NPM is honoured to welcome 20 Raumati Interns who will work with researchers from our national network over the summer on a diverse range of exciting projects. The Raumati Internship Programme aims to grow and support the professional development of our up-and-coming researchers. They are a passionate and enthusiastic group and we look forward to supporting them to flourish in their academic lives while making lasting connections within their professional network.
Intern: Sophie Newton | Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Tukorohe
Intern: Ben Barton | Te Arawa
Developing a Bibliography of Politics Research by Kairangahau Māori
Supervisor: Dr Lara Greaves | Ngāpuhi
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Intern: Keenen Wood | Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Rarua, Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Te reo Māori Smart Home Voice Assistant
Supervisor: Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan| Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakaue
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato
Intern: Courtney Smith | Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa
Tihei Mauriora, Tihei Mana Motuhake: Breathing mauri and mana motuhake into the lives of rangatahi Māori who offend and their whānau with lived experience of trauma.
Supervisor: Dr Tania Cliffe-Tautari | Te Arawa, Ngāi Tahu
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Intern: Nadine Everson | Te Arawa
Health systems and decolonisation: Preliminary activities to understand health system perspectives
Supervisor: Dr Karen Wright | Kai Tahu
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Intern: Grace Manihera | Ngaati-Wairere me Ngaati-Mahuta
Using a Māori lens to analyse media discourse on the introduction of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022
Supervisor: Associate Professor Bridgette Masters-Awatere | Te Rarawa, Ngai te Rangi, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau and Dr Amohia Boulton | Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Pukenga
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato
Intern: Te Hirea Doherty | Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngapūhi
A kaupapa Māori literature review of cannabis and methamphetamine use experiences of Māori
Supervisor: Dr Erena Wikaire | Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Intern: Emma Jones | Ngāti Porou
Building an Indigenous Science curriculum in tertiary education
Supervisor: Associate Professor Anne-Marie, Jackson | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Wai
Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago
Intern: Tane Whitehead | Te Āti Awa me Taranaki
Hangaia ana te whare o Indigenous Science
Supervisor: Associate Professor, Anne-Marie, Jackson | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Wai
Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago
Intern: Hinemoa Watene | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Rongowhakaata
Flourishing Wāhine Māori Identities in Women’s Rugby
Supervisor: Dr Jeremy Hapeta | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Wai
Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago
Intern: Hana Vause | Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa
Traditional understandings of wāhine Māori, their roles, and maintenance of their safety: Kaumatua and kuia perspectives
Supervisor: Professor Denise Wilson | Tainui, Ngāti Porou ki Harataunga, Whakatohea, Ngāti Oneone, Tūwharetoa, and Dr Alayne Mikahere-Hall | Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua, Tainui
Institution: Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau | Auckland University of Technology
Intern: Georgia Palmer | Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pikiao
Maramataka Māori Embedding Indigenous Knowledge(s) in Education
Supervisor: Dr Hurinui Clarke & Kari Moana Te Rongopatahi
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | The University of Canterbury
Intern: Kate Palmer-Neels | Ngāpuhi
He mauri tō te tamaiti: Ākonga Māori motivation in education
Supervisor: Professor Melinda Webber | Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Intern: Te Hau Ariki Gardiner | Ngai te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāpuhi
eHealth initiatives in surgery: Cultural co-design of a general surgical patient-centred App
Supervisor: Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai | Ngāti Porou
Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago
Intern: Ashleigh Witehira | Ngāpuhi, Whakatōhea, Tainui
Exploring the long-term impact of COVID on the social, cultural, mental, and physical wellbeing of individuals, communities, and workplaces.
Supervisors: Dr Kiri Edge | Ngāti Maniapoto, and Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Māhaki
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Intern: Moana Murray | Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa
Kākāpō: Regenerating knowledge of an endangered Taonga species
Supervisor: Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Intern: Tama Blackburn | Ngati Maniapoto; Ngati Kinohaku
He hakune rangahau o Te Atiawa: What could a Te Atiawa research model and methodology look like?
Supervisors: Dr Kiri Edge | Ngāti Maniapoto, and Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tuhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki
Institution: (NPM) Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
Intern: Jasmine Fraser | Te Arawa, Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa and Ātihaunui ā Pāpārangi
He oranga whānau: mahi ngātahi Whānau livelihoods within the context of work and Māori economies of wellbeing
Supervisors: Professor Chellie Spiller | Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Associate Professor Jason Mika | Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato
Intern: Toiroa Whaanga-Davies | Ngāti Rakaipaaka/Ngāti Kahungungu Ngāti Rehua/Ngāti Wai
NPM Cawthron Te Pītau Whakarei Karahipi : Mātauranga Māori research and learning resources
Supervisor: Cawthron - Heni Unwin | Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi
Intern: Edie Balme | Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga
Tangi as a transferable mourning and grief model
Supervisor: Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Māhaki
Institution: (NPM) Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland
He Kōrero | Our Stories
Tairāwhiti local Manu Caddie is a vocal critic of forestry companies engaged in unsustainable land practices in the rohe. He shares his insights on what needs to change".
Last year a new species of fresh water golden clam was discovered in the Waikato awa. Its discovery spurred whānau, hapū and iwi to learn about the invasive species and to mobilise to stop its spread.
Neuroscientist Nicole Edwards is establishing her own lab at the University of Auckland and is eager to tautoko students interested in a career in brain research.