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Fulbright New Zealand and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence, call for applications to the 2015 Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate Award. This award, valued at up to US$33,000, is for a promising New Zealand graduate student to undertake postgraduate study or research at a US institution in the field of indigenous development during the 2015-2016 American academic year.

EARLYBIRD NOW CLOSES SEPTEMBER 17th 2014

Make sure you dont miss out on the 6th biennial Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 2014 International Indigenous Development Research Conference (IIDRC).

The conference is being held 25th - 28th November in Auckland, welcoming indigenous scholars from many different research fields and nations to come together and share knowledge, develop ideas and create innovative approaches to research. It will highlight indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for indigenous development.

Some economists argue for diversity in the way collective resources are managed rather than one having an unquestioning faith in leaving things to the market. Our team supports this thinking and look at how ethics and Māori knowledge can be used equally alongside economics in managing collective Māori assets. We argue that simple measures of collective well-being used alongside mainstream economics are robust enough to help us make collective decisions. The team is developing a Māori knowledge and ethics based decision-making framework for collective assets.

Kia hiwa rā! Nau mai, piki mai, haere mai!

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, in association with Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago, through their Te Kura Roa research programme, are launching a significant Māori language book ‘The Value of the Māori Language: Te Hua o Te Reo Māori’ on the 16th June 2014, 9.30am – 4.00pm at Te Whare Waka o Pōneke, 15 Jervois Quay Wellington.

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, in association with Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago, through their Te Kura Roa research programme, launched a significant Māori language book ‘The Value of the Māori Language: Te Hua o Te Reo Māori’ on the 16th June 2014 at Te Whare Waka o Pōneke, 15 Jervois Quay Wellington.

Soon after separating Ranginui and Papatūānuku, Tāne travelled into the heavens with the various celestial bodies, to suspend them in the sky bringing light unto the world. Within the basket ‘Te Mangoroa’ Tāne carried the stars, from which he drew forth the brightest and placed them against the chest of Ranginui. So enthralled was Tāne at what he had achieved that he accidently knocked the basket over scattering the remaining stars across the cosmos. As the stars spilled from the basket they clattered against one and other creating a ringing sound that resonated throughout the universe.

The announcement of $5 million per annum to maintain a Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) as of January 2016 will ensure the important, distinctive and multifaceted research that will serve the interests of Māori and New Zealand.

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) was delighted to receive the news confirming that Māori research has been valued and recognized by New Zealand’s government and that there is now permanent funding that will be secured through a contestable bidding process that will enable Māori research to expand.

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM), New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence, publically released its 2013 Annual Report. The report highlights the significant outputs, contributions and outcomes NPM produce for a mere $5.3 million of Centre of Research Excellence funding from the Tertiary Education Commission.

Among these significant contributions, NPM:
• Research produced
o a model of Māori educational success factors,
o an online decision-making tool for sustainable practice and development,
o identified critical elements and key success factors for childrearing,

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga are glad to announce that we have confirmed our international keynotes for the International Indigenous Development Conference 2014 are as follows: