Mary Anne Teariki

Research Fellow, University of Otago, Wellington
Mary Anne Teariki

Mary Anne works at the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities and at He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme (HHRP).

Her main areas of interest include development research in the Pacific region: climate change impacts, social and environmental resilience, urban health, migration, and settlement. She has extensive senior public sector experience, including strategic policy formation and intervention logic.  

She is currently working in the Governance strand of the MBIE Endeavour funded Public Housing and Urban Regeneration Programme.

Key publications

  1. Randal, E.
    Logan, A.
    Penny, G.
    Teariki, M.
    Chapman, R.
    Keall, M.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review
    Urban Science
    9(6):206.
    Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review
    Randal 2025 Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A.pdf
  2. Teariki, M.
    Penny, G.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Inter-Organisational Collaboration: A Qualitative Study of Collaboration Arrangement in the Public and Community Housing Sector in New Zealand.
    Urban Science
    9, 2000
  3. Teariki, M.
    Leau, E.
    Understanding Pacific worldviews: principles and connections for research
    Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online
    Teariki, M. & Leau, E. Understanding Pacific worldviews: principles and connections for research, pdf.
    Teariki 2023 Understanding Pacific worldviews principles and connections for research.pdf
  4. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Crane, J.
    Keall, M.
    Pierse, N.
    Baker. M. Cunningham, C Amore, K
    Aspinall, C
    Bennett, J.
    Bierre, S.
    Boulic, M
    Chisholm, E.
    Davies, C.
    Fougere, G.
    Fraser, B.
    Fyfe, C.
    Grant, L.
    Grimes, A.
    Halley, C
    Logan, A.
    Nathan, K
    Olin, C.
    Ombler, J.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Pehi, T.
    Penny, G.
    Phipps, R
    Plagmann, M.
    Randal, E.
    Riggs, L.
    Robson, B.
    Ruru, J Shaw, Caroline
    Teariki, M.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Tiatia, R.
    Toy-Cronin, B Tupara, H
    Viggers, H.
    Wall, T.
    Wilkie, M
    Woodward, A.
    Zhang, W
    He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing.
    Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand,
    Online.
  5. Teariki, M.
    Tiatia, R.
    O’Sullivan, K.
    Puloka, V. Signal, L.
    Shearer, I.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Beyond home: Exploring energy poverty among youth in four diverse Pacific island states.
    Energy Research & Social Science
    70, 101638.
  6. Teariki, M.
    Tiatia, Ramona
    Shearer, I.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Te Ang Maitoro: Cooling Kiribati and Samoa
    He Kāinga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme University of Otago, Wellington
    New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research.
    Download document
    Teariki 2019 Te_Ang_Maitoro_cooling_Kiribati_and_Samo.pdf
  7. Thompson, M.A.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Fougere, G.
    Policy Changes: Kiribati migration and settlement.
    Policy Quarterly
    13, 2, pp.82-87
  8. Teariki, M.
    Housing and Health of Kiribati Migrants Living in New Zealand.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    14(10), p.1237
  9. Whitwell, J. Thompson, M. A.
    Society and Culture
    Victoria University Press, Wellington, New Zealand
  10. Thompson, M. A.
    The Political Economy of Kiribati.
    The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs
    2 (1)
  11. Bollard, A.E. Holmes, F. Kersey, D. Thompson, M. A.
    Meeting the East Asia Challenge.
    Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University Press
  12. Bollard, A. E. Thompson, M. A.
    Trans-Tasman Trade and Investment.
    New Zealand Institute of Economic Research No. 38.

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