Associate Professor Carla Anne Houkamau

DPhil in Social Psychology, BA (Hons) with First Class Honours in Psychology, BA (conjoint) in Psychology and BCom (conjoint) in Management & Employment Relations.

Associate Professor

In: Management and International Business » Faculty of Business and Economics

Assoc Dean Maori

In: Management and International Business » Faculty of Business and Economics

Biography

Carla Houkamau (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and the Associate Dean for Māori for the Business School. Carla is of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā descent. She holds a deep personal interest in the history of Māori-Pākehā relations and her current research focuses mainly on intergroup relations, chiefly how group memberships influence attitudes and behaviour. Her publications typically examine how ethnicity helps reproduce socio-economic inequalities but can be leveraged to address them. Reflecting her role in the Business School her work has broadened to include diversity management, identity economics and implicit bias. Her research using the Multidimensional Model of Māori Identity and Cultural Engagement (MMM-ICE) has been recognised nationally and internationally for advancing ethnic identity research using psychometric measures and large samples. Carla currently leads the largest longitudinal study of Māori identity, financial attitudes and behaviour (Te Rangahau o Te Tuakiri Māori me Ngā Waiaro ā-Pūtea | The Māori Identity and Financial Attitudes Study) for which she received a full standard Marsden Award in 2015. You can find out more about Carla’s collaborative research programme here https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/maori-identity-financial-attitudes-study.html

Special Interests:

Implicit bias, inter-group relationships, inter-cultural communication, cross-cultural management

Psychological (particularly social psychological) understandings of identity

Teaching | Current

2017	GLMI 706	Working in an Age of Uncertainty
2014	BUSINT 701	Business Research
2012 - current	MGMT 314	Critical Issues in Organisations
2011 -2014	BUS 151 G	Intercultural Communication
2011-2012	MGMT 317	Diversity at Work
2011-2014	BUSINESS 151 G	Communication in a Multicultural Society

Distinctions/Honours

2017 University of Auckland Group Research Excellence Award

2015 Marsden Award (Standard)

2013 Best Paper Award –Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)

2012 Auckland University Business School Early Career Research Excellence Award (ECREA)

2006 Te Amorangi National Māori Academic Excellence Award

2002 Health Research Council of New Zealand

2000 New Zealand Psychological Society - Presidents Scholar

Responsibilities

Associate Dean for Māori and Pacific Economic Development

Director Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Stronge, S., Sengupta, N., Barlow, F. K., Osborne, D., Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2016). Perceived discrimination predicts increased support for political rights and life satisfaction mediated by ethnic identity: A longitudinal analysis. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 22 (3), 359-368. 10.1037/cdp0000074
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sam Stronge, Danny Osborne, Chris Sibley
Greaves, L., Houkamau, C., & Sibley, C. (2015). Māori Identity Signatures: A Latent Profile Analysis of the Types of Māori Identity. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21 (4), 541-549. 10.1037/cdp0000033
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Lara Greaves, Chris Sibley
Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2015). Looking Māori predicts decreased rates of home ownership: Institutional racism in housing based on perceived appearance. PLoS One, 10 (3)10.1371/journal.pone.0118540
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris Sibley
Houkamau, C., & Boxall, P. (2015). Attitudes to other ethnicities among New Zealand workers. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 22 (3), 431-446. 10.1108/CCM-10-2013-0155
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Boxall
Houkamau, C. A., & Boxall, P. (2014). Diversity climate as a mediator of organisational trust. Paper presented at Australian New Zealand Academy of Management, Sydney, Australia. 3 December - 5 December 2014. Proceedings of the Australian New Zealand Academy of Management 28th Annual Conference. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Boxall
Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2014). Social identity and differences in psychological and economic outcomes for mixed and sole-identified Maori. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 40, 113-125. 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2014.03.001
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris Sibley
Krynen, A. M., Osborne, D., Duck, I. M., Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2013). Measuring psychological distress in New Zealand: Item response properties and demographic differences in the Kessler-6 screening measure. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 42 (2), 69-83.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris Sibley, Danny Osborne
Inkson, K., Richardson, M., & Houkamau, C. A. (2013). New Patterns of Late-Career Employment. In J. Field, R. J. Burke, C. L. Cooper (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society. London: Sage.