List of works by Karen Witten

"How can we make it work for you?" Enabling sporting assemblages for disabled young people

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

'A level playing field': Young people's experiences of wheelchair basketball as an enabling place

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

A Cost Benefit Analysis of an Active Travel Intervention with Health and Carbon Emission Reduction Benefits

scientific article

A national study of the association between neighbourhood access to fast-food outlets and the diet and weight of local residents

scientific article published on 10 April 2008

An option for measuring maternal mortality in developing countries: a survey using community informants

scientific article

Are disadvantaged children more likely to be excluded from analysis when applying global positioning systems inclusion criteria?

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Are government-approved products containing new psychoactive substances perceived to be safer and more socially acceptable than alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs? Findings from a survey of police arrestees in New Zealand

scientific article

Are socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods deprived of health-related community resources?

article

Assessing neighbourhood destination access for children: development of the NDAI-C audit tool

article

Assessment of direct and indirect associations between children active school travel and environmental, household and child factors using structural equation modelling

Association of neighbourhood residence and preferences with the built environment, work-related travel behaviours, and health implications for employed adults: findings from the URBAN study

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Associations Between the Neighborhood Environment and Moderate-to-Vigorous Walking in New Zealand Children: Findings from the URBAN Study.

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Associations between the neighbourhood built environment and out of school physical activity and active travel: An examination from the Kids in the City study.

scientific article

Associations of children's active school travel with perceptions of the physical environment and characteristics of the social environment: A systematic review

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Being the body in question: young people’s accounts of everyday ableism, visibility and disability

scholarly article

Built environment associates of active school travel in New Zealand children and youth: A systematic meta-analysis using individual participant data

scientific article

COMMUNITY WELLBEING AND THE TRIP TO WORK: INTEGRATING EPIDEMIOLOGY, POLICY AND COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE USING PARTICIPATORY SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELLING ⬇️

scholarly article

Can source reduction of mosquito larval habitat reduce malaria transmission in Tigray, Ethiopia?

scientific article published in December 2005

Can virtual streetscape audits reliably replace physical streetscape audits?

scientific article

Children's Engagement as Urban Researchers and Consultants in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Can it Increase Children's Effective Participation in Urban Planning?

scholarly article

Children's Out-of-School Independently Mobile Trips, Active Travel, and Physical Activity: A Cross-Sectional Examination from the Kids in the City Study

scientific article

Children's Transport Built Environments: A Mixed Methods Study of Associations between Perceived and Objective Measures and Relationships with Parent Licence for Independent Mobility in Auckland, New Zealand

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Could strength of exposure to the residential neighbourhood modify associations between walkability and physical activity?

scientific article published on 31 October 2015

Development of a systems model to visualise the complexity of children's independent mobility

scholarly article

Differences in child-drawn and GIS-modelled routes to school: Impact on space and exposure to the built environment in Auckland, New Zealand

scholarly article

Distance to School is Associated with Sedentary Time in Children: Findings from the URBAN Study

scientific article

Educational Restructuring from a Community Viewpoint: A Case Study of School Closure from Invercargill, New Zealand

scientific article published in 2003

Effects of Te Ara Mua – Future Streets Suburban Street Retrofit on Traffic Speed and Volume: Controlled Before-After Study

scientific article published in 2022

Enabling participation for disabled young people: study protocol

scientific article

Environmental and socio-demographic associates of children's active transport to school: a cross-sectional investigation from the URBAN Study

scientific article

Examining Public Open Spaces by Neighborhood-Level Walkability and Deprivation ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Exploring children's seasonal play to promote active lifestyles in Auckland, New Zealand

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

From environmental epidemiology to action for climate and health: the potential of participatory system dynamics modelling ⬇️

scholarly article

How Do Neighbourhood Definitions Influence the Associations between Built Environment and Physical Activity?

scientific article published on 28 April 2019

Inclusive Streetscapes: Disabled People and Older Citizens Charting a Roadmap to Equity ⬇️

scholarly article

Inclusive access in transport policy and practice: Views of New Zealand transport practitioners

scientific article published in December 2021

Increasing active travel: aims, methods and baseline measures of a quasi-experimental study

scientific article

Increasing active travel: results of a quasi-experimental study of an intervention to encourage walking and cycling

scientific article published on June 2015

Inequitable mobilities: intersections of diversity with urban infrastructure influence mobility, health and wellbeing

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Is neighborhood access to health care provision associated with individual-level utilization and satisfaction?

