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Associate Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem
A Pacific feminist development geographer of Cook Island, Niuean and Pakeha descent, Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem is…
Associate Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem
A Pacific feminist development geographer of Cook Island, Niuean and Pakeha descent, Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem is the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga connector to the Pacific Aotearoa Researcher Collective.Yvonne joined the staff in Pacific Studies, Te Wānanga o Waipapa (Maori Studies and Pacific Studies), Faculty of Arts in 2021 after many years in Development Studies. Her expertise areas are: Gender and development, critical population geographies, feminist political ecology, Pacific development, and progressive social movements.
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Associate Professor Ocean Mercier
Ngāti Porou
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Ocean’s teaching and research interests are varied, but her key focus is how mātauranga Māori and science connect and…
Associate Professor Ocean Mercier
Ocean’s teaching and research interests are varied, but her key focus is how mātauranga Māori and science connect and relate, particularly in educational contexts and using novel digital technologies. She co-leads a National Science Challenge project investigating the perceptions of novel biotechnological controls of pest wasps in Aotearoa. Her research also involves kaupapa Māori reading of films. She is the presenter of Māori Television's Project Mātauranga and presents for TVNZ’s Coast.
Current research projects
- Social and cultural perceptions of novel biotechnological controls of pest wasps, with Prof. Phil Lester
- Virtual exchanges on Indigenous knowledge(s) and science in global contexts, with Dr Beth Leonard, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- Student learning and engagement in the Te Kawa a Māui Atlas
- Place-based and map-based work in Māori Studies
- The 48 Hour Film Competition: what do the audio commentaries reveal?
Research interests
- The interface between mātauranga Māori and science
- Cultural mapping and digital media in documenting local knowledge and diversifying the tertiary education experience
- Kaupapa Māori readings of film, especially those of Taika Waititi
- Portrayals of culture in limited-time film, especially the V48 Hours Furious Filmmaking Competition
- Use of locally relevant 'cultural context' in science resources, especially Te Whata Kura Ahupungao, an initiative of the Faculty of Science (Equity) that has provided multimedia resources for learners and teachers of physics. Short, educational films can be downloaded or watched online in te reo and English.
- Indigenous academic experience.
- Jovan Mokaraka-Harris Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Wai Massey University
Jovan Mokaraka-Harris
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Rebecca Kiddle
Rebecca Kiddle began her career working for the New Zealand government. Following the completion of undergraduate…
Rebecca Kiddle
Rebecca Kiddle began her career working for the New Zealand government. Following the completion of undergraduate degrees in Politics, Women’s and Maori studies, where she worked predominantly as a Housing policy analyst for the Aotearoa/New Zealand government and as Private Secretary Housing for the Associate Minister of Housing in New Zealand’s parliament. During this time she became increasingly aware of the need to link housing research and policy to physical space design more directly. This led her to undertaking an MA and PhD in urban design at the Joint Centre for Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University, throughout which she has focused my research on topics that aim to realise the built environment implications of current policy and practice. For her MA, she explored the spatial implications of policy that encourages mixed income neighbourhoods. For my PhD, she investigated the spatial implications of social constructivist pedagogy on university educational space. Throughout my PhD, she taught on both postgraduate and undergraduate modules at the Joint Centre of Urban Design.
More recently she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London on a project called Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging funded by the European Research Council. This transnational and interdisciplinary project explores “what indigeneity has come to mean in particular places and at key moments over the last several decades, and what kind of cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic issues are negotiated within its canvass” (www.indigeneity.net). Her fellowship sought to understand how Māori notions of sustainability and Māori identity generally could be used to inform New Zealand’s place identity.
Rebecca then spent 3 years working in China at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design before returning home to Aotearoa to work for Victoria University as a Lecturer in Environmental Studies and Geography.