Our people are at the heart of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Across Aotearoa and beyond, our whānau of researchers, students, partners, and professional staff are united by a shared commitment to advancing Māori knowledge, innovation, and excellence. Explore the profiles below to learn more about the diverse individuals who contribute to our research community and help shape a flourishing future for Māori.
Ko Wai Mātou
NPM Whānau · Search Our People
Whakaputa · Journal publications 54
Associate Professor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Kanaka Maoli
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Associate Professor in Political Science
I am a Kanaka Maoli wahine mākua, artist, activist, scholar, and storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to my…
Associate Professor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
I am a Kanaka Maoli wahine mākua, artist, activist, scholar, and storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to my parents, Jonathan and Mary Osorio. I earned my PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where I currently work as an Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics. In 2020, my poetry and activism were the subject of an award-winning film, This is the Way We Rise, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2021. In 2022, I was a lead artist and co-writer of the VR documentary On the Morning You Wake (To the End of…
Professor Ayano Gizano
University of the Ryukyus, Japan
Professor, Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability
Ayano Ginoza is a Professor in the Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability at the University of the Ryukyus…
Professor Ayano Gizano
Ayano Ginoza is a Professor in the Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability at the University of the Ryukyus. Her work looks at cultures of militarism and feminist decolonial work in Okinawa. She currently focuses on issues of performativity and indigeneities of militarized islands cultures as articulated in Okinawan diasporic communities in California.
Shelley Hoani
Waikato
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
With over two decades of experience in tertiary education within a Wānanga context, Dr Shelley Hoani has gained…
Shelley Hoani
With over two decades of experience in tertiary education within a Wānanga context, Dr Shelley Hoani has gained considerable experience in various aspects of Ako (teaching, learning), Aro (reflective practice), and Rangahau (Māori/Indigenous inquiry). Notably, Shelley has served as the lead for Publications and Ethics, acquiring extensive knowledge and experience in both of these areas. Shelley's interests encompass a wide range of personal, professional, and scholarly kaupapa, including wāhine Māori leadership, Indigenous frameworks of being, notions of success, the social construction of…
Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Arizona State University, USA
Professor
Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Affiliate Faculty member…
Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Affiliate Faculty member of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. In 1991, with funding from William T Grant career, she completed career development training in epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. After fifteen years of postdoctoral fieldwork, and faculty appointments at Emory University and the University of New Mexico, Hurtado moved to ASU to help build the first anthropology-based Global Health program. In 2012, Hurtado was inducted as fellow of…
Professor Onowa McIvor Whitinui
nehinaw
University of Victoria, Canada
Professor
Onowa McIvor Whitinui is a member of Kinoséwi Sípíhk (Norway House Cree Nation) and connected to Cross Lake in Treaty 5…
Professor Onowa McIvor Whitinui
Onowa McIvor Whitinui is a member of Kinoséwi Sípíhk (Norway House Cree Nation) and connected to Cross Lake in Treaty 5 territory (northern Manitoba) on her mother and Scottish-Canadian through her father. She is a grateful resident of the SENĆOŦEN and lək̓ʷəŋən speaking territories. She is a lifelong language learner, activist, researcher and professor in Indigenous Language Revitalization.
Bradley Moggridge
Kamilaroi , Murri
University of Technology Sydney
Professor and Associate Dean Indigenous Leadership and Engagement
Prof Bradley Moggridge is a proud Kamilaroi man (North-West NSW) living on Ngunnawal Country. He is currently Professor…
Bradley Moggridge
Prof Bradley Moggridge is a proud Kamilaroi man (North-West NSW) living on Ngunnawal Country. He is currently Professor (Science) and Associate Dean (Indigenous Leadership and Engagement) at the University of Technology Sydney, previously was an Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science at the University of Canberra and in 2023 was conferred with a PhD (Science). Between 2017-22 he was the Indigenous Liaison Officer for the Threatened Species Hub under NESP.He was appointed by IPCC as Lead Author for Assessment Report 7 WG1 Chapter 10 and is a Board Member with the NSW EPA and…
Associate Professor Awi Mona
Seediq Nation, Indigenous Taiwanese
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Institute of Financial and Economic Law
Awi Mona is a member of the Seediq Indigenous Nation of Taiwan and serves as Professor of Law and Dean of the College…
Associate Professor Awi Mona
Awi Mona is a member of the Seediq Indigenous Nation of Taiwan and serves as Professor of Law and Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan’s leading university for Indigenous studies. One of the first Indigenous scholars in Taiwan to earn a Ph.D. in Law, his research focuses on Indigenous legal orders, Indigenous self-determination, legal pluralism, and the revitalization of Indigenous governance. Through comparative and community-engaged research across Taiwan, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Japan, and the Pacific, he works collaboratively…
Associate Professor Renée Monchalin
Métis
University of Toronto, Canada
Associate Professor
Dr. Renée Monchalin is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, cross appointed with the Well Living House, and MAP Centre…
Associate Professor Renée Monchalin
Dr. Renée Monchalin is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, cross appointed with the Well Living House, and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.She is the Director of the Fireweed Project, a community-led project aimed at advancing knowledge around, and removing barriers to accessing abortion services and care for Indigenous peoples in Canada. The Fireweed Project is currently hiring.Dr. Monchalin’s research explores access to culturally safe health services, primarily with urban Métis Peoples. Her research program advances Métis reproductive…
