School of Social & Cultural Studies
Albany Campus, Auckland

Dr Grant Duncan

	Dr Grant Duncan M.A., Ph.D (Auck) Senior Lecturer Social and Public Policy Programmes
Contact details:
	Room AT2.31 Phone (09) 414 0800, Extn 9086 Email L.G.Duncan@massey.ac.nz Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland Private Bag 102 904 North Shore MSC Auckland, New Zealand
Bio:
	Grant's principal teaching duties are in the politics minor and the Masters in Public Policy degree. His teaching focuses on applied political theory, political economy and the development of social policy in New Zealand. His research and publications have covered general changes in social policy and public management in New Zealand, specialising in accident compensation legislation and policy. He has analysed the means by which policy institutions construct and administer populations, with a focus on work-capacity and chronic-pain disability. He also has a special interest in the political uses of happiness.. Grant is a correspondent of the Max Planck Institute for International Social Law, Munich, for which he writes an annual report on changes in social-security laws in New Zealand. Visit Grant's blog (web log)
Book:
	Duncan, G. (2007). Society and Politics: New Zealand Social Policy. 2nd. edition. Auckland: Pearson Education-SprintPrint Prentice Hall. For a description and publication details of my book please click here.
Recent Publications:
	Duncan, G. (2009). Should happiness-maximization be the goal of government? Journal of Happiness Studies, (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com). Duncan, G. and Browning, J. (2009). Adult Attachment in Children Raised by Parents with Schizophrenia. Journal of Adult Development 16(2): 76–86. (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com). Duncan, G. (2008). Counting the currency of knowledge: New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund. In I. Morley and M. Crouch (eds) Knowledge as value: Illumination through critical prisms. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi (pp. 23–42). (Pdf link) Duncan, G. (2008). Boundary disputes in the ACC scheme and the no-fault principle. New Zealand Law Review, Part 1, 27–36. (Pdf link) Chapman, J. and Duncan, G. (2007). Is there now a new “New Zealand model”? Public Management Review, 9(1), 1–25. Duncan, G. (2007). After happiness. Journal of Political Ideologies , 12(1), pp. 85-108.Link to .pdf file. © Taylor & Francis, 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Political Ideologies, Volume 12 Issue 1, February 2007. Duncan, G. (2005). What do we mean by “happiness”? The relevance of subjective wellbeing to social policy. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, 25, pp. 16–31. Link to .pdf file Duncan, G. (2004). Pouvoir et savoir: The Tertiary Education Strategy and the will to know. New Zealand Journal of Tertiary Education Policy, 1, pp. 1–9. Link to .pdf file Duncan, G. (2003). Workers' compensation and the governance of pain. Economy and Society, 32(3), pp. 449-477. Duncan, G. (2003). Moral hazard and medical assessment. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 34(2), pp. 433-441. Duncan, G. (2002). Nationhood and writing: Why poetry doesn't matter anymore. Poetry NZ 24, pp. 80-86. Duncan, G. (2002). Workers' compensation, in M.Lloyd (ed.) Occupational Health and Safety in New Zealand: Contemporary Social Research, Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, pp. 19-42. Duncan, G. (2000). Social policy, work capacity and governmentality. Sites, no. 38, 31-51. Duncan, G. (2000). Mind-body dualism and the biopsychosocial model of pain: What did Descartes really say? Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 25(4), pp. 485-513. Duncan, G. and Worrall, J. (2000). Social policy and social work in New Zealand. European Journal of Social Work, 3(3), pp. 283-295. Clasen, J., Duncan, G., Eardley, T., Evans, M., Ughetto, P., van Oorschot, W. and Wright, S. (2001). Towards 'single gateways'? A cross-national review of the changing roles of employment offices in seven countries. Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht, 15(1), pp. 43-63. Duncan, G. (2001). The narration of pain and suffering: Culture, meaning, healing. In D. Howard (ed.), Complete with instructions, Christchurch: Firebrand, pp. 15-21.

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