Dr Judith Sligo

2026

Chapter in Book - Research

Nairn, K., Sligo, J., Showden, C. R., Kidman, J., & Matthews, K. R. (2026). Being there: Relationships and reciprocity in research with activist groups. In D. Hammett & N. Holmes (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of field research. (pp. 365-372). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003404903-50

2025

Journal - Research Article

Nairn, K., Showden, C. R., Matthews, K. R., Kidman, J., & Sligo, J. (2025). Scaffolding collective hope and agency in youth activist groups: ‘I get hope through action’. Sociological Review, 73(2), 431-448. doi: 10.1177/00380261241245546

Showden, C. R., Barker-Clarke, E., Sligo, J., & Nairn, K. (2025). The connective is communal: Hybrid activism in online and offline spaces. Social Movement Studies, 24(2), 139-158. doi: 10.1080/14742837.2023.2171387

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Corfe-Tan, J., Sligo, J., Cotter, Z., Eteuati, J. S., Hart, H.-R., & McConnell, R. (2025). Midwifery experiences in rural Southern Aotearoa New Zealand: Insights into pre-eclampsia management. Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, 61 (Suppl. 1), (pp. 10). doi: 10.1111/jpc.70008

2024

Journal - Research Article

Sligo, J., Corfe-Tan, J., Cotter, Z., Eteuati, J. S., Hart, H.-R., & McConnell, R. (2024). Midwifery experiences in rural Southern Aotearoa New Zealand: Insights into pre-eclampsia management. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 137(1600), 52-61. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz/

McAnally, H. M., Iosua, E., Belsky, J., Sligo, J. L., Letcher, P., Greenwood, C. J., … Hancox, R. J. (2024). Does adolescent academic achievement predict future parenting? Infant & Child Development, 33(3), e2483. doi: 10.1002/icd.2483

Sligo, J. L., Hohmann-Marriott, B. E., McAnally, H. M., & Hancox, R. J. (2024). Impact of New Zealand teenagers’ fertility intentions on childbearing. Longitudinal & Life Course Studies, 15(1), 89-108. doi: 10.1332/175795921x16783960472524

2023

Journal - Research Article

Letcher, P., Greenwood, C. J., McAnally, H., Belsky, J., Macdonald, J. A., Spry, E. A., … Sligo, J., … Iosua, E., … Hancox, R. J., & Olsson, C. A. (2023). Parental history of positive development and child behavior in next generation offspring: A two-cohort prospective intergenerational study. Child Development, 94, 60-73. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13839

Sligo, J., Besley, T., Ker, A., & Nairn, K. (2023). Creating a culture of care to support rainbow activists’ well-being: An exemplar from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Journal of LGBT Youth, 20(3), 502-523. doi: 10.1080/19361653.2022.2077274

Other Research Output

Sligo, J., Lilley, R., & Cameron, C. (2023, April). The complete guide to the PSM ethics process. Department of Preventive & Social Medicine Seminar Series, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].

2022

Authored Book - Research

Nairn, K., Sligo, J., Showden, C. R., Matthews, K. R., & Kidman, J. (2022). Fierce hope: Youth activism in Aotearoa. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books, 300p. doi: 10.7810/9781990046681

Journal - Research Article

McAnally, H. M., Sligo, J. L., Baxter, J., Tansley, J. E., Bolton, A. E., & Hancox, R. J. (2022). Changes to family structure, household composition and address among young New Zealanders: An update. Kōtuitui, 17(2), 260-271. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2021.1957946

2021

Journal - Research Article

McAnally, H. M., Iosua, E., Sligo, J. L., Belsky, J., Spry, E., Letcher, P., … Williams, S., McGee, R., Bolton, A. E., & Hancox, R. J. (2021). Childhood disadvantage and adolescent socioemotional wellbeing as predictors of future parenting behaviour. Journal of Adolescence, 86, 90-100. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.12.005

Jaffee, S. R., Sligo, J. L., McAnally, H. M., Bolton, A. E., Baxter, J. M., & Hancox, R. J. (2021). Early-onset and recurrent depression in parents increases risk of intergenerational transmission to adolescent offspring. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 62(8), 979-988. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13356

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McAnally, H., & Sligo, J. (2021, November). Changes to family structure, household composition and address among young New Zealanders: An update. Verbal presentation at the Performing Childhoods Conference, [Online].

