Clive Aspin
Biographic Data
| ID | 126988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clive Aspin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clive |
| FAMILY NAME | Aspin |
| SIGNATURE | ASPIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5688-777X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Māori youth suicide
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people globally, and Indigenous populations experience higher suicide rates than non-Indigenous populations. In many jurisdictions, suspected suicides are investigated through coronial services established by governments as part of colonisation, and these services often fail to foster positive engagement with Indigenous families. This research took place in Aotearoa New Zealand and was guide…
Indigenous research sovereignty within academia
Indigenous Peoples' inherent right to self-determination includes authority over research, yet university systems centralize control in ways that constrain Indigenous sovereignty. This article examines how academic institutional structures and processes-well beyond the actions of individual researchers-shape the possibilities and limitations of Indigenous-focused research within universities. Drawing on a collaborative, story-based process involv…
Cross-country assessment of the unique contributions of psychological factors to vaccination
We have identified the most relevant and significant psychological factors in relation to COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in Ghana, Germany, New Zealand and India. This study recruited 1822 participants from the general populations of India ( n = 411), New Zealand ( n = 413), Ghana ( n = 523) and Germany ( n = 475) to participate in a cross-sectional online survey. After controlling for the country of residence, individual psychological factors pl…
Losing everything
Psychometric properties of the motors of Covid-19 vaccination acceptance scale in New Zealand
High vaccination coverage plays an essential role in curbing epidemics and pandemics, making it important to have a country-specific valid and standardised instruments for assessing vaccination attitudes. This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Motors of COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance Scale (MoVac-COVID19S) in New Zealand. A total of 413 participants completed an online survey in June and July 2022, which included the MoVac…
Honourable kāwanatanga
Understandings of Te Tiriti o Waitangi continue to unfold as we find our way through the complexities of colonial misinformation about our herstory and history. Looking ahead to the prospect of constitutional transformation, this paper examines honourable kāwanatanga as a necessary pathway to Tiriti justice. This commentary paper draws on existing literature and insights from the Māori and Tauiwi authors’ decades of experience of pursuing Tiriti …
Engaging with whānau to improve coronial investigations into rangatahi suicide
This article reports the findings of two studies of the Aotearoa coronial service that sought to understand how coronial processes engage with whānau who have lost a rangatahi to suicide. The aim of the combined study was to understand the extent to which coronial investigations met the needs of Māori bereaved by suicide. We conducted interviews with coroners to understand how they investigate suicide (Study One) and examined coronial files of ra…
In Search of Critical Pedagogy in Sexuality Education
This article is about the purposes and the processes of teaching comprehensive sexuality education to diverse communities. We argue that establishing an educational response to addressing diversity in sexuality education involves challenging and interrupting current dominant forms of authority, subordination, and systems of hegemony prevalent in the teaching practices of this subject. We argue that critical pedagogy (influenced by the Frankfurt s…
Meeting at the crossroads
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to theorise difference as encountered by a team of six diverse researchers interested in addressing cultural and religious diversity in sexuality education. Drawing Todd's (2003, 2011a, b) concepts of “the crossroads”, “becoming present” and “relationality” in conversation with Barad's (2003, 2007, 2012) ideas around relationality and intra-activity, the paper explores how “difference” in team res…
Crafting the normative subject
This article explores the potential of queering as a mode of critique by problematising the ways in which liberal politics of race shape normative understandings of health in a high school classroom. Drawing on findings from an Australian and New Zealand (NZ) research project designed to respond to religious and cultural difference in school-based sexuality education programmes, we critically queer how the Māori concept of hauora is deployed in t…
It hinges on the door
This paper explores how the structuring of places and time influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient and carer experiences of health services. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes, chronic heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as family carers (N = 19). Content analysis was undertaken. Participants report that each element of th…
With good intentions
Certain locations of responsibility are anxiety producing. Family carers must be supported in appropriate education so that they can provide both solicited and unsolicited support in effective ways. Such educational support would have the added benefit of helping to reduce carer anxieties about caring roles and responsibilities. Mainstream health services would benefit from fostering environments that encourage informal interactions that facilita…
