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News: tagged with "research"

• Participants wanted for the BREAD Study

  Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, nutrition, research, Gut Health
  A research team from the University of Otago, Christchurch is seeking volunteers to be part of a study looking at the impact of dietary fibre in bread on gut health

• Cess@tion Study offers chance to trial a natural stop-smoking aid

  Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, smoking, research
  Smokefree May is the perfect time to kick the habit and the National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI) invites any smoker who wants to make a healthy change to sign up for a study that will test cytisine - a natural product which has been shown to he

• Volunteers needed for constipation and IBS research

  Posted: Thursday, April 28, 2022 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, health, research, Gut Health
  A research team at the University of Otago Christchurch are looking for volunteers who have constipation or Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) to be part of a study

• Inequities increase in vaccination of pregnant women

  Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2022 in: Resources and Information With tags: vaccination, immunisation, women, inequality, research
  Immunisation Advisory Centre media release: 23rd March 2022 Recent research adds to alarm bells that pregnant people are not getting vaccinated in big enough numbers

• Maori Masters scholarship available at University of Otago

  Posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 in: Training With tags: funding, research, maori, health, nutrition, education, qualification
  Applications are invited for a Masters scholarship to undertake research on how to support Māori to have sustainable and healthy kai, what interventions and policies Māori would respond to, as well as any current barriers to shifting dietary intake

• Join a study on NZ Green Seaweed supplements

  Posted: Thursday, December 2, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, research, health, medical
  Researchers at Lincoln and Waikato Universities are seeking volunteers for a study on how supplementation with natural NZ seaweed impacts the health of the gut and arteries. The study runs from January to April 2022

• Lockdowns are socially and emotionally challenging, but children are resilient

  Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, children, resilience, education, health, wellbeing, Report
  Growing Up in New Zealand media release: 2nd November 2021 Children in Aotearoa New Zealand have displayed strength in the face of adversity according to one of the world’s largest surveys looking at the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on children’s healt

• Join a new study on younger onset dementia diagnosis

  Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: research, volunteers, dementia
  Do you or a loved one have dementia? Researchers at the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research are looking for people intrested in joining their new study on younger onset dementia diagnosis

• Participate in the Through the Eyes of Men Project

  Posted: Thursday, October 14, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: research, volunteers, men, mental health, mental wellbeing, depression, anxiety
  Men who have experienced anxiety, depression or felt suicidal are invited to share their story as part of a research study to better understand men’s depression, anxiety and suicidality

• Volunteers needed for a nutrient supplementation study

  Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, research, health
  A research team at the University of Otago Christchurch are looking for vounteers with metabolic syndrome to take part in a study to investigate whether supplementation with vitamin C and micronutrients results in improved metabolic health

• Further investigation into mass rapid transit warranted

  Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: transport, traffic, safety, research
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th June 2021 The multi-agency team investigating a mass rapid transit (MRT) system for Greater Christchurch has released an interim report Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and local councils - on behalf of the Greater

• New inquiry into a fair start for all

  Posted: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: poverty, research, policy, families
  Productivity Commission media release: 15th June 2021 The Government has asked the New Zealand Productivity Commission - Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa to prepare the Terms of Reference for a new inquiry, aimed at finding ways to break the cycle of long-

• Child wellbeing reports highlight need for ongoing action

  Posted: Thursday, May 13, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, children, young people, Report, wellbeing, mental wellbeing, poverty, families
  Beehive media release: 13th May 2021 The Government has released the first Annual Report for the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy and the second Child Poverty Related Indicators (CPRI) Report, both of which highlight improvements in the lives of childre

• Children’s emotional and behaviour problems linked to mobile screen time

  Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: technology, children, development, research
  Safer Technology Aotearoa New Zealand (STANZ) media release: 3rd May 2021 A new Australian study has confirmed that young children who spend large amounts of time on mobile screens are more likely to have problems sleeping and managing their emotions and

• Survey on experiences of rainbow young people and young adults

  Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: survey, diversity, Rainbow, young people, youth, research
  Kia ora, mālō e lelei, talofa lava, namaste, kia orana, nisa bula vinaka, nĭ hăo, welcome! A team of NZ researchers working with and for the rainbow community want to understand rainbow young people and younger adults’ experiences of education, employment

• Reports on what Canterbury men need from support services

  Posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, men, services, mens health, Report, survey
  The Canterbury Men's Centre (CMC) went through significant growth again in the past year and with this came some reflection about the work we do and how to do it better

• Volunteers needed for Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative

  Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 in: Vacancies With tags: volunteers, research, health, Eating Disorders
  Have you experienced an eating disorder? The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) team in New Zealand invite you to join a global initiative to discover the genes that cause eating disorders

• Kiwi pre-schoolers losing teeth to preventable tooth decay

  Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: children, research, water, oral health
  Canterbury District Health Board and University of Canterbury media release: 28th July 2020 Kiwi kids are suffering unnecessarily from severe tooth decay that could be prevented according to research published today in JAMA Paediatrics - the highest-ranki

• Solving severe sleep problems in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

  Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: research, children, Sleep, autism, parenting
  University of Canterbury (UC) media release: 22nd July 2020 University of Canterbury (UC) researchers have made a major step forward in treatment of sleep problems in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), in new research recently published in the

• $1.2m funding boost for Parkinson's disease study

  Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: disease, research
  University of Canterbury media release: 30th June 2020 University of Canterbury-led research that could help Parkinson’s disease patients learn more about their risk of dementia has received a million-dollar funding boost

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