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Darrin Hodgetts
EducationMassey University
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
WorkplacesLondon School of Economics
University of Waikato
Massey University
ThesisUnderstanding health and illness: an investigation of New Zealand television and lay accounts (2000)
Kerry Chamberlain
Keith Beattie
Graham Bassett

Darrin James Hodgetts is a New Zealand psychology academic. He is a professor of societal psychology at Massey University.[1]

Professor Hodgetts has a PhD from Massey University.[2] His research is in the field of social psychology, looking at homeless and working class communities' identities,[3][4] health[5][6] and poverty.[7][8][9][10][11]

Research

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Professor Hodgetts has authored 152 journal articles (across various international journals: Nature; Review of General Psychology; Political Psychology; Journal of Health Psychology; Theory and Psychology; Urban Studies; Human Geography; Health and Place; Journal of Community Psychology; American Journal of Community Psychology; Military Psychology; Sustainability; Applied Science; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Lond B - Biological Science; Sustainability Science; Social Science & Medicine; Ethnography; Visual Studies; Journal of Medical Case Reports; Scientific Reports).[12] Professor Hodgetts has also published 59 chapters and commissioned reports and delivered 17 conference keynotes and plenary addresses.[13]

His book length texts include:

  • Tackling Precarious Work - Toward Sustainable Livelihoods.[14]
  • Social Psychology and Everyday Life.[15]
  • SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology.[16]
  • Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Intercultural Psychology.[17]
  • Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities – A Relational Approach.[18]
  • Towards Rethinking the Primacy of Epistemology in Psychology.[19]
  • The Place of Class - Considerations for psychology.[20]
  • Case-Based Research in Community and Social Psychology.[21]


Professor Hodgetts has also engaged in numerous knowledge translation collaborations (e.g., facilitated workshops, written briefs, and supported a documentary theatre production) private sector organisations and trusts, city authorities, public audiences, and central government agencies (NZ Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Ministry of Social Development; Institute of Judicial Studies; Productivity Commission; Auckland City Mission; British Ministry of Health; Welcome Trust). Some examples include:

  • Social regeneration framework for Murihiku (Southland). Commissioned Report for Murihiku Regeneration: Hokonui Rūnanga: Ngāi Tahu.[22]
  • Project Salaam: Evaluation report. For the Ministry of Social Development & Massey University.[23]
  • Single Parents & Tertiary Education. Commissioned Report for The Auckland City Mission.[24]
  • Understanding Employer Motivations and Challenges to Living Wage Accreditation. Commissioned Report for the Principle Partners Council of the Living Wage Campaign Aotearoa.[25]
  • Knowledge and experiences of government income-support efforts to alleviate in-work poverty.Health Research Council in-work poverty and wellbeing project. Ministry of Social Development.[26]
  • Precariat Māori households today: The need to reorient policy to cultivate more humane understandings of whānau in need. Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Te Arotahi Series Paper. Ministry of Social Development.[27]
  • Urban design impacts on safety and liveability in Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty. Commissioned Report for Tauranga City Council and Safer Cities.[28]
  • Te Iwi Māori: Community people, agencies and services provided. Commissioned Report for the Community Trust of Southland.[29]

Selected publications

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Journal articles

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  • Radley, Alan, Darrin Hodgetts, and Andrea Cullen. "Visualizing homelessness: A study in photography and estrangement." Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 15.4 (2005): 273–295.
  • Hodgetts, Darrin, et al. "Health inequalities and homelessness considering material, spatial and relational dimensions." Journal of Health Psychology 12.5 (2007): 709–725.
  • Hodgetts, Darrin, et al. "A trip to the library: Homelessness and social inclusion." Social & Cultural Geography 9.8 (2008): 933–953.
  • Hodgetts, Darrin, et al. "Constructing health news: possibilities for a civic-oriented journalism." Health: 12.1 (2008): 43–66.
  • Hodgetts, Darrin, Andrea Cullen, and Alan Radley. "Television characterizations of homeless people in the United Kingdom." Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 5.1 (2005): 29–48.

Books

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  • Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities: A Relational Approach (with Ottilie Stolte, Routledge, 2017)
  • Social Psychology and Everyday Life (with Drew, Sonn, Stolte, Nikora, and Curtis, Red Globe 2010 and Springer 2019)

Edited volumes

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology (edited with Kieran O'Doherty, SAGE, 2019)

