by michelecrawshaw | Jul 20, 2021 | Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Pacific advisory group, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
A Better Start E Tipu e Rea, the New Zealand government’s National Science Challenge, is investing $1 million in Pasifika-led child health research working with Pasifika communities. It is seeking to fund innovative research aimed at delivering practical,...
by michelecrawshaw | Jun 1, 2021 | Big Data, Healthy Weight, Media release, Newsletter, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
Our latest newsletter is out. Read it HERE Find out all about our Child Wellbeing Workshop, our upcoming webinar on child nutrition, a new sleep toolkit for Māori and Pasifika babies, latest research news, recent publications and so much more. Subscribe to A Better...
by michelecrawshaw | May 20, 2021 | Media release, News, Newsletter, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
Congratulations to A Better Start’s Successful Learning theme leader, Professor Brigid McNeill, who gave her professorial lecture at the University of Canterbury last month. Titled The pathway to impact: Effective teaching practices for early literacy success,...
by michelecrawshaw | Apr 19, 2021 | Big Data, Clinical study, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Research activity, Research output, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning
A Better Start researchers provide expert commentary on the Challenge’s research projects and priority research themes, as well as child wellbeing issues affecting New Zealanders. Here are some recent highlights. For more news about A Better Start, visit our...
by michelecrawshaw | Apr 14, 2021 | Events, Media release, Successful Literacy and Learning, Webinars
Lead researchers of A Better Start National Science Challenge’s Successful Learning theme present latest findings and project details of their Better Start to Literacy Approach, which involves over 1500 tamariki (aged 3- 6 years) and their whānau. The approach...
by michelecrawshaw | Apr 12, 2021 | Big Data, Grants & Funding, Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Newsletter, Resilient Teens, Successful Literacy and Learning, Updates
Our latest newsletter is out. Read it HERE Find out all about why Hawke’s Bay children’s habits are under the spotlight, the sleep treatment used by 1 in 4 Kiwi children with autism, moves to prevent later childhood obesity, research news, recent...