Mouri Matters
The vision statement of Te Reo o Taranaki, "Tuku reo, tuku mouri: language, culture, crossing generations", embodies the essence of an understanding of mouri which goes beyond the simple dictionary translations of "life force" or "life essence". Indeed, there are numerous oral narratives-whakataukī (proverbs), waiata (songs), haka (dance), karanga (ceremonial call), whaikōrero (formal speech), karakia (prayers and incantations)-from the present d…
An investigation of the phenomenon of non‐consensual sex among Maori men who have sex with men
Instances of non-consensual sex (NCS) among men are highly under-reported. The research that has been conducted into this issue shows, however, that men who have sex with men experience higher rates of NCS than do other men and that these men are likely not to report that they have been subjected to NCS largely because there are no support systems in place for them. For a long time, there has been an expectation that while men might perpetrate ac…
Reclaiming the past to inform the future
For hundreds of years, indigenous peoples have struggled to resist the imposition of Western, colonialist views of sexuality. Today, this tension continues as religious bodies attempt to impose a form of sexuality and sexual expression that derives from narrow fundamental interpretations of religious scripture. For the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, the struggle to resist this imposition has a long history, which continues today. Th…
Reclaiming the past to inform the future
For hundreds of years, indigenous peoples have struggled to resist the imposition of Western, colonialist views of sexuality. Today, this tension continues as religious bodies attempt to impose a form of sexuality and sexual expression that derives from narrow fundamental interpretations of religious scripture. For the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, the struggle to resist this imposition has a long history, which continues today. Th…
In Search of Critical Pedagogy in Sexuality Education
This article is about the purposes and the processes of teaching comprehensive sexuality education to diverse communities. We argue that establishing an educational response to addressing diversity in sexuality education involves challenging and interrupting current dominant forms of authority, subordination, and systems of hegemony prevalent in the teaching practices of this subject. We argue that critical pedagogy (influenced by the Frankfurt s…
Mouri Matters
The vision statement of Te Reo o Taranaki, "Tuku reo, tuku mouri: language, culture, crossing generations", embodies the essence of an understanding of mouri which goes beyond the simple dictionary translations of "life force" or "life essence". Indeed, there are numerous oral narratives-whakataukī (proverbs), waiata (songs), haka (dance), karanga (ceremonial call), whaikōrero (formal speech), karakia (prayers and incantations)-from the present d…
Crafting the normative subject
This article explores the potential of queering as a mode of critique by problematising the ways in which liberal politics of race shape normative understandings of health in a high school classroom. Drawing on findings from an Australian and New Zealand (NZ) research project designed to respond to religious and cultural difference in school-based sexuality education programmes, we critically queer how the Māori concept of hauora is deployed in t…
Cross-country assessment of the unique contributions of psychological factors to vaccination
We have identified the most relevant and significant psychological factors in relation to COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in Ghana, Germany, New Zealand and India. This study recruited 1822 participants from the general populations of India ( n = 411), New Zealand ( n = 413), Ghana ( n = 523) and Germany ( n = 475) to participate in a cross-sectional online survey. After controlling for the country of residence, individual psychological factors pl…
Meeting at the crossroads
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to theorise difference as encountered by a team of six diverse researchers interested in addressing cultural and religious diversity in sexuality education. Drawing Todd's (2003, 2011a, b) concepts of “the crossroads”, “becoming present” and “relationality” in conversation with Barad's (2003, 2007, 2012) ideas around relationality and intra-activity, the paper explores how “difference” in team res…
Reclaiming the past to inform the future
For hundreds of years, indigenous peoples have struggled to resist the imposition of Western, colonialist views of sexuality. Today, this tension continues as religious bodies attempt to impose a form of sexuality and sexual expression that derives from narrow fundamental interpretations of religious scripture. For the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, the struggle to resist this imposition has a long history, which continues today. Th…
An investigation of the phenomenon of non‐consensual sex among Maori men who have sex with men
Instances of non-consensual sex (NCS) among men are highly under-reported. The research that has been conducted into this issue shows, however, that men who have sex with men experience higher rates of NCS than do other men and that these men are likely not to report that they have been subjected to NCS largely because there are no support systems in place for them. For a long time, there has been an expectation that while men might perpetrate ac…
With good intentions
