Associate Professor Jade Le Grice

Tēnā koutou kātoa, he uri ahau o Ngāpuhi me Te Rarawa. Ko Ngai Tupoto, Ngati Korokoro, Ngati Wharara, Te Pouka ngā hapū. Nō Motukaraka me Pakanae ahau.

I am an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, where I am also Co‑Director of Te Pūtahi o Pūtaiao, The Centre for Kaupapa Māori Science.

I teach into three undergraduate and postgraduate courses that support foundational skills in Indigenous, kaupapa Māori & critical psychology. I have supervised over 15 doctoral, masters, honours, and clinical psychology students to completion, many of whom have gone on to hold leadership positions in universities, health services, iwi organisations, and community agencies.

My research programme centres on Indigenous sexual and reproductive justice, drawing on kaupapa Māori, feminist, and critical psychological approaches. My work explores how power, injustice, and resistance shape Māori lives and experiences of sexuality, reproduction, abortion, sexual violence, and is often developed in partnership with Māori communities. Through this work I have contributed to national policy reform, clinical guidelines, and capability frameworks across sexual and reproductive health and violence prevention sectors.

I have published over 40 peer‑reviewed outputs, including journal articles, books, book chapters, and nationally commissioned research reports, and my work has over 1,000 citations. I have held prestigious research funding from the Health Research Council and the Marsden Fund, and am frequently invited to present keynote and plenary lectures at national and international conferences.

I am also Co‑Director of Te Pūtahi o Pūtaiao, the Centre for Kaupapa Māori Science, where I provide strategic and operational leadership to support Indigenous research sovereignty, interdisciplinary collaboration, grant development, postgraduate and early-career researcher mentoring, and engagement with Māori communities. Through this centre, I support the cultivation of a research environment that centres Māori aspirations, Māori methodologies, and legitimates mātauranga Māori as a transdisciplinary knowledge base in Science. I previously served as Associate Dean Māori (Science) at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, collaborated with Māori staff in Science and partnered with Faculty leadership to advance strategic priorities for Māori staffing, student experience, research, teaching and learning. In this role, I contributed to academic committees, curriculum development, research strategy, and the development of Māori staffing and postgraduate pathways across the sciences.

Nationally, I have held leadership and advisory roles across academic associations, government ministries, and community organisations, particularly in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, sexual violence prevention, and Māori research ethics and practice. This includes contributions to policy development, clinical and professional standards, editorial boards, grant review panels, and national networks supporting Māori scholarship. I am currently on the Pae Takawaenga of Ngā Kaitiaki Mauri, of Te Ōhāki a Hine: National Network Ending Sexual Violence Together and am a member of He Paiaka Totara Māori Psychologists Network.