Blue skies fund reports
Blue Skies funding is offered to researchers to examine contemporary and emerging family issues. The Blue Skies Fund is intended for new research, emergent ideas, and 'ideas papers' which have the potential to lead to new research.
You will find all the published reports from the Blues Skies Fund on these pages. Copies can be downloaded or you can request a hardcopy.
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List all published Blue Skies reports
Recent blue skies reports
Title | Date | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| An exploration of the family partnership model in New Zealand (PDF 685.09 KB) | May 2009 | This study assesses the support for and willingness of various family support agencies across the sectors to provide the Family Partnership Model training module for their front-line workers. Agencies include both NGOs and government services, whether providing targeted and/or universal services. It also includes agencies like the police, whose work may not be seen strictly as family support, but who need the skills to respond appropriately and effectively to the families they deal with in the course of their work, particularly in the area of domestic violence and child abuse. | Helen Wilson and Annette Huntington, School of Health and Social Services, Massey University Wellington |
| An exploration of the family partnership model in New Zealand (PDF 685.09 KB) | May 2009 | This study assesses the support for and willingness of various family support agencies across the sectors to provide the Family Partnership Model training module for their front-line workers. Agencies include both NGOs and government services, whether providing targeted and/or universal services. It also includes agencies like the police, whose work may not be seen strictly as family support, but who need the skills to respond appropriately and effectively to the families they deal with in the course of their work, particularly in the area of domestic violence and child abuse. | Helen Wilson and Annette Huntington, School of Health and Social Services, Massey University Wellington |
| Settling In: Parent-adolescent family dynamics in the acculturation process (PDF 638.56 KB) | April 2009 | A qualitative investigation of the family dynamics that occur in immigrant families in New Zealand | Jaimee Stuart, Dr Paul Jose and Professor Colleen Ward, Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research, Victoria University of Wellington, and the New Zealand Federation of Ethnic Councils |
| Sent Home - The impact on family of exclusion from school (PDF 625.22 KB) | April 2009 | A qualitative survey exploring the impacts on the family when a young person in the family is suspended from school, the support and resources that families are aware of at such times and whether those supports and resources are accessed helpfully. | Andrew Smith, Bethlehem Institute Limited |
| Grandparents in rural families: grandparents in rural families (PDF 734.17 KB) | July 2008 | This project reports on significant background literature review work in rural ageing, both in New Zealand and comparatively, and begins to explore relationships between grandchildren and their grandparents. | Sally Keeling, Kathy Glasgow and Carolyn Morris, NZ Institute for Research on Ageing, Victoria University of Wellington |