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The Children in Child Health:
Negotiating Young Lives and Health in New Zealand
– Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies, 2020 –
Drawing Perspectives Together: What Happens When Researchers Draw With Children?
What happens when researchers draw with children?
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Stop saying children are ‘resilient’
Opinion – We don’t protect children by saying they’re resilient. We build resilience through policy that supports children by improving systems and providing resources, writes Dr Julie Spray.
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An update on Covid-19 for the kids of Aotearoa
By Julie Spray and Jin Russell View our full article for KIDS at The Spinoff.com HERE Are you a Kiwi kid who has more questions? If you would like more information…
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Including Children in Public Health
Radio interview with Bryan Crump, RNZ Nights, September 9th, 2021 Have we been including children enough in our pandemic public health response and messaging? There are 1.1 million young people…
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Drawing Journals
Book Review: Drawing as Ethnographic Practice Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method. By Andrew Causey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.Making Comics. By Lynda Barry. Montreal: Drawn and…
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Adults Don’t Know Everything
Adults don’t know everything. This is a story of what we learned from talking to kids about asthma.
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Not Breathing Easy: A Graphic Narrative
Tasha’s infant daughter Kayleigh was diagnosed with asthma at the E.R., and Tasha was sent home with a nebuliser “breathing machine” and albuterol. Tasha has continued administering albuterol to Kayleigh ever since, including every morning before Kayleigh gets up for school.
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The Social Stigma of Hungry Children
Radio interview with Bryan Crump, RNZ Nights, June 2, 2021 “Anthropologist and Child Health researcher, Dr Julie Spray spent 2015 eating lunch with primary school students in a disadvantaged part…
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A free school lunch isn’t just about hunger, but about dignity
“Tūrama School children teach us that the food we give kids is not only functional but symbolic. Good quality lunches are important because they send the message that children are…
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The Canary in the Coal Mine for Inequality
“Rather than our society holding ourselves responsible for the social inequities that are causing rheumatic fever, we made children responsible for reporting their sore throats, and then let them return…
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