Supporting parents of adolescents
Parenting adolescents can be difficult at the best of times, but it is even more difficult when done alone. Often, parents are left searching for more effective and easily accessible ways to support their children. New Zealand has one of the highest youth suicide...
Successful Learning Theme report published
The Phase One Final Report for A Better Start’s Successful Learning Theme has been published. The report provides a celebration of achievements from the first phase of funding across the theme’s four keystone projects, one contestable funding project...
Daughters’ weight and height affected by mothers who smoke
Director of A Better Start E Tipu e Rea Professor Wayne Cutfield and Senior Research Fellow at the Liggins Institute Dr José Derraik are part of a new study which highlights another reason for women to avoid tobacco during pregnancy. The new international Liggins...Researchers find good sleep important for healthy weight in children
Two Challenge researchers Rachael Taylor and Barry Taylor are part of a team that has found a sleep intervention in infancy reduced the risk of obesity for those children later in life. Professor Rachael Taylor, Director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity...Proposals for joint research with China
NZ China Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases offers scholarships for PhD students