Laurie CrawfordMinistry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand · Evidence & Insights
Laurie Crawford
Master of Arts (Psychology)
Seeking new evaluation horizons.
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Introduction
I am an evaluator and researcher, currently working in the public service.
Additional affiliations
November 2017 - December 2019
Ministry of Justice
Position
- Advisor Research and Evaluation
November 2013 - February 2014
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Research assistant for a large data linkage study, linking NZLSA data with select Ministry of Health datasets.
November 2012 - February 2013
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Conducted a rhetorical analysis focusing on discourses of Climate Change in interactive news media.
Education
February 2013 - January 2018
February 2010 - November 2013
Publications
Publications (3)
The links between science and policy are navigated prominently in the media. The internet provides a forum for discussion of climate change, allowing lay people to enter the debate. In this paper, rhetorical analysis was used to analyse online news articles and comments from the public following two major climate-related decisions in New Zealand. T...
Transitional housing is primarily provided as social assistance. There is some
evidence that providing transitional housing to offenders exiting prison can reduce
reoffending, particularly among serious violent offenders.
With administrative data increasingly being recorded electronically, data linkage has become a popular method of research. It involves the linkage of two data sets – survey and administrative data, in the current study – to create a wider and more varied data set, with which a greater number of research questions can be examined. Seeking consent fr...