2020

Journal - Research Article

Nairn, K., Showden, C. R., Sligo, J., Matthews, K. R., & Kidman, J. (2020). Consent requires a relationship: Rethinking group consent and its timing in ethnographic research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(6), 719-731. doi: 10.1080/13645579.2020.1760562

Letcher, P., Greenwood, C. J., Romaniuk, H., Spry, E., Macdonald, J. A., McAnally, H., … Sligo, J., Hancox, R. J., … Olsson, C. A. (2020). Adolescent and young adult mental health problems and infant offspring behavior: Findings from a prospective intergenerational cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 272, 521-528. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.101

Journal - Research Other

Olsson, C. A., Spry, E., Letcher, P., McAnally, H., Thomson, K., Macdonald, J., … Iosua, E., Sligo, J., … McGee, R., … Hancox, R. J., & Patton, G. C. (2020). The Australian and New Zealand Intergenerational Cohort Consortium: A study protocol for investigating mental health and well-being across generations. Longitudinal & Life Course Studies, 11(2), 267-281. doi: 10.1332/175795920x15792720930280

2019

Journal - Research Article

Sligo, J., Roberts, V., Gauld, R., Villa, L., & Thirlwall, S. (2019). A checklist for healthcare organisations undergoing transformational change associated with large-scale health information systems implementation. Health Policy & Technology, 8, 237-247. doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2019.08.001

Sligo, J., Jones, B., Davies, C., Egan, R., Ingham, T., Hancox, B., & Richards, R. (2019). The experiences of young people with chronic illness in New Zealand: A qualitative study. Child: Care, Health & Development, 45(5), 660-669. doi: 10.1111/cch.12696

2018

Journal - Research Article

McAnally, H. M., Reeves, L. M., Sligo, J. L., & Hancox, R. J. (2018). Intergenerational changes in adolescents' physical fitness and weight in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 131(1482), 16-28. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

Sligo, J. L., Nairn, K. M., & McGee, R. O. (2018). Rethinking integration in mixed methods research using data from different eras: Lessons from a project about teenage vocational behaviour. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 21(1), 63-75. doi: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1321868

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sligo, J., Hohmann-Marriott, B., Hancox, B., McGee, R., Williams, S., Belsky, J., Dickson, N., … Olsson, C. (2018). The impact of childhood parenting and teenage experiences, behaviours and expectations on future parenting. Proceedings of the 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). (pp. 44). Retrieved from https://issbd2018.org

2017

Journal - Research Article

Sligo, J. L., McAnally, H. M., Tansley, J. E., Baxter, J. M., Bolton, A. E., Skillander, K. M., & Hancox, R. J. (2017). The dynamic, complex and diverse living and care arrangements of young New Zealanders: Implications for policy. Kōtuitui, 12(1), 41-55. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2016.1196715

Journal - Research Other

Sligo, J., Gauld, R., Roberts, V., & Villa, L. (2017). A literature review for large-scale health information system project planning, implementation and evaluation. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 97, 86-97. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.09.007

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Sligo, J. (2017). The dynamic, complex and diverse living and care arrangements of young New Zealanders [Invited speaker]. Proceedings of the Family Law Conference. (pp. 9-28). Wellington, New Zealand: Continuing Legal Education, New Zealand Law Society. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sligo, J., & McGee, R. (2017). The impact of past childhood disadvantage and adolescent well-being on adult parenting behaviours. Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Public Health. Retrieved from http://www.wcph2017.com/index.php

2016

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sligo, J. (2016). Dynamic and complex family lives: Results from the Dunedin Study's Next Generation Project: What are the implications for healthcare professionals and policy makers? [Keynote Speaker]. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Integrated Care. Retrieved from https://integratedcarefoundation.org/

Sligo, J., Gauld, R., Roberts, V., & Villa, L. (2016). A mixed methods evaluation of the implementation of a complex healthcare technology system: What is the role of power? Proceedings of the MMIRA Conference: Moving Beyond the Linear Model: The Role of Mixed Methods Research in an Age of Complexity. (pp. 106). Retrieved from https://www.dur.ac.uk/sass/events/events/mmira2016/

