Title
Research Manager/Post Doctoral Fellow听
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Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (Auckland University of Technology)
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Research Interests
Dr Kate Prendergast is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the 91制片厂, New Zealand, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey, UK.
Her inter-disciplinary research centres on understanding children and young people鈥檚 health and wellbeing in diverse urban environments. She currently works on the CYCLES (Children and Youth in Cities, Lifestyles Evaluation and Sustainability) project, which explores young people's lives in seven diverse cities across the globe. Cities include Christchurch, Dhaka, New Delhi, Lambeth, Makhanda, Sao Paulo, and Yokohama. The study is coordinated by Prof Bronwyn Hayward of the 91制片厂 and Dr Kate Prendergast, for the University of Surrey's ESRC funded CUSP: Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity and involves partners from seven cities.
Kate's previous research work connects health, wellbeing, the built environment, active travel, physical activity, and nutrition. She was a lead researcher on the Sovereign Wellbeing Index; a longitudinal study investigating the wellbeing of 10,000 New Zealanders.
For her doctoral research, Kate integrated positive psychology and public health to explore an approach for promoting health and wellbeing beyond the absence of disease. Her research included quantitative studies, focus groups, and an intervention study.
- Wellbeing
- Sustainable development
- Social research
- Health and lifestyle
- Children and youth
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Recent Publications
- Prendergast K., Hayward B., Aoyagi M., Burningham K., Hasan MM., Jackson T., Jha V., Kuroki L., Loukianov A. and Mattar H. (2021)听Corrigendum: Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics(Front. Polit. Sci., (2021), 3, (696105), 10.3389/fpos.2021.696105).听Frontiers in Political Science 3听.
- Prendergast K., Hayward B., Aoyagi M., Burningham K., Hasan MM., Jackson T., Jha V., Kuroki L., Loukianov A. and Mattar H. (2021)听Youth Attitudes and Participation in Climate Protest: An International Cities Comparison Frontiers in Political Science Special Issue: Youth Activism in Environmental Politics.听Frontiers in Political Science 3听.
- Nissen S., Prendergast K., Aoyagi M., Burningham K., Hasan MM., Hayward B., Jackson T., Jha V., Mattar H. and Schudel I. (2020)听Young people and environmental affordances in urban sustainable development: insights into transport and green and public space in seven cities.听Sustainable Earth 3(1) 17听.
- Duncan S., Stewart T., McPhee J., Borotkanics R., Prendergast K., Zinn C., Meredith-Jones K., Taylor R., McLachlan C. and Schofield G. (2019)听Efficacy of a compulsory homework programme for increasing physical activity and improving nutrition in children: A cluster randomised controlled trial.听International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 16(1)听.
- Mackay L., Egli V., Booker LJ. and Prendergast K. (2019)听New Zealand鈥檚 engagement with the Five Ways to Wellbeing: evidence from a large cross-sectional survey.听Kotuitui 14(2): 230-244.听.