Certain locations of responsibility are anxiety producing. Family carers must be supported in appropriate education so that they can provide both solicited and unsolicited support in effective ways. Such educational support would have the added benefit of helping to reduce carer anxieties about caring roles and responsibilities. Mainstream health services would benefit from fostering environments that encourage informal interactions that facilita…
Mouri Matters
The vision statement of Te Reo o Taranaki, "Tuku reo, tuku mouri: language, culture, crossing generations", embodies the essence of an understanding of mouri which goes beyond the simple dictionary translations of "life force" or "life essence". Indeed, there are numerous oral narratives-whakataukī (proverbs), waiata (songs), haka (dance), karanga (ceremonial call), whaikōrero (formal speech), karakia (prayers and incantations)-from the present d…
It hinges on the door
This paper explores how the structuring of places and time influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient and carer experiences of health services. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes, chronic heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as family carers (N = 19). Content analysis was undertaken. Participants report that each element of th…
Meeting at the crossroads
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to theorise difference as encountered by a team of six diverse researchers interested in addressing cultural and religious diversity in sexuality education. Drawing Todd's (2003, 2011a, b) concepts of “the crossroads”, “becoming present” and “relationality” in conversation with Barad's (2003, 2007, 2012) ideas around relationality and intra-activity, the paper explores how “difference” in team res…
Crafting the normative subject
This article explores the potential of queering as a mode of critique by problematising the ways in which liberal politics of race shape normative understandings of health in a high school classroom. Drawing on findings from an Australian and New Zealand (NZ) research project designed to respond to religious and cultural difference in school-based sexuality education programmes, we critically queer how the Māori concept of hauora is deployed in t…
In Search of Critical Pedagogy in Sexuality Education
This article is about the purposes and the processes of teaching comprehensive sexuality education to diverse communities. We argue that establishing an educational response to addressing diversity in sexuality education involves challenging and interrupting current dominant forms of authority, subordination, and systems of hegemony prevalent in the teaching practices of this subject. We argue that critical pedagogy (influenced by the Frankfurt s…
Engaging with whānau to improve coronial investigations into rangatahi suicide
This article reports the findings of two studies of the Aotearoa coronial service that sought to understand how coronial processes engage with whānau who have lost a rangatahi to suicide. The aim of the combined study was to understand the extent to which coronial investigations met the needs of Māori bereaved by suicide. We conducted interviews with coroners to understand how they investigate suicide (Study One) and examined coronial files of ra…
Losing everything
Psychometric properties of the motors of Covid-19 vaccination acceptance scale in New Zealand
High vaccination coverage plays an essential role in curbing epidemics and pandemics, making it important to have a country-specific valid and standardised instruments for assessing vaccination attitudes. This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Motors of COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance Scale (MoVac-COVID19S) in New Zealand. A total of 413 participants completed an online survey in June and July 2022, which included the MoVac…
Honourable kāwanatanga
Understandings of Te Tiriti o Waitangi continue to unfold as we find our way through the complexities of colonial misinformation about our herstory and history. Looking ahead to the prospect of constitutional transformation, this paper examines honourable kāwanatanga as a necessary pathway to Tiriti justice. This commentary paper draws on existing literature and insights from the Māori and Tauiwi authors’ decades of experience of pursuing Tiriti …
Cross-country assessment of the unique contributions of psychological factors to vaccination
We have identified the most relevant and significant psychological factors in relation to COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in Ghana, Germany, New Zealand and India. This study recruited 1822 participants from the general populations of India ( n = 411), New Zealand ( n = 413), Ghana ( n = 523) and Germany ( n = 475) to participate in a cross-sectional online survey. After controlling for the country of residence, individual psychological factors pl…
Māori youth suicide
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people globally, and Indigenous populations experience higher suicide rates than non-Indigenous populations. In many jurisdictions, suspected suicides are investigated through coronial services established by governments as part of colonisation, and these services often fail to foster positive engagement with Indigenous families. This research took place in Aotearoa New Zealand and was guide…
Indigenous research sovereignty within academia
Indigenous Peoples' inherent right to self-determination includes authority over research, yet university systems centralize control in ways that constrain Indigenous sovereignty. This article examines how academic institutional structures and processes-well beyond the actions of individual researchers-shape the possibilities and limitations of Indigenous-focused research within universities. Drawing on a collaborative, story-based process involv…
Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (3 works)