Publications

Culture and identity

Newbury, J., White, B., Meissel, K., Panther, N., Cook, H., Cowie, R., & Reese, E. (2025). Cultural Perceptions of Language Development in a Population Sample of 54-Month-Old Children From Aotearoa New Zealand. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 34(1), 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00485
Yao, E. S., Neumann, D., Taufa, S., Liang, R., Kingi, T. K., Langridge, F., & Paine, S. J. (2025). Ethnic-specific characteristics associated with longitudinal response patterns from prebirth to 12 years: evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand. J Epidemiol Community Health, 79(1), 19-26. https://jech.bmj.com/content/79/1/19.abstract?casa_token=YYZFYO1r4EkAAAAA:Pemlp2eheI8Dpx2Ym8K6xqKR5uG4Ui69oIoBV7Wf0JKiaDdj84aizd50ULrZh9aEnL24NOLWE86DNg

Neumann, D., Yao, E., Feng, L., Taufa, S., Liang, R., Kingi, T. K., ... & Paine, S. J. (2024). Validity of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure for Māori, Pacific, Asian & European adolescents. European Journal of Public Health, 34 (Supplement_3), ckae144-2076. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.2076

Lewycka, S., Dasgupta, K., Plum, A., Clark, T., Hedges, M., & Pacheco, G. (2023). Determinants of ethnic differences in the uptake of child healthcare services in New Zealand: a decomposition analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01812-3
‍Thayer, Z., Becares, L., Marks, E., Ly, K., & Walker, C.(2023). Maternal racism experience and cultural identity in relation to offspring telomere length. Scientific reports, 13(1),10458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37555-6

Yao, E. S., Meissel, K., Bullen, P., Clark, T. C., Atatoa Carr, P., Tiatia-Seath, J., Peiris-John, R., & Morton, S. M. B. (2022). Demographic discrepancies between administrative-prioritisation and self-prioritisation of multiple ethnic identifications. Social Science Research, 103, 102648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102648‍
Paine S-J, Neumann D, Langridge F, Peters A, Kingi TK. 2022. Kaitiakitanga – principles for protecting and promoting tamariki and rangatahi wellbeing in Growing Up in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 52(3):254–264. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2066142.
Muller, D., Santos-Fernandez, E. McCarthy, J., Carr, H. and Signal, T.L. (2022). Who meets national early childhood sleep guidelines in Aotearoa New Zealand? A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. SLEEP Advances 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/sleepadvances/zpac002

Yao, E. S., Meissel, K., Bullen, P., Carr, P. A., Clark, T. C., & Morton, S. M. B. (2021). Classifying multiple ethnic identifications: Methodological effects on child, adolescent, and adult ethnic distributions. Demographic Research, 44, 481–512. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27032923

Simmonds H, Reese E,Atatoa Carr P, and Berry S, Kingi TK. (2020). He ara ki ngā rautaki e ora tonu ai te reo Māori: Pathways to Maori Language Revitalisation. Ministry of Social Development Report. ISBN:978-0-9951240-3-5 (electronic). https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/research/children-and-families-research-fund/he-ara-ki-nga-rautaki-e-ora-tonu-ai-te-reo-maori.pdf
Doran, P., Bradshaw, P., Morton, S., Tautolo, E. S., Williams, J., & Cunningham, C. (2020). Growing up Healthy in Families Across the Globe: Cross-Cultural Harmonisation of Childhood Risk-Factors Using Longitudinal Studies from Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand. Child Indicators Research, 13(6), 1921-1935. DOI: 10.1007/s12187-020-09732-w
Kukutai, T., Prickett, K., Atatoa-Carr, P., & Rata, A. (2020). Family structure and change in early childhood and the wellbeing of tamariki Maori. New Zealand Population Review, 46, 70–99. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14154

McDaid, F., Underwood, L., Fa'Alili, J., Waldie, K.E., Peterson, E.R., Bird, A., D'Souza, S. and Morton, S.(2019) Antenatal depression symptoms in Pacific women: Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care, 11(2): 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1071/HC18102
Thayer, Z., Bécares, L., & Carr, P. A. (2019). Maternal experiences of ethnic discrimination and subsequent birth outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand. BMC public health, 19(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7598-z
Hobbs, M. R., Carr, P. A., Fa'alili-Fidow, J., Pillai, A., Morton, S. M., & Grant, C. C. (2019). How differing methods of ascribing ethnicity and socio-economic status affect risk estimates for hospitalisation with infectious disease. Epidemiology & Infection, 147. DOI: 10.1017/S0950268818002935

Berry, S. D., Walker, C. G., Ly, K., Snell, R. G., Carr, P. E. A., Bandara, D., ... & Grant, C. C. (2018). Widespread prevalence of a CREBRF variant amongst Māori and Pacific children is associated with weight and height in early childhood. International Journal of Obesity, 42(7), 1392-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0026-0

Reese E, Keegan P, McNaughton S, Kingi TK, Atatoa Carr P, Schmidt J, Mohal J, Grant C, Morton S. (2017). Te Reo Māori: Indigenous language acquisition in the context of New Zealand English. Journal of Child Language. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1017/s0305000917000241

Bécares L and Atatoa-Carr P. (2016). The association between maternal and partner experienced racial discrimination and prenatal perceived stress, prenatal and postnatal depression: findings from the Growing up in New Zealand cohort study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 15, 1-15. DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0443-4

Reese, E., Ballard, E., Taumoepeau, M., Taumoefolau, M., Morton, S. B., Grant, C., ... & Perese, L. (2015). Estimating language skills in Samoan-and Tongan-speaking children growing up in New Zealand. First Language, 35(4-5), 407-427. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0142723715596099

Clark, T., Dasgupta, K., Lewycka, S., Pacheco, G. & Plum, A. (2020) Ethnic differences in the use and experience of child healthcare services in NZ: An empirical examination. Auckland. Available here.
Gerritsen S, D’Souza A, Goodsell-Matthews T, Pillai A, Swinburn B, Wall C. (2020). Food hardship and early childhood nutrition: Findings from Growing Up in New Zealand with a focus on food hardships among tamariki Māori and Pacific children. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
Simmonds H, Reese E,Atatoa Carr P, and Berry S, Kingi TK. (2020). He ara ki ngā rautaki e ora tonu ai te reo Māori: Pathways to Maori Language Revitalisation. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. ISBN:978-0-9951240-3-5. Available here.