The Collaborative has the capacity to undertake:

• Academic research with the aim of creating new knowledge
  
  
• Commissioned research with the objective of meeting the needs of the commissioning body
  
  
• Community research with the focus of working in partnership with community organizations to meet the research needs of the organization

The Collaborative has recently formed a Resarch Sub-Commitee, chaired by Ria Schroder and Mark Turner, which has invited a vaiety of researchers to be part of the group. The purposes of the group are:

• to ensure a high standard of research activity in youth health and development by providing ethical guidelines, supervision and peer support.
• to develop an overall research strategy in youth health and development for the Collaborative.
• to provide opportunities for dissemination of results, and to involve youth and the community in research

Researchers involved in the sub-committee are:

Ria Schroder - youth AOD research qualitative methodology

Mark Turner - mental health early intervention clinical research and evaluation, quantitative methodology

Bryce Hamilton - social research and marketing methodology focus on qualitative

Sarah Mckay - qualitative methodology, community development research

Catherine McGee - database construction and data entry

Lynn Briggs - sociology, interest in refugee and migrant mental health

Hannah Dunlop - youth worker doing evaluation research

Edward Coughlan - Sexual health physician, medical director of the sexual health clinic in Christchurch clinical research

Jane Higgins - sociology Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University advisory to the Committee

Cathy Willowstarr - sociology and mental health interests

Sue Quinn - undertaking projects through Presbyterian Support

Kelly Pope - young person in training interested in mental health and social justice