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Research articles

2025

  • Eisenbarth H, Clavijo Saldias K, Jose PE, Karl JA, Waldie KE. The impact of less severe intimate partner aggression on child conduct problems. JCPP Advances. 2025:e70024. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.70024
  • Gath, M., Horwood, L. J., Gillon, G., McNeill, B., & Woodward, L. J. (2025). Longitudinal associations between screen time and children’s language, early educational skills, and peer social functioning. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001907
  • Hashemi, L., Ghasemi, M., Schlichting, D., Pirouzi, M., Grant, C., & Swinburn, B. (2025). Prospective relationship between family screen time rules, obesogenic behaviours, and childhood obesity. European Journal of Public Health, 35(1), 114-120. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae207
  • Meissel, K., Grant, M., Peterson, E.R., Walker, C., Evans, R.J., Fenaughty, J., Napier, C., Bullen, P., Dubey, N. and Morton, S.M., 2025. Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children. British Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.1002/berj.4145
  • 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
  • Pang, B., Qiao, T., Walker, C., Cunningham, C., & Koh, Y. S. (2025). LIBRA: Measuring Bias of Large Language Model from a Local Context. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.01679.
    https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.01679
  • Riley, Phillip (2025). “From Budding First Words to Blossoming Minds”
  • Shaping Child Development Through Early Childcare in Aotearoa New Zealand. Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.29614838

2024

  • ‍Yanga, R., Underwood, L., Schoeps, A., Waldie, K. E., Morton, S. M., & Peterson, E. R. (2024). Retrospective analysis of the challenges and highlights of parenting two-year-old children who were subsequently recognised as autistic. Advances in Autism, 10(4), 340-355. https://doi.org/10.1108/AIA-02-2024-0012
  • Zhang, Y., Ballard, E., Lee, T., Lee, H., Schmidt, J., & Reese, E. (2024). Assessing vocabulary and grammar development in New Zealand Mandarin-and Cantonese-speaking children: a validation study. Speech, language and hearing, 27(2), 148-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2024.2303825

2023

  • Slykerman, R.F., Neumann, D., Underwood, L., Hobbs, M. and Waldie, K.E. 2023. Age at first exposure to antibiotics and neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood. Psychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-023-06351-5
  • Anns, F., Waldie, K. E., Kaur, D., Morton, S., & D'Souza, S. 2023. Exposure to Unmedicated Maternal Depression and Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy: Is There an Influence on Child Cognitive Outcomes?. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4342927
  • Anns, F., Waldie, K. E., Peterson, E.R., Walker, C., Morton, S., & D'Souza, S. 2023. Behavioural outcomes of children exposed to antidepressants and unmedicated depression during pregnancy. Journal of Effective Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.05.097
  • Ghebreab, L., Kool, B., Lee, A., Morton, S. 2023. Comparing primary caregivers’ reported injury data with routinely recorded injury data to assess predictors of childhood injury. BMC Medical Research Methodology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01900-0
  • Garnett, M., Reese, E., Swearingen, I. et al. 2023. Maternal Reminiscing and Children’s Socioemotional Development: Evidence from a Large Pre-Birth Longitudinal Cohort Study, Growing Up in New Zealand. Journal of Cognition and Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2023.2192276
  • Fletcher, Ben; Walker, Caroline; Cha, Jane; Neumann, Denise; Paine, Sarah-Jane; Park, Annie; et al. (2023). Now We Are 12: Young people’s experiences of depression and anxiety symptoms. Snapshot 7. The University of Auckland. Report. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.26010166.v1
  • Paine, Sarah-Jane; Gerritsen, Sarah; Napier, Carin; Pillai, Avinesh; Prickett, Kate; Atatoa-Carr, Polly; et al. (2023). Growing Up in New Zealand. Now We Are 12: Methods. The University of Auckland. Report. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.25999801.v1
  • Grant, Molly; Tait, Josie; Meissel, Kane; Peterson, Elizabeth; Bullen, Pat; Wheadon, Michelle; et al. (2023). Now We Are 12: Teacher Survey Report. The University of Auckland. Report. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.26132554.v1
  • Walker, Caroline; Fletcher, Ben; Cha, Jane; Waldie, Karen; Morton, Susan; Peterson, Elizabeth; et al. (2023). Now We Are 12: Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and young people's wellbeing. Snapshot 6. The University of Auckland. Report. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.26010103.v1
  • Thayer, Z., Becares, L., Marks, E., Ly, K. and Walker, C. 2023. Maternal racism experience and cultural identity in relation to offspring telomere length. Nature Sci Rep. Jun 28;13(1):10458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37555-6
  • Evans, Rebecca; Fletcher, Ben; Bird, Amy; Prickett, Kate; Paine, Sarah-Jane (2023). Now We Are 12 – Extended Factsheet: Families and Whānau. The University of Auckland. Report. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.26132602.v1
  • Evans, Rebecca; Lai, Hakkan; Bird, Amy; Prickett, Kate; Paine, Sarah-Jane (2023). Now We Are 12 – Extended Factsheet: Stepping into Adolescence: Emerging Autonomy and Independence. The University of Auckland. Report. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.26132614.v1

