NPM Researcher 146
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Pou Pae Ora, Pou Pātai Whānau
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine (Tūhoe) is a leading Māori health researcher and internationally respected authority on…
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine (Tūhoe) is a leading Māori health researcher and internationally respected authority on Indigenous child wellbeing. She is Research Director and Principal Investigator of Growing Up in New Zealand, Aotearoa’s flagship longitudinal study of child development, and a Professor at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.Her work in Kaupapa Māori epidemiology has influenced national policy in maternal and child health, racism and child wellbeing, food security, and youth wellbeing. Known for combining scientific rigour with strong community…
Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa
Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec
Rautaki MAI Te Kupenga
Associate Professor Deborah Heke (Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa) is the Director of Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research…
Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Associate Professor Deborah Heke (Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa) is the Director of Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research Centre at Unitec. With a background in Exercise Physiology, Psychology, and Public Health, her current research centres on Mana Wahine scholarship. Recent work includes an exploration of Māori and Indigenous women’s embodied practices and physical activity in te taiao as a means for connecting, communicating, and healing. Deborah is also passionate about building the capability and capacity of Māori and Indigenous (future) scholars and providing spaces for Indigenous…
Kiri Edge
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Kiri has contributed to a wide range of interdisciplinary research and evaluation projects across both academic and…
Kiri Edge
Kiri has contributed to a wide range of interdisciplinary research and evaluation projects across both academic and community contexts. Kiri is experienced working within complex and sensitive topics, and engaging with people, whānau, and communities that some consider ‘hard to reach’. Kiri’s research interests are diverse, but pivot towards endeavours that contribute towards Māori wellbeing and flourishing, equity, social justice and sustainable community-driven development. Kiri’s current rangahau interests include reclamation of indigenous pathways to wellbeing, grieving within and across…
Dr Awanui Te Huia
Ngāti Maniapoto
Independent Kaupapa Māori Researcher
Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a recipient of Ako Aotearoa Sustained Excellence in Tertiary…
Dr Awanui Te Huia
Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a recipient of Ako Aotearoa Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching Award (Kaupapa Māori Category), recognising her outstanding contribution to reo Māori education and kaupapa Māori research at Te Herenga Waka; Victoria University of Wellington.Her teaching is known for creating enjoyable, creative, and safe spaces that empower learners. Her teaching approach weaves together psychology, kaupapa Māori methods, and innovative tools to make te reo Māori accessible and inspiring for current and future learners. This nationally recognised…
Dr Matthew Rout
University of Canterbury
Senior Research Fellow Ngai Tahu Research Centre
Dr. Matthew Rout's research explores how Indigenous worldviews shape the institutions that govern economic activity…
Dr Matthew Rout
Dr. Matthew Rout's research explores how Indigenous worldviews shape the institutions that govern economic activity, environmental management, and public decision-making. Working at the nexus of political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental domains, his research examines how values, knowledge systems, and social organisation influence the ways societies coordinate collective action and pursue development. A central focus of his work is the application of te ao Māori and mātauranga Māori to contemporary policy challenges, including environmental governance, disaster risk reduction…
Professor Te Taka Keegan
Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakaue
University of Waikato
Professor Department of Software Engineering & Co-Director of AI Institute Maori Artificial Intelligence Institute
Nō Waikato-Maniapoto, nō Ngāti Porou, nō Ngāti Whakaue hoki.Kei Ngāhinapōuri e noho ana, kei te pūtake o te maunga o…
Professor Te Taka Keegan
Nō Waikato-Maniapoto, nō Ngāti Porou, nō Ngāti Whakaue hoki.Kei Ngāhinapōuri e noho ana, kei te pūtake o te maunga o Pirongia.Kua roa ia e mahi ana ki te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, me tana aro ki te whai huarahi mō te reo rangatira ki te ao hangarau.Te Taka received a Diploma in Computer Engineering from CIT (Wellington) in 1987. He spent six years working as a hardware engineer for Datacom and Digital before returning to the Waikato and Waikato University. He received a BA through the Te Tohu Paetahi stream (Māori immersion) and in 1996 was awarded an MA having completed a thesis on…
Professor Karyn Paringatai
Ngāti Porou
Te Tumu - University of Otago
Pou Pātai Te Ao Māori
Karyn Paringatai (Ngāti Porou) is a lecturer in Te Tumu – School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the…
Professor Karyn Paringatai
Karyn Paringatai (Ngāti Porou) is a lecturer in Te Tumu – School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago, where she obtained her BA (Hons), MA and PhD degrees. Her teaching and research interests are in a number of areas that intersect at various points that include: Sociological issues surrounding Māori urbanisation and Māori identity development and maintenance; Māori performing arts, particularly poi, the analysis of haka and waiata compositions and the role kapa haka plays in identity; Grammatical aspects of the Māori language and second language acquisition…
Professor Tahu Kukutai FRSNZ
Ngāti Tiipā, Ngāti Kinohaku, Te Aupouri, Ngāti Māhanga
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Pou Matarua
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Co-Director Tahu Kukutai is Professor of Demography at Te Ngira: Institute for Population…
Professor Tahu Kukutai FRSNZ
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Co-Director Tahu Kukutai is Professor of Demography at Te Ngira: Institute for Population Research, The University of Waikato where she specialises in Māori and Indigenous demography and data sovereignty. Tahu is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. She co-edited Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda (ANU Press, 2016), Indigenous data sovereignty and policy (Routledge, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology (Oxford) . Tahu has undertaken research with and for numerous…
Sacha McMeeking
Kai Tahu
University of Canterbury
Head of School, Māui Lab Co-Director
Sacha brings a serial entrepreneur’s approach to working with and for Iwi Māori. From instigating United Nations…
Sacha McMeeking
Sacha brings a serial entrepreneur’s approach to working with and for Iwi Māori. From instigating United Nations proceedings to architecting a Māori social enterprise fund and leading commercial negotiations, she is known for solution-building that meets Iwi Māori aspirations. Before coming to UC, Sacha was the director of a boutique consultancy working with Iwi Māori in strategy development, kaupapa Māori asset management and innovation and the General Manager Strategy and influence with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, responsible for government relations on behalf of the Iwi. Recognised as an…
Associate Professor Lynne Russell
Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Wainui ā Ru
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Associate Professor (Research) Māori Health Health Services Research Centre
Dr Lynne Russell is Ahorangi Tūhono (Rangahau), Hauora Māori | Associate Professor (Research), Māori Health, and…
Associate Professor Lynne Russell
Dr Lynne Russell is Ahorangi Tūhono (Rangahau), Hauora Māori | Associate Professor (Research), Māori Health, and Manutaki Takirua | Co-Director of Te Hikuwai Rangahau Hauora | Health Services Research Centre (THRH) at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Much of her professional and academic work has centred around the Indigenous knowledge and healing practices used in recovery from trauma associated with mental distress, suicide loss and self-harm. She describes herself as an writer, activist and public speaker stirred by cultural resilience, social justice, Indigenous and…
Dr Teorongonui Josie Keelan
Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Pouhere Rangahau
Josie has worked in tertiary education for 30 years. She was Dean of Teaching and Learning, Mātauranga Māori at Unitec…
Dr Teorongonui Josie Keelan
Josie has worked in tertiary education for 30 years. She was Dean of Teaching and Learning, Mātauranga Māori at Unitec from 2012-2019 and most recently Pou Rangahau at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, the Māori Centre of Research Excellence, Waipapa Taumata Rau: University of Auckland. Prior to working in tertiary education, Josie held several roles in the public sector at iwi, national and international levels. The most challenging was that of Executive Secretary for her iwi authority, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Porou when it was first established in 1985.
Dr Keri-Anne Wikitera
Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue
Wiki Consulting Ltd.
Director, Independent Researcher
Dr Keri Wikitera Governance leader, kaupapa Māori strategist, and Indigenous tourism specialist with extensive…
Dr Keri-Anne Wikitera
Dr Keri Wikitera Governance leader, kaupapa Māori strategist, and Indigenous tourism specialist with extensive experience across iwi governance, cultural heritage, research leadership, and strategic management. My work is grounded in whakapapa, tikanga Māori, and long-standing engagement with Te Whakarewarewa Valley and Ngāti Wāhiao Tūhourangi. I have worked across governance, academia, government, and community sectors leading kaupapa Māori initiatives, strategic projects, stakeholder engagement, and research focused on Indigenous development, cultural identity, and sustainable futures. I…
David Hakaraia
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Lecturer
David Hakaraia is the Programme Cluster Leader for the Communication Design, Design for Social Innovation, and Fashion…
David Hakaraia
David Hakaraia is the Programme Cluster Leader for the Communication Design, Design for Social Innovation, and Fashion disciplines at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University.
Dr Mike Ross
Ngāti Hauā
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Lecturer
Mike started at Victoria University of Wellington in 2011. Prior to that he worked for many years as a youth and…
Dr Mike Ross
Mike started at Victoria University of Wellington in 2011. Prior to that he worked for many years as a youth and community worker and during that time he also studied at Victoria University of Wellington and then at Te Wānanga o Raukawa.
