Tim McCreanor
New Zealand-based public health researcher
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Tim McCreanor is a New Zealand-based researcher and commentator in public health.[1] Themes in his work include racial discrimination, the wellbeing and health of young people, and representations in various forms of media.[2] McCreanor is widely published in books, academic articles and reports. Often McCreanors' work is about decolonisation which he writes about from a Pākehā (white New Zealanders) point of view.[3]
McCreanor completed a PHD at the University of Auckland in 1995, the title is Pakeha discourses of Maori/Pakeha relations.[4] He has worked at the University of Auckland and is a professor within the College of Health at the SHORE and Whariki Research Centre at Massey University.[5] As a commentator McCreanor has been published in The Conversation, Newsroom and presentor at conferences Te Tiriti-based Futures and Anti-racism and The New Zealand Pschychological Society Annual Conference 2009.[6][7][8] He was co-editor of the book New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations (2005) alongside Tracey McIntosh, James H Liu and Teresia Teaiwa.[9]
Publications
Selected chapters in books
- Moewaka Barnes, A., & McCreanor, T. (2023). “Feeding people's beliefs”: Mass media representations of Māori and criminality. In C. Cunneen, A. Deckert, A. Porter, J. Tauri, & R. Webb (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice (pp. 22–32). London: Routledge.[6]
- Goodwin, I., Lyons, A., Griffin, C., & McCreanor, T. (2014). Ending up online: Interrogating mediated youth drinking cultures. In B. Roberts & A. Bennett (Eds.), Mediated Youth Cultures: Palgrave Macmillan.[6]
- Abel, S., McCreanor, T., & Moewaka Barnes, A. (2012). Reporting te Tiriti: Producing and performing the colonial society. In M. Hirst, V. Rupar & S. Phelan (Eds.), Scooped: The politics and power of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand Auckland: AUT Media.[6]
Selected journal articles
- Hill, S., Sarfati, D., Blakely, T., Robson, B., Purdie, G., Chen, J., Dennett, E, Cormack, D, Cunningham, R, Dew, K., McCreanor, T., & Kawachi, I. (2010). Survival disparities in Indigenous and non-Indigenous New Zealanders with colon cancer: the role of patient comorbidity, treatment and health service factors. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64. 117-123[10]
- Suzanne Mavoa, Karen Witten, Tim McCreanor, David O'Sullivan (2012). GIS based destination accessibility via public transit and walking in Auckland, New Zealand. Journal of Transport Geography, 20(1), 15–22.[10]
- Tim McCreanor; Antonia Lyons; Christine Griffin; Ian Goodwin; Helen Moewaka Barnes; Fiona Hutton (March 2013). "Youth drinking cultures, social networking and alcohol marketing: implications for public health". Critical Public Health. 23 (1): 110–120. doi:10.1080/09581596.2012.748883. ISSN 0958-1596. Wikidata Q61994269.
- Raymond Nairn, Ruth Desouza, Angela Barnes, Jenny Rankine, Belinda Borell, Tim Mccreanor (2014) "Nursing in media-saturated societies: implications for cultural safety in nursing practice in Aotearoa New Zealand" Journal of Research in Nursing 19(6):477-487 DOI:10.1177/1744987114546724[3]
- Helen Moewaka Barnes, Tim McCreanor (2019). "Colonisation, hauora and whenua in Aotearoa" Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand. online, doi: 10.1080/03036758.03032019.01668439.[6]