MA, PhD (AUT)
Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Raukawa
Teaching Fellow
Contact details
Room 6C15, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 556 7966
Email jazz.robson@otago.ac.nz
Research interests
Jazz is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in policy, sociological and legal research relating to children’s participation rights, childhood and youth studies, and youth justice.
She completed her Masters and Doctorate in the School of Social Sciences & Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology. Her doctoral thesis, “Do I Really Have Rights to Participate?” Young People’s and Youth Justice Personnel’s Perceptions of Young People’s Rights to Participation in the Youth Justice Family Group Conference Setting, explored young people’s experiences of their participation rights in youth justice family group conference settings, and the impacts of silence on young people’s full experience of their participation rights in this setting.
Before joining the University of Otago, Jazz worked for Talking Trouble Aotearoa New Zealand as a researcher and administrator, and AUT University as a lecturer.
Publications
Robson, J. (2025, July). Silence in the time of communication and participation. Verbal presentation at the International Child & Family Conference, Bristol, UK. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Kedge, S., & Robson, J. (2024, July). Talking trouble. Verbal presentation at the George Abbott Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Robson, J., & McKee, A. (2024, August). When silence says it all: Young people's communication experiences in youth justice family group conference settings. Verbal presentation at the Graeme Dingle Foundation Research Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Robson, J. (2023). “Do I really have rights to participate?” Young people's and youth justice personnel's perceptions of young people's rights to participate in the youth justice family group conference setting Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand (PhD). Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10292/16616 Awarded Doctoral Degree
Robson, J. (2019). When it's about me, make sure to include me: The importance of the voice of the child in professional settings. In Children's rights in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reflections on the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (pp. 12-13). Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Law Foundation. [Contribution]. Chapter in Book - Research