Dr Tina Makereti
Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Lecturer
Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā) writes fiction and creative nonfiction…
Dr Tina Makereti
Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā) writes fiction and creative nonfiction that considers questions around cultural identity, history, prejudice and coloniality in Aotearoa. She has a strong interest in writing that explores unknowability and the uncanny. She is the author of a short story collection and three novels, most recently The Mires (Ultimo Press 2024), published in the UK (Footnote Press) and US (HarperVia) in 2025 and shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2025. Her essay collection, This Compulsion…
Dr Pania Te Maro
Ngāti Porou, Whānau a Pōkai
Massey University
Associate Professor
Ko Hikurangi te Maunga, Ko Waiapu te Awa, Ko Ngāti Porou te Iwi, Ko te Whānau a Pōkai te Hapū, Ko Te Kapa o Hinekōpeka…
Dr Pania Te Maro
Ko Hikurangi te Maunga, Ko Waiapu te Awa, Ko Ngāti Porou te Iwi, Ko te Whānau a Pōkai te Hapū, Ko Te Kapa o Hinekōpeka te Tūrangawaewae, Ko Pōkai te Marae, Ko Pōhatu te Wharekai. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā rā tātou katoa.My main accomplishments to-date are my five children and (so far) eight mokopuna.I am a senior lecturer/researcher in education with a main focus on mathematics education in relation to kaupapa and mātauranga Māori in kura. My teaching career began in 1992 in a bilingual class, and carried on to teaching in rūmaki units, kōhanga reo, kura and wharekura. My tertiary…
Danny Poa
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi
Rehutai
Hapai ō ki muri | Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder Rehutai
Nō ngā iwi o Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou me Ngāpuhi ia.Danny Poa has strong interests in the social issues…
Danny Poa
Nō ngā iwi o Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou me Ngāpuhi ia.Danny Poa has strong interests in the social issues that affect whānau including criminal justice, child welfare and whānau ora. Danny is draw to tautoko organisations that are of service to others and are connected to his values.Principal Advisor, Survivor Voice and Insights Crown Response Unit - Abuse in Care (2023 - Present)Senior Advisor, Te Tiriti Engagement Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry (2022 - 2023)Kaitiaki Kaupapa/Relationship and Engagement Manager Coastal Peoples Southern Skies National Centre of…
Professor Jarrod Haar
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Mahuta
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Professor of Management
Professor Jarrod Haar (PhD) is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management and has tribal…
Professor Jarrod Haar
Professor Jarrod Haar (PhD) is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management and has tribal affiliations of Ngati Maniapoto and Ngati Mahuta. In 2018, Professor Haar was appointed as a Member of the Marsden Fund Council and is the Convenor of the Marsden Economics and Human Behavioural Sciences panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi (2020), a Research Fellow of the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (since 2012), and Chartered Fellow of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ). He won the inaugural HRINZ HR…
Dr Simon Hills
Ngāti Porou
Massey University
Senior Lecturer in Zoology and Ecology
The overarching theme of my research is understanding the composition, distribution and evolutionary history of New…
Dr Simon Hills
The overarching theme of my research is understanding the composition, distribution and evolutionary history of New Zealand’s unique ecosystems. My primary focus is the rich, and largely endemic, marine mollusc fauna. However, I apply my broadly ranging expertise in genomics, ecology and evolutionary biology, to a diverse range of research topics involving New Zealand’s biodiversity, both native and exotic. As a Māori (Ngati Porou) scientist, I am increasingly focused on research collaborations with iwi/hapu. These projects generally involve working with Māori communities to build capacity…
Professor Matthew Roskruge
Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tama
Massey University
Professor and Associate Dean Māori
Professor Matt Roskruge (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tama) is a Māori economist specialising in population and development…
Professor Matthew Roskruge
Professor Matt Roskruge (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tama) is a Māori economist specialising in population and development economics. He is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Director of Te Au Rangahau, Associate Dean Māori, and Professor of Economics at Massey University. His research spans Māori economic development, social capital and wellbeing, health economics and health-system performance, and population, labour, regional and urban economics. His work draws on applied econometrics, mixed methods and Māori research approaches to examine how people, place, relationships and institutions shape economic…
Associate Professor Natasha Tassell-Matamua
Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Makea kei Rarotonga
Centre for Indigenous Psychologies
Ahonuku/Associate Professor & Manutaki/Director
Natasha Tassell-Matamua (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Makea kei Rarotonga) is an Associate Professor at Massey University in…
Associate Professor Natasha Tassell-Matamua
Natasha Tassell-Matamua (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Makea kei Rarotonga) is an Associate Professor at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the Founding Director of the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies. Her research and teaching is in the area of Indigenous psychologies, and in particular the utilisation of Indigenous knowledges to effect meaningful change across a range of contexts. Her research typically focusses on the interplay between spirituality, well-being and the wider ecosystem. Natasha has spent the last decade researching the phenomenology, after-effects and cultural…
Dr Jordan Waiti
Ngāti Pikiao, Te Rarawa, Ngaati Maahanga, Ngāti Haupoto
ACC New Zealand
Performance Lead (ACC), Co-Founder (Aotearoa Water Patrol)
Jordan Waiti started as a lecturer within Te Hautaki Waiora Faculty of Health, Sport and Human Performance at the…
Dr Jordan Waiti
Jordan Waiti started as a lecturer within Te Hautaki Waiora Faculty of Health, Sport and Human Performance at the University of Waikato in early 2018. Previously, he was a Māori Health Consultant based out of Whaingaroa/Raglan.He completed his PhD at Massey University, which focused on Māori notions of ‘Resilience’ and how they are utilised by whānau who had experienced adversity. He has Honours and Master's degrees from Otago University, with research expertise that is broadly based in the area of Māori Health. He has also been a volunteer facilitator for the Te Taitimu Youth Trust in Hawkes…
Dr Adreanne Ormond
Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Lecturer
Ko Rongomaiwāhine, Ngati Kahungunu me Ngati Tuwharetoa oku iwi, e tipu ake ahau ki MāhiaAdreanne Ormond's Māori nations…
Dr Adreanne Ormond
Ko Rongomaiwāhine, Ngati Kahungunu me Ngati Tuwharetoa oku iwi, e tipu ake ahau ki MāhiaAdreanne Ormond's Māori nations are Rongomaiwāhine, Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Tuwharetoa and she is raised on her ancestral homeland of Māhia peninsula. Her research includes Māori young people, race and culture, cultural identity and critical white studies.Adreanna is a Senior Lecturer in Te Kura Māori in the Faculty of Education. Her research interests include youth, education, and health as well as Māori development with a specific interest in Indigenous – ethnic minority youth and how existent issues…
Dr Arama Rata
Ngāruahine, Taranaki, Ngāti Maniapoto
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Aukaha Hauora
Arama Rata is of Ngāti Maniapoto, Taranaki, and Ngāruahine descent. She completed her PhD in Psychology at Victoria…
Dr Arama Rata
Arama Rata is of Ngāti Maniapoto, Taranaki, and Ngāruahine descent. She completed her PhD in Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington in 2012, which focused on Māori cultural engagement, identity, and psychological well-being in State secondary schools. Arama then lectured at Te Kawa a Māui (the School of Māori Studies), where she received a Research Establishment Grant to study Māori collective remembering of the New Zealand Wars. Dr Rata is currently involved with research relating to Māori health experiences, Māori in rural communities, as well as iwi consultancy.
Dr Tia Neha
Ngāpuhi
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Lecturer in Māori and Indigenous Psychology
I completed my PhD” Me Maumaharatanga Ngā Kōrero o Ngā Whānau, Family Recollections and Social Contributions to Māori…
Dr Tia Neha
I completed my PhD” Me Maumaharatanga Ngā Kōrero o Ngā Whānau, Family Recollections and Social Contributions to Māori Children’s Learning, under the supervision of Professor Elaine Reese and Dr Mele Taumoepeau in 2016. In my dissertation, I investigated the role of culture and autobiographical memory and to what extent these factors link to Māori children’s school readiness.Research includes:Indigenous and developmental psychology in the interdependent relations between whānau and their children’s learningAutobiographical memory with whanauLanguage researchMāori pediatric health
Associate Professor Sonja Macfarlane
Ngāti Waewae, Ngāi Tahu
Massey University
Associate Professor
Sonja Macfarland (Ngāti Waewae, Ngāi Tahu) interest’s focus on the importance of culturally responsive, evidence-based…
Associate Professor Sonja Macfarlane
Sonja Macfarland (Ngāti Waewae, Ngāi Tahu) interest’s focus on the importance of culturally responsive, evidence-based approaches in education, psychology, counselling, health and human development in order to enhance the social, cultural, educational and health outcomes that are achieved by Māori.The importance of exploring 'what works well' for Māori as a pathway to responding to disparity and unlocking potential guides most of her research endeavours. She argues that many of the solutions for reducing such disparities actually reside in 'te ao Māori' (the Māori world, which includes Māori…
Dr Farah Palmer
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Waiora, Waikato, Ngāti Mahuta
Massey University
Pou Akonga (Executive Director) Māori Student Success
I have a particular research interest in race, gender and leadership issues in sport management, and my most recent…
Dr Farah Palmer
I have a particular research interest in race, gender and leadership issues in sport management, and my most recent publications have focused on the incorporation of Māori values and tikanga in sport contexts, Sport for Development from an indigenous perspective, taonga tuku iho in rugby, elite Maori athletes and their cultural identities in sport, the leadership and organisational culture of the All Blacks, Black Ferns, Māori All Blacks, Māori women's experiences in sport management and leadership, and the involvement of mothers in elite sport as leaders and athletes. For 10 years I…
Tame Malcolm
Te Arawa, Ngāti Ruanui
Puna Consultants
Director
Tame has more than a decades experience in environmental management roles in the Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Canterbury and…
Tame Malcolm
Tame has more than a decades experience in environmental management roles in the Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Canterbury and Marlborough regions. This has included working for OSPRI (TB Free), Waikato Regional Council, Department of Conservation (Waikato) and most recently the Maori Biosecurity Network. His is a member of the Bay of Plenty Conservation Board, is on the Advisory Board for Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, was interim executive of Te Tira Whakamataki (Maori Biosecurity Network), and is a member of the Royal Society.
Dr Jamie Newth
Ngāpuhi
Soul Capital
Founder and CEO Soul Capital
Jamie Newth is the CEO of Soul Capital, which invests in social enterprises and social business in Aotearoa New…
Dr Jamie Newth
Jamie Newth is the CEO of Soul Capital, which invests in social enterprises and social business in Aotearoa New Zealand.He is a board member on the National Advisory Board for Impact Investment, on Connect: Supporting Recovery, on Social Enterprise Auckland and works as a consultant on Business Model Innovation, Strategy and Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Dr Kiri Dell
Ngāti Porou
University of Auckland
Senior Lecturer
Kiri Dell is a lecturer in property in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland. Her…
Dr Kiri Dell
Kiri Dell is a lecturer in property in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland. Her teaching focuses on Māori land issues and Māori entrepreneurship and business development. Kiri’s research and areas of expertise focuses on competitive Māori strategy, Māori economics and Māori business.
Dr Rāwiri Tinirau
Te Āti Haunui-ā-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Rauru Kītahi , Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Wairiki-Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Maru
Te Atawhai Te Ao
Director
Te Āti Haunui-a-PāpārangiNgāti RangiNgā Rauru KītahiNgāti RuanuiNgā Wairiki-Ngāti ApaNgāti TūwharetoaNgāti MaruBachelor…
Dr Rāwiri Tinirau
Te Āti Haunui-a-PāpārangiNgāti RangiNgā Rauru KītahiNgāti RuanuiNgā Wairiki-Ngāti ApaNgāti TūwharetoaNgāti MaruBachelor of Business in Accountancy, Massey UniversityBachelor of Arts with Honours in Māori Studies, Massey UniversityPostgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Massey UniversityDoctor of Philosophy in Management, Massey UniversityRāwiri joined Te Atawhai o Te Ao in 2017. His professional background and expertise lie in education, research, Māori project/business management, and governance. Through his role as Director, Rāwiri provides strategic leadership and management, and…
Fiona Wiremu
Tūhoe, Ngāti Ranginui
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Fiona is Chairperson of Te Puna Ora o Mataatua and Med Central (Whakatāne medical practice) and is also an executive…
Fiona Wiremu
Fiona is Chairperson of Te Puna Ora o Mataatua and Med Central (Whakatāne medical practice) and is also an executive director at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. Her research interests are focused on Māori health outcomes and economic initiatives.
