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  • 2014 Conference

    Transformation across the Māori research and development sector

    The Hon Dr Pita R Sharples, JP, CBE is a Māori academic and politician, who was a co-leader of the Māori Party from 2004 to 2013, and a Minister outside Cabinet from 2008 to 2014. He was first elected to the House of Representatives as a Māori Party Member of Parliament on 17 September 2005 for the Electorate of Tāmaki Makaurau and was re-elected in the 2008 and 2011 General Elections.

  • Transformations of entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership

    Project purpose: The project is a Marsden Fund grant that examines entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership. For 40 years there has been no major analytical work on contemporary Māori leadership.

    Economic Development

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  • Transformations of entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership: Internship Report

    Internship project

    Author: Raaniera Te Whata. Supervisor: Dr Merata Kawharu As there has been no major analytical works on contemporary Māori leadership, the purpose of this project is to contribute to addressing this knowledge gap by examining entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership and the role it can play in the revitalisation of wealth in New Zealand in terms of culture, identity, economics and politics.

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  • 2011 Symposium

    Transforming Māori Economic Development

    Professor Graham Smith, a prominent Māori educationalist, has been at the forefront of the alternative Māori initiatives in the education field and beyond. His recent academic work has centred on developing theoretically informed transformative strategies related to intervening in Māori cultural, political, social, educational and economic crises.

  • Trends in wellbeing for Māori families 1981–2006

    This project is contributing to the key policy area of whānau ora/ family wellbeing via new analysis of the wealth of data contained in the six national household censuses of 1981 to 2006.

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    Health Economic Development

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  • Events & Launches

    Trends in Wellbeing for Māori Families, 1981–2006

    The report tracks 25 years of wellbeing using census data to construct and report on household wellbeing indicators overtime. The report was commissioned by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and written by Associate Professor Cindy Kiro, Martin von Randow and Andrew Sporle.