Research

• Canas, T., De Souza, R., Grieves, G. Butt.D. (forthcoming). Performing Statelessness: Creative conversations between First Peoples and Refugees. Global Performance Studies, Performance Studies and Decolonisation.
• Davies, H., Hjorth, L., Andrejevic, M., Richardson, I., & DeSouza, R. (2023). QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking. Convergence, 13548565231160623. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231160623
• Abdolkhani, R., Gray, K., Borda, A., & DeSouza, R. (2023). Recommendations for the quality management of patient-generated health data in remote patient monitoring: Mixed methods study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 11, e35917. https://doi.org/10.2196/35917
• Hine, R., DeSouza, et al., (2022). Identifying and dismantling racism in Australian perinatal settings: Reframing the narrative from a risk lens to intentionally prioritise connectedness and strengths in providing care to First Nations families. Women and Birth: Journal of the Australian College of Midwives. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.04.007
• Gomes, C., Hendry, N. A., De Souza, R., Hjorth, L., Richardson, I., Harris, D., & Coombs, G. (2021). Higher Degree Students (HDR) during COVID-19. Journal of International Students, 11(S2). https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v11iS2.3552
• Andrejevic, M., Davies, H., DeSouza, R., Hjorth, L., & Richardson, I. (2021). Situating “careful surveillance.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877921997450
• De Souza, R., Butt, D., Jethani, S., & Marmo, C. (2021). Participatory research methods for investigating digital health literacy in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/tjcp.v8i1.117800
• Geia, L., Baird, K., Bail, K., Barclay, L., …De Souza, R. (2020). A unified call to action from Australian Nursing and Midwifery leaders: ensuring that Black Lives Matter. Contemporary Nurse, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2020.180910
• Moorley, C., Darbyshire, P., Serrant, L., Mohamed, J., Ali, P., & De Souza, R. (2020). “Dismantling structural racism: Nursing must not be caught on the wrong side of history.” Journal of Advanced Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14469
• Geia, L., Baird, K., Bail, K., Barclay, L., Bennett, J., Best, O., Birks, M., Blackley, L., Blackman, R., Bonner, A., Bryant AO, R., Buzzacott, C., Campbell, S., Catling, C., Chamberlain, C., Cox, L., Cross, W., Cruickshank, M., Cummins, A., … Wynn, R. (2020). A unified call to action from Australian Nursing and Midwifery leaders: ensuring that Black Lives Matter. Contemporary Nurse, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2020.1809107
• Abdolkhani, R., Gray, K., Borda, A., & DeSouza, R. (2020). Quality Assurance of Health Wearables Data: Participatory Workshop on Barriers, Solutions, and Expectations. https:doi: 10.2196/15329
• Abdolkhani, R., Gray, K., Borda, A., & DeSouza, R. (2019). Patient-generated health data management and quality challenges in remote patient monitoring. JAMIA Open. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooz036
• Abdolkhani, R., Gray, K., Borda, A., & De Souza, R. (2018). Patient-Generated Health Data Quality for Clinical Use: Human and Technology Factors. Iproceedings, 4(2), e11703. https://doi.org/10.2196/11703
• Ion, R., DeSouza, R., Kerin, T., (2018). Teaching ethics: Intersectionality, care failure and moral courage, Nurse Education Today, 61, 98–100. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2017.12.023
• De Souza, R. (February 13, 2018). Interview with Texta Queen.  João Roque Literary Journal
• De Souza, R. (2017). Review: Nurses’ views on the impact of mass media on the public perception of nursing and nurse–service user interactions . Journal of Research in Nursing, 0(0) 1–2. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987117736600
