Paul Spoonley

Paul Spoonley is a New Zealand sociologist and emeritus professor at Massey University where his specialist area is social change and demography and how this impacts policy decisions at the political level.

Spoonley has led numerous externally funded research programmes, written, or edited twenty-seven books and is a regular commentator in the news media. Educated both in New Zealand and England, his work on racism, immigration and ethnicity is widely discussed in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings (2019) and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul is providing a lecture called Shifting Demographics and speaking at the What Will 2050 Look Like? events at the Wao Summit 2024.