References

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  1. ↑ "Prof Darrin Hodgetts". Massey University. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  2. ↑ Hodgetts, Darrin (2000). Understanding health and illness : an investigation of New Zealand television and lay accounts (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/2159.
  3. ↑ Risk, Louise (1 May 2012). "Bogan researcher to graduate with PhD". Stuff.
  4. ↑ Ihaka, James (2 May 2012). "Bogans insulted by Wikipedia entry". Hamilton News – via The Waikato Herald.
  5. ↑ Akuhata, Whare (11 November 2011). "Maori women fake illness to get medicine for husbands". Daily Post – via The New Zealand Herald.
  6. ↑ Twentyman, Maryanne (9 November 2011). "Maori women 'sharing medication'". Stuff.
  7. ↑ "Homelessness a growing problem". Stuff. 31 January 2009.
  8. ↑ "Research focus on homeless". Hamilton News. 2 May 2012 – via The New Zealand Herald.
  9. ↑ "Darrin Hodgetts on 'welfare with a big stick'". Radio New Zealand. 10 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Who are New Zealand's precariat?". Radio New Zealand. 8 September 2017.
  11. ↑ "Connections and Flows: Precarious Māori households in austere times". Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.
  12. ↑ “Darrin Hodgetts”. Google Scholar. Retrieved 11 September 2026.
  13. ↑ Some talks include: Hodgetts, D. (2023). Role of psychology in human security: Enacting the UN SDGs through localized participative processes. Psychology, Education in the context of social change: International Conference.Vietnamese Association of Psychology. Hanoi, Vietnam; Hodgetts, D. (2023). Re-pluralising psychologies in the Global South: The role of community ‘scribes’.International Conference on Psychology and Social Transformation. Santa Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Hodgetts, D. (2013). What does it mean to be poor in New Zealand today. Commissioned workshopInstitute of Judicial Studies: Trends in New Zealand Society - Poverty Symposium. Auckland; Hodgetts, D., Hopner, V., & Carr, S. (2023). Assembling human security: Dimensions, research and policy. 13th Annual Dupont Summit on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy. Washington DC, United States of America: Policy Studies Organisation.
  14. ↑ Carr, S. C., Hopner, V., Hodgetts, D., & Young, M. (Eds.). (2024). Tackling precarious work: Toward sustainable livelihoods. SIOP Organisational Frontiers series, APA. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003440444
  15. ↑ Hodgetts, D., Stolte, O., Sonn, C., Drew, N., Nikora, L., & Carr, S. (2020). Social psychology and everyday life (2nd ed.). Palgrave.
  16. ↑ O'Doherty, K. C., & Hodgetts, D. (Eds.). (2019). The SAGE handbook of applied social psychology (1sted.). SAGE. doi:10.4135/9781526417091
  17. ↑ Li, W., Hodgetts, D., & Foo, K. (Eds.). (2018). Asia-Perspectives on intercultural psychology. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315158358
  18. ↑ Hodgetts, J., & Stolte, O. (2017). Urban poverty & health inequalities: A relational approach. Routledge.
  19. ↑ King, P., Hodgetts, D., & Guimarães, D. S. (Eds.). (2021). Towards rethinking the primacy of epistemology in psychology. Theory and Psychology, 31(2). doi:10.1177/09593543211003161
  20. ↑ Hodgetts, D., & Griffin, C. (Eds.). (2015). The place of class: Considerations for psychology. Theory & Psychology, 25(2). doi:10.1177/0959354315576381
  21. ↑ Hodgetts, D., & Stolte, O. E. (Eds.). (2012). Case-based research in community and social psychology.Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 22(5), 379-389. doi:10.1002/casp.2124
  22. ↑ Hodgetts, I., Anderson, V., Hodgetts, D., Carr, S., Liu, J., & Shatford, M. (2024). Social regeneration framework for Murihiku (Southland). Commissioned Report for Murihiku Regeneration: Hokonui Runanga: Ngāi Tahu.
  23. ↑ Cassim, G. S., Khan-Janif, J., Ali, M., Ali, N., Shah Drew, S., Slaimankhel, J., Hodgetts, D., & Hopner, V. (2023). Project Salaam: Evaluation report. Ministry of Social Development & Massey University.
  24. ↑ Hodgetts, D., Stolte, O., & Longhurst, L. (2011). Single Parents & Tertiary Education. Commissioned Report for The Auckland City Mission. Auckland City Mission.
  25. ↑ Hodgetts, D., Groot, S. & White, S. (2026).Understanding Employer Motivations and Challenges to Living Wage Accreditation. Commissioned Report for the Principle Partners Council of the Living Wage Campaign Aotearoa. Etu.
  26. ↑ Hodgetts, D., Groot, S., Young-Hauser, A., Martin, A., Carr, S., Liu, J., Kapeli, S., Hazou, R., & Haar, J. (2023).  Knowledge and experiences of government income-support efforts to alleviate in-work poverty.Health Research Council in-work poverty and wellbeing project. Ministry of Social Development.
  27. ↑ Rua, M., Hodgetts, D., Stolte, O., King, D., Cochrane, B., Stubbs, T., Karapu, R., Neha, E., Chamberlain, K., Te Awekotuku, N., Harr, J. & Groot, S. (2019).Precariat Māori households today: The need to reorient policy to cultivate more humane understandings of whānau in need. Ngā Pae of te Māramatanga. Te Arotahi Series Paper. Ministry of Social Development.
  28. ↑ Hodgetts, D., Cochrane, B. & Stolte, O. (2015). Urban design impacts on safety and liveability in Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty. Commissioned Report for Tauranga City Council and Safer Cities.
  29. ↑ Cochrane, B. Hodgetts, D., & Hodgetts, I. (2014). Te Iwi Māori: Community people, agencies and services provided. Commissioned Report for the Community Trust of Southland. Hokonui Runanga.
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