• Silverstein, J., D’Cruz, C., DeSouza, R., Khatun, S., & McKinnon, C. (2017). Intersectionality, Resistance, and History-Making. Lilith: A feminist history journal (SPECIAL SECTION, Intersections in History: Articles from the 2016 Australian Women’s History Network Conference), 23, 15-23.
• Crawford, J., Cooper, S., Cant, R., & DeSouza, R. (2017). The impact of walk-in centres and GP co-operatives on emergency department presentations: A systematic review of the literature. International Emergency Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2017.04.002
• Nairn, R., DeSouza, R., Moewaka Barnes, A., Rankine, J., Borell, B., McCreanor, T. (2014). Nursing in media saturated societies: Implications for cultural safety in nursing practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Research in Nursing, 19, 477-487. doi:10.1177/1744987114546724
• De Souza, R. (2014). ‘This child is a planned baby’: skilled migrant fathers and reproductive decision-making. Journal of Advanced Nursing. doi: 10.1111/jan.12448
• DeSouza, R. (2014). Enhancing the role of fathers. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 20(2), 26-27.
• DeSouza, R. (2014). One woman’s empowerment is another’s oppression: Korean migrant mothers on giving birth in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. doi: 10.1177/1043659614523472
• DeSouza, R. (2013). Who is a ‘good’ mother?: Moving beyond individual mothering to examine how mothers are produced historically and socially. Australian Journal of Child and Family Health Nursing, 10(2), 15-18.
• DeSouza, R. (2013). Regulating migrant maternity: Nursing and midwifery’s emancipatory aims and assimilatory practices. Nursing Inquiry, 20(4), 293-304. doi: 10.1111/nin.12020.
• DeSouza, R., & Cormack, D. (2009) Returning the indigenous to the centre: a view from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Diversity in health and care, 16(4), 219-221.
• Gao, W., DeSouza, R., Paterson, J., & Lu, T. (2008) Factors affecting uptake of cervical cancer screening among Chinese women in New Zealand. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics,103 (1) 76–82.
• Gao, W., DeSouza, R., Paterson, J., & Lu, T. (2008). Demographic predictors of cervical cancer screening in Chinese women in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 121 (1277), 8-17.
• DeSouza, R. (2008). Wellness for all: the possibilities of cultural safety and cultural competence in New Zealand. Journal of Research in Nursing, 13(2), 125-135
• DeSouza, R. (2007). Women, Portuguese culture and Diaspora: Women from Goa in New Zealand and cultural adaptation. Campus Social. (3/4 )103-118.
• DeSouza, R. (2007). Walking a tightrope: Asian health research in New Zealand.  Diversity in health and Social Care., 4(1), 9-21.
• Clarke, D., Abbott, M., DeSouza, R., & Bellringer, M. (2007). An overview of help seeking by problem gamblers and their families including barriers to and relevance of services. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 5(4), 292-306.
• DeSouza, R. (2006). Sailing in a new direction: Multicultural mental health in New Zealand. Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health 5(2).
• De Souza, R. (2006). Researching the health needs of elderly Indian migrants in New Zealand. Indian Journal of Gerontology, 20 (1&2), 159-170.
• De Souza, R. (2005). Transforming possibilities of care: Goan migrant motherhood in New Zealand. Contemporary Nurse, 20 (1), 87 – 101.
• De Souza, R. (2004). Motherhood, migration and methodology: Giving voice to the “other”. The Qualitative Report. 9 (3), 463-482.
• Williamson, A., Kennedy, D. M., McNaught, C. and De Souza, R. (2003). Issues of intellectual capital and intellectual property in educational software development teams. Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 19(3), 339-355.