2022

  • Atatoa Carr, P., Langridge, F., Neumann, D., Paine, S., Liang, F., Taufa, S., Fa’alili Fidow, J., Fenaughty, J., & Kingi. T. (2022). ‘Seeing’ our tamariki in longitudinal studies: exploring the complexity of ethnic identification trajectories within Growing Up in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2064518
  • Ghebreab, L., Kool, B., Arier, L. and Morton S. 2022. Prospective longitudinal study investigating predictors of childhood injuries from Growing Up in New Zealand cohort: study protocol. Injury prevention: Journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. 28(2): 192-202. DOI 10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044414
  • Morton, S.M.B., Napier, C., Morar, M., et al. (2022). Mind the gap – unequal from the start: evidence from the early years of the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study.  Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2058026

2021

  • Castro, T.G., Gerritsen, S., Teixeira, J., Pillai, A., Marchioni, D., Grant, C., Morton, S. and Wall, C. 2022. An index measuring adherence to New Zealand infant feeding guidelines has convergent validity with maternal sociodemographic and health behaviours and with children`s body size. British Journal of Nutrition. 127(7): 1073-1085. DOI 10.1017/S0007114521001720
  • Corkin, M. T., Peterson, E. R., Henderson, A. M., Bird, A. L., Waldie, K. E., Reese, E., & Morton, S. M. (2021). The Predictors of Screen Time at Two Years in a Large Nationally Diverse Cohort. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-01985-5
  • Corkin, M.T., Dando, E., Peterson, E.R. et al. (2021). “The way she smiles brightens me up”: Highlights of parenting an infant in a large Nationally diverse cohort. Current Psychology,40(2) 919-938. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-0014-5  
  • Wallander, J.L., Berry, S., Atatoa Carr, P., Peterson, E.R., Waldie, K.E., Marks, E., D'Souza, S. & Morton, S.M.B. (2021). Patterns of risk exposure in the first 1,000 days of life and health, behavior, and education-related problems at age 4.5: Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand, a longitudinal cohort study. BMC Pediatrics, 21, 285. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02652-w

