and sustainable livelihoods.

Ottilie Stolte is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand where she teaches social, societal and community psychology. Particular research interests include poverty, precarity, homelessness, health inequalities and urban sustainability. 

As Principal Investigator for the Māori Psychology Research Unit, Ottilie works alongside Māori and Indigenous colleagues and students to advance inclusive, relational and contextualized scholarship in psychology.

Christopher Sonn is an Associate Professor with the College of Health and Biomedicine and Fellow with the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is the course chair of the Master Applied Psychology (Community Psychology) and research leader for the Community Identity and Displacement research group.

His research involves understanding and elevating the voices of individuals and groups who are marginalized or excluded through forms of symbolic violence such as racism and sexism. Christopher has expertise in community and liberation psychology and qualitative and creative methodologies.

Neil Drew is Director of the Australia Indigenous HealthInfoNet. His key interests are health knowledge exchange practices and research in cultural contexts.

Prior to joining the HealthInfoNet, Neil was Professor and Dean within the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia Fremantle Campus and spent four years as Deputy Head of Campus and Head of Academic Programs on the University Campus of Reconciliation in Broome Western Australia.

Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology in the Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology Program at Massey University, New Zealand. Stuart co-facilitates the Ending Poverty and Inequality Cluster (EPIC), which includes a focus on transitions from precarious labour to decent work and living wages.

Intersecting with EPIC is Project GLOW (Global Living Organizational Wage), a multi-country, multi-generational, interdisciplinary study of the links between decent wages (in purchasing power parity), and sustainable livelihoods for the eradication of poverty – the primary UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG1).

Linda Waimarie Nikora is Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland where she is also Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence. 

Previously, Linda was the Director of the Māori & Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Her specialty interest is in the development of indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of indigenous peoples.