DeSouza, R. (2006). Walking upright here: Countering prevailing discourses through reflexivity and methodological pluralism. Muddy Creek Press, New Zealand

• De Souza, R. (2020). Data and inequity: Who’s missing in big data? Melbourne: University of Melbourne. ISBN: 978 0 7340 5596 5.
• Williamson, A., & DeSouza, R. (Eds.). (2008). Researching with communities. Auckland: Muddy Creek Press. ISBN-13: 978-0955694103
• De Souza, R., (2007). Faith and ethnic communities. Aotearoa Ethnic Network, 2(2). Faith. ISSN 1177-3472.
• DeSouza, R., & Williamson, A. (2007). Aotearoa Ethnic Network Journal, 2(1): ICT. ISSN 1177-3472.
• DeSouza, R., & Williamson, A. (2006). Aotearoa Ethnic Network Journal, 1(2): Creativity. ISSN 1177-3472.
• DeSouza, R., & Williamson, A. (2006). Aotearoa Ethnic Network Journal, 1(1). ISSN 1177-3472.

Dillard-Wright, J., Iradukunda, F., De Souza, R., & Valderama-Wallace, C. (2023). No as an act of care: A glossary for kinship, care praxis, and nursing’s radical imagination. In M. Lipscomb (Ed.), Routledge handbook of philosophy and nursing (pp. 415–428). Routledge: London.

De Souza, R. (2023). On racism and care in Nursing. In L. Potter (Ed.), No longer silent: Voices of 21st Century Nurses (pp. 133–147). Australian College of Nursing. Australia: Ocean Reeve.

Heiss, L., Hamilton, O., Coombs, G., De Souza, R., Kokshagina, O., Foley, M. (2022). Mutuality as a Foundation for Co-designing Health Futures. In: Bruyns, G., Wei, H. (eds) [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes. IASDR 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_213

De Souza, R. (2022). Using arts-based participatory methods to teach Cultural Safety. In Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins Walsh, Brandon Blaine Brown. Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures. (1st Edition, pp. 152–166). Routledge.

De Souza, R. (2021). Going Without: Migrant Mothers, Food and the Postnatal Ward in New Zealand. In T. M. Cassidy and A. O. El-Tom (Eds.), Moving Meals and Migrating Mothers: Culinary cultures, diasporic dishes and familial foodways. Toronto: Demeter Press: 171-18

DeSouza, R. & Higgins, R. (2020). Cultural safety: An overview. In J. Lillie, K. Larsen, & C. Kirkwood, J. J. Brown, (Eds.), The Relationship is the Project: Working with Communities. Australia: Brow Books: 81-88

O’Brien, T., De Souza, R. & Baker, M. (2017). Providing culturally safe care.  In M Chambers (Ed.), Psychiatric and mental health nursing: The craft of caring (Third ed). London: Routledge.

De Souza, R. (2015). Navigating the ethics in cultural safety. In D. Wepa (Ed.), Cultural safety. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press: 111-124.

De Souza, R. (2015). Culturally safe care for ethnically and religiously diverse communities. In D. Wepa (Ed.), Cultural safety. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press: 189-203.

Bradley, P., & De Souza, R. (2013). Mental Health in Australia and New Zealand. In R. Elder, K. Evans & D. Nizette (Eds.), Practical perspectives in psychiatric and mental health nursing (Third edition). New South Wales:  Elsevier Australia.

DeSouza, R (2012). Power relations. In S. Shaw , A. Haxell and T. Weblemoe (Eds.), Communications across the lifespan. Auckland: Oxford University Press.

DeSouza, R. (2011). ‘All of me meets here, an alchemy of parts’ – Negotiating my identities in New Zealand. Localizing Asia in Aotearoa. P. Voci and J. Leckie. Wellington, Dunmore Publishing: 231-245.

DeSouza, R. (2010). New mothers in a new land: Indian migrant mothers talk. India in New Zealand: Local identities, global relations. S. Bandyopadhyay. Dunedin, Otago University Press: 207-217.

McNeill, H., Paterson, J., Sundborn, G., DeSouza, R., Weblemoe, T., McKinney, C., et al. (2009). Culture health and wellbeing. In S. Shaw & B. Deed (Eds.), Health and environment in Aotearoa/New Zealand (pp. 95-124). Auckland: Oxford University Press.

O’Brien, T., Morrison-Ngatai, E., & De Souza, R. (2009). Providing culturally safe care  In P. Barker (Ed.), Psychiatric and mental health nursing: The craft of caring (Second ed., pp. 635-643). London: Arnold.

Wood, P., Bradley, P., & De Souza, R. (2008). Mental Health in Australia and New Zealand. In R. Elder, K. Evans & D. Nizette (Eds.), Practical perspectives in psychiatric and mental health nursing (Second ed., pp. 86-107). New South Wales: Mosby, Elsevier Australia.

DeSouza, R. (2007). Sifting out the sweetness: Migrant motherhood in New Zealand. In Liamputtong, P. (Ed.). Reproduction, Childbearing and Motherhood: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (239-251). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Pavagada, R., DeSouza, R. (2007). Culture and mental health care in New Zealand: indigenous and non-indigenous people. In K. Bhui & D. Bhugra (Eds.), Culture and mental health (pp. 245-260). London: Hodder Arnold.

