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Social systems
We work across ESR’s focus areas to understand complex societal and environmental problems and identify solutions using systems-thinking tools.
About
ESR’s Social Systems team partners with researchers and organisations to understand complex societal and environmental problems, and identify solutions using systems thinking tools that have positive benefits for communities. The team works across the areas of environment, public health, justice and social policy, within bicultural and multidisciplinary teams.
The Lab
The Lab
The Social Systems Lab supports collaborative working to understand and act on complex social and environmental problems. The Lab is also a space for innovation in methods and supports the application of systems thinking approaches.
We work in partnership with community organisations, iwi and hapū, government, and scientists across ESR and other research organisations.
Topics range from culturally appropriate biowaste management, public health equity issues, to implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and improving the health of our waterways.
Our approaches to problem solving prioritise bicultural research methods and systems thinking.
The team
ESR's Social Systems Team
Work with us
Work with us
Do you have a project that would benefit from systems thinking but need to know more about the tools? The Social Systems team have physical offices in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch, and we work across Aotearoa New Zealand both in person and using online tools.
We would love to hear from you about how you would like to work collaboratively with us. Please email social.systems.lab@esr.cri.nz
Projects
Current projects
Moving the middle
Ōhanga āmiomio
Contemporary justice issues for wāhine Māori 1990-2020
Iwi ora: restoring iwi historical wellbeing knowledge
Pou kōrero: speaking for our ancestors
Local scale wastewater-based epidemiology
Whakahā o te pā harakeke: realising the vision for a smokefree future
Te hau o te whau: the essence of the whau awa
Past projects
Innovation in forensic medical examination response to sexual assault
Co-search: equity in COVID-19 response
Beyond behaviour change for waste minimisation
A critical collaboration model for public and environmental health
Compass evaluation
Our land and water collaborative thinking
Māori community development with Hauora Hokianga
Measuring the effectiveness of whole-of-system response to prevent family violence
