Tim McCreanor is a New Zealand-based researcher and commentator in public health. Themes in his work include racial discrimination, the wellbeing and health of young people, and representations in various forms of media. McCreanor is widely published in books, academic articles and reports. Often McCreanors' work is about decolonisation which he writes about from a Pākehā (white New Zealanders) point of view.
McCreanor completed a PHD at the University of Auckland in 1995, the title is Pakeha discourses of Maori/Pakeha relations. He has worked at the University of Auckland and is a professor within the College of Health at the SHORE and Whariki Research Centre at Massey University. As a commentator McCreanor has been published in The Conversation, Newsroom and presenter at conferences Te Tiriti-based Futures and Anti-racism and The New Zealand Pschychological Society Annual Conference 2009. He was co-editor of the book New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations (2005) alongside Tracey McIntosh, James H Liu and Teresia Teaiwa.