DeSouza, R. (Jan, 2007). Multicultural relationships in supervision. In D. Wepa (Ed), Clinical supervision in the health professions: The New Zealand experience. Auckland: Pearson Education.

DeSouza, R. (2005). Working with migrant and refugee women. In A. Hodren (Ed.), Royal New Zealand Plunket Society National Resource Manual. (pp. 72-77). Wellington: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society.

DeSouza, R. (2005). Postnatal mental health. In A. Hodren (Ed.), Royal New Zealand Plunket Society National Resource Manual. (pp. 99-113) Wellington: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society.

Williamson, A., Kennedy, D. M., DeSouza, R., & McNaught, C. (2005). Managing intellectual capital and intellectual property within software development communities of practice. In E. Coakes & S. Clarke (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management (pp. 364-374). Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

De Souza, R. (2004). Working with refugees and migrants. In D. Wepa (Ed.), Cultural safety (pp. 122-133). Auckland: Pearson Education New Zealand.

Wood, P., Bradley, P., & De Souza, R. (2004). Mental Health in Australia and New Zealand. In R. Elder, K. Evans & D. Nizette (Eds.), Practical perspectives in psychiatric and mental health nursing (pp. 80-98). New South Wales: Elsevier Australia.

Peach, J, Ehau, N. De Souza, R, Nonu-Reid, E. (1997). Documenting the cultural dimension of practice. In J. Richmond. (Ed.), Nursing Documentation: Writing what we do. Melbourne: Ausmed.

• De Souza, R., Khorana, S., and Chatranshi, B. (2022). New mothers and apps during COVID-19. All the support fell out: South Asian migrant perspectives. RMIT University, Melbourne and Young and Resilient Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney.
• Hjorth, L., Richardson, I., Andrejevic, M., De Souza, R., and Davies, H. (2020). COVIDSafe: Perceptions and Practices Summary Report. RMIT University, Melbourne.
• Hjorth, L., Richardson, I., Andrejevic, M., De Souza, R., and Davies, H. (2020). COVIDSafe: Perceptions and Practices Summary Report. RMIT University, Melbourne.
• Richardson, I., Hendry, N., Gomes, C., Coombs, G., Hjorth, L., DeSouza, R., Harris, A. (2020). HDR Belonging: Practices & Perceptions during COVID-19, Report 2. Melbourne: RMIT University
• DeSouza, R., Hendry, N., Stevens, R., Gomes, C., Harris, A., Hjorth, L., Richardson, I., & Kokanovic, R. (2020). In a time of uncertainty: supporting belonging and wellbeing for HDR students. Melbourne: RMIT University.
• Team,V., Whittaker, A., Manderson, L., Quiazon, R., Murdolo, A & DeSouza, R. (2015). Contraceptive technologies and reproductive choice among immigrant women. Family Planning NSW: Sydney.
• DeSouza, R. (2012). Doing It for Ourselves: Refugee women on their own in New Zealand (pdf full report). Auckland: Refugee Services.
• McPherson, K., Diesfeld K, Schluter P, Travalglia S, Ryan B, DeSouza R, Boocock M, Harwood M, LaGrow S, Callaghan K, Gorman D, Tuiqereqere D. Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation under the Injury Prevention Rehabilitation and Compensation (IPRC) Act 2001 (2007). (A report commissioned by the Accident Compensation Corporation New Zealand). Auckland: AUT University
• Bellringer, M., Pulford, J., Abbott, M., DeSouza, R., & Clarke, D. (2007). Problem gambling: Barriers to help seeking behaviours [Final draft] (Technical). Auckland: Ministry of Health.
• DeSouza, R. (2006). New spaces and possibilities: The adjustment to parenthood for new migrant mothers. Wellington: Families Commission (pdf blueskies-desouza).
• Williamson, A., & DeSouza, R. (2006). Direct qualitative analysis of data from digital audio sources. Waitakere City: Wairua Consulting Limited.
• DeSouza, R., & Garrett, N. (2005). Access issues for Chinese people in New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University of Technology (access_issues).
• Williamson, A., & DeSouza, R. (2003). Evaluation of the Otara Digital Opportunities Project. Auckland, NZ: UNITEC Centre for IT Research.