Associate Professor Hinekura Smith
Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi
University of Queensland
Associate Professor
Dr Hinekura Smith (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is NPM's Emerging Researchers’ Leader, providing further national leadership and…
Associate Professor Hinekura Smith
Dr Hinekura Smith (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is NPM's Emerging Researchers’ Leader, providing further national leadership and coordination of MAI Te Kupenga and developing and nurturing initiatives that contribute to the outcomes and objectives of NPM’s Capability and Capacity Strategy.Hinekura was initially a secondary school te reo Māori teacher then moved into teacher education research almost 10 years ago, when she commenced her postgraduate studies. She has worked as a professional development facilitator in Māori medium schools, te reo Māori facilitator in English-medium schools and a…
Professor Marama Muru-Lanning
Waikato-Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Whatua
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Professor & Associate Head of School: Māori Social Sciences
I am a Professor in Anthropology. My teaching and research is dedicated to Māori communities and prioritises tikanga…
Professor Marama Muru-Lanning
I am a Professor in Anthropology. My teaching and research is dedicated to Māori communities and prioritises tikanga, equity and inter-dependence. As an environmental anthropologist I focus on the cultural specificity of tangata whenua groups and their unique sense of place and belonging in Aotearoa. My professional expertise includes: building research relationships with Māori communities especially with coastal and river people, ecological consciousness, food security, kai sovereignty, kaumātua gardening, kai gathering, food and peace politics. What distinguishes me internationally as a…
Ms Tania Williams
Ngāti Pukenga, Te Arawa (Waitaha, Tapuika)
Te Kōpū Legal
Principal
Ms Tania Williams
Melanie Mark-Shadbolt
Ngāti Porou, Te Arawa, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Lincoln University
Māori Research Manager
Melanie is an Indigenous environmental sociologist, and the Māori Research Manager – Kaiārahi for the Bio-Protection…
Melanie Mark-Shadbolt
Melanie is an Indigenous environmental sociologist, and the Māori Research Manager – Kaiārahi for the Bio-Protection Research Centre (a Centre of Research Excellence) based at Lincoln University. She is also the Māori Manager for New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, a founding member of Te Tira Whakamātaki; the Māori Biosecurity Network and a project leader and researcher in a number of National Science Challenge, Tertiary Education Commission and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment programmes including ‘Mātauranga Māori characterisation of NZ’s…
Dr Phil Lyver
Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua
Principal Māori Researcher and Research Priority Area Leader
Phil’s research has used ecological science and indigenous and local knowledge to interpret changes in demographic…
Dr Phil Lyver
Phil’s research has used ecological science and indigenous and local knowledge to interpret changes in demographic trends and abundance of wildlife populations (e.g. terrestrial and marine birds). The key focus of his research has been on climatic and anthropogenic (e.g. harvest) drivers of population change, and the development of models to forecast population trends. He has expertise in interpreting ecosystem structure and function within scientific and indigenous worldviews, in particular the ways that different cultures ‘sense’ the environment. Phil has experience interfacing both…
Professor Annemarie Gillies
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Awa, Te Whānau-a-Apanui, Te Arawa
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Professor Annemarie Gillies
Professor Jason Paul Mika
Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Professor Management & Intl Business Associate & Associate Dean Māori / Manupiri Faculty of Business and Economics
Ko Ranginui e tū iho nei, ko Papatūānuku e takoto nei, ko te ira tangata kei waenganui i raro i te kaitiakitanga o ngā…
Professor Jason Paul Mika
Ko Ranginui e tū iho nei, ko Papatūānuku e takoto nei, ko te ira tangata kei waenganui i raro i te kaitiakitanga o ngā atua, o te manaakitanga o te Runga Rawa. Tīhei mauri ora! Ko Ngāi Tūhoe, ko Ngāti Awa, ko Te Whakatōhea, ko Ngāti Kahungunu ōku iwi. Ko Jason Mika ahau. I was born in Whakatāne and raised mainly in Rotorua. In November 2024, I was fortunate join Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland as a Professor of Māori Management and Associate Dean Māori in He Manga Tauhokohoko Auckland Business School. My research, teaching, writing, and practice centres on Māori and Indigenous…
Professor Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan
Waikato, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Te Ahiwaru
Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec
Deputy Director - Te Kōtahi Research Institute
Dr Lee-Morgan is Professor of Māori Research and was a founding Director of Ngā Wai a te Tui Māori Research Centre, Te…
Professor Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan
Dr Lee-Morgan is Professor of Māori Research and was a founding Director of Ngā Wai a te Tui Māori Research Centre, Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec. Initially a secondary school teacher, she became a teacher educator and kaupapa Māori researcher in education with a focus on Maori pedagogy and methodology. In 2106, she was awarded Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education for her significant and high-quality research contribution to Māori education. Dr Lee-Morgan’s co-edited book ‘Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Research, education and practice’(Hutchings…
Emeritus Professor Tony Trinnick
Te Whānau a Āpanui
University of Auckland
Emeritus Professor Te Puna Wānanga
Tony’s research focused on a number of areas in the teaching and learning of mathematics in the medium of Māori.This…
Emeritus Professor Tony Trinnick
Tony’s research focused on a number of areas in the teaching and learning of mathematics in the medium of Māori.This includes researching the complex relationship between te reo Māori and mathematics, particularly the development of the mathematics register and the teaching and learning of the register.He also researched student achievement in Māori medium mathematics and the factors that support and impinge on student progress.
Dr Acushla Dee Sciasia
Ngaruahine Rangi, Ngāti Ruanui, Te Ati Awa
Massey University
Senior Research Officier
Dr Acushla Sciascia is of Ngāruahine Rangi, Ngāti Ruanui and Te Āti Awa descent. She completed her doctoral studies in…
Dr Acushla Dee Sciasia
Dr Acushla Sciascia is of Ngāruahine Rangi, Ngāti Ruanui and Te Āti Awa descent. She completed her doctoral studies in 2013 with Massey University and since then has been working in the public sector as a research, evaluator and strategist. Dee’s research background has largely emerged from kaupapa Māori research, specifically Māori negotiating and navigating new technologies and online environments. Dee’s research interests have transitioned into the climate change space and she was a part of the National Risk Assessment Framework for Climate Change panel and is co-leading the Mātauranga ā…
Associate Professor Meegan Hall
Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Apakura
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Toi Matauranga Maori - Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Mātauranga Māori
Meegan Hall (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Apakura) is Assistant Vice-Chancellor…
Associate Professor Meegan Hall
Meegan Hall (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Apakura) is Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Mātauranga Māori) in the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori). She provides strategic leadership to grow engagement with Māori knowledge and people in learning, teaching and research contexts, and supports Māori staff and Māori student achievement.Meegan's research focuses on Māori in higher education, which combines her interest in tertiary learning and teaching with her disciplinary background in Māori studies. She is co-Chair of the Ako Aotearoa Establishment Board, a…
Professor Matire Harwood
Ngāpuhi
University of Auckland - Medical School
Deputy Dean Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
Dr Matire Harwood (PhD, MBChB) lives in Auckland. Matire’s background is in primary health care and rangahau hauora…
Professor Matire Harwood
Dr Matire Harwood (PhD, MBChB) lives in Auckland. Matire’s background is in primary health care and rangahau hauora Māori. She has served as the Director for Tōmaiora, Māori Health Research, editor for the Māori Health Research Review; and GP Champion for Primary Care Health Targets at Counties Manukau DHB.Dr Harwood sits on the Board and Māori Health Committee at the Health Research Council, and the Māori Advisory Committee for Auckland / Waitemata DHB.
Dr Maria Amoamo
Whakatōhea
University of Otago
Research Fellow
Research areas: Māori social and economic development, innovation capability, Māori enterprise, cultural and indigenous…
Dr Maria Amoamo
Research areas: Māori social and economic development, innovation capability, Māori enterprise, cultural and indigenous tourism, social anthropology, and Vision Mātauranga.
Professor Margaret Mutu
Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whatua
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Professor of Māori Studies
Professor Margaret Mutu is of Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua and Scottish descent. She is the Professor of Māori…
Professor Margaret Mutu
Professor Margaret Mutu is of Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua and Scottish descent. She is the Professor of Māori Studies at the University of Auckland where she teaches and conducts research on Māori language, tikanga (law), history and traditions, rights and sovereignty, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and treaty claims against the English Crown, constitutional transformation and Māori-Chinese encounters. She holds a BSc in mathematics, an MPhil in Māori Studies, a PhD in Māori Studies specialising in linguistics and a DipTchg. She has published four books: a grammar of the `Ua Pou dialect of…
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Professor Lisa Te Morenga
Ngāti Whātua, Te Uri o Hua, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa
Massey University
Professor of Māori Health and Nutrition
I whakapapa to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Te Uri o Hua, Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa. I am a nutrition and Māori health researcher…
Professor Lisa Te Morenga
I whakapapa to Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Te Uri o Hua, Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa. I am a nutrition and Māori health researcher, Rutherford Discovery Fellow and Principle Investigator with the Riddet Centre of Research Excellence. Broadly my research interests relate to supporting individuals, whanau and communities to achieve good health through being able to access healthy affordable food. My research is translational - applying basic nutrition evidence to enhance human health and wellbeing, and ultimately informing food and nutrition policy. Undertaking research addressing health inequities amongst…
Dr Hauiti Hākopa
Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Indepedent Researcher
Dr Hauiti Hakopa’s deep understanding of the liberating power of education and the critical need for equitable access…
Dr Hauiti Hākopa
Dr Hauiti Hakopa’s deep understanding of the liberating power of education and the critical need for equitable access to learning and teaching has been an intrinsic part of his own life’s journey.He has a deep interest in land and whakapapa, cartography and the mapping of Māori connection and relationship to their ancestral landscapes and specialises in collecting information about waahi tapu, waahi tipuna (sacred|cultural/heritage|ancestral sites), oral narratives (moteatea - traditional songs/chants, korereo purakau - stories) and whakapapa (genealogies) embedded in ancestral landscapes. He…
Associate Professor Linda Te Aho
Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui
University of Waikato
Associate Professor
Linda Te Aho, MNZM, (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui) is an Associate Professor in Te Piringa Faculty of Law and…
Associate Professor Linda Te Aho
Linda Te Aho, MNZM, (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui) is an Associate Professor in Te Piringa Faculty of Law and in 2025 was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and to Legal Education. Linda has long served as the Associate Dean Māori for the law faculty, and more recently for the newly created Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences. An experienced governor, Linda continues to hold senior governance positions for the large iwi organisation, Waikato-Tainui (Te Arataura) and is a member of the Institute of Directors. As a guardian appointed by…
Dr Lily George
Te Kapōtai, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Ngātiwai
Western Institute of Technology Taranaki
Research and Innovation Manager
Lily gained her doctorate in social anthropology from Massey University in 2010, with research on Awataha Marae in…
Dr Lily George
Lily gained her doctorate in social anthropology from Massey University in 2010, with research on Awataha Marae in Northcote, Auckland. The research explored innovation of Māori tradition through three periods of cultural renaissance.She recently completed a Health Research Council Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie Postdoctoral Fellowship, based in the Research Centre for Māori Health & Development, Massey University. Her research investigated the life experiences of Māori women who have been incarcerated, ultimately to garner a better understanding of the multitude of factors which lead to…
Associate Professor Katharina Ruckstuhl
Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne
Research and Enterprise - University of Otago
Associate Professor and Associate Dean Māori
Associate Professor Ruckstuhl is the Kaitohutohu of the Otago Business School's Te Maea: Māori and Indigenous Economy…
Associate Professor Katharina Ruckstuhl
Associate Professor Ruckstuhl is the Kaitohutohu of the Otago Business School's Te Maea: Māori and Indigenous Economy and Enterprise Network.She leads a number of research projects, including in the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge, where she is the Vision Mātauranga deputy leader of the Challenge and co-leads the Building New Zealand's Innovation portfolio.She is also the Associate Director Māori on the Dodd-Walls Centre of Research Excellence. Her broader research focuses on innovation and Māori business, resource extraction, energy transition and Māori policy.
