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  • The Koha of COVID

    COVID project

    Research on the impact of COVID-19 on Māori tends to highlight its negative outcomes. This strengths-based research project examines improvements in Māori wellbeing that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • 2016 Seminars

    The Legal Opportunity for Maori Leading NZ Into the Future

    Jacinta Ruru is co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, and Professor of Law at the University of Otago. Her research has focused on exploring Indigenous peoples' legal rights to own, manage and govern land and water including national parks and minerals in Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, United States, Australia and the Scandinavia countries.

  • The making of indigenous personhood: a comparative assessment of legal processes for the establishment of indigeneity

    Project Purpose: Settler societies such as Aotearoa New Zealand are fundamentally founded on the encounter between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. As the Europeans expanded their territorial rule, they had to come to terms with how to regulate their relations with the indigenous peoples they encountered.

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  • The mental, relational, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing of Māori during and post-lockdown

    COVID project

    New research analyses the mental, relational, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing of over 3000 Māori during and post-lockdown through Te Rangahau o Te Tuakiri Māori me Ngā Waiaro ā-Pūtea | The Māori Identity and Financial Attitudes Study (MIFAS).



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  • 2013 Seminars

    The Multidimensional Measure of Māori Identity and Cultural Engagement

    The wide variety of cultural and social features among Māori present a formidable challenge to those who seek to understand Māori identity – what ‘it’ is and how ‘it’ may be conceptualised and defined.

  • 2008 Conference

    The Ngāti Kahungunu Violence-free Iwi Strategy