by dbak580 | May 30, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
Beyond Smokers and their Lungs “With complex modelling of new data, we are further analysing the decline in the number of preschool children who are overweight and obese. This decline is unlike any other country in the world and importantly has occurred almost in...
by dbak580 | May 25, 2023 | Events, News, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
NZ literacy rate in spotlight as principal calls out ‘malpractice’ | Paddy Gower Has Issues The first episode in TV Three’s new show “Paddy Gower Has Issues” featured our very own a Better Start Literacy Approach. Interviewed on the show...
by dbak580 | May 23, 2023 | Healthy Weight, News, Newsletter, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
A Better Start’s National Science Challenge Board Co-Chair, Dr Pat Tuohy attended this important event, in show of A Better Starts support of the work that Cure Kids has done in putting together this in-depth report which highlights the work that needs to be...
by dbak580 | May 16, 2023 | News, Peer reviewed publication, Successful Literacy and Learning
A Better Start to Reading “It’s fantastic to see research developed through our Challenge 10-year programme of research having such a positive impact on children’s learning across Aotearoa New Zealand,” says the Challenge Director Wayne Cutfield. The A Better...
by dbak580 | May 11, 2023 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, News, Newsletter, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
Latest info about child health & wellbeing from A Better Start Click here to read the: May 2023 issue of A Better Start National Science Challenge e-newsletter. In this issue to you can read all about: – The environment a young person grows up in is...
by dbak580 | Apr 27, 2023 | Media release, News, Newsletter, Resilient Teens
Nick leads the big data analysis of ‘resilient teen’ outcomes and is part of the ‘Big Data’ team at A Better Start National Science Challenge. Nick is a Research Fellow at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health within the Dunedin School of...