Dr Karyn Paringatai
Ngāti Porou
Te Tumu - University of Otago
Chair - Marketing and Promotions
Karyn's research interests are in a number of areas that intersect at various points. These are: sociological issues…
Dr Karyn Paringatai
Karyn's research interests are in a number of areas that intersect at various points. These are: sociological issues surrounding Māori urbanisation and Māori identity development and maintenance; Māori performing arts, particularly poi, the analysis of haka and waiata compositions and the role kapa haka plays in identity; grammatical aspects of the Māori language and second language acquisition; Māori language and Māori performing arts teaching methodologies. She is a co-director of an Otago Research Theme, Poutama Ara Rau, alongside Professor Jacinta Ruru (Faculty of Law) and Associate…
Dr Kahu McClintock
Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Porou, Waikato Maniapoto, Te Ātiawa
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing
Managing Editor
Kahu McClintock is an example of Māori leadership that provides direction and also a source of strength and…
Dr Kahu McClintock
Kahu McClintock is an example of Māori leadership that provides direction and also a source of strength and inspiration. With almost 45 years of experience working with Māori whānau, communities, and iwi, Kahu shows what can be achieved through a commitment to helping others, hard work, and courage.Kahu’s approach to leadership is the result of multiple strands of knowledge woven together; cultural, clinical, and academic. One of her strongest influences is her whānau (family). She was born the sixth of eight children raised in the small provincial town of Piopio in the King Country, by a…
Dr John Pirker
Ngāi Tahu
University of Canterbury
Senior Lecturer
Dr John Pirker's fields of research include marine ecology, aquaculture and marine algae and his research interests…
Dr John Pirker
Dr John Pirker's fields of research include marine ecology, aquaculture and marine algae and his research interests centre around aquaculture.His disciplines include ecology, evolution and behaviour within marine ecological systems and he belongs to the Māori Research Advisory Group (MRAG) and Marine Ecology Research Group (MERG)
Veronica Tawhai
Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Uepohatu
Massey University
Lecturer - Te Putahi-a-To
Ms Tawhai lectures in policy and politics at Te Pūtahi a Toi. A recent recipient of the Fulbright-Nga Pae o Te…
Veronica Tawhai
Ms Tawhai lectures in policy and politics at Te Pūtahi a Toi. A recent recipient of the Fulbright-Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga scholar award, Ms Tawhai's fields of research and community work include the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori and youth political engagement, constitutional change, and electoral, civics and citizenship education. Veronica has co-edited two books, authored several papers and presents widely on these issues. She is a member of Matike Mai Aotearoa, the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation and is completing her PhD on the role of citizenship education in…
Professor John Broughton
Ngāi Tahu, Ngati Kahungunu Ki Heretaunga
University of Otago
Professor: Preventive and Social Medicine and Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
John is responsible for the integration of Hauora Māori/oranga niho in the curriculum of the undergraduate Bachelor of…
Professor John Broughton
John is responsible for the integration of Hauora Māori/oranga niho in the curriculum of the undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery and the Bachelor of Oral Health. John is also the director of the Ngai Tahu Maori Research Unit within the Centre for Hauora Māori. The Unit was established in 1996 as a partnership between Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu and the Dunedin School of Medicine. John has published widely on oranga niho. His PhD thesis topic was ‘Oranga niho: A review of Māori oral health service provision utilizing a kaupapa Māori methodology’. The thesis was originally submitted for the…
Professor Joanne Baxter
Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha
Independent Scholar
Joanne Baxter (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha) is a public health medicine specialist with research interests in Māori…
Professor Joanne Baxter
Joanne Baxter (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha) is a public health medicine specialist with research interests in Māori health workforce development, Māori mental health, Māori child and youth health, hazardous drinking among tertiary students and health inequalities.She is an experienced senior leader with a successful track record in the health and tertiary education sectors. Skilled in Strategic Leadership, Academic Governance and Change Management & Development; Research Innovation to enhance health and education outcomes; People Engagement (professional development, mentoring). Strong…
Associate Professor Jo Smith
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Associate Professor
Jo's research examines the socio-political power of media technologies with a primary focus on how colonial histories…
Associate Professor Jo Smith
Jo's research examines the socio-political power of media technologies with a primary focus on how colonial histories inform contemporary media practices. She has developed her research profile across three interrelated fields (Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Settler Colonial Studies) to ask new questions about the ways in which media technologies, institutions and aesthetic practices help shape notions of identity, nationhood and community. Her research interests include Māori Television; Postcolonial Media Cultures; Indigenous Film and Media; Race and Ethnicity; Media, Subjectivities and…
Dr Hinemoa Elder
Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Ngāpuhi
Psychiatrist
Dr Hinemoa Elder is a mother of two from Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri and Ngāpuhi nui tonu. She works as a Child…
Dr Hinemoa Elder
Dr Hinemoa Elder is a mother of two from Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri and Ngāpuhi nui tonu. She works as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in private practice. She is a deputy member of the Mental Health Review Tribual and on the list of Medical Consultants under the Intellectual Disability Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation Act 2003. Dr Elder provides neuropsychiatric assessment and treatment for tamariki, taiohi and their whānau who have experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) via ACC. Dr Elder's focus is the development of a tikanga-centred approaches for tamariki who have…
Dr Erica Williams
Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Whānau a Āpanui
NIWA - Taihoro Nukurangi
Principal Scientist - Māori Environmental Research (Te Kūwaha)
Erica Williams (Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Whānau ā Apanui) joined NIWA in 1995 and has been a member of…
Dr Erica Williams
Erica Williams (Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Whānau ā Apanui) joined NIWA in 1995 and has been a member of Te Kūwaha team since its inception.Erica has an extensive research career that began with a MSc from the University of Waikato, where she developed a blue mussel embryo-larval toxicity test, she then pursued a PhD at the University of Auckland examining the impact of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on shellfish. Erica has played a significant role in supporting the research aspirations of whānau, hapū, and iwi, during her almost 30-year career at NIWA, particularly…
Professor Ella Henry
Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa, Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Retired Professor
Ella Henry has a background in Sociology, Māori Studies, Management Studies and Māori Development. Her PhD focused on…
Professor Ella Henry
Ella Henry has a background in Sociology, Māori Studies, Management Studies and Māori Development. Her PhD focused on Māori entrepreneurship in screen production, and her Masters on Māori women and leadership.Dr Henry has been actively involved in the Māori screen industry, serving as Chair of Nga Aho Whakaari, the Association of Māori in Screen Production.
Associate Professor Elana Taipapaki Curtis
Ngāti Rongomai, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Arawa
University of Auckland
Associate Professor
Dr Elana Taipapaki Curtis (Ngāti Rongomai, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Arawa) is a Public Health Physician, Associate Professor at…
Associate Professor Elana Taipapaki Curtis
Dr Elana Taipapaki Curtis (Ngāti Rongomai, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Arawa) is a Public Health Physician, Associate Professor at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, University of Auckland and Director Taikura Consultants Limited (www.taikura.net.nz).Elana was Director Vision 20:20 at the University of Auckland from 2011 to 2022. This role provided academic leadership of Hikitia Te Ora - Certificate in Health Sciences (bridging/foundation education for Māori and Pacific), Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS, admission and retention support for Māori and Pacific students) and the Whakapiki Ake Project (WAP…
Associate Professor Donna Cormack
Kati Mamoe, Kai Tahu
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Associate Professor
Dr Donna Cormack (Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe) is an Associate Professor at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, University of…
Associate Professor Donna Cormack
Dr Donna Cormack (Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe) is an Associate Professor at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, University of Auckland.Donna is course director for the postgraduate papers MAORIHTH 710 Kaupapa Māori Theory, and MAORIHTH 709 Transformative Research for Māori Health, and co-convenes MAORIHTH711 Kaupapa Māori quantitative research. Donna teaches into other undergraduate and postgraduate papers in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. She is also an active member of Tōmaiora Research Centre within Te Kupenga Hauora Māori. Her research focuses on racism and other forms of oppression…
Associate Professor Dean Mahuta
Ngāti Mahuta, Waikato
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Researcher - Te Ipukarea, National Māori Language Institute,
Ko Taupiri te maungaKo Waikato te awaKo Pōtatau te tangataHe piko, he taniwha,Waikato taniwharau.Kei aku nui, kei aku…
Associate Professor Dean Mahuta
Ko Taupiri te maungaKo Waikato te awaKo Pōtatau te tangataHe piko, he taniwha,Waikato taniwharau.Kei aku nui, kei aku rahi, tēnā koutou katoa.Me wehi ki a Ihowa, me whakahōnore Te Arikinui Kuīni Ngā-wai-hono-i-te-pō. Ki te huinga kahurangi o te pō, okioki atu rā koutou ki tua o Paerau, ki reira tiakina atu ai. Ki ngā toronga waka o te motu whānui e kapi nei te hunga ora whānui, tēnā tātou katoa.Ko Dean Mahuta tōku ingoa, nō Waikato ahau, ko Ngāti Mahuta te hapū. I tupu mai au i Ngāruawāhia, ā, he raukura nō roto mai o te kura kaupapa Māori. I kuraina au ki Te Wharekura o Rākaumangamanga, he…
Sir Hirini Moko Mead
Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūhourangi
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Professor
Dr Hirini Moko Mead is a prominent Māori writer and commentator. Author of over 70 books, papers and articles, he was…
Sir Hirini Moko Mead
Dr Hirini Moko Mead is a prominent Māori writer and commentator. Author of over 70 books, papers and articles, he was Foundation Professor of Māori Studies at Victoria University and was closely involved in establishing the Māori university Te Whare Wānangā o Awanuiārangi in Whakatāne. A scholar of rare expertise in Māori language and culture, Hirini was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 for his services to Māori and to education.
Dr Carwyn Jones
Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki
Te Wānanga o Raukawa
Pūkenga Matua
Dr Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) is Pūkenga Matua (Lead Academic) in the Ahunga Tikanga (Māori Laws and Philosophy)…
Dr Carwyn Jones
Dr Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) is Pūkenga Matua (Lead Academic) in the Ahunga Tikanga (Māori Laws and Philosophy) programme at Te Wānanga o Raukawa. Prior to joining the Wānanga, Carwyn was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He has worked in various roles at the Māori Land Court, Waitangi Tribunal, and Office of Treaty Settlements. He also served as a negotiator for the iwi and hapū of te rohe o Te Wairoa in the settlement of their historical claims against the Crown. Carwyn’s primary research interests relate to the Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the…
Professor Bridgette Masters-Awatere
Te Rarawa, Ngāi te Rangi, Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau
University of Waikato
Head, School of Health Equity and Innovation Health Equity and Innovation
Bridgette Masters-Awatere (Te Rarawa, Ngāi te Rangi, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau) is a Professor in Te Kura Whatu Oho Mauri -…
Professor Bridgette Masters-Awatere
Bridgette Masters-Awatere (Te Rarawa, Ngāi te Rangi, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau) is a Professor in Te Kura Whatu Oho Mauri - School of Psychology - in the Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato. In addition to her role as Director of the Community Psychology postgraduate programme for registration as a psychologist, she is the Director of the Māori & Psychology Research Unit. Both Directorships are situated within the School of Psychology. Bridgette trained as a psychologist, with a special interest in community and Indigenous wellbeing. Before joining…
Professor Beverley Lawton
Ngāti Porou
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Professor & Director Centre for Women's Health Research National Centre for Women's Health Research Aotearoa
Professor Bev Lawton (CNZM), nō Ngāti Porou, is the founder/director of Te Tātai Hauora o Hine (the National Centre…
Professor Beverley Lawton
Professor Bev Lawton (CNZM), nō Ngāti Porou, is the founder/director of Te Tātai Hauora o Hine (the National Centre for Women’s Health Research Aotearoa) at Victoria University of Wellington (previously with the University of Otago). Named the 2025 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year, she was promoted as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2026 from her appointment as an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit by the Queen for services to women’s health in 2005. She was inaugural recipient of the 2026 Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners' Te Kārohirohi Equity Award and was…
Associate Professor Armon J Tamatea
Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-A-Maahaki
University of Waikato
Associate Professor; Associate Dean of Maori ALPSS PVC's Office; Research Associate Te Puna Haumaru Centre for Security and Crime Science
Armon J Tamatea (Rongowhakāta; Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) is a clinical psychologist who served as a clinician and senior…
Associate Professor Armon J Tamatea
Armon J Tamatea (Rongowhakāta; Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) is a clinical psychologist who served as a clinician and senior research advisor for Ara Poutama Aotearoa/Dept of Corrections (New Zealand) before being appointed senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Waikato. He has worked extensively in the assessment and treatment of violent and sexual offenders, and contributed to the design and implementation of an experimental prison-based violence prevention programme for high-risk offenders diagnosed with psychopathy. He was also president of the Australian and New Zealand Association…
Dr Heather Gifford
Ngāti Hauiti, Te Atihaunui ā Papārangi
Health and Research Collaborative
Independent Māori Health Researcher & Advisor Health and Research Collaborative
I am a Māori health researcher with tribal affiliations to Ngāti Hauiti and Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi. I began my…
Dr Heather Gifford
I am a Māori health researcher with tribal affiliations to Ngāti Hauiti and Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi. I began my professional career as a nurse working in the field of child and family health. During the early period of my career I also taught at a tertiary level in health services, worked as a manager with a Māori Development Organisation (funder of health and social services) and in iwi based primary health care.In 1996, I returned to tertiary study completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health at Otago University. Encouraged by a passion for research I then completed a Masters in…
Dr. Māmari Stephens
Te Rarawa
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Lecturer
Ko Pukenamu te maunga, ko Wainui te awa, Ko Tinana te waka, ko Tumoana te tangata. He uri tēnei nō Te Rarawa; ko Ngāti…
Dr. Māmari Stephens
Ko Pukenamu te maunga, ko Wainui te awa, Ko Tinana te waka, ko Tumoana te tangata. He uri tēnei nō Te Rarawa; ko Ngāti Moetonga, ko Te Rokekā ngā hapū; ko Wainui te marae. Tēnā tātou.Māmari is Priest Assistant at St Michael's and All Angels in Kelburn, Wellington. Her primary ministry and theological interests involve Māori Christianity and Christianity among Māori.Māmari has previously worked in Corrections, Māori broadcasting, and as a Reader at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, where she researched law and language, Māori and the New Zealand legal system, and social…
Professor John Reid
University of Canterbury
Professor Ngai Tahu Research Centre
Professor John Reid is a researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of sustainability, indigenous knowledge…
Professor John Reid
Professor John Reid is a researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of sustainability, indigenous knowledge systems, environmental governance, and technological innovation. Based within the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, his research brings together systems thinking, te ao Māori, and interdisciplinary science to address complex social, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous communities and wider society. His work spans environmental management, regenerative land use, Māori economic development, and the governance of emerging technologies, with particular interests in…
Associate Professor Anne-Marie Jackson
Ngāti Whatua, Te Roroa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Kahu o Whangaroa
University of Otago
Senior Lecturer, Co-Director National Centre of Research Excellence Coastal People: Southern Skies.
