Karen Witten Explained

Karen Witten
Fields:	public health
Workplaces:	University of Auckland Massey University
Alma Mater:	University of Auckland
Thesis1 Title:	Placing caregiving : parenting in diverse localities in suburban Auckland
Thesis1 Url:	https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/1220
Thesis1 Year:	2005

Karen Witten is a New Zealand public health academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University.^[1]

Academic career

Witten's 2005 PhD geography thesis from the University of Auckland concerned the six diverse suburban localities in Auckland and the implications of living there for parents raising children and the impacts on health and health inequality. The title of her thesis was Placing caregiving: parenting in diverse localities in suburban Auckland.^[2]

Witten has worked at the University of Auckland^[3] and Massey University, where her work has continued to relate to geographic determiners of health and health inequality, studying things such as fast-food locations, open spaces^[4] and bicycling.^[1]

Selected works

• Pearce . Jamie . Tony . Blakely . Karen . Witten . Phil . Bartie . Neighborhood deprivation and access to fast-food retailing: a national study . . 32 . 5 . 2007 . 375–382.
• Pearce . Jamie . Karen . Witten . Phil . Bartie . Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility . . 60 . 5 . 2006 . 389–395.
• Pearce . Jamie . Karen . Witten . Rosemary . Hiscock . Tony . Blakely . Are socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods deprived of health-related community resources? . . 36 . 2 . 2006 . 348–355.
• Mavoa . Suzanne . Karen . Witten . Tim . McCreanor . David . O’Sullivan . GIS based destination accessibility via public transit and walking in Auckland, New Zealand . . 20 . 1 . 2012 . 15–22.
• Witten . Karen . Rosemary . Hiscock . Jamie . Pearce . Tony . Blakely . Neighbourhood access to open spaces and the physical activity of residents: a national study . . 47 . 3 . 2008 . 299–303.
• Witten . Karen . Daniel . Exeter . Adrian . Field . The quality of urban environments: mapping variation in access to community resources . . 40 . 1 . 2003 . 161–177.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Karen Witten — SHORE & Whariki Research Centre . Shoreandwhariki.ac.nz . 17 April 2018.
2. Witten . Karen . 2005 . Doctoral thesis . Placing caregiving: parenting in diverse localities in suburban Auckland . ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland . 2292/1220.
3. Web site: Professor Karen Witten | Health Research Council . Hrc.govt.nz . 17 April 2018.
4. News: So tell us, where do the children play? . . 28 April 2014. 17 April 2018. NZ Herald .