Dr Raymond Nairn, Honorary Research Fellow

I am a Pākehā New Zealander of Scots and English descent, and have been a community activist for as long as I have been a psychologist. As an activist I have been an anti-racism educator and theorist since the 1960s and a Tiriti educator from the mid-1980s. My doctorate – ‘Madness, Media & Mental Illness: A Social Constructionist Approach’ (Departments of Film, Television & Media Studies and Psychology, The University of Auckland 2004), published research, and ongoing research concern analyses of media depictions of those who live with a mental illness and Pākehā representations of Māori/Pākehā relations in New Zealand. In that research I utilise my training and experience in critical social psychology and discourse analysis. I am currently an Honorary Research Fellow with the SHORE and Whariki Research Centre.

Email: rayn@clear.net.nz

Journal Articles

Nairn, R., & McCreanor, T. (2021) ‘Time for a troll’; the standard story propping up the colonial state, Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences, published online August 8, doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2021.1953084 A558

Nairn, R., Moewaka Barnes, A., & McCreanor, T. (2017). An archaeology of death notices: Unearthing the culture shaping death notices in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sites, 14(2), 168-191.

Rankine, J., Moewaka Barnes, A., Borell, B., Nairn, R., & McCreanor, T. (2014). Content and source analysis of newspaper items about Maori issues: Silencing the ‘natives’ in Aotearoa? Pacific Journalism Review, 20(1), 213-233. A350

Nairn, R., DeSouza, R., Moewaka Barnes, A., Rankine, J., Borell, B., & McCreanor, T. (2014). Nursing in media saturated societies: implications for cultural safety in nursing practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Research in Nursing, 19, 477-487. A349

McCreanor, T., Rankine, J., Moewaka Barnes, A., Borell, B., Nairn, R., & McManus, A.-L. (2014). The association of crime stories and Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand print media. Sites: New Series, 11(1), 121-144. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol11iss1id240. A343

Nairn, R., McCreanor, T., Moewaka Barnes, A., Borell, B., Rankine, J., & Gregory, A. (2012). “Maori news is bad news”: that’s certainly so on television. MAI Journal, 1(1), 38-49. A306

Moewaka Barnes, A., Borell, B., Taiapa, K., Rankine, J., Nairn, R., & McCreanor, T. (2012). Anti-Maori themes in New Zealand Journalism; toward alternative practice. Pacific Journalism Review, 18(1), 195-216. A304

McCreanor, T., McManus, A.-L., Moewaka Barnes, A., Rankine, J., Borell, B., & Nairn, R. (2011). Maori business news in the mass media. Sites: New Series, 8(2), 32-56. A335

Rankine, J., Moewaka Barnes, A., Borell, B., McCreanor, T., Nairn, R., & Gregory, A. (2011). Suburban Newspapers’ reporting of Māori news. Pacific Journalism Review, 17(2), 50-71. A297

Nairn, R., Moewaka Barnes, A., Rankine, J., Borell, B., Abel, S., & McCreanor, T. (2011). Mass Media in Aotearoa: An Obstacle to Cultural Competence. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 40(3), 168-175. A296

Gregory, M., Borell, B., McCreanor, T., Moewaka Barnes, A., Nairn, R., Rankine, J., Abel, S., Taiapa, K., Kaiwai, H. (2011). Reading news about Maori: responses from non-Maori audiences. AlterNative, 7(1). 51-64. [Abstract] A280

McCreanor, T., Rankine, J., Moewaka Barnes, A., Borell, B., Nairn, R., Gregory, M., Kaiwai, H. (2010). Maori sport and Maori in sport: mass media representations and Pakeha discourse. Alternative, 6(3). 235-247. [Abstract] A266

Nairn, R., McCreanor, T., Rankine, J., Moewaka Barnes, A., Pega, F., & Gregory, A. (2009). 'Media surveillance of the natives': A New Zealand case study -- Lake Taupo air space. Pacific Journalism Review, 15(1). 131-148. [Abstract]

Rankine, J., Moewaka Barnes, A., Borell, B., Nairn, R., McCreanor, T., & Gregory, A. (2009). Intentional use of te reo Maori in New Zealand newspapers in 2007. Pacific Journalism Review, 15(2). 174-190. [Abstract]

Cram, F., McCreanor, T., Smith, L., Nairn, R., Johnstone, W. (2006). Kaupapa Maori research and Pakeha social science: epistomological tensions in a study of Maori health. Hulili, 3(1). 41-66. A196

Nairn, R., Pega, F., McCreanor, T., Rankine, J. and Barnes, A. (2006). Media, racism and public health psychology. Journal of Health Psychology, 11. 183-196. [Abstract] A184

Reports

Nairn, R., McCreanor, T., & Moewaka Barnes, A. (2017). Mass media representations of indigenous peoples. (MURF Report). Auckland: SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University.

Rankine, J., Nairn, R., Moewaka Barnes, A., Gregory, M., Kaiwai, H., Borell, B., & . McCreanor, T., (2007). Media and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Auckland: Kupu Taea.

Moewaka Barnes, A., Gregory, M., McCreanor, T., Nairn, R., Pega, F., & Rankine, J. (2005). Media and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Auckland: Kupu Taea.