Communication research

Explore recent highlights from our publications and research.

‘Creating Beauty’: Collagen’s speculative processes from waste to wellness

Author: Bridget Conor

Published: 2025. Economy and Society 54(1):26-48, Taylor & Francis.

‘Don't send us a cake, and then let us drown again’: remembering and forgetting Cyclone Gabrielle

Author: Luke Goode

Published: 2025. Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 20(2):177-205.

Preparing for precarity: the unpaid labours of the entrepreneurial orientation in Aotearoa New Zealand university students

Author: Leon Salter (and Lisa Vonk)

Published: 2025 (preprint).

Red Mole: A Romance

Author: Anne Goldson

Released: Theatrical release nationwide 2024.

Essential Stakeholders: Is Kirsten Dunst’s Nanny an “Essential” Worker? Dispatches from Studio New Zealand

Author: Bridget Conor

Published: 2024. Media Industries in Crisis: What Covid Unmasked, 31-42, Routledge.

Speaking Sensibly: A Contested Speech Code in Action

Author: Bingjuan Xiong

Published: 2024. In Contending with Codes in a World of Difference, Bloomsbury.

Exposure to digital vape marketing among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand

Author: Ian Goodwin

Published: 2024, New Zealand Medical Journal. Lyons, A.C., Moewaka Barnes, A., Goodwin, I., Carah, N., Young, J., Spicer, J., and McCreanor, T.

Communication Inequality and the Technopolitical Structure of Platform Work: Aotearoa New Zealand Platform Workers During COVID-19

Author: Leon Salter (and Mohan Dutta)

Published: 2024. International Journal of Communication 18 (2024), 1289–1308.

Strategic illiteracies: the long game of technology refusal and disconnection

Author: Ethan Plaut

Published: 2023. Communication Theory, 33(1), 21-31.