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Matada Research is an independent research and development consultant company specialising in providing academic research that shapes and informs policy and practice to improve service delivery both in New Zealand and abroad.
Matada Research seeks to create solutions that enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of individuals, communities and society.
As an independent research consultant company, Matada Research is backed by highly qualified and experienced researchers that have both international and domestic experience in research. Matada Research leads with core Pacific values that shape our goals and vision; we believe that good research engages meaningfully with the communities that engage with the targeted service. Our values of relationships, reciprocity, respect and family are core pillars to our approach to research.
We are an Auckland company, however we tender for both domestic and international funding opportunities.
Our research areas range from Social Sciences to Health Research, our goal is to ensure we provide the best possible research to effect positive change towards individuals, families, communities and society.
Please feel free to contact us here or email us on info@matadaresearch.co.nz
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Pacific People’s and Cost of Living
Although many of us live the reality of the increased cost of living and the rapidly rising cost of housing in Aotearoa New Zealand, very few of us are aware of the numbers behind this lived reality. Despite our global reputation, Aotearoa New Zealand is becoming an increasingly inequitable society. Pacific peoples are bearing the brunt of this inequity, and without intervention, we are unlikely to see any changes.