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  • 2013 Seminars

    Using technology to support the long-term health of the Māori language

    Minority language speakers are being placed under increasing pressure to use languages that are moredominant, more prestigious, or more widely known.

  • Utilising Mātauranga to Guide Biomedical Research

    Doctoral Thesis
    Pātai Te Ao Māori

    PhD Candidate: Mana Mitchell (Ngāti Maniapoto)

    Primary Supervisor(s): Dr Esther Willing

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  • Events & Launches

    Vanuatu Climate Change Workshops: Group Sanma

    Sanma is a province of Vanuatu which includes the second largest city in Vanuatu, Luganville and the islands of Malo and Espiritu Santo. In this video, Peter Napwatt from the Vanuatu Agricultural College discusses with Ranga Tatenga how climate change is impacting on cocoa crops and strategies for adapting to these changes.

  • Events & Launches

    Vanuatu Climate Change Workshops: Group Torba

    Torba is the northernmost province of Vanuatu that includes the Banks Islands and Torres Islands. In this video climate change scientist Dr Jim Salinger and farmers from Torba interview coconut farmer Kevin Henderson on how changes in weather patterns are affecting his crops.

    These video clips were recorderd using Flip Videos and edited on I Movie for an English speaking audience.

  • Virtual Repatriation: A database of Māori taonga in overseas museums

    Scoping project

    There are more than 16,000 Māori treasures held in overseas museums, art galleries and allied institutions. Unfortunately, the knowledge about many of these taonga has been mainly confined to museum personnel, academics and scholars who have visited these institutions. Māori people have been largely dislocated and alienated from their taonga and been the passive observers of the research and knowledge about them.
     

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  • 2010 Symposium

    Wai Māori and Kaitiekitanga