Apologies for Cross-Posting
Dear Colleagues,
I have a scholarhip to support an MA student in Geography interested in working in creative ways with young people to explore their relationships with alcohol and place. The project is located in the Hutt Valley which is part of the Wellington Region and 15mins away from the CBD by train or bus. The scholarship covers research-related costs and the candidate would need to cover fees and living expenses (although of course it's quite cheap out here compared with the UK and USA!).
Please circulate amongst your networks and encourage appropriate candidates to contact me by December 20. The scholarship can be taken up at any time next year (ideally from July onwards).
Thanks for your help!
Sara
Sara Kindon
Victoria University of Wellington
> Community-Based
> Youth-Focussed Research
NZ$4500 Scholarship
> Have you got an interest in:
> * Young people?
> * Their choices?
> * Their behaviours?
> * How their environment affects their life?
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> Hutt City Council, Upper Hutt City Council and Regional Public Health are working with the community of the Hutt Valley to reduce the harms caused to young people by alcohol. Known as the Youth Access to Alcohol or > "> YATA> "> project, the group> '> s aim is to reduce illegal or irresponsible supply of alcohol to under-18 year olds in the Hutt Valley over a 3 year period.
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> The YATA project team has a $4500.00 scholarship open to a student wishing to complete Masters-level research in the area of youth alcohol consumption in the Hutt Valley. The research could use quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods and should describe the Hutt Valley, its young people and the culture of drinking within it.
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> Some data is already available in both raw and processed form and a range of other data is available for primary data collection. Some methods open to the researcher would be:
> * Surveys
> * Focus Groups
> * Analysis of Crime, Education, Health and other government data
> * PhotoVoice
> * Interviews
> * Media Monitoring
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> A completed description of the Hutt Valley and its young people will be used to identify possible strategies to target young people, their parents, retailers and other suppliers of alcohol to young people. In remuneration for your time, you will receive a scholarship of $4500, office space within the community for one year and assistance with research costs (transport, photocopying, phone calls etc).
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