Tēnā koutou, Nō Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Kahu o Whangaroa me Ngāti Wai a Anne-Marie. He kairangahau Māori ia ki Te…
Associate Professor Anne-Marie Jackson
Tēnā koutou, Nō Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Kahu o Whangaroa me Ngāti Wai a Anne-Marie. He kairangahau Māori ia ki Te Koronga, ki Te Kura Parawhakawai.Dr Anne-Marie Jackson's research into Māori health and well-being focuses on supporting the hopes and aspirations of Māori communities.“Otago is a wonderful place to do this mahi. We are a well-connected campus with strong linkages to our communities; a place where whānau and whanaungatanga can flourish,” she says.Anne-Marie, who is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, is passionate about…
Professor Anna Carr
Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine
University of Otago
Professor, Co-Director - Centre for Recreation Research
Anna Thompson is a professor at the University of Otago. She serves as the Department representative on the School's…
Professor Anna Carr
Anna Thompson is a professor at the University of Otago. She serves as the Department representative on the School's Undergraduate Advisory Group and the University of Otago Women's Development Programme. She is Kaiawhina Māori and on the Teaching and Learning Committee for the Tourism Department.Anna has published internationally in peer reviewed academic journals and been invited as a chapter contributor to numerous edited books. Her current research interests are focused on the environmental management of tourism,indigenous business development, cultural landscapes, heritage tourism, Maori…
Professor Angela Wanhalla
Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki , Ngāti Mamoe
University of Otago
Professor
Angela Wanhalla (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāti Māmoe) specialises in Māori, New Zealand, colonial…
Professor Angela Wanhalla
Angela Wanhalla (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāti Māmoe) specialises in Māori, New Zealand, colonial, environmental and women's history. She has published extensively on the history of gender, race and marriage in New Zealand and the Pacific. This includes Matters of the Heart (2013), a national study of interracial marriage in New Zealand covering 200-years of history, research on Māori women and shore whaling in early southern New Zealand, and a collaborative project on the social impacts of American servicemen in the South Pacific during World War II, published as Mothers’ Darlings…
Associate Professor Andrew Waa
Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi)
University of Otago
Associate Professor
Andrew (Anaru) Waa is an Associate Professor based at the Eru Pōmare Māori Health Centre, Department of Public Health…
Associate Professor Andrew Waa
Andrew (Anaru) Waa is an Associate Professor based at the Eru Pōmare Māori Health Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Otago. He is a trained social scientist with postgraduate degrees in Public Health.His work includes: survey and cohort studies; qualitative research; and evaluations of community, national and government level policies, programmes and services and teaching in public health. Andrew’s public health interests focus on Māori health and wellbeing, Indigenous health and tobacco control.
Associate Professor Andrew Erueti
Ngā Ruahinerangi, Ngāti Ruanui (Taranaki), Ati Hau (Wanganui).
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Associate Professor
Andrew (Anaru) Erueti I whakapapa to Ngā Ruahinerangi and Ngāti Ruanui (Taranaki), Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi (Whanganui)…
Associate Professor Andrew Erueti
Andrew (Anaru) Erueti I whakapapa to Ngā Ruahinerangi and Ngāti Ruanui (Taranaki), Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi (Whanganui), and Ngāti Pākehā (Ōhai, Southland). I am Associate Professor of Law and (formerly) Associate Dean (Māori) at the University of Auckland, where I teach and research Te Tiriti o Waitangi, tikanga Māori, constitutional law, and comparative and international Indigenous rights. Although I have spent most of my career teaching in New Zealand law schools, my work has combined academic scholarship with legal advocacy and public service in New Zealand and internationally. I completed…
Dr Amohia Boulton
Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Pukenga
Whakauae Research for Māori Health & Development
Research Centre Director
Dr Amohia Bolton is the Research Director at Whakaue Research for Māori Health & Development with a career that has…
Dr Amohia Boulton
Dr Amohia Bolton is the Research Director at Whakaue Research for Māori Health & Development with a career that has spanned public policy and academia. She has previously worked as a data analyst (Ministry of Education) policy analyst, senior analyst (Te Puni Kōkiri) and Private Secretary (Māori Affairs) and was awarded an HRC Māori Health Training Fellowship to pursue doctoral study at Massey University in Palmerston North. Her post-doctoral research took her to the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada where she worked with the Lheidli T'enneh First Nations people.Her research…
Professor Amanda Black
Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Whānau-ā-Apanui
Lincoln University
Professor
Ko Maungapōhatu te maungaKo Tauranga te awaKo Matahi te maraeKo Ngāi Tama te hapuKo Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, me te Whānau a…
Professor Amanda Black
Ko Maungapōhatu te maungaKo Tauranga te awaKo Matahi te maraeKo Ngāi Tama te hapuKo Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, me te Whānau a Āpanui te iwiKo Amanda Black ahauMy research area is in environmental soil chemistry and biochemistry, focusing on the health of soil ecosystems. My current areas of focus are understanding the relationship between gene expression and soil productivity such as carbon storage; halting kauri dieback through discovery of disease suppressive traits in soils; and focusing on biosecurity and climate change issues that are of concern to Maori and indigenous communities. I am the…
Professor Carla Anne Houkamau
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Associate Professor
Carla Houkamau (PhD) is an Professor in the Department of Management and International Business, the Director of the…
Professor Carla Anne Houkamau
Carla Houkamau (PhD) is an Professor in the Department of Management and International Business, the Director of the Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development and the Associate Dean for Māori and Pacific Development for the Business School.Carla is of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā descent. She holds a deep personal interest in the history of Māori-Pākehā relations and promoting cultural understanding. Her current research focuses mainly on intergroup relations, chiefly how group memberships influence attitudes and behaviour. Her publications…
Associate Professor Brad Coombes
Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Brad Coombe's (Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) research focus is the participation of indigenous…
Associate Professor Brad Coombes
Associate Professor Brad Coombe's (Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) research focus is the participation of indigenous peoples in conservation management and environmental planning. This research focuses on the obstacles to establishing partnership approaches, and the appropriateness of comanagement, collaborative science and community-based management for resolving conservation conflicts. He has been involved in several research projects which were commissioned to support the environmental claims of iwi (Maori tribes) before the Waitangi Tribunal. Those projects focus on the capacity of…
Professor Tīmoti Kāretu
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Adjunct Professor / Director- Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori
Dr Kāretu, of Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, is one of three Directors of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori (School…
Professor Tīmoti Kāretu
Dr Kāretu, of Tūhoe and Ngāti Kahungunu descent, is one of three Directors of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo Māori (School of Māori Language Excellence) at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. He is considered a master of te reo Māori (the Māori language) and is recognised nationally and internationally for his knowledge and work in the language. In 1992, he received the Queen’s Service Order (QSO) for services to the Māori language. In 1970, he was appointed as the first Professor of Māori Studies at the University of Waikato. In 1987 he became the first Māori Language Commissioner at Te Taura Whiri i te Reo…
Professor Te Kani Kingi
Ngāti Pukeko, Ngāti Awa
Massey University
Director Māori
Te Kani Kingi is Director of Te Mata o te Tau, The Academy for Māori Research and Scholarship at Massey University in…
Professor Te Kani Kingi
Te Kani Kingi is Director of Te Mata o te Tau, The Academy for Māori Research and Scholarship at Massey University in Wellington. His specialist interests are in mental health research, psychometrics and Māori health. He has been an executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, the Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, the National Ethics Advisory Committee, the National Health Committee and the Public Health Advisory Committee. He currently sits on Statistics New Zealand’s Māori Advisory Group, the Pharmacy Council and is Chair of the Mental Health Commission’s Advisory Board…
Professor Tania Ka'ai
Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu, Hawaiian, Cook Islands, Samoan
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Professor
Professor Tania Ka‘ai has worked in tertiary education for over 20 years. As an Indigenous scholar Professor Ka‘ai uses…
Professor Tania Ka'ai
Professor Tania Ka‘ai has worked in tertiary education for over 20 years. As an Indigenous scholar Professor Ka‘ai uses the cultural values transmitted to her by her elders and mentors as an epistemological framework which informs her own academic writing and teaching (including supervision) within the university academy. Her work as Director of Te Ipukarea and Te Whare o Rongomaurikura, provides an opportunity to share her knowledge not only with students and staff at AUT and others nationally, but internationally too. Professor Ka‘ai’s work with endangered and minority languages has taken…
Professor Taiarahia Black
Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whānau a Āpanui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Professor
Professor Taiarahia Black
Paora Sharples
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Pou
Paora is Kaihautu Tikanga (Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori leader) at NPM and also a Professional Teaching Fellow at the…
Paora Sharples
Paora is Kaihautu Tikanga (Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori leader) at NPM and also a Professional Teaching Fellow at the Department of Māori Studies, University of Auckland where he lectures in Kapahaka, Traditional & Contemporary Māori Performing Arts and Te Reo Māori. He has had a significant career in kapahaka as well as traditional and contemporary Māori performing arts, including areas of performing, teaching/training, directing, judging as well as choreography and composition within this indigenous genre of dance. Paora has also spent 30 years developing, teaching and promoting the art of…
Associate Professor Rachel Wolfgramm
Te Aupouri, Ngāi Takoto, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Patumoana, Tonga
University of Auckland
Associate Professor & Director University Research Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society
After two decades of initiating and leading multiple Sustainability and Māori initiatives locally and internationally…
Associate Professor Rachel Wolfgramm
After two decades of initiating and leading multiple Sustainability and Māori initiatives locally and internationally, Rachel was appointed Associate Dean Māori, Associate Dean Pacific, and Director of the Dame Mira Szászy Research Centre at the University of Auckland Business School. Rachel was also appointed Director of Ngā Ara Whetu, Center for Climate, Biodiversity and Society along with fellow colleagues Professor Jaqueline Beggs, Professor JR Rowland, Professor David Noon, Professor Said Baroutian, Professor Rod McNaughton, Professor Niki Harre, A/Professor Maria Amoudian…
Associate Professor Robert Joseph
Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepuhunga, Te Pae o Raukawa, Ngäti Paretekawa o Ngāti Maniapoto
University of Waikato
Associate Professor & Director of Māori Indigenous Governance Centre Te Piringa Faculty of Law
Robert is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and was a senior research fellow for the Te…
Associate Professor Robert Joseph
Robert is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and was a senior research fellow for the Te Mātāhauariki Research Institute at the University of Waikato under the leadership of Judge Michael Brown and Dr Alex Frame. Dr Robert Joseph was the second Māori in New Zealand - and the first Māori male - to graduate with a PhD in Law in 2006.Robert's research interests are many and varied: the realisation of the Treaty of Waitangi rights and responsibilities, the interface of traditional Māori knowledge systems and western science; internal self-determination rights and…
Garth Harmsworth
Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa
Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua
Capability Leader
Garth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Landcare Research since 1992…
Garth Harmsworth
Garth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Landcare Research since 1992. His career spans over 28 years in resource management, land resource assessment, national environmental databases, GIS applications, and indigenous research. Garth pioneered much of the Māori led research in Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Ltd., working on a wide range projects with Māori organisations and regional councils throughout New Zealand, particularly in the areas of land use planning, ecosystem health, bio-physical and cultural indicators, restoring indigenous…
Professor Chellie Spiller
Ngāti Kahungunu
University of Waikato
Professor of Management and Leadership Waikato Management School
Ko Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa tōku iwi.Ko Ngāi Tahu Matawhaiti Iwitea tōku hapū.I am Professor of Leadership and…
Professor Chellie Spiller
