I don't have any issue in principle with any of these as research topics, but my concerns are. 1. So what? We do research, maybe we find something out, and are

I don't have any issue in principle with any of these as research topics, but my concerns are. 1. So what? We do research, maybe we find something out, and are we going to do anything? 2. Would the money be better spent on programmes that do something instead of specific research. 3. What's the process for getting funded, and are decision makers bringing their own biases and beliefs into that process? In the context of NZ which is slashing spending on many many programmes, you might as well cancel all this research spending. Even if research finds that we should intervene and provide support for some kind of minority group, there's no way it's going to get funded anyway.