Julie Warren, has qualifications in resource management, sociology and economics and has almost 30 years research experience and has managed a number of multi-year, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency research programmes. She has extensive experience working as a qualitative researcher in both urban and rural contexts and in quantitative research (e.g., designing, administering and analysing surveys and analysing secondary data including Census and other demographic data). Her research work, both North Island and South Island-based, has provided a strong network of community, local and central government and other institutional contacts