Associate Professor Sonya Withers
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Associate Professor CoCA Maori and Pacific Arts - Te Ranga Tai Kura
Sonya Withers is a New Zealand born Pacific creative with whakapapa back to Scotland and Sama’i, Falelatai, Sāmoa. Sonya is a graduate of the College of Creative Arts, with BDes (Textile Design major) and postgraduate qualifications in Visual and Material Culture and a Masters in Design. Sonya is a Design lecturer at the College of Creative Arts School of Design and teaches across Textile Studio and Critical and Contextual Studies.
Rangahau · Related projects
24MR04Te Rangianiwaniwa a Te Harakeke – The Harakeke’s Rainbow
This research supports iwi-led, tikanga-informed innovation, grounded in Kaupapa Māori methodology. Through wānanga and co-design with Ngāti Tukorehe, the team is developing safe, solvent-free dye processes that respect tikanga and are reproducible in community settings.
View projectTe Rangianiwaniwa a Te Harakeke – The Harakeke’s Rainbow
This research supports iwi-led, tikanga-informed innovation, grounded in Kaupapa Māori methodology. Through wānanga and co-design with Ngāti Tukorehe, the team is developing safe, solvent-free dye processes that respect tikanga and are reproducible in community settings.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Associate Professor Sonya Withers
Associate Professor Sonya Withers
Sonya Withers is a New Zealand born Pacific creative with whakapapa back to Scotland and Sama’i, Falelatai, Sāmoa. Sonya is a graduate of the College of Creative Arts, with BDes (Textile Design major) and postgraduate qualifications in Visual and Material Culture and a Masters in Design. Sonya is a Design lecturer at the College of Creative Arts School of Design and teaches across Textile Studio and Critical and Contextual Studies. -
Dr. Tanya Ruka
Dr. Tanya Ruka
Ko Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka ahau, Ngati Pakau, Ngapuhi te Iwi. Tanya Ruka is a research-based contemporary arts practitioner, educator, author, editor, curator & publisher.2025 DNDA Don Norman Design Award in EducationHer work in the digital landscape, is dedicated to embedding indigenous knowledge and perspectives into contemporary narratives and practices. Firmly placing Indigenous ways of knowing and being in landless territories of new imagined futures. AIRI (Artificial Indigenous Relational Intelligence) - coined by Tanya 2024 PhD - training educational/ relational AI with… -
Briar Moffat
Briar Moffat
Kō Tainui te WakaKō Tararua te MaungaKō Ōtaki me Ōhau ngā AwaKō Ngāti Tukorehe me Ngāti Raukawa te iwiKō Briar Moffatt tāku ingoaI am the Founder and Director of Whare Kōtare -
Dr. William Xu
Dr. William Xu
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Ally Ataria
Ally Ataria
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Julia Hope
Julia Hope
Julia Hope is a textiles artist who completed her Masters of Design at Massey University. -
Huhana Smith
Huhana Smith
Professor Huhana Smith is a visual artist, curator and principle investigator in research who engages in major environmental, trans-disciplinary, kaupapa Māori and action-research projects. She is co-principle investigator for research that includes mātauranga Māori methods with sciences to actively address climate change concerns for coastal Māori lands in Horowhenua-Kāpiti. Huhana actively encourages the use of art and design’s visual systems combined in exhibitions, to expand how solutions might integrate complex issues and make solutions more accessible for local communities. -
Faith Kane
Faith Kane
Faith Kane is a design researcher and educator working in the area of textiles and materials. Her research interests include design for sustainability, collaborative working in the design/science space and the role and value of craft knowledge within these contexts. She is also an editor of the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice. Find out more about Faith’s work at www.faithkane.com
Ētahi atu · Other people
Dr Pikihuia Pomare
Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngā Rauru, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Paoa
Massey University
I am an Associate Professor of Kaupapa Māori Psychology and a Clinical Psychologist. My research is grounded in…
Dr Pikihuia Pomare
I am an Associate Professor of Kaupapa Māori Psychology and a Clinical Psychologist. My research is grounded in mātauranga Māori and Indigenous Psychologies, with a focus on rongoā Māori and te taiao (traditional healing, the natural environment), wairuatanga and spirituality, Māori mental health, and child and youth mental health, including digital technologies. In 2021, I received the Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie Fellowship (Health Research Council of New Zealand) for a 4.5-year project, Mauri Tau, which examines mauri tau as a Māori framework for wellbeing and emotion regulation.Research…
Erani Motu
Ngā Puhi, Cook Island Māori, Ngati Tautahi
Massey University
Erani identifies as Māori, Cook Island Māori and Pakeha, of Ngā Puhi and Ngati Tautahi descent. A Doctoral student in…
Erani Motu
Erani identifies as Māori, Cook Island Māori and Pakeha, of Ngā Puhi and Ngati Tautahi descent. A Doctoral student in the Massey University Albany Psychology Clinical Programme, her research focuses on exploring cultural safety of assessments conducted for Rangatahi Māori with offending behaviour in Te Whatu Ora. Erani’s project is in an area with limited research and will explore culturally safe assessment for rangatahi Māori. She will also explore what cultural safety is for rangatahi Māori, the assessment processes' cultural safety, and rangatahi engagement with their assessors. Using a…
Deacon Fisher
Ngāpuhi
Massey University
Deacon Fisher (Ngapuhi) is a Lecturer and PhD student within Massey's School of Social Work.
Deacon Fisher
Deacon Fisher (Ngapuhi) is a Lecturer and PhD student within Massey's School of Social Work.