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Joint funding round update

Joint funding round update

by michelecrawshaw | Feb 22, 2021 | Contestable, Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates

A raft of applications have been received for A Better Start and Cure Kids’ $4 million joint funding round for child health research. A Better Start and Cure Kids had called for proposals for high quality translational research to improve child and youth...
WEBINAR: Cure Kids and A Better Start joint funding round Q&A

WEBINAR: Cure Kids and A Better Start joint funding round Q&A

by michelecrawshaw | Feb 9, 2021 | Contestable, Events, Healthy Weight, News, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Vision Matauranga

A Better Start and Cure Kids has launched a $4 million contestable fund in child health research. Expressions of Interest close on 17 February 2021. In this webinar, hosted on February 2, 2021, A Better Start Director Wayne Cutfield and Cure Kids Director of Research...
Te Taonga o Taku Ngākau Ancestral Knowledge and the Wellbeing of Tamariki Māori

Te Taonga o Taku Ngākau Ancestral Knowledge and the Wellbeing of Tamariki Māori

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...
New research to get a better night’s sleep for tamariki and their whānau

New research to get a better night’s sleep for tamariki and their whānau

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...
HIIT programme strikes chord with students

HIIT programme strikes chord with students

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...

Supporting parents of adolescents

by ksch009 | Sep 16, 2019 | Contestable, Media release, Newsletter, Peer reviewed publication, Resilient Teens

Parenting adolescents can be difficult at the best of times, but it is even more difficult when done alone. Often, parents are left searching for more effective and easily accessible ways to support their children. New Zealand has one of the highest youth suicide...
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