I'm a qualitative researcher, with a PhD in social anthropology. I specialise in bringing qualitative research and humanities into research typically dominated by quantitative scientific approaches.
I am a social anthropologist with specialty interests in health, migration and ageing. I have experience working on a variety of topics and have had the privilege of working with many different groups including elderly people, children, Pasifika, Māori, migrants, refugees, students and more.
I bring a humanities lens and a qualitative approach to any topic, including those typically addressed by the other sciences and/or a quantitative approach. My hope and motivation is to humbly work with others to tell under-told stories, address inequities and grow thriving communities.
Publications
Symon, V., Nada-Raja, S., Sopoaga, F., Sopoaga, L., Norris, P., Ruhe, T., Kokaua, J., Richards, R., … Isno, L., George, M., Iosua, E., & Keown, S. (2022, November). The show must go on: Research in a time of COVID. Verbal presentation at the COVID-19’s Impact on Teaching and Learning at the University of Otago: Lessons Learned Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
George, M. (2022). Aging in a changing world: Older New Zealanders and contemporary multiculturalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 192p.
Authored Book - Research
George, M. (2021). Refugees' journeys to and through health care services across the Southern health system: A qualitative study. Proceedings of the New Zealand Primary Health Care, General Practice & Rural Health Research Symposium. Retrieved from https://events.otago.ac.nz/2021-gp-phc-rh
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
George, M., Richards, R., Watson, B., Lucas, A., Fitzgerald, R., Taylor, R., & Galland, B. (2021). Pacific families navigating responsiveness and children’s sleep in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sleep Medicine: X, 3, 100039. doi: 10.1016/j.sleepx.2021.100039
Journal - Research Article
Richard, L., George, M., Jaye, C., Derrett, S., Wyeth, E., & Stokes, T. (2021). How to undertake research with refugees? An experiential and field work analysis of a 3-year refugee research programme in southern New Zealand. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 27(4), (pp. xliii-xliv). doi: 10.1071/PYv27n4abs
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
George, M., Theodore, R., Richards, R., Galland, B., Taylor, R., Matahaere, M., & Te Morenga, L. A. (2020). Moe Kitenga: A qualitative study of perceptions of infant and child sleep practices among Māori whānau. AlterNative, 16(2), 153-160. doi: 10.1177/1177180120929694
Journal - Research Article
Jaye, C., Fitzgerald, R., & George, M. (2018). Care, cosmopolitanism and anthropology: Introduction to special section. Sites, 15(2), 67-92. doi: 10.11157/sites-id415
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
George, M. (2017). Ageing in an increasingly diverse Aotearoa New Zealand (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/7446
Awarded Doctoral Degree
George, M. (2016). Cosmopolitan methods and recruiting the urban stranger in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sites, 13(1), 62-87. doi: 10.11157/sites-vol13iss1id333
Journal - Research Article
George, M., Fitzgerald, R. P., & Jaye, C. (2016). Peripheral cosmopolitanisms, an introduction. Sites, 13(1), 1-12. Retrieved from https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites
Journal - Research Other
George, M., Fitzgerald, R., Farmer, V., & Taylor, R. (2015). Changing the way we play at school: Hearing the children's voice. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago. 67p.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
George, M. (2014). Older New Zealanders and the mundane cosmopolitanism of demographic change in Aotearoa New Zealand. Proceedings of the Combined Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian Anthropological Society (ASAANZ/AAS) Conference: Cosmopolitan Anthropologies. (pp. 22-23). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/conf/publications.html
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
George, M., & Fitzgerald, R. P. (2012). Forty years in Aotearoa New Zealand: White identity, home and later life in an adopted country. Ageing & Society, 32(2), 239-260. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X11000249
Journal - Research Article
Barusch, A., Gringeri, C., & George, M. (2011). Rigor in qualitative social work research: A review of strategies used in published articles. Social Work Research, 35(1), 11-19. doi: 10.1093/swr/35.1.11
Journal - Research Article
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