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Mon 3 Oct 2016 AT 17:30 pm , Auckland

A Demographic Dividend - or Disruption? The Challenges of Population Growth and Stagnation

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As New Zealand has emerged from the Global Financial Crisis, the labour market is buoyant, population growth is high and both permanent and temporary migration is at an historic high. But do these conditions represent a temporary state – and are they hiding a population ‘bomb’ (to use the extravagant language of the 1970s)? Certainly, a new New Zealand is emerging with very different demographic – and economic – trajectories for New Zealand’s regions and for the country as a whole. Is immigration the answer? Are we prepared to discuss much less manage ‘smart decline’? Do we moderate the very different growth rates of different parts of the country?

 

About the Presenter: Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley

Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley is the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University.


He is the author or editor of 27 books, the most recent being "Rebooting the Regions" (2016). He is a Programme Leader of a research programme on the impacts of immigration and diversity (MBIE, 2014-2020, $5.5 million).

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2011 and was granted the title of Distinguished Professor by Massey University in 2013. He was awarded the Science and Technology Medal by the Royal Society in 2009. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of California Berkeley in 2010, and since 2013, he has been a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen. The Auckland War Memorial Museum made him a Fellow in 2015.


A lecturer for many years, Distinguished Professor Spoonley is a well-known commentator on migration and social cohesion within New Zealand.  He enjoys presenting on these topics to government, academics and the general public. 

 Paul Spoonley 


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