Sligo, J. (2016). The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods across datasets to provide greater insights into a research topic? Insights from a research project about young people's vocational aspirations. Proceedings of the MMIRA Conference: Moving Beyond the Linear Model: The Role of Mixed Methods Research in an Age of Complexity. (pp. 105-106). Retrieved from https://www.dur.ac.uk/sass/events/events/mmira2016/

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Gauld, R., & Sligo, J. (2016, June). Evaluation in motion: Lessons from an evolving health IT 'transformation' project. Verbal presentation at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine In-House Convention, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2015

Journal - Research Article

Nairn, K., Cameron, J., Anakin, M., Juntrasook, A., Wass, R., Sligo, J., & Morrison, C. (2015). Negotiating the challenge of collaborative writing: Learning from one writing group's mutiny. Higher Education Research & Development, 34(3), 596-608. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2014.973383

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sligo, J. (2015). Shocked to be an electrician, suited to being a tailor, any future in being a historian? Ways of understanding young people's vocational aspirations. Proceedings of the Journal of Youth Studies Conference. (pp. 134). Retrieved from http://www.jysc2015.org/

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Sligo, J., McAnally, H., Hancox, B., Baxter, J., Tansley, J. E., & Bolton, A. (2015, July). Addressing the complexity and diversity of young people's family lives. Verbal presentation at the 19th Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association (AHDA):, Wellington, New Zealand.

2014

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Sligo, J. (2014, November). Complex lives: Bringing the children to the fore. Verbal presentation at the 1st New Zealand Childhood Studies Colloquium, Auckland, New Zealand.

Sligo, J. (2014, February). Suited to be a tailor? Any future in being a historian? Occupational aspirations and outcomes of the Dunedin Study cohort. Verbal presentation at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine In-House Convention, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Sligo, J. (2014, February). Not in front of the Klingons: Six minutes and forty seconds about the Next Generation Study [Pecha Kucha]. Verbal presentation at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine In-House Convention, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Awarded Doctoral Degree

Sligo, J. (2014). Teenage Vocational Behaviour: Do occupational aspirations matter? (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/5406

2013

Chapter in Book - Research

Sligo, J., & Nairn, K. (2013). Children's understandings of success. In N. Higgins & C. Freeman (Eds.), Childhoods: Growing up in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 235-248). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.

2012

Authored Book - Research

Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2012). Children of Rogernomics: A neoliberal generation leaves school. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 198p.

Journal - Research Article

Belsky, J., Hancox, R. J., Sligo, J., & Poulton, R. (2012). Does being an older parent attenuate the intergenerational transmission of parenting? Developmental Psychology, 48(6), 1570-1574. doi: 10.1037/a0027599

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cameron, J., Juntrasook, A., Morrison, C., Nairn, K., Renner, S., Sligo, J., Tilson, J., Trevethan, H., Wass, R., & Anakin, M. (2012). Negotiating and sustaining academic writing groups. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). Retrieved from http://aare-apera2012.com.au/

Sligo, J. (2012). Riesling to the challenge: An investigation of intergenerational alcohol use and attitudes. Proceedings of the Public Health Association of New Zealand (PHA) Conference. Retrieved from http://conference.pha.org.nz/

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Sligo, J. (2012, September). Riesling to the challenge: An investigation of intergenerational alcohol use and attitudes. Verbal presentation at the Public Health Association of New Zealand (PHA) Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

2011

Journal - Research Article

Sligo, J. L., Buxton, J., McComb, S., Rothstein, D., Salter, G. H., & Hancox, R. J. (2011). How do we capture 15 years of complex and meaningful data about young people's lives? Kōtuitui, 6(1-2), 37-49. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2011.614624

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Anakin, M., Morrison, C., Nairn, K., Tilson, J., Trevethan, H., Cameron, J., Juntrasook, A., Wass, R., & Sligo, J. (2011). Collaborative academic writing group [Panel discussion]. In K. Shephard, T. Harland & A. Cohen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Colloquium. (pp. 18). Dunedin, New Zealand: HEDC, University of Otago. [Abstract]

2010

Journal - Research Article

Higgins, J., Nairn, K., & Sligo, J. (2010). Vocational imagination and labour market literacy: Young New Zealanders making education-employment linkages. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 62(1), 13-25. doi: 10.1080/13636820903491716

2009

Journal - Research Article

Sligo, J., Rothstein, D., Buxton, J., Salter, G., & Hancox, R. (2009). How do researchers do it? A description of developing a multidisciplinary research assessment. Childrenz Issues, 13(1), 21-29.

Higgins, J., Nairn, K., & Sligo, J. (2009). Alternative ways of expressing and reading identity. Ethnography & Education, 4(1), 83-99. doi: 10.1080/17457820802703549

2008

Chapter in Book - Other

Higgins, J., Nairn, K., & Sligo, J. (2008). Peer research with youth: Negotiating (sub)cultural capital, place and participation in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In S. Kindon, R. Pain & M. Kesby (Eds.), Participatory action research approaches and methods: Connecting people, participation and place (Reprinted). (pp. 104-111). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2008, November). Buying into the promise of the knowledge economy in NZ: Young people's decision-making as they leave school. Verbal presentation at the International Sociology of Education Conference, London, UK.

2007

Chapter in Book - Research

Higgins, J., Nairn, K., & Sligo, J. (2007). Peer research with youth: Negotiating (sub)cultural capital, place and participation in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In S. Kindon, R. Pain & M. Kesby (Eds.), Participatory action research approaches and methods: Connecting people, participation and place. (pp. 104-111). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Journal - Research Article

Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Sligo, J. (2007). Youth researching youth: ″Trading on″ subcultural capital in peer research methodologies. Teachers College Record, 14515. Retrieved from http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=14515

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Buxton, J., Rothstein, D., Salter, G., & Sligo, J. (2007, June). Developing a methodology to capture the complexity of young people's life history events. Verbal presentation at the Children's Issues Centre Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2006

Journal - Research Article

Nairn, K., Sligo, J., & Freeman, C. (2006). Polarizing participation in local government: Which young people are included and excluded? Children, Youth & Environments, 16(2), 248-271.

2005

Journal - Research Article

Belsky, J., Sligo, J., Jaffee, S. R., Woodward, L., & Silva, P. A. (2005). Intergenerational transmission of warm-sensitive-stimulating parenting: A prospective study of mothers and fathers of 3-year-olds. Child Development, 76(2), 384-396.

2003

Journal - Research Article

Freeman, C., Nairn, K., & Sligo, J. L. (2003). 'Professionalising' participation: From rhetoric to practice. Children's Geographies, 1(1), 53-70.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Sligo, J. L., Munro, J. A., Nairn, K., Higgins, J., & Tuhiwai Smith, L. (2003, December). 'In transition': How the children of the economic reforms articulate identities at the child/adult border. Reporting from the pilot study. Verbal presentation at the Combined Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education and the Australian Association for Research in Education 2003 : Educational research, risks and dilemmas, Auckland, New Zealand.

Freeman, C., Sligo, J. L., & Nairn, K. (2003, April). Young people's participation in community life. Verbal presentation at the Social Policy Research and Evaluation Conference 2003: Connecting policy, research and practice, Wellington, New Zealand.

Smith, A. B., Nairn, K., Sligo, J. L., Gaffney, J. M. D., & McCormack, J. (2003, June). Case studies of young people's participation in public life: Local government, boards of trustees and the youth parliament. Verbal presentation at the Fifth Child and Family Policy Conference: Joined up services: Linking together for children and families, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Commissioned Report for External Body

Sligo, J. L. (2003). Young people's participation in local government initiatives: Urban and rural case studies. Commissioned by Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. Dunedin, New Zealand: Children's Issue Centre, University of Otago. 20p.

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Smith, A. B., Nairn, K., Sligo, J. L., Gaffney, J. M. D., & McCormack, J. (2003). Case studies of young people's participation in public life: Local government, boards of trustees and the youth parliament. University of Otago. 82p.

Other Research Output

Smith, A. B., Gaffney, J. M. D., Nairn, K., & Sligo, J. L. (2003). Case studies of young people's participation in public life. [Public Seminar].