• Moorley, C., Darbyshire, P., Serrant, L., Mohamed, J., Ali, P., & De Souza, R. (2020). “Dismantling structural racism: Nursing must not be caught on the wrong side of history.” Journal of Advanced Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14469
• DeSouza, R. (Winter, 2016). Disaster health. Receiving the stranger. The Hive (Australian College of Nursing), 14(12).
• DeSouza, R. (Autumn, 2016). Indigenous and Multicultural health. Embracing uncertain ground, multicultural health.  The Hive (Australian College of Nursing), 13(13).
• DeSouza, R. (Summer2014/15). Passion and knowledge: The craft of being a mental health nurse. The Hive (Australian College of Nursing), 8(10-11).
• DeSouza, R. (2012). Celebrating our differences to make nursing stronger. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 18(7) .

• De Souza, R. (2021/2022). Lessons on exclusion from past pandemics. The Hive (Australian College of Nursing), 36(16–17).
• De Souza, R. and Higgins, R. (2020). Taking action for cultural safety. Arts wellbeing collective. Spotlight: Promoting positive mental health and wellbeing in the performing arts, 2, 46-49.
• De Souza, R. and Higgins, R. (2020, June 21). Taking action for cultural safety. Arts Hub.
• De Souza, R. (2020, January 13). The potential and pitfalls of AI. The Hive. Australian College of Nursing. Australian College of Nursing.
• DeSouza, R. (2018). Is it enough? :Why we need more than diversity in nursing. The Hive (23, 14-15).
• DeSouza, R. (2018). Busting five myths about cultural safety – please take note, Sky News et al. Croakey March 26, 2018.
• DeSouza, R. (2015). Medical pluralism: Supporting co-existing diverse therapeutic traditions in mental health. Australian Mosaic (FECCA). 41, 34-36.
• DeSouza, R. (2008). Accessing nursing workforce information.(Letter to the editor). Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 14.7(1), 3.
• Gao, W., DeSouza, R., Paterson, J., & Lu, T. (2008). Having more knowledge of cervical cancer does not increase uptake of screening in Chinese women: findings from a New Zealand study. New Zealand Medical Journal, 121 (1277), 106-107.
• DeSouza, R. (2006). Experiences of migrant mothers. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 12.11(1), 3.
• DeSouza, R. (2007). Students questions prompt response. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 13.1(1), 4.

Tufunga Arts Trust: Lotus in Bloom 9th October -22nd November 2015,catalogue essay, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
Bepen Bhana: Postcards from the Edge 4 May-7 July 2013 catalogue essay in Postcards from the Edge, a solo exhibition by Auckland-based artist Bepen Bhana exploring the history of New Zealand’s landscape in painting and as a backdrop for Bollywood films, at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland.

Editorial Board member of the journals: Transcultural Nursing, The Hive (Publication of the Australian College of Nursing) and Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Ethnicity and Health, Women’s Studies Journal of New Zealand, The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, AlterNative, Collegian, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (IJMBS), Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. (Massey University), Journal of Advanced Nursing, Transcultural Nursing, Contemporary Nurse, Diversity in Health and Social Care, Paediatric Child Health Nursing, International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, Journal of Palliative Care, Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, Health & Social Care in the Community, Health and Place, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Social Work Review, The American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Women’s Health and Urban Life journal, Bulletin of Information Technology Research, SIGNS, SITES, Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Journal of Neonatal, Whitireia Nursing Journal, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.

• 2020 Centres of Research Excellence, Royal Society of New Zealand.
• 2015 National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Project Grants funding
• 2015 Health Research Council of New Zealand: Maori Health Committee programme proposal
• 2014 Health Research Council of New Zealand: Maori Health Committee programme proposal
• 2011 Lottery Health Research Committee – New Zealand Lotteries Commission
• 2010 Lottery Health Research Committee – New Zealand Lotteries Commission
• 2007 Marsden Fund Fast Start applications (contestable fund administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand)
• 2005 Health Research Council of New Zealand: Research Proposals for funding