scientific article published on 29 July 2008

Issues with monitoring the safety of psychoactive products under a legal regulated market for new psychoactive substances ('legal highs') in New Zealand.

scientific article

Keeping kids safe for active travel to school: A mixed method examination of school policies and practices and children's school travel behaviour

scientific article published on 1 October 2020

Kids in the city study: research design and methodology.

scientific article

Linking GPS and travel diary data using sequence alignment in a study of children's independent mobility

scientific article

Locating transport sector responsibilities for the wellbeing of mobility-challenged people in Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published in 2021

Mobility Injustice and Disabled Young People: Appropriating the Swiss Cheese Model ⬇️

scholarly article

Neighborhood built environment and transport and leisure physical activity: findings using objective exposure and outcome measures in New Zealand

scientific article

Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing: a national study

scientific article published in May 2007

Neighbourhood Destination Accessibility Index: A GIS Tool for Measuring Infrastructure Support for Neighbourhood Physical Activity

scholarly article

Neighbourhood Provision of Food and Alcohol Retailing and Social Deprivation in Urban New Zealand

article

Neighbourhood access to open spaces and the physical activity of residents: a national study

scientific article

Neighbourhood built environment associations with body size in adults: mediating effects of activity and sedentariness in a cross-sectional study of New Zealand adults

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Neighbourhood matters: perceptions of neighbourhood cohesiveness and associations with alcohol, cannabis and tobacco use.

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

Neighbourhoods and health: A review of the New Zealand literature

article

Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility.

scientific article published on May 2006

Neighbourhoods for Active Kids: study protocol for a cross-sectional examination of neighbourhood features and children's physical activity, active travel, independent mobility and body size

scientific article published on 16 August 2016

Placing caregiving: parenting in diverse localities in suburban Auckland

2005 doctoral thesis by Karen Witten at University of Auckland

Reducing CO2 emissions from domestic travel: exploring the social and health impacts.

scientific article published on December 2008

Regional and Urban–Rural Variations in the Association of Neighbourhood Deprivation with Community Resource Access: A National Study

scholarly article

Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: A probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies

scientific article published on 8 February 2007

Seasonal and locational variations in children's play: implications for wellbeing

scientific article

Shaping Cities for Youth – Exploring the Transport, Place, and Wellbeing Needs of Marginalised Youth in New Zealand ⬇️

scholarly article

Social and built-environment factors related to children's independent mobility: The importance of neighbourhood cohesion and connectedness.

scientific article

Suburb-level changes for active transport to meet the SDGs: Causal theory and a New Zealand case study

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Systematic literature review of built environment effects on physical activity and active transport - an update and new findings on health equity

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Te Ara Mua - Future Streets suburban street retrofit: A researcher-community-government co-design process and intervention outcomes

scholarly article

Te Ara Mua Future Streets: Co-Designing and Seeing an Active Travel Intervention to Completion ⬇️

scholarly article

Te Ara Mua – Future Streets: Can a streetscape upgrade designed to increase active travel change residents’ perceptions of neighbourhood safety?

scientific article published in 2022

Te Ara Mua –Future Streets: Knowledge exchange and the highs and lows of researcher-practitioner collaboration to design active travel infrastructure

scholarly article published in June 2018

The Pathway to Behaviour Change: Preliminary Findings from Te Ara Mua – Future Streets (High Scoring Researcher Abstract Award Sponsored by the Institute of Transportation Engineers)

scientific article published in 2019

The societal costs and benefits of commuter bicycling: simulating the effects of specific policies using system dynamics modeling

scientific article

Understanding children’s perceptions of, and priorities for, healthy neighbourhoods in Aotearoa New Zealand: study protocol for a cross-sectional study

scientific article published in 2021

Understanding the Relationship between Activity and Neighbourhoods (URBAN) Study: research design and methodology

scientific article

Urban inclusion as wellbeing: Exploring children's accounts of confronting diversity on inner city streets

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Using SenseCam images to assess the environment

scholarly article published 2013

What Contributes to High Rates of Active School Travel? Perspectives of Exemplar Schools in New Zealand

scholarly article published in June 2018

What are the associations between neighbourhood walkability and sedentary time in New Zealand adults? The URBAN cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 22 October 2017

What constitutes a ‘trip’? Examining child journey attributes using GPS and self-report

What shape is your neighbourhood? Investigating the micro geographies of physical activity

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

‘The status quo is not an option’: Community impacts of school closure in South Taranaki, New Zealand

scientific article published on 27 October 2008

“Lost in translation”: Issues with the establishment of a legal market for “low risk” psychoactive products (“legal highs”) in New Zealand

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