Ko Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa tōku iwi.Ko Ngāi Tahu Matawhaiti Iwitea tōku hapū.I am Professor of Leadership and Management at Waikato Management School, University of Waikato. My research explores how people, organisations and communities cultivate the capacities needed to act wisely within relationships, responsibilities and conditions of uncertainty. Across my work, I bring together Indigenous leadership, Māori economies of wellbeing, wayfinding, stewardship, relational wealth, cultural intelligence, wisdom and systems change.My doctoral research developed the idea of relational wellbeing…
Associate Professor Bridget Robson
Ngāti Raukawa
University of Otago
Associate Dean Māori & Director of Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare
Bridget Robson (Ngāti Raukawa) is the director of Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare at the University of Otago…
Associate Professor Bridget Robson
Bridget Robson (Ngāti Raukawa) is the director of Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare at the University of Otago, Wellington. Her research interests are in the areas of social and economic determinants of health, inequitable treatment in the health system, the impact of racism on health, and the development of kaupapa Māori epidemiology.Bridget is the Principal Investigator of Unequal Treatment: The Role of Health Services. She is also involved in the Mauri Tangata project on unemployment and health, several projects on Māori cancer outcomes, and she is active in providing Tackling…
Aroha Mead
Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tūhourangi, Ngāi Tūhoe
Independent Researcher
Aroha Mead (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tuhourangi and Ngāi Tūhoe) traverses many different fields and…
Aroha Mead
Aroha Mead (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tuhourangi and Ngāi Tūhoe) traverses many different fields and disciplines. She's a political scientist (international relations) specialsing on the contribution of indigenous peoples to national, regional and global policy and law. Aroha has experience in journalism, public policy, diplomacy, senior management, governance boards, academic lecturer and researcher. She's worked in many different sectors including the public service, international organisations, community groups and in the voluntary sector. Her experience traverses working…
Professor Tim McCreanor
Ngati Pakeha
Massey University
Professor and Senior Researcher SHORE and Whariki Research Centre
Tim McCreanor is a senior researcher at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, within the College of Health at Massey…
Professor Tim McCreanor
Tim McCreanor is a senior researcher at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, within the College of Health at Massey University in Auckland. His broad public health orientation and interest in the social determinants of health and wellbeing, provide a platform for social science projects that support and stimulate social change. In particular his research seeks to foreground, critique and redress the mechanisms of talk, text and other forms of communication that operate to produce, maintain and naturalise the disparities, exclusions and inequities so evident in our society. Discourse analysis…
Dr Gail Tipa
Ngāi Tahu
Tipa & Associates
Independent Researcher
Gail Tipa (Kai Tahu) completed a BA at the University of Otago and taught for six years at schools in Dunedin and the…
Dr Gail Tipa
Gail Tipa (Kai Tahu) completed a BA at the University of Otago and taught for six years at schools in Dunedin and the Taieri before completing a Master's degree in Resource and Regional Planning. She then worked in the planning field firstly for Electricity Corporation of New Zealand and then for the Southern Regional Health Authority.In 1996 Gail began consultancy work, being involved with the Ngai Tahu claim and other iwi resource management projects.Since 1996 Gail has increasingly focused on work that enhances Maori aspirations. This includes representation of her rununga and iwi on…
Mr. Garth Harmsworth
Te Arawa, Ngti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa
Manaaki Whenua
Senior Environmental Scientist
Garth Harmsworth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Manaaki…
Mr. Garth Harmsworth
Garth Harmsworth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research since 1992. His professional career spans over 38 years in resource management, land resource assessment, national environmental databases, GIS applications, and indigenous research. Garth pioneered much of the Māori led research in Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Ltd., working on a wide range projects with Māori organisations, Government agencies, regional councils, industry, and communities throughout New Zealand, particularly in the areas of land use planning…
Professor Diane Ruwhiu
Ngāpuhi
University of Otago
Professor
Diane Ruwhiu (Ngāpuhi) teaches strategic operations and supply chain management at under and post-graduate levels. In…
Professor Diane Ruwhiu
Diane Ruwhiu (Ngāpuhi) teaches strategic operations and supply chain management at under and post-graduate levels. In addition, she also introduces Māori values and practice into other areas, such as entrepreneurship, research methods, business communication, and organisations and sustainability.Diane's PhD, 'The Sleeping Taniwha: Exploring the practical utility of kaupapa Māori in firm performance', engaged with the premise that improved Māori firm performance and sustainable advantage, are not merely an outcome of economic activity, but are also determinants of the value derived from…
Professor Papaarangi Reid
Te Rarawa
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Tumuaki and Head of Department of Maori Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
Papaarangi is Tumuaki and Head of Department of Maori Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University…
Professor Papaarangi Reid
Papaarangi is Tumuaki and Head of Department of Maori Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She holds science and medical degrees from the University of Auckland and is a specialist in public health medicine. She has tribal affiliations to Te Rarawa in the Far North of Aotearoa and her research interests include analysing disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous citizens as a means of monitoring government commitment to indigenous rights.
Professor Michael Walker
Whakatōhea
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Professor
Professor Michael Walker is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Royal Institute of Navigation in…
Professor Michael Walker
Professor Michael Walker is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Royal Institute of Navigation in London. He is best known for his research on the existence, capacities and use of the magnetic sense in navigation over long distances. Recently, he has developed research investigating the mechanisms of the lunar and tidal rhythms in marine organisms. He also led other NPM projects, He Reo no te Whenua: The establishment of a Māori-centric conservation paradigm and Use of advanced technologies to develop culturally appropriate pest-management strategies for rural Māori…
Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes FRSNZ
Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Manu
Massey University
Pou Pātai Puawai
Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes is based out of Massey University and is currently Director of Whāriki and Co-director…
Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes FRSNZ
Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes is based out of Massey University and is currently Director of Whāriki and Co-director of the SHORE and Whariki Research Centre. She has worked on research in many areas; more recently relationships between the health of people and the health of environments, sexual coercion, alcohol and youth well-being and identity. Her work is both qualitative and quantitative and she is also involved in developing research within Māori paradigms. Helen is a long time NPM researcher and is now a NPM Theme Leader (Te Tai Ao - Natural Environment ) and member of our Research…
Professor Emma Wyeth
Ngāi Tahu, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga
Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit
Co-Director
Emma Wyeth (Kāi Tahu, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga) was a Deputy Director at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 2016 to…
Professor Emma Wyeth
Emma Wyeth (Kāi Tahu, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga) was a Deputy Director at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 2016 to 2018. Emma is the Director of Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora Māori o Ngāi Tahu (Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit) and a Professor in Māori Health, both in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine.Emma has a range of research expertise and interests within the field of hauora Māori.She is currently the Principal Investigator on the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC)-funded POIS-10 Māori: Outcomes and experiences in the decade following injury study (2019-2022)…
Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, University of Otago
Co-Director
Jacinta Ruru is a Professor of Law at the University of Otago. Her research has focused on exploring Indigenous…
Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Jacinta Ruru is a Professor of Law at the University of Otago. Her research has focused on exploring Indigenous peoples' legal rights to own, manage and govern land and water including national parks and minerals in Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, United States, Australia and the Scandinavia countries. She has led, or co-led, several national and international research projects including on the Common Law Doctrine of Discovery, Indigenous peoples’ rights to freshwater and multidisciplinary understandings of landscapes and writes for several legal publishers including Adams’ Land Transfer and…
Professor Papaarangi Reid
Te Rarawa
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Tumuaki
Papaarangi is Tumuaki and Head of Department of Maori Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University…
Professor Papaarangi Reid
Papaarangi is Tumuaki and Head of Department of Maori Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She holds science and medical degrees from the University of Auckland and is a specialist in public health medicine. She has tribal affiliations to Te Rarawa in the Far North of Aotearoa and her research interests include analysing disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous citizens as a means of monitoring government commitment to indigenous rights.
Professor Paul Tapsell
Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Raukawa
University of Otago
Professor Tapsell is a graduate of the University of Auckland (MA - Social Anthropology) and University of Oxford…
Professor Paul Tapsell
Professor Tapsell is a graduate of the University of Auckland (MA - Social Anthropology) and University of Oxford (DPhil - Museum Ethnography) and has had a distinguished career working within both the Museum community and also academia. He was Tumuaki/Director Māori of Tamaki Paenga Hira/Auckland Museum from 2000-2008, and was appointed as a Professor of Māori Studies in 2009 when he joined the University of Otago in Dunedin.
Professor Margaret Maaka
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Professor in Curriculum Studies
Professor Margaret Maaka
Professor Maria Bargh
Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Professor
Maria Bargh is Professor of Politics and Māori Studies. She completed her PhD in Political Science and International…
Professor Maria Bargh
Maria Bargh is Professor of Politics and Māori Studies. She completed her PhD in Political Science and International Relations at the Australian National University.Her research interests focus on Māori politics including constitutional change and Māori representation, voting in local and general elections, and Māori resource management economy including renewable energy, freshwater, mining and biodiversity. She has also written about hidden and diverse economies such as Māori in the private military industry.Maria is a member of numerous Boards and has broad governance experience with…
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Dr Matiu Tai Ratima
Whakatōhea, Ngāti Pukeko
Researcher
Dr Rātima has worked as a Kaiako reo Māori language teacher at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland and Te…
Dr Matiu Tai Ratima
Dr Rātima has worked as a Kaiako reo Māori language teacher at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland and Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau and is also a certified translator and interpreter. In 2009 he received an Ako Aotearoa PhD Scholarship to carry out his PhD research at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato University of Waikato. He was awarded a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award in 2016 to conduct research at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. In 2022, he was part of a small team to receive the University of Canterbury Innovation Medal in recognition of translation of…
Khylee Quince
Te Roroa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Senior Lecturer
Khylee is from the iwi of Te Roroa/Ngapuhi and Ngati Porou. She teaches Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law and Youth…
Khylee Quince
Khylee is from the iwi of Te Roroa/Ngapuhi and Ngati Porou. She teaches Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law and Youth Justice. Her research interests lie within those fields; in particular Māori and the criminal justice system, tikanga Māori and the law, restorative justice and alternative dispute resolution, Māori women and the law, indigenous peoples and the law. Prior to joining the University of Auckland's Law Faculty in 1998, Khylee practiced in criminal and family law for three years. Khylee is now Associate Head of School and Director of Maori and Pacific Advancement at the AUT School…
Professor Pauline Harris
Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaka, Ngāti Kahungunu
Massey University
Professor of Māori and Indigenous Space Science
Professor Pauline Harris (Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaka, Ngāti Kahungunu) has a background in physics centred around…
Professor Pauline Harris
Professor Pauline Harris (Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaka, Ngāti Kahungunu) has a background in physics centred around gamma ray bursts, high-energy neutrino production and inflationary cosmology. She now focuses on mātauranga Māori associated with Māori astronomy and traditional Māori calendars called maramataka. Pauline is extensively involved in the Māori community and is an active member of a number of trust boards.
Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora FRSNZ, HFNZPS
Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Linda Waimarie Nikora is co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and a Professor of Indigenous Studies at Te Wānanga o…
Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora FRSNZ, HFNZPS
Linda Waimarie Nikora is co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and a Professor of Indigenous Studies at Te Wānanga o Waipapa, the University of Auckland. She was previously Professor of Psychology and Director of the Maori & Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato. Her specialities are in in community psychology, applied social psychology, ethnopsychology and Maori development. Professor Nikora has a celebrated research and academic career, working in community, social and indigenous psychologies, with a specific focus on Māori wellbeing and self-determination. Her research in…
Professor Rangi Matamua
Ngāi Tūhoe
University of Waikato
Associate Professor Matamua of Tūhoe, is a senior lecturer based in the School of Māori and Pacific Development at…
Professor Rangi Matamua
Associate Professor Matamua of Tūhoe, is a senior lecturer based in the School of Māori and Pacific Development at Waikato University. He has undertaken significant research in the areas of Māori language revitalisation, Māori culture, Māori astronomy and broadcasting. In his MA thesis Rangi focused on traditional Tūhoe weaponary, and his PhD examined the role of Māori radio in Māori language revitalisation. In addition, Dr Matamua has produced a number of publications in his specialist areas, and sits on a number of related boards including Society for Māori Astronomy Research and Traditions…
Dr Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai
Te Rarawa ki Hokianga, Waikato ki Ngāti Haua, Ngaati Awa, Ngaati Pikiao (whaangai)
University of Waikato
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Māori Office of Deputy Vice-Chancellor Māori
He uri tēnei nō Te Rarawa ki Hokianga, Waikato ki Ngāti Haua, me he whāngai ki a Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pikiao. My iwi…
Dr Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai
He uri tēnei nō Te Rarawa ki Hokianga, Waikato ki Ngāti Haua, me he whāngai ki a Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pikiao. My iwi affiliations connect me to the Far North of Hokianga, to Ngāti Haua in Waikato and I also have whāngai connections to the iwi of Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Pikiao.While my disciplinary background is Māori Studies much of my research work has been across disciplines and in education more specifically.The research that excites me connects and enables me to contribute to the needs of our diverse Māori and indigenous communities - through tribal claims research, seeking to understand the…
Professor Joanna Kidman
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngati Whakatere
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Joanna is a sociologist with affiliations to Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Raukawa. Her work spans indigenous sociology…
Professor Joanna Kidman
Joanna is a sociologist with affiliations to Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Raukawa. Her work spans indigenous sociology, Māori youth, higher education, decolonization studies and comparative education. She is especially interested in the interplay of power relations between different groups of people. Joanna is working on two Marsden projects: He Taonga te Wareware: Remembering and Forgetting New Zealand’s Colonial Past investigates how New Zealanders selectively remember and forget difficult and violent events from our colonial past; and What Inspires and Sustains Young People's Engagement in…
Professor Tracey McIntosh
Tūhoe
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga / University of Auckland
Tracey McIntosh (Ngāi Tūhoe) is Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Head of Te Wānanga o Waipapa at the University…
Professor Tracey McIntosh
Tracey McIntosh (Ngāi Tūhoe) is Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Head of Te Wānanga o Waipapa at the University of Auckland. She previously taught in the sociology and criminology programme at the University of Auckland. Tracey brings a high level of experience to her roles in international work, community development, student equity and in her wider contributions to the academic community. Tracey has lectured at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. in 2004, and has served on…
Professor Waikaremoana Waitoki
Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Māhanga
University of Waikato
Waikaremoana is a Professor and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the…
Professor Waikaremoana Waitoki
Waikaremoana is a Professor and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is a clinical psychologist with experience in adolescent and maternal mental health. She is a past president of the New Zealand Psychological Society, and inaugural co-chair of the Māori psychologist’s network, He Paiaka Totara. She is the co-editor of the first Indigenous psychology book, Te Manu Kai i te Mātauranga which is used nationally and internationally in teaching about monoculturalism and racism in psychology. She is also the co-editor…
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Dr Shaun Awatere
Ngāti Porou
Manaaki Whenua
Kaihautū Māori Research Impact Leader
Shaun Awatere (Ngāti Porou) is a resource economist for Landcare Research in Hamilton. He has been working to improve…
Dr Shaun Awatere
Shaun Awatere (Ngāti Porou) is a resource economist for Landcare Research in Hamilton. He has been working to improve the incorporation of Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge and values) into local government planning by developing the systems and processes that will enable Māori values to be integrated into urban design and development.
Dr James Ataria
Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga / Cawthron Institute, Lincoln University
Māori Business Development Consultant and Ecotoxicologist
Dr James Ataria was a Deputy Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga for a fixed term 2016 to 2018. He is Senior Lecturer…
Dr James Ataria
Dr James Ataria was a Deputy Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga for a fixed term 2016 to 2018. He is Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University and an ecotoxicologist at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson and is also an associate trustee of the Tuaropaki Trust and a member of Ngā Kaihautū Tikanga Taiao (Māori Advisory Committee to the board of the Environmental Protection Authority).His research interests are in the development and application of ecotoxicological tools for the assessment of the biological effects and impacts of legacy and new emerging contaminants on culturally significant species…
Professor Huia Tomlins-Jahnke
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Hine
Massey University
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor Huia Tomlins Jahnke has been involved as a researcher and research coordinator of the D Company…
Professor Huia Tomlins-Jahnke
Associate Professor Huia Tomlins Jahnke has been involved as a researcher and research coordinator of the D Company Māori Battalion Oral History Project since 1997 when the Ngāti Kahungunu veterans of D Company established the project. She is Principal Investigator on the NPM project Au e ihu! Nga Morehu TauaThose that are left must endeavour to complete the work. Huia is currently an Professor of Māori Education, and Head of School in the College of Education at Massey University.
Dr Dominic Andrae
Cape York Land Council
Senior Anthropologist
Dr Dominic Andrae is a part-time Research Fellow working with Tracey McIntosh (Director) on her research programme…
Dr Dominic Andrae
Dr Dominic Andrae is a part-time Research Fellow working with Tracey McIntosh (Director) on her research programme. Dominic’s role is to conduct research in the area of incarceration, gang membership and gang whānau and to develop new and appropriate methodologies in working with vulnerable groups: generating new knowledge, outputs and research opportunities (funding, support and collaborations).
Distinguished Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith
Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Kahungunu, Kai Tahu and Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Kati Mamoe
Massey University
Te Toi Ihorei ki Pūrehuroa – Distinguished Professor at Large
Professor Graham Smith, a prominent Māori educationalist, has been at the forefront of Māori initiatives in the…
Distinguished Professor Graham Hingangaroa Smith
Professor Graham Smith, a prominent Māori educationalist, has been at the forefront of Māori initiatives in the education field and beyond. His recent academic work has centered on developing theoretically informed transformative strategies related to intervening in Māori cultural, political, social, educational and economic crises. Professor Smith has made significant contributions to the political, social, economic and cultural advancement of indigenous Māori communities. He has also worked extensively with other indigenous peoples across the world, including Canada, Hawaii, USA mainland…
Distinguished Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Ngāti Awa Representative, Co-Deputy Chairperson
Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) is one of the most influential and internationally recognised…
Distinguished Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) is one of the most influential and internationally recognised Māori scholars and researchers of the 21st Century. Her book “Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples” has been translated into five languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Italian, and Bhasa Indonesian). She has written numerous books, articles, lectures, and research which are cited by academics worldwide, and is one of the most renowned indigenous thinkers of our time.In the 1970’s, Professor Smith was a founding member of Ngā Tamatoa which opposed racial…
Professor Merata Kawharu
Ngāti Whatua, Ngāpuhi
Merata Kawharu is a graduate of The University of Auckland (BA in Social Anthropology and Māori Studies and…
Professor Merata Kawharu
Merata Kawharu is a graduate of The University of Auckland (BA in Social Anthropology and Māori Studies and Post-Graduate Diploma in Business (Administration)) and of Oxford University (DPhil in Social Anthropology). She is currently working on the project Identifying Frameworks for Effective Iwi and Hapū Development and was previously the Principal Investigator on the NPM project Waka Wairua. As a Rhodes Scholar she undertook research on kaitiakitanga. Since completing her doctorate in 1998, she has undertaken research projects for various Treaty claimant groups and the private sector and…
Emeritus Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku MNZM FAWMM
Te Arawa, Tūhoe, Waikato
Emeritus Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku continues to contribute in the arts and creative sector. With degrees in Art…
Emeritus Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku MNZM FAWMM
Emeritus Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku continues to contribute in the arts and creative sector. With degrees in Art History and English, her PhD (1981) was in cultural psychology. She wrote an early (1991) monograph on Maori research ethics. For decades she served in the heritage environment as a governor, curator and activist/advocate. Her scholarly works on culture, gender, heritage and sexuality, and her fiction and poetry, have been published and acclaimed locally and internationally.
Professor Darrin Hodgetts
Ngāi Tahu
Darrin Hodgetts is a Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Waikato. Previously he was a teaching fellow…
Professor Darrin Hodgetts
Darrin Hodgetts is a Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Waikato. Previously he was a teaching fellow at Massey University, and then held a post-doctoral fellowship in Community Health at Memorial University, Canada, followed by a lectureship at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Darrin has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and three books relating to health, poverty, community and inequalities. He is an expert in the use of participative, action-orientated ethnographic research methods. Darrin is Co-Principal Investigator on the Ngā Pae o te…
Associate Professor Mohi Rua
Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Whakaue
University of Auckland
Associate Head of School: Academic Māori and Pacific Studies
Mohi is NPM's Pou Pātai Whānau and is based at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau. He has research and…
Associate Professor Mohi Rua
Mohi is NPM's Pou Pātai Whānau and is based at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau. He has research and teaching interests in: Māori health and inequities; Social determinants of health; Māori culture, heritage and identity; Poverty, the precariat and homelessness; Kaupapa Māori research, theory and methodologies; Decolonial practices; indigenous psychological perspectives of the interconnected self; Sport and rangatahi (Māori youth).
Professor Leonie Pihama
Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga, Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi
Independent Scholar
Professor Leonie Pihama (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga,Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi) is a mother of six and a grandmother of six. She…
Professor Leonie Pihama
Professor Leonie Pihama (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga,Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi) is a mother of six and a grandmother of six. She is Professor of Māori and Indigenous Research and is working as Research Director at Tū Tamawahine o Taranaki and is Director of Māori and Indigenous Analysis Ltd, a Kaupapa Māori research company. Leonie is a leading kaupapa Māori educator and researcher. She was a recipient of the Hohua Tūtengaehe Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Health Research Council) and the inaugural Ngā Pae o Te Maramatanga Senior Māori Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Washington.In 2015…
Professor Paul Kayes
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Professor at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Paul Kayes is Academic Registrar and Director of Te Whare Taiao – Institute of Indigenous Science at Te Whare Wānanga o…
Professor Paul Kayes
Paul Kayes is Academic Registrar and Director of Te Whare Taiao – Institute of Indigenous Science at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. He has responsibility for implementing the Institute’s strategic plan and through that working with iwi especially in areas such as marine biology and customary fishing. He has developed a range of new science programmes at Awanuiārangi. Previously Paul was Head of the Applied Sciences School at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic. In 2005 he received the Award for Excellence from the Polytechnic for establishing the Pacific Coast Research Centre.He is Principal…
Dr Simon Lambert
Tūhoe, Ngāti Ruapani
Te Tira Whakamātaki & Hono
Chief Scientist
Dr Simon Lambert is a lecturer in Māori Environmental Planning and Development in the Faculty of Environment, Society…
Dr Simon Lambert
Dr Simon Lambert is a lecturer in Māori Environmental Planning and Development in the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design at Lincoln University. He has previously held a Te Tipu Putaiao post-doctoral fellowship at Manaaki Whenua LandCare Research, and has researched small-scale innovation in the farming, building and energy sectors of New Zealand in the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit at Lincoln.