• 2022 Examiner: Masters of Public Health, University of Otago.
• 2021 Examiner: Doctor of Philosophy, School of Nursing/ École des sciences infirmières, University of Ottawa/ Université d’Ottawa.
  2020 Examiner: Doctor of Philosophy, School of Education, Massey University.
• 2020 Examiner: Masters of Public Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland.
• 2017 Examiner: Masters of Public Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland.
• 2015 Examiner: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Waikato, Political Science and Public Policy.
• 2014 Examiner: Doctor of Philosophy, School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work, University of Auckland.
• 2014 Examiner: Doctor of Philosophy, School of Geography, University of Waikato.
• 2014 Examiner: Masters of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Auckland.
• 2013 Examiner: Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Flinders University
• 2012 Examiner: Master of Development Studies, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Science. Victoria University of Wellington.
• 2010 Examiner: Master of Public Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland.
• 2008 Examiner: Master of Arts (Psychology) Massey University.
• 2007 Examiner: Master of Arts (Psychology) Massey University.
• 2006 Examiner: Master of Arts (Social Policy) Massey University.
• 2006 Examiner: Master of Arts (Nursing) Victoria University.

• 2018 : Dr Danny Butt, Dr Ruth De Souza, Tania Canas. “Performing Statelessness”. Seed Funding Scheme, University of Melbourne Statelessness Hallmark Research Initiative.
• 2014 A/Prof Yelena Tsarenko, Dr Dewi Tojib, Dr RoseAnne Misajon, Dr Ruth DeSouza. Social determinants of wellbeing for ethnic women: Improving support services for recent immigrants. Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Grant Scheme, Faculty of Business and Economics Monash University.
• 2014: Dr Mark Symmons, Dr Meredith McIntyre, Dr Ruth DeSouza, Tony Woods, Lesley Macgibbon. ‘Optimising direct entry success: an online transition course for students beginning university at second year’. Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Innovation and Development Grant.
• 2009: Ruth DeSouza. Vice Chancellor’s Staff PhD Completion Award. AUT University.
• 2009: Ruth DeSouza. Jenni Broom, Jill Conway: ‘Research into the Resettlement Experience and Special Needs of Women at Risk: an evaluation to create best practice support systems’. Lotteries Community Sector Research Fund.
• 2008: Ruth DeSouza .Migrant fathers’ experiences of fathering in a new country: Implications for health and social service providers. AUT Internal Contestable Grant.
• 2007: Professor Kathryn McPherson, Dr Deborah Payne, Dr Dianne Roy, Professor Cynthia Farquhar, Dr Matire Harwood, Ms Ruth DeSouza, Associate Professor Lynne Giddings. Improving health interventions and support for mothers experiencing disability.
• 2006. Waller, N., DeSouza, R.  Trauma and migrant women, Internal contestable grant.
• 2006. Gao, W., DeSouza, R. and Paterson, J. Pilot study: The uptake of cervical screening in Chinese immigrants in Auckland    Internal contestable grant.
• 2006: Abbot, M. and DeSouza, R.  Barriers and enablers to help seeking for problem gamblers and families. Ministry of Health.
• 2005 McPherson, K., Diesfeld, K. et al.,Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation under the IPRC Act. Accident Compensation Corporation.
• 2005: DeSouza, R. and  Macfarlane, E. The adjustment to parenting for ethnic women and the implications for health policy and service delivery, Families Commission Blue Skies Funding.
• 2005: Williamson, A. and DeSouza, R  Evaluation of the use of ICT in early childhood education    City of Manukau Education Trust.
• 2005: Williamson, A. and DeSouza, R. Evaluation of youth skills project, Enterprise Waitakere.
• 2005: DeSouza, R. Bellringer, M. and Garrett, N. Access Issues for Chinese People in New Zealand    Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).
• 2005: DeSouza, R. and  Macfarlane, E. The adjustment to parenting for ethnic women and the implications for health policy and service delivery, Royal New Zealand Plunket volunteers.
• 2004. Guerin, B., DeSouza R. and Dunstan, S. First National Refugee Research Conference. SPEaR.
• 2004: Craig, B., Williamson, A., and DeSouza, R. National survey of community ICT planning, training and support. Department of Labour.
• 2003: Williamson, A., and DeSouza R. Evaluation of Otara Digital Opportunities Project City of Manukau Education Trust.