Coordinator
Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit
Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Charles Waldegrave is a psychologist and social policy researcher. He leads the Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. Charles is a joint leader of the ‘New Zealand Poverty Measurement Project’, the ‘New Zealand Longitudinal Study of Ageing’, and the ‘Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older Māori and Pacific People’ project and ‘Tai Kaumātuatanga Older Māori Wellbeing and Participation: Present and Future Focus’ both as part of the Ageing Well National Science Challenge in New Zealand.
He and colleagues are also regularly contracted by most social Ministries of Government to carry out independent social and economic research and evaluation projects. They have provided the evidence base for housing, income and other social policy changes that have reduced poverty in New Zealand. Seven out of the ten measures used in the recent Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018 in New Zealand were developed by NZ Poverty Measurement Project which was jointly led by Charles and Bob Stephens of Victoria University Wellington. He also leads the team that sets the level of the Living Wage each year in NZ.
He collaborates extensively with international research partners and is an international member of the European research collaboration ROSEnet (Reducing Old-age Social Exclusion network) in their COST Action (CA15122 - Cooperation in Science and Technology in Europe) and is a founding international member of a further European research collaboration PAAR (Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research). He publishes regularly in peer reviewed journals and accessible public reports.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Thursday, November 3, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Friday, November 4, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET
Friday, November 4, 2022
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