Julia Ioane

Julia Ioane
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Thesis	A comparison of Pacific Island violent youth offenders with Maori and Palagi violent youth offenders (2011)
Doctoral advisor	Ian Lambie, Heather McDowell, Teuila Percival
Academic work
Institutions	Auckland University of Technology, Massey University

Apaula Julia Ioane is a Samoan New Zealand clinical psychologist and academic, and is a full professor in the School of Psychology at Massey University, specialising in childhood trauma, family violence and youth offending.

Early life and education

Ioane was born in New Zealand to Samoan parents, and speaks Samoan and English. She was raised in South Auckland. She holds the chiefly title Folasāitu from the village of Fasito’o uta, and also has ancestral links to the village of Leauva’a.

Ioane graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Auckland in 1998. Ioane's interest in psychology had developed when working at the Ministry of Education. She realised that a family who were new migrants from Samoa were not going to understand the interventions they were being asked to make, and was told by the psychologist involved that there were not enough Samoan psychologists. Ioane then returned to Auckland University for a postgraduate diploma in psychology (2007), an honours degree (2010), and a Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree with a thesis titled A comparison of Pacific Island violent youth offenders with Maori and Palagi violent youth offenders (2012).

Academic career

Ioane worked for a community provider of a programme for sexual offenders, and then the Regional Youth Forensic Service, before joining the faculty of Auckland University of Technology as a lecturer. She also began to research how psychology practice could be changed to be more responsive to the needs of Pacific people. Her work with young offenders also led her to question why some Pacific youths enter the youth justice system and others don't, when from the outside the family may seem similar. Ioane later joined the faculty of Massey University, rising to full professor from 2024.

Ioane was an expert witness for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, providing evidence on the system changes required to provide redress from a Pacific perspective. She has also consulted to the judiciary in Samoa, and is on a number of governance boards and advisory boards in New Zealand.

Selected works

• Ian Lambie; Julia Ioane; Isabel Randell; Fred Seymour (9 August 2013). "Offending behaviours of child and adolescent firesetters over a 10-year follow-up". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 54 (12): 1295–1307. doi:10.1111/JCPP.12126. ISSN 1469-7610. PMID 23927002. Wikidata Q39370345.
• Julia Ioane; Ian Lambie; Teuila Percival (4 December 2014). "A Comparison of Pacific, Māori, and European Violent Youth Offenders in New Zealand". International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 60 (6): 657–674. doi:10.1177/0306624X14560725. ISSN 0306-624X. PMID 25476711. Wikidata Q39083574.
• Julia Ioane (November 2017), Talanoa with Pasifika youth and their families, vol. 46, pp. 38–45, Wikidata Q124102064
• Julia Ioane; Teuila Percival; Winnie Laban; Ian Lambie (2021), All of community by all-of-government: reaching Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand during the Covid-19 pandemic (PDF) (in undetermined language), vol. 134, pp. 96–103, Wikidata Q124102063
• Julia Ioane; I. Lambie (1 November 2016), Pacific youth and violent offending in Aotearoa New Zealand (in undetermined language), vol. 45, pp. 23–29, Wikidata Q124102062
• Julia Ioane; Keith Tudor (13 September 2017). "The fa'asamoa, person-centered theory and cross-cultural practice". Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. 16 (4): 287–302. doi:10.1080/14779757.2017.1361467. ISSN 1477-9757. Wikidata Q124102069.
• Julia Ioane; Ian Lambie; Teuila Percival (July 2013). "A review of the literature on Pacific Island youth offending in New Zealand". Aggression and Violent Behavior. 18 (4): 426–433. doi:10.1016/J.AVB.2013.05.002. ISSN 1359-1789. Wikidata Q60638826.