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DoctorShinya Uekusa

Senior Lecturer

Sociology, Anthropology and Human Services

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Sociology, Anthropology and Human Services
  • +6433691834 (Work)
  • Elsie Locke 315

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Disaster sociology
- Disaster risk reduction
- Community resilience
- Community engagement
- Disaster-migration nexus
- Migration
- Migrants and minorities
- Health and ageing
- Sociology of language
- Linguicism, linguistic minorities and LHRs

- Disaster linguicism and crisis communication injustice

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Language rights, health and wellbeing: Exploring the intersection of Māori and linguistic minorities in crisis and disaster
    Faculty of Arts, University of Canterbury1 Sep 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
  • GRANT
    Transforming crisis communication for linguistic minority communities
    Health Research Council of New Zealand1 Aug 2023 - 31 Oct 2025
  • GRANT
    Older informal caregiver experiences following the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa
    Health Research Council of New Zealand1 Jul 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
  • GRANT
    Exploring Asian migrant caregiver experiences of the dual pandemic of COVID-19 and (re)surgence of anti-Asian sentiment in Aotearoa: A pilot study
    University of Canterbury1 Jun 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
  • GRANT
    Whakapapa, Whānau and Whanaungatanga Wānanga: Indigenising community engagement through korero
    Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022