by ksch009 | Jan 22, 2020 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release
A Better Start National Science Challenge’s research into the association between antibiotic exposure and childhood obesity is one of the largest studies of its kind ever conducted. It used a sample size of nearly 290,000 children and their mother’s (151,359 children...
by ksch009 | Dec 2, 2019 | Healthy Weight, Media release, Resilient Teens
A Better Start National Science Challenge’s Model Acceptance study is the first large-scale survey on the subject of caregiver acceptability of early childhood obesity prediction models in a multi-ethnic cohort of parents, caregivers, and grandparents anywhere in the...
by ksch009 | Nov 28, 2019 | Contestable, Media release, Resilient Teens, Vision Matauranga
Read the published report for ‘Te Taonga o Taku Ngākau’ Ancestral Knowledge and the Wellbeing of Tamariki Māori project by Leonie Pihama, Naomi Simmonds and Waikaremoana Waitoki. This project investigates ways that mātauranga Māori related to the raising...
by ksch009 | Oct 15, 2019 | Media release, Successful Literacy and Learning
The foundations of early literacy success and subsequent educational achievement and healthy wellbeing are developed in the early childhood period. New research funded by A Better Start National Start Challenge advances science at international levels and addresses an...
by ksch009 | Oct 9, 2019 | Contestable, Healthy Weight, Media release, Successful Literacy and Learning
A new strategic research project with the aim of improving sleep for pepi and their whanau has been awarded $1.7 million over three years by A Better Start National Science Challenge. As well as improving sleep, this project also aims to reduce excessive weight gain...
by ksch009 | Sep 16, 2019 | Contestable, Healthy Weight, Media release, Newsletter, Resilient Teens
As a researcher of exercise science, a father of two teenagers and husband of a teacher, getting young people moving in an achievable way is paramount for Associate Professor Nigel Harris. The Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research at Auckland University of...