Professor Angus Macfarlane
Ngāti Whakaue
Angus Macfarlane is Professor of Māori Research at the University of Canterbury. He is an experienced educator and…
Professor Angus Macfarlane
Angus Macfarlane is Professor of Māori Research at the University of Canterbury. He is an experienced educator and practitioner and has been an advisor and professional development provider for Special Education Services and the Ministry of Education on a number of national projects. His interest is the exploration of cultural concepts and strategies that affect positively on professional practice, on which he published widely. In 2010 Angus was presented with the Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award to acknowledge his significant contribution to Māori research. His most recent book, Responsive Pedagogy…
Dr. Arapata Hakiwai
Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Māori Co-Leader Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive
Arapata Hakiwai (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu) is the Kaihautū | Māori Co-Leader at Te Papa…
Dr. Arapata Hakiwai
Arapata Hakiwai (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu) is the Kaihautū | Māori Co-Leader at Te Papa Tongarewa and shares the strategic leadership of the National Museum with the Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive.He has extensive knowledge, relationships and experience working with iwi and museums, including helping to restore the Ruatepupuke wharenui in the Field Museum, Chicago, undertaking a research project to identify and create an international digital database of Māori and Moriori taonga, and more recently helping to return the Motunui Pātaka panels from Geneva to…
Dr Wayne Ngata
Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngāti Ira, Ngāti Porou
Wayne Ngata is a strong supporter of the revitalisation of te reo Māori and education models that are underpinned by…
Dr Wayne Ngata
Wayne Ngata is a strong supporter of the revitalisation of te reo Māori and education models that are underpinned by Māori processes. He has had several academic, management or governance roles at St Stephens School, EIT Tairāwhiti, Ministry of Education, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiarangi, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, The MacDiarmid Institute, and Tolaga Bay Area School.Wayne has helped develop health programmes that use a Māori approach, including the Atua Matua Māori Health Framework1 and The Horouta Collective for Te Hauora o Te Aitanga o Hauiti. Wayne has been the lead instructor for the…
Dr Jane Kitson
Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha
Tohu Environmental
Kaiwhakahaere | Founder & Principal
Dr Jane Kitson is an ecologist and environmental scientist with a background in traditional ecological knowledge…
Dr Jane Kitson
Dr Jane Kitson is an ecologist and environmental scientist with a background in traditional ecological knowledge research. She has worked in a range of research and management projects including doctoral research on traditional ecological knowledge and harvest management of tītī (Puffinus griseus); microbial food webs in lakes; and coastal and freshwater environmental science as a scientist at Environment Southland, Southland Regional Council. Jane works at Te Ao Mārama Incorporated in Invercargill, which is a resource management agency set up by manawhenua to look after resource management…
Dr Marion Johnson
Principal Investigator NPM Project Indigenous Agroecology
A former shepherd and farm manager, Dr Marion Johnson combines academic science and research with practical and…
Dr Marion Johnson
A former shepherd and farm manager, Dr Marion Johnson combines academic science and research with practical and traditional farm knowledge. Now a Senior Scientist at The Future Farming Centre, Lincoln. Dr Johnson holds degrees in Agricultural Science, Environmental Biology and Veterinary Parasitology.
Dr Kepa Morgan
Ngāti Pikiao of Te Arawa
Ngati Makino Iwi Authority
General Manager
Dr Kepa Morgan's (BE, MBA, PhD, CPEng, FIPENZ ) bi-cultural background is rooted in his cultural identity as Ngāti…
Dr Kepa Morgan
Dr Kepa Morgan's (BE, MBA, PhD, CPEng, FIPENZ ) bi-cultural background is rooted in his cultural identity as Ngāti Pikiao of Te Arawa. During his engineering career Kepa has strengthened his understanding of Pikiaoanga while also striving for excellence both professionally and academically. As an indirect result of this combination of identity, interests and expertise, Kepa has found himself at the juncture between Māori aspirations and the engineering profession on many occasions. At times these have been adversarial situations, and sometimes the results have been less than optimal, however…
Dr Hēmi Whaanga
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha
Massey University
Professor & Doctoral Mentor Supervisor
Dr Hēmi Whaanga is a research officer in Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao (The School of Māori and Pacific Development) at the…
Dr Hēmi Whaanga
Dr Hēmi Whaanga is a research officer in Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao (The School of Māori and Pacific Development) at the University of Waikato. Hēmi has been a project leader, writer and researcher in a range of linguistic, indigenous Māori knowledge and curriculum projects. He is the principal investigator on the NPM project The ethics, processes and procedures associated with the digitisation of the Pei Jones collection. He has published in the areas of indigenous Māori knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, language revitalisation, linguistics, language teaching and curriculum…
Professor Shaun Ogilvie
Te Arawa (Ngāti Whakahemo), Ngāti Awa (Ngāti Pukeko)
University of Canterbury
Shaun Ogilvie has a PhD in Ecology from the University of Canterbury and is the Director of Eco Research Associates…
Professor Shaun Ogilvie
Shaun Ogilvie has a PhD in Ecology from the University of Canterbury and is the Director of Eco Research Associates Ltd, a private environmental research company. He is also the Māori Business Development Consultant for the Cawthron Institute in Nelson, and a contractor to other organisations, including Lincoln University and The Environmental Protection Authority.
Shaun is the principal investigator on several Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga research projects:
Tom Roa
Waikato-Ngāti Maniapoto
Tom Roa is a senior lecturer at Waikato University. He is the principal investigator on the project Exploring a Māori…
Tom Roa
Tom Roa is a senior lecturer at Waikato University. He is the principal investigator on the project Exploring a Māori classificatory system of flora and fauna within Tainui waka. His research interests are translation and interpretation of Māori-English, Kīngitanga, Waikato-Maniapoto oral and written history and traditions. He is the Chair of Te Arataura, Waikato Tainui's Executive.
Dr Jason Turuwhenua
Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tūhoe
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Jason Turuwhenua is a Research Fellow who works between The University of Auckland’s Auckland Bioengineering…
Dr Jason Turuwhenua
Dr. Jason Turuwhenua is a Research Fellow who works between The University of Auckland’s Auckland Bioengineering Institute and the Department of Optometry and Vision Science. He is the principal investigator on the project Whatukura: A bioengineered model of the human eye. Jason is interested in how engineering methods might be applied to problems in vision. At present he is working on developing 'the virtual eye', a physics-based system for investigating eye disease. In 2003 he won the National Māori Academic Excellence Award.
Associate Professor Daniel Hikuroa
Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Te Arawa
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Associate Professor & Assistant Dean Faculty of Arts and Education Administration
Dr Daniel (Dan) Hikuroa is an Earth Systems Scientists who integrates mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and science to…
Associate Professor Daniel Hikuroa
Dr Daniel (Dan) Hikuroa is an Earth Systems Scientists who integrates mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and science to realise the dreams and aspirations of the communities he works with. He is an established world expert on integrating indigenous knowledge and science and has undertaken many projects including co-writing the 2014 State of the Hauraki Gulf Environment Report, geothermal developments, co-writing iwi environmental management plans, hazard and vulnerability assessments and industrial waste rehabilitation. Dan was the Research Director for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga from July 2011…
Professor Rawinia Higgins
Tūhoe
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Professor Rawinia Higgins was appointed Te Tumu Ahurei (Māori) / Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori) of Victoria University…
Professor Rawinia Higgins
Professor Rawinia Higgins was appointed Te Tumu Ahurei (Māori) / Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori) of Victoria University of Wellington in 2016. She was previously Victoria’s Assistant Vice-Chancellor Māori Research and Head of School for Te Kawa a Māui / School of Māori Studies and went to Victoria as a senior lecturer in 2009 after holding academic positions at the University of Otago for 12 years. Her research expertise is Māori language revitalisation and, more specifically, language planning and policy. She was Co-Principal Investigator of Te Kura Roa, the three year Ngā Pae o Te…
Emeritus Professor Poia Rewi
Ngāti Manawa, Tūhoe, Te Arawa
Kanapu
Pouhere Kanapu
Happily married with children and mokos who make life so refreshing. My teaching, research and practice included…
Emeritus Professor Poia Rewi
Happily married with children and mokos who make life so refreshing. My teaching, research and practice included Indigenous language revitalisation, te reo me ngā tikanga Māori, Māori oratory, Māori performing arts and Māori history and have spanned the University of Waikato 1990-2003 and the University of Otago 2023-2020. Poia has also held leadership roles at Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori and Te Mātāwai. And if he didn’t have 5 operations on his achilles tendon he would have definitely been an All Black and a competitor on Dancing with Stars.
Professor Cindy Kiro
Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Head of School Te Kura Maori
Cindy Kiro is the Director of The Starpath Project, at the University of Auckland and was previously Head of School Te…
Professor Cindy Kiro
Cindy Kiro is the Director of The Starpath Project, at the University of Auckland and was previously Head of School Te Kura Māori at Victoria University and Children’s Commissioner. Her areas of research expertise are Public Health, Māori Health, Children and Young People Policy, and Māori Development. She is a lead author on “Trends in Wellbeing for Māori households/families, 1981–2006".
Donna Ngaronoa Gardiner
Ngaiterangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pukenga
Mokopuna 2023
Researcher
Donna Gardiner is a PhD scholar of NPM. Her doctoral research project "Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou - Our struggle to…
Donna Ngaronoa Gardiner
Donna Gardiner is a PhD scholar of NPM. Her doctoral research project "Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou - Our struggle to transform” - looks at Maori leadership today, in a modern context. Donna was previously Research and Community Coordinator for NPM and coordinated the translation of NPM research and activities to our communities, specifically Māori and indigenous, to make positive change. She also coordinated opportunities such as hui, wānanga and conferences for these communities to discuss their research ideas and issues, and creative potential. In the past, Donna has been the outpost manager for…
Dr Joseph Te Rito
Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu
AKO AOTEAROA
Kaihautū Mātauranga Māori
Dr Joe Te Rito is of Ngāti Hinemanu descent from Ōmāhu out of Hastings. The community was devastated by Cyclone…
Dr Joseph Te Rito
Dr Joe Te Rito is of Ngāti Hinemanu descent from Ōmāhu out of Hastings. The community was devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle which flooded the whole community including over 100 houses, the marae, cemetery, school, and kohanga reo. Joe has actively assisted in the recovery efforts by his community since then to provide shelter for displaced families; water, food and stores to local whānau, the rural farming community and other marae; plan for future housing; gather up kōiwi from the cemetery and an ancient burial site unearthed by the flood; recover old carvings from an old pātaka; and revive local Māori history that had been forgotten. He was former head of Māori Studies at EIT (17 years), worked at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (11 years), currently works for Ako Aotearoa (7 years); and is the original and current head of Radio Kahungunu (35 years).
Dr Marilyn Tangi Ina McPherson
Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Ngāti Kahu
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Researcher
Dr Marilyn McPherson was previously Senior Research Fellow – Research Performance at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga , where…
Dr Marilyn Tangi Ina McPherson
Dr Marilyn McPherson was previously Senior Research Fellow – Research Performance at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga , where she conducted research relevant to the NPM Research Plan and also assisted the Centre in the academic monitoring and evaluation of its research. Marilyn completed her Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Geography at The University of Auckland in 1976. Following 16 years teaching at St Stephens School, Marilyn enrolled and graduated with a Master of Arts in Geography from The University of Auckland in 1992. Her thesis was entitled Toitu Te Whenua: Relationships Between…