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Darrin Hodgetts

Darrin Hodgetts

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
36
Citations
5539
World Ranking
6492
National Ranking
49

Overview

Darrin Hodgetts is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand and has an extensive record of academic contributions primarily situated within the social sciences, psychology, and health professions. Their work addresses various intersecting fields involving sociology, political science, social psychology, and clinical psychology, with a particular focus on societal and health-related themes.

Their research covers diverse main topics including:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Community Health and Development
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Disaster Management and Resilience

Hodgetts has published frequently in several academic journals. The top venues where their research appears include:

  • Qualitative Research in Psychology
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • International Perspectives in Psychology
  • International Journal of Intercultural Relations
  • Political Psychology

Some of Hodgetts' recent papers demonstrate the breadth of their research interests and include:

  • Relational ethics meets principled practice in community research engagements to understand and address homelessness, 2021, Journal of Community Psychology
  • Participatory action research, 2023, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Male bodybuilders on Instagram: negotiating inclusive masculinities through hegemonic masculine bodies, 2020, Journal of Gender Studies
  • Navigating tensions in inter-ethnic marriages in Indonesia: Cultural, relational, spatial and material considerations, 2021, International Journal of Intercultural Relations
  • Why do some social enterprises flourish in Vietnam? A comparison of human and ecosystem partnerships, 2021, Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal

Hodgetts has collaborated with several frequent co-authors throughout their career, including:

  • Pita King
  • Stuart C. Carr
  • Denise Blake
  • James H. Liu
  • Veronica Hopner

Their work reflects a multidisciplinary approach, contributing to sociological and psychological understandings of community issues, cultural dynamics, identity, and health-related matters across different populations. The research outputs cover both theoretical and practical aspects, addressing topics such as homelessness, inclusivity, and community welfare engagement methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Participatory action research

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  • A trip to the library: homelessness and social inclusion

    Darrin Hodgetts;Ottilie Emma Elisabeth Stolte;Kerry Chamberlain;Alan Radley

  • Health inequalities and homelessness: considering material, spatial and relational dimensions.

    Darrin Hodgetts;Alan Radley;Kerry Chamberlain;Andrea Hodgetts

  • Visualizing homelessness: a study in photography and estrangement

    Alan Radley;Darrin Hodgetts;Andrea Cullen

  • Social Psychology and Everyday Life

    Darrin Hodgetts;Neil Drew;Christopher Sonn;Ottilie Stolte

  • Constructing health news: possibilities for a civic-oriented journalism

    Darrin James Hodgetts;Kerry Chamberlain;Margaret Scammell;Rolinda Karapu

  • Pasifika in the news: the portrayal of Pacific peoples in the New Zealand press

    Robert Loto;Darrin Hodgetts;Kerry Chamberlain;Linda Waimarie Nikora

  • Gardens, Transitions and Identity Reconstruction among Older Chinese Immigrants to New Zealand

    Wendy Wen Li;Darrin Hodgetts;Elsie Ho

  • Case‐based Research in Community and Social Psychology: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Darrin James Hodgetts;Ottilie Emma Elisabeth Stolte

  • The mobile hermit and the city: considering links between places, objects, and identities in social psychological research on homelessness.

    Darrin Hodgetts;Ottilie Emma Elisabeth Stolte;Kerry Chamberlain;Alan Radley

  • Considering Photographs Never Taken During Photo-production Projects

    Darrin Hodgetts;Kerry Chamberlain;Alan Radley

  • Media coverage of ‘decades of disparity’ in ethnic mortality in Aotearoa

    Darrin Hodgetts;Bridgette Masters;Neville Robertson

  • Urban Poverty, Structural Violence and Welfare Provision for 100 Families in Auckland

    Darrin Hodgetts;Kerry Chamberlain;Shiloh Groot;Yardena Tankel

  • Fear, romance and transience in the lives of homeless women

    Alan Radley;Darrin Hodgetts;Andrea Cullen

  • "Near and far": social distancing in domiciled characterisations of homeless people.

    Darrin Hodgetts;Ottilie Emma Elisabeth Stolte;Alan Radley;Chez Leggatt-Cook

  • Mediation and the construction of contemporary understandings of health and lifestyle.

    Darrin Hodgetts;Bruce Bolam;Christine Stephens

  • Life in the shadow of the media Imaging street homelessness in London

    Darrin Hodgetts;Andrea Hodgetts;Alan Radley

  • Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice

    Kevin Dew;Kerry Chamberlain;Darrin Hodgetts;Pauline Norris

  • How can wages sustain a living? By getting ahead of the curve

    Stuart Colin Carr;Molefe Maleka;Ines Meyer;Marie-Louise Barry

  • Heavy Metal, identity and the social negotiation of a community of practice

    Dave Snell;Darrin Hodgetts

  • Male bodies: health, culture and identity.

    Darrin Hodgetts

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry Chamberlain
Kerry Chamberlain Massey University
Alan Radley
Alan Radley Loughborough University
Jonathan Gabe
Jonathan Gabe Royal Holloway University of London
James H. Liu
James H. Liu Massey University
Christine Stephens
Christine Stephens Massey University
Christine Griffin
Christine Griffin University of Bath
Simon Murphy
Simon Murphy Cardiff University
Robyn Longhurst
Robyn Longhurst Victoria University of Wellington

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