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Tangata · Researcher

Dr Terina Raureti

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Building on her postgraduate studies on Māori water safety, Terina Raureti decided that for her PhD “to be authentic to who I am and of benefit to my community, I needed to be at home doing it with my own whānau, in our own river and waterway”.

The mahi was undertaken with her whānau of Ngāti Kapu in Ōtaki, and the Karitāne whānau, where she developed a model, Kauora, for understanding swimming from a whānau Māori perspective.

“The aims of this research were to understand how whānau practice and perceive swimming and its contribution to whānau health and well-being, and to create a swimming initiative that satisfies the needs of our whānau and wider iwi Māori,” Terina explains. The overarching vision of reengaging with swimming from a whānau lens is ultimately to help strengthen connection to wai to flourish hauora, and help to reduce drowning statistics.

Rangahau · Related projects

Matakitenga project

24MR17Kauora ki te Ao
Kaiārahi · Project lead Dr Terina Raureti
Whare wānanga · Host University of Otago
Matakitenga · Framework
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2024 · Completed 2025

Kauora is a whānau-derived theory and practice of swimming, developed through Raureti’s doctoral research, that redefines how whānau engage in kaupapa wai. This project supports its implementation by developing a data sovereignty policy for Ngāti Kapu to guide the protection and long-term sustainability of mātauranga, reo and whānau data gathered through…

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