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LecturerHelen Owen image

Department of Marketing
Otago Business School Room 4.34
Email helen.owen@otago.ac.nz

Helen is a mixed-methods researcher with a background in Social Psychology (PhD) and Public Health. She completed her BSc(Hons) and PhD at University of Otago. Her PhD explored different applications of fluency-of-processing theories for judging statement credibility and communicator honesty, including in persuasive advertising. She has worked in public health research for the past six years, including through a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit.

She also worked as the operations manager on several longitudinal cohort studies, including The HRC-funded New Zealand Prospective Outcomes of Injury, ten-year follow-up Studies; the Trauma Outcomes Project (TOP), a collaboration with NZ Health Quality & Safety Commission, and a cross-sectional survey of health care providers in Southern NZ, following the roll-out of the Southern Primary and Community Care Strategy.

Her research areas include long-term health and wellbeing outcomes among injured older adults; healthcare service integration and health provider burnout; healthcare access inequities for Māori, and technology-enhanced learning. Helen is on the Editorial Board for Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health.

Teaching responsibilities

Helen’s primary teaching responsibilities are:

Additional details

Examples of previous media contributions (from PhD):

Awarded grants

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Health Sciences Career Development, Division of Health Sciences (2023-2025)
  • Contributing Researcher to HRC funded grant: Hinapōuri ki Hīnātore: Improving mental health outcomes and services (2023-2025). PIs: Prof. Sarah Derrett & Prof. Emma Wyeth
  • Accelerator Grant (Early Career), Division of Health Sciences (2022)
  • Collaboration of Ageing Research Excellence (CARE) Early Career Researcher Conference Scholarship (2019)

Office hours

Tuesdays 11:00am–12:00pm

Publications

Owen, H., Licorish, S., Moerenhout, T., & Robertson, K. (2025). AI-assisted injury risk prediction for older New Zealanders: A proposed co-design approach. Proceedings of the New Zealand Association of Gerontology (NZAG) Conference: Ageing Together. (pp. 32). Retrieved from http://gerontology.org.nz Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Owen, H., Wyeth, E., & Derrett, S. (2025). “It limits me from participating in life to the fullest”: Older New Zealanders’ experiences of ongoing problems 12-years post-injury. Proceedings of the New Zealand Association of Gerontology (NZAG) Conference: Ageing Together. (pp. 27). Retrieved from http://gerontology.org.nz Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Owen, H. E., Wyeth, E. H., Samaranayaka, A., & Derrett, S. (2025). Describing long-term postinjury outcomes for older New Zealanders [Brief report]. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 44, e13411. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13411 Journal - Research Other

Craik, B., Owen, H. E., Derrett, S., & Wyeth, E. H. (2024). Interviewing injured New Zealanders for paired longitudinal studies: A qualitative exploration of interviewers’ experiences. Quality & Quantity. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11135-024-02031-4 Journal - Research Article

Owen, H., Wyeth, E., & Derrett, S. (2024). Long-term post-injury outcomes for older New Zealanders: Addressing the knowledge gap. Proceedings of the 15th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference: Weaving Knowledge for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion: Creating a New Way Together. (pp. 30). Retrieved from https://www.aipn.com.au/conference Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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