2020

  • Buckley, J., Peterson, E.R., Underwood, L., D’Souza, S., Morton, S.M.B. and Waldie, K.E. (2020) Socio-demographic and maternal health indicators of inhibitory control in preschool age children: evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand.  Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/175795919X15746664055477
  • Doran, P., Bradshaw, P., Morton, S. et al. 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 Ind Res13, 1921–1935 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09732-w
  • Kim, Y., Bird, A., Peterson, E., Underwood, L., Morton, S. Grant, C. (2020). Maternal Antenatal Depression and Early Childhood Sleep: Potential Pathways Through Infant Temperament. J Pediatr Psychol, Mar 1;45(2):203-217. DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsaa001.
  • Lai, H., Hakes, S., Woodward, A., Walker, C., Marks, E., Pillai, A., Chen, R. and Morton, S. (2020) Effects of heavy rainfall on waterborne disease hospitalizations among young children in wet and dry areas of New Zealand. Environment International. 145:106136. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106136
  • Morton, Susan; Walker, Caroline; Gerritsen, Sarah; Smith, Ashley; Cha, Jane; Bird, Amy; et al. (2020). Growing Up in New Zealand: A longitudinal study of New Zealand children and their families. Now We Are Eight. The University of Auckland. Report. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.25762527.v1
  • Russell J, Grant CC, Morton SM. Multimorbidity in early childhood and socioeconomic disadvantage: findings from a large New Zealand child cohort. Academic pediatrics. 2020 Jul 1;20(5):619-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2019.09.007
  • San San Kyaw K, Tin ST, Underwood L, Grant C. Effects of home language environment and household crowding on early expressive language development. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 2020 May 1;41(4):289-98. DOI: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000764

2014

  • Pryor J, Pryor J, Morton S, Bandara D, Robinson E, Grant C. Pregnant partners: Fathers of the growing up in New Zealand children. Journal of Family Studies. 2014 Apr 1;20(1):5-18. https://doi.org/10.5172/jfs.2014.20.1.5
  • Peterson ER, Schmidt J, Reese E, Lee AC, Carr PA, Grant CC, et al. "I expect my baby to grow up to be a responsible and caring citizen": What are expectant parents' hopes, dreams and expectations for their unborn children? Fam Matters. 2014;(94):35–44. Available from: https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.621475306980610
  • Morton SMB, Ramke J, Kinloch J, Grant CC, Atatoa Carr P, Leeson H, Lee AC, Robinson E (2014). Growing Up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12220

2013

2012

  • Morton, S., Bandara, D. K., Robinson, E. M., & Carr, P. E. A. (2012). In the 21st Century, what is an acceptable response rate? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health,36(2), 106-108 doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.2012.00854.x
  • Morton SMB, Grant CC, Carr PEA, et al. How do you Recruit and Retain a Prebirth Cohort? Lessons Learnt from Growing Up in New Zealand. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 2012;37(4):411-433. doi: 10.1177/0163278712462717
  • Susan M B Morton, Polly E Atatoa Carr, Cameron C Grant, Elizabeth M Robinson, Dinusha K Bandara, Amy Bird, Vivienne C Ivory, Te Kani R Kingi, Renee Liang, Emma J Marks, Lana M Perese, Elizabeth R Peterson, Jan E Pryor, Elaine Reese, Johanna M Schmidt, Karen E Waldie, Clare Wall, Cohort Profile: Growing Up in New Zealand, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 65–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyr206

2007

  • Shulruf, B., Morton, S., Goodyear-Smith, F., O'Loughlin, C., & Dixon, R. (2007). Designing multidisciplinary longitudinal studies of human development: analyzing past research to inform methodology. Evaluation & the health professions, 30(3), 207–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163278707304030. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163278707304030


Book chapters:

  • Ivory VC, Morton SMB, Schmidt JM, Kingi TK, Atatoa Carr PE. (2013) Capturing the capitals; a heuristic for measuring ‘wealth’ of NZ children in the 21st century. An application to the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal cohort. In: When Culture Impacts Health, 1st Edition, Chapter 22. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-415921-1.00022-1

Reports:

  • Fan, J., Ogden S. E., Rudd, G.,Marks E., Peterson, E. R., Walker, C. G. & Meissel, K a. (2025). SocialConnections: In-person and Online (Our Voices Summer Snapshot Series). WaipapaTaumata Rau, the University of Auckland. Available here.
  • Evans, R. J., Redman, K.,Miller, S., Wang, Y., Sweetman, L., Fenaughty, J. (2023). Arts, Culture and Recreation Participation in the Growing Up in New Zealand Cohort at 12-Years [Manatū Taonga Bespoke Report]. Auckland: Growing Up in New Zealand. ISBN978-0-478-18490-7. Available here. ‍
  • Huang, Y., Silva Goncalves, J., Lam, J., & Baxter, J. (2022). Maternal health and children’s socio-emotional and cognitive development: New evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand study. Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Jacquemard, R., Landridge, F. Neumann, D., Janicot, S., Miller, S., Chu, J., Bullen, C. (2022). Examining neurocognitive outcomes of children that have experienced prenatal alcohol exposure using data from the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort. The University of Auckland: Auckland. Available here.
  • Prickett, K. C., Paine, S. J., Carr, P. A., & Morton, S. (2022). A Fair Chance for All? Family resources across the early life course and children’s development in Aotearoa New Zealand. Available here.
  • Sin, I. (2022). How do childcare access issues affect mothers’ work in the long term?  Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. Available here.
  • Sin, I. 2022. Access to childcare interim report: How are childcare access issues reflected in mothers’ work? Wellington:  Ministry for Women. Available here.
  • Marks E J, Somerville-Ryan M, Walker C, Devlin M, Chen R, Atatoa Carr P E, Berry S, Smith A and Morton S M B. (2021). Impact of family housing and income journeys on preschool child health and wellbeing. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development.
  • Noy, S., & Sin, I. (2021). The Drivers of Mothers' Parental Leave Decisions: Evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal survey. Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Morton, S., Peterson, E., Buckley, J. & Murray, S. (2020). Early self-control development: Prevalence, persistence and change in a NZ cohort. Ministry of Social Development Report. ISBN: 978-0-9951244-5-5 (electronic). Available here.
  • Walsh M.C., Maloney T., Vaithianathan R., & Pereda-Perez P. (2020). School Readiness, Adversities in Childhood Experience and Access to Government Services: A Scoping Study on Potential Protective Factors. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Walsh M.C., Maloney T., Vaithianathan R., & Pereda-Perez P. (2020). Adversities of Childhood Experience and School Readiness: focus on children born to teen and non-teen mothers in the Growing Up in New Zealand Data. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • 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.
  • Kool, B., Underwood, L., Morton, S., Ameratunga, S., Kingi, TK., & Avinesh Pillai. (2020). Child injury in the preschool years. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Morton, S., Lai, H., Walker, C., Cha, J., Smith, A., Marks, E., & Pillai, P. (2020). Keeping our children warm and dry: Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand. BRANZ. Available here.
  • Muller D, Signal TL, Santos-Fernandez E, McCarthy J, Carr H. Are New Zealand children meeting the Ministry of Health guidelines for sleep?. 2020 Aug 1. 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. 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.
  • Morton, S., Peterson, E., Buckley, J. & Murray, S. (2020). Early self-control development: Prevalence, persistence and change in a NZ cohort. Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Walsh M., Joyce S., Maloney T., & Vaithianathan R. (2019). Protective factors of children families at highest risk of adverse childhood experiences: An analysis of children and families in the Growing up in New Zealand data who “beat the odds”. Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Duncan, S., Gerritsen, S., D'Souza, S., Stewart, T., & Gibbons, A. (2019). Is participation in Early Childhood Education related to child health and development? Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Stewart, T., Duncan, S., Walker, C., Berry, S., & Schofield, G, (2019). Effects of screen time on preschool health and development. Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Meissel, K., Reese, E. & Turnbull, S. (2019). Factors of the early learning environment that promote early learning outcomes in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Meissel, K., Peterson, E., Thomas, S., & Murray, S. (2019). Intentions and decisions about early childhood education: Understanding the determinants and dynamics of households’ early intentions and decisions about ECE and childcare from birth to age two. Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Walsh M., Joyce S., Maloney T., & Vaithianathan R. (2019). Adverse childhood experiences and school readiness outcomes: Results from the Growing up in New Zealand study. Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Castro, T.G., Gerritsen, S., Wall, C., Grant, C., Teixeira, J.A., Marchioni, D.M., Pillai, A., Morton, S. (2018). Infant feeding in New Zealand: Adherence to the national food and nutrition guidelines. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.
  • Dominick, C (2018). Association of material hardship with maternal and child outcomes. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. Available here.

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