Dr Raymond Nairn

I am a Pakeha 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 Pakeha representations of Maori/Pakeha 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

selected journal articles

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.

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.

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.

Coverdale, J., Coverdale, S., Nairn, R. (2013). “Behind the Mug Shot Grin”: Uses of Madness-Talk in Reports of Loughner’s Mass Killing. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 37(3), 200-216.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nairn, R., Coverdale, S., Coverdale, J. (2011). A framework for understanding media depictions of mental illness. Academic Psychiatry, 35(3), 202-205.

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.

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.

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.