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- Position
- Research Fellow
- Department
- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (Dunedin)
- Research summary
- Strength-based community and social development arenas
Research
Dr Jeremy Simons has over 20 years of experience teaching, training, researching, and working in strength-based community and social development arenas. This includes developing, implementing, evaluating, and supporting restorative justice and peace-building projects in community, school, indigenous, and transitional justice settings.
His academic interests span peace and conflict studies and intersect with anthropological and sociological approaches. He has taught social research methodology and conflict transformation at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and is an accomplished appreciative inquiry and adult education trainer.
His PhD research traced the development of indigenous Lumad justice and peace-building activism in Mindanao, Philippines. He has lived significant portions of his life in the Philippines, the United States and in New Zealand.
Publications
Simons, J. (2022). Appreciative accompaniment and storywork: Bridging peace and conflict studies and indigenous research. In K. Te Maihāroa, M. Ligaliga & H. Devere (Eds.), Decolonising peace and conflict studies through indigenous research. (pp. 269-303). Singapore: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-6779-4_14 Chapter in Book - Research
Simons, J. (2022). Restorative justice as restoration of relationships. In K. Standish, H. Devere, A. E. Suazo & R. Rafferty (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of positive peace. (pp. 1127-1147). Singapore: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-0969-5_59 Chapter in Book - Research
Ergler, C., Huish, R., Georgeou, N., Simons, J., Eyles, O., Li, Y., … Tame, L. (2021). COVID-19 stigma in New Zealand: Are we really a 'team' of five million? New Zealand Geographer, 77(3), 174-179. doi: 10.1111/nzg.12313 Journal - Research Other
Simons, J. L. (2021). Lumad Husay (indigenous conciliation): Decolonizing justice and re-storying culture in Mindanao, Philippines (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/12100 Awarded Doctoral Degree
Simons, J., Kang, H., Ortiz, A., & Oando, S. (2019, November). Fields of peace, domains of conflict: Contesting methodology in Peace and Conflict research. Panel discussion at the Peace in Aotearoa New Zealand Conference: Past, Present, Future, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs