Dr Edmond Fehoko

2026

Journal - Research Article

Rodda, S. N., Jones, A. S. K., Siegert, R. J., Merkouris, S. S., Bijker, R., Fehoko, E., … Dowling, N. A. (2026). Gambling help seeking and self-management in New Zealand and Australia: A cross-sectional survey with quota sampling of priority populations. Harm Reduction Journal. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1186/s12954-026-01472-4

Young, C. D., Kennedy, R. G., Shaw, R. M., Pitman, J. L., Clark, Z. L., & Fehoko, E. S. (2026). Enablers and barriers to assisted reproduction and fertility services for Pacific peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative study. Human Fertility, 29(1), 2656343. doi: 10.1080/14647273.2026.2656343

Erickson, S., Kito, B., Treharne, G., Rodda, S., Kennedy, R., & Fehoko, E. (2026). A qualitative study on Pacific male perspectives on addressing porn use and addiction in Aotearoa New Zealand. Discover Social Science & Health, 6(1). doi: 10.1007/s44155-026-00408-4

Kito, B., Erickson, S., Kennedy, R., Treharne, G., Rodda, S., & Fehoko, E. (2026). Digital taboo: A qualitative study on Pacific male experiences of and attitudes to pornography in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kōtuitui, 21(1), e70017. doi: 10.1002/kot2.70017

2025

Journal - Research Article

Young, C. D., Shaw, R. M., & Fehoko, E. S. (2025). Exploring the interface of religion, infertility and assisted reproduction: Experiences of Pacific Christian adults in Aotearoa New Zealand. Culture, Health & Sexuality. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2025.2451410

2024

Chapter in Book - Research

Long, N. J., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2024). On epidemiological consciousness and COVID-19: Envisioning vulnerability, hazard, and public health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In S. Abram, H. Lambert & J. Robinson (Eds.), How to live through a pandemic. (pp. 20-39). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003359371-2

Journal - Research Article

Mitlash, A., Rapsey, C., Fehoko, E., Treharne, G. J., Quensell, J., & Scarf, D. (2024). Male body image in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative interview study. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 53(2), 40-50. doi: 10.63146/​001c.138414

Jamieson, I., Winter, T., Mason, A., Fehoko, E., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Fox, R., & Scarf, D. (2024). Indigenous people display lower mental illness stigma in Aotearoa. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00048674241307159

Fox, A., Fox, R., Linton, C. J., Cruwys, T., Hunter, J. A., Fehoko, E. S., Jones, S., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Winter, T., Treharne, G. J., & Scarf, D. (2024). Social Identity Mapping with justice-involved young people: Exploring identity pathways to aid the desistance of criminal offending. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34, e70017. doi: 10.1002/casp.70017

Faleolo, R. L., Fehoko, E., Dyck, D., Hafu-Fetokai, C., Malungahu, G., Clark, Z. L., … Fa'avae, D. T. M. (2024). Our search for intergenerational rhythms as Tongan global scholars. Art/Research International, 8(2), 663-704. doi: 10.18432/ari29797

Deckert, A., Long, N. J., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Fehoko, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2024). “It has totally changed how I think about the police”: COVID-19 and the mis/trust of pandemic policing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Criminal Justice Review, 49(2), 175-195. doi: 10.1177/07340168231193023

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Scarf, D., Fox, A., Fox, R., Cruwys, T., Hunter, J., Fehoko, E., Jones, S., Arahanga-Doyle, H., … Treharne, G. (2024). Social identity mapping with justice-involved Indigenous youth. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychology (SASP). Retrieved from https://sasp-acpid.org

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Fehoko, E., & Foote, J. (2024, July). Systemic mapping of barriers to generate solutions for equitable access to problem-gambling services in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the International Gambling Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

2023

Journal - Research Article

Shaw, R. M., & Fehoko, E. (2023). Barriers to accessing assisted reproduction for diverse and minority groups in Aotearoa New Zealand: Findings from a qualitative study. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 35(4), 102-111. Retrieved from https://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/1033

Fehoko, E. S., Bellringer, M. E., & Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. (2023). The interface of gambling and cultural practices: A Tongan male perspective in Aotearoa | New Zealand. Frontiers in Sociology, 8, 1116312. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1116312

Shaw, R. M., & Fehoko, E. (2023). Epistemic injustice and Body Mass Index: Examining Māori and Pacific women’s access to fertility treatment in Aotearoa New Zealand. Fat Studies, 12(2), 338-352. doi: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2063507

Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Richards, R., Walter, I., Finigan, A., Ruhe, T., Avia, L., Schaaf, M., & Fehoko, E. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the Pacific Postgraduate Symposium: Pacific Voices XX. Dunedin, New Zealand: Pacific Islands Centre, University of Otago. 44p. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/16433

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Ng Shiu, R., Carter, S. G., Pilisi, S., Fehoko, E. S., & Corbett, J. (2023). Seeing like a regionalist: The dilemmas of inter-governmental co-operation in the blue Pacific. Birmingham, UK: Developmental Leadership Program (DLP), University of Birmingham. Retrieved from https://dlprog.org/publications/research-briefs/seeing-like-a-regionalist-the-dilemmas-of-inter-governmental-co-operation-in-the-blue-pacific/

