DoctorTiina Vares

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Sociology, Anthropology and Human Services

  • Senior Lecturer Above the Bar
    Sociology, Anthropology and Human Services
  • +6433693774 (Work)
  • Elsie Locke Building 319

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring Society
    16 Feb 2026
    SOCI111
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Young Heterosexual Women’s Experiences and Understandings of Sexual Consent
    3 Feb 2025 - 27 Jun 2025
    Beat, Albany
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    We’re Happy, Free, Confused, and Lonely at the Same Time: Exploring the Fandom of Female Taylor Swift Fans in New Zealand
    1 Jul 2024 - 29 Nov 2024
    Thomson, Indica
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Heterosexuality and the grey areas of sex and sexual consent: NZ men and women’s perspectives and experiences
    1 Feb 2024 - 28 Nov 2025
    Rose, Poiema
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring University Students Understandings of ‘Infidelity’ or ‘Cheating’ Within Romantic Relationships
    3 Jul 2023 - 10 Nov 2023
    Thomson, Indica
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From being labelled a ‘feminazi’ to contemplating ‘giving up’ Young Women’s Understandings of, and Experiences with, Feminism
    18 Jul 2022 - 11 Nov 2022
    Christie, Ninah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Creative fandom and participatory culture
    5 Jul 2021 - 19 Nov 2021
    Munro, Ana
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Heterosexual Women’s Encounters of Unwanted Consensual Sex in a Postfeminist Context.
    15 Feb 2021 - 7 Jul 2022
    Rose, Poiema
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Parents as Sexuality Educators Negotiating Uncertainty, Risk, and Possibilities
    1 Mar 2019
    Clelland, Tracy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Crying Shame: Affect, Emotion and Welfare Receipt in New Zealand
    18 Feb 2019
    Grey, Claire
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Experiences of Asian migrant care workers in aged residential care industry in Aotearoa New Zealand.
    15 Jul 2018 - 15 Nov 2018
    Khanal, Diwakar
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A study on Chinese young urban female audiences watching domestic and American “Great Heroine TV series.”
    1 Mar 2018
    Peng, Liang
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Using the arts to engage with young people’s lived experiences of sexuality and gender politics at high school
    1 Mar 2018
    Boyle, Harriet
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    New Zealand Viewers of Geordie Shore talk Casual Sex and Binge-drinking
    1 Mar 2017 - 30 Mar 2018
    Low, Grace
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Learning sites of sexual consent for young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
    9 Sep 2015 - 16 Sep 2017
    Beat, Albany
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Relationships between People with High Needs Physical Disabilities and Paid Support Workers.
    1 Sep 2015 - 9 Feb 2017
    Palmer, Maxine
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Deconstructing social media campaigns for domestic violence
    1 Jan 2015 - 1 Jan 2015
    de Silva, D
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Experiences of transgender youth
    1 Jan 2015 - 1 Jan 2015
    Hewitt, B
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Urbanisation, cultural change and gender roles in India: A case study of working women in the city of Chennai
    1 Jan 2015 - 29 Nov 2019
    Varghese, Josephine
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring Identity and Belonging: The Experiences of 1.5 Generation Migrants Living in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014
    Smith, K
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring the ways in which teenage boys in Aotearoa negotiate masculinities
    1 Jan 2014 - 30 Nov 2017
    Christie, Ninah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Negotiating home, belonging and identity: The transnational lives of second generation African migrants
    1 Jan 2014 - 1 Apr 2017
    Habte, B
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    “It’s sort of like, how different do you want to stay while still fitting in”: Negotiating ‘Kiwi’ identities among second-generation migrant women
    1 Jan 2013 - 1 Jan 2013
    Habte, Birian
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Debating same-sex marriage: An analysis of media representations of the Marriage Equality Bill in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2013 - 1 Jan 2013
    Ballantine, Beverley
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Fantasy and loss in circumstantial childlessness
    1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2014
    Tonkin, L