Ward Friesen (B.A. Calgary, B.A. (Hons.) Carleton, Ph D. Auckland)
Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Environmental Science
Ward Friesen’s specialities include population, migration, ethnic change and development studies. Although his research has not taken place in Europe, he has travelled and spent part of each sabbatical leave in Europe, particularly the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain. As can be seen from the publications listed, and from the theses supervised, Ward’s regional focus has been New Zealand, Pacific, and Asia, but many of the themes will have relevance to European Studies.
He is currently a member of the International Committee of The University of Auckland and is the President of the Population Association of New Zealand (PANZ).
Some recent publications
(with L.Murphy, & R.A Kearns), “Spiced-up Sandringham: Indian transnationalism and new suburban spaces in Auckland, New Zealand”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(2):385-401, 2005.
“Population drain or exchange: internal migration between Auckland and the rest of New Zealand”, New Zealand Journal of Geography 115:44-48, 2003.
(with L.Murphy, & R.A Kearns), “The divided city and urban sustainability: Auckland’s experience of ethnic segregation and social polarization”, in: C. Freeman & M. Thompson-Fawcett (eds), Living space: towards sustainable settlements in New Zealand, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, pp. 95-112, 2003.
“Auckland”, in: M Ember and C.R. Ember (eds), Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, Grolier/Scholastic, New York, 2002.
“New Zealand”, in: S. Pendergast and T. Pendergast (eds), Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies (4 vols), Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2002.
(with M. Ip), “The New Chinese community in New Zealand: Local Outcomes of transnationalism”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 10(2):213-240, 2001.
“Tangata Pasifika Aotearoa: Pacific populations and identity in New Zealand”, New Zealand Population Review 26(2):105-125, 2000.
Recent Supervision:
Postgraduate theses and dissertations:
Isami Takada: The vulnerability index and Pacific regionalism (dissertation)
Evelyn Marsters: Pacific flow: (re)versing remittances in the Cook Islands
Matt Lindenberg: Network Influences on white South African migrants in Auckland
Julia Clavel: Assessing the sustainability of the whale watching industry: a Kaikoura case study (dissertation)
Reynaldo Ame: Community resource appraisal and planning for the improved management of nypa palm/mangrove (Philippines) (Environmental Science)
Kristen Bergen: Tourism and gender in the Cook Islands (Development Studies)
Jasminder Kaur: Highly-skilled labour migration in New Zealand (Dissertation)
Nick Mabey: Media discourse and gentrification of Auckland’s CBD (dissertation)
Sally Greenbrook: Village people: the changing role of retirement villages in New Zealand’s ageing society
Joshua Arbury: From urban sprawl to compact city – an analysis of urban growth management in Auckland
Amanda Fitchett: Integrated water resource management in Fiji (Development Studies)
PhD theses:
Man Hau Liev: Cambodian Community Development: socio-economic achievement and cultural identity assertion(Development Studies)
Francis Collins: Learning to cross borders: Korean international students in AucklandCity
Keisuke Nishikawa: Economic development in the South Pacific: an analysis of remittances and official aid in Samoa (Development Studies)