2022

Journal - Research Article

Long, N. J., Hunter, A., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Sterling, R., … Aikman, P. J., Fehoko, E., … Trnka, S. (2022). The research imagination during COVID-19: Rethinking norms of group size and authorship in anthropological and anthropology-adjacent collaborations. Anthropological Forum, 32(4), 351-370. doi: 10.1080/00664677.2023.2169250

Fehoko, E. S., Fa'avae, D. T. M., Tecun, A., & Siuʻulua, S. A. (2022). Digital Vā: Pacific perspectives on the shift from 'ordinary practices' to 'extraordinary spaces' during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Anthropological Forum, 32(4), 307-324. doi: 10.1080/00664677.2023.2172549

Fehoko, E. S., Bellringer, M. E., & Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. (2022). Culture, church, and collective: A qualitative study about gambling harm prevention and reduction in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Tongan male perspective. Harm Reduction Journal, 19, 134. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00717-2

Holroyd, E., Long, N. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2022). Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after COVID-19 lockdown: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(5), 2761-2771. doi: 10.1111/hsc.13720

Fa'avae, D. T. M., Fehoko, E., & Vaka, S. (2022). Fakakoloa as embodied mana moana and agency: Postcolonial sociology within Oceania. New Zealand Sociology, 37(1), 93-119. doi: 10.3316/informit.370380535106817

Fehoko, E. S., Bellringer, M. E., & Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. (2022). Learning from home, schools, and the media: Exploring the learning of gambling from a Tongan male youth perspective in New Zealand. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 34(8), 804-805. doi: 10.1177/10105395221107854

Long, N. J., Tunufa'i, L., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., … Sterling, R. (2022). 'The most difficult time of my life' or 'COVID’s gift to me'? Differential experiences of COVID-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand. Mortality, 27(4), 476-492. doi: 10.1080/13576275.2022.2049527

Long, N. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., Holroyd, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2022). Pathways and obstacles to social recovery following the elimination of SARS-CoV-2 from Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative cross-sectional study. Journal of Public Health, 44(4), e548-e556. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdab394

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Fehoko, E., Bellringer, M., & Fairbairn-Dunlop, P. (2022, June-July). Culture, church and community: The influence of the three C's in addressing problem gambling minimisation and prevention strategies and research from a Tongan male perspective. Verbal presentation at the International Gambling Conference: He Haerenga: A Journey from Harm to Wellbeing, [Hybrid].

2021

Journal - Research Article

Fehoko, E. S. (2021). Exploring the progression from games to gambling in Tonga. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 130(4), 311-326. doi: 10.15286/jps.130.4.311-326

Fehoko, E., Hafoka, I., & Tecon, A. (2021). Holding tightly onto land and people during a pandemic: Kava pedagogies and tertiary learning relationships in Vahaope. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 5(1), 1-15.

Martin-Anatias, N., Long, N. J., Graham Davies, S., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2021). Lockdown Ibuism: Experiences of Indonesian migrant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic in aotearoa New Zealand. Intersections, 2021(45), 1-13.

Trnka, S., Long, N. J., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2021). Negotiating risks and responsibilities during lockdown: Ethical reasoning and affective experience in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51(Suppl. 1), 55-74. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2020.1865417

Fa'avae, D. T. F., Fehoko, E., Siu'ulua, S., & Tovo, F. (2021). Poetic deviances, lessgo deconstruct the master’s tools: Creatively critical talanoa mālie and critical autoethnographic defiance. Journal of New Zealand Studies, NS33, 110-126. doi: 10.26686/JNZS.INS33.7386

Deckert, A., Long, N. J., Aikman, P. J., Appleton, N. S., Davies, S. G., Trnka, S., Fehoko, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2021). ‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and COVID-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand. Policing & Society, 31(5), 621-637. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2021.1924169

2020

Journal - Research Article

Appleton, N. S., Long, N. J., Aikman, P. J., Davies, S. G., Deckert, A., Fehoko, E., … Tunufa'i, L. (2020). (Alter)narratives of 'winning': Supermarket and healthcare workers' experiences of COVID19 in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sites, 17(2), 51-77. doi: 10.11157/sites-id471

Awarded Doctoral Degree

Fehoko, E. S. (2020). From games to gambling: An exploratory study of Tongan-born and New Zealand-born male perceptions and experiences of gambling and problem gambling in New Zealand (PhD). Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10292/13818

2017

Other Research Output

Fehoko, E. (2017) The cultural classroom: The faikava as an epistemological site for teaching and learning. Kava: A workshop for kava researchers and enthusiasts, Anthropology and Pacific Studies Seminar Series, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/11048

2016

Chapter in Book - Research

Fehoko, E. (2016). Pukepuke Fonua: An exploratory study on the faikava as an identity marker for New Zealand-born Tongan males in Auckland New Zealand. In N. Hadjigeorgiou (Ed.), Identity, belonging and human rights: A multi-disciplinary perspective. (pp. 113-124). Brill. doi: 10.1163/9781848884571_012

2015

Journal - Research Article

Fehoko, E. S. (2015). Social space and cultural identity: The faikava as a supplementary site for maintaining Tongan identity in New Zealand. New Zealand Sociology, 30(1), 131-139.