Associate Professor David Newhouse
Onondaga
Trent University, Canada
Associate Professor & Chair, Chaney Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies
David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He was the first…
Associate Professor David Newhouse
David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He was the first Principal of the new Peter Gzowski College at Trent University and Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies. He is also an Associate Professor in the Business Administration Program. Professor Newhouse is Co-Chair of the Trent Aboriginal Education Council. He was the IMC/U of S Aboriginal Scholar in Residence at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1998/99. He also teaches in the Graduate CED Program at Concordia University.He served as founding editor of the…
Dominic O'Sullivan
Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Professor in Political Science
Professor Dominic O'Sullivan is a political scientist in the School of Social Work and Arts and Yindymarra Nguluway. He…
Dominic O'Sullivan
Professor Dominic O'Sullivan is a political scientist in the School of Social Work and Arts and Yindymarra Nguluway. He is interested in comparative indigenous politics and public policy and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has authored eight books and co-edited one. Dominic has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters and more than 120 articles for public audiences, including in the Conversation, Open Forum and the New Zealand Herald.Dominic is also an Adjunct Professor at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University…
Dolores Figueroa Romero
CIESAS, Mexico
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Dolores Figueroa Romero is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology and…
Dolores Figueroa Romero
Dr. Dolores Figueroa Romero is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology and Ethnology (CIESAS) in Mexico City, and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University, Toronto, Canada. She received a PhD in Sociology from York University in 2011. She is a young scholar with extensive involvement in academia, activism and policy advocacy in the fields of politics, gender, and ethnicity in Latin America. Dolores’s research work focuses on the intersections of transnational feminism, Indigenous women’s…
Robin Quigg
Raukawa, Ngāti Tamaterā
University of Otago
Associate Professor - Māori Health
I have a wide range of research interests with experience in physical activity and playgrounds (with accelerometers and…
Robin Quigg
I have a wide range of research interests with experience in physical activity and playgrounds (with accelerometers and GPS units), smokefree environment policy evaluation, and equity in tertiary education.I am particularly interested in decolonising spaces, such as parks, as they are largely westernised concept, reflecting the industrial revolution distinction between work and leisure, with the parks the result of colonisation, space taken from indigenous cultures. They are not innocuous features of the landscape especially in cities, but result from colonialist intervention, and have…
Dr. Marama Salsano
Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Dr Marama Salsano joined Te Manawahoukura in 2025. She has extensive high school English teaching experience in…
Dr. Marama Salsano
Dr Marama Salsano joined Te Manawahoukura in 2025. She has extensive high school English teaching experience in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her PhD project explored multigenre as an Indigenous form and contemplated the relationship between visual creativity and writing. As a collaborative and interdisciplinary researcher, Marama works at the intersection of Māori literary studies, toi Māori (Māori art), creative writing, and iwi Rangahau. Her current research interests reflect the contours, dynamism and scope of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki archival writing and publishing.
Dr. Wasiq Silan
Tayal
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Assistant Professor Indigenous Development and Social Work
Lokah simu kwara! I am Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao 高怡安). I am a Tayal woman from the Mstaranan known as the Nanshi River…
Dr. Wasiq Silan
Lokah simu kwara! I am Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao 高怡安). I am a Tayal woman from the Mstaranan known as the Nanshi River valley in the northern part of Taiwan. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 2021. My work engages with Taiwan's social policy and the Tayal elders, grounded in interpretive policy analysis and critical ethnography while drawing from Indigenous methodologies. Doing Indigenous methodologies heal self-doubt and colonial wounds. You can listen to a short poem reflecting on my self-doubt about not being Indigenous here. I was a core fellow at the prestigious Helsinki…
Associate Professor Ánde Somby
Sámi
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Associate Professor
Ánde Somby is a Sami scholar, musician, and writer renowned for his lifelong work in bridging indigenous culture and…
Associate Professor Ánde Somby
Ánde Somby is a Sami scholar, musician, and writer renowned for his lifelong work in bridging indigenous culture and legal academia. As an associate professor specializing in Indigenous Rights Law at the University of Tromsø and a celebrated traditional joik artist, Somby embodies a unique synthesis of intellectual rigor and deep cultural practice. His career is characterized by a profound commitment to articulating and defending Sami worldview and rights through both scholarly discourse and artistic expression.Ánde Somby was born and raised in Buolbmat, Norway, within a culturally rich Sami…
Professor Shannon Speed
Chickasaw
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Professor & Director of American Indian Studies Center
Dr. Shannon Speed is a tribal citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Director of the American Indian…
Professor Shannon Speed
Dr. Shannon Speed is a tribal citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Director of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) and Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA. Dr. Speed has worked for the last two decades in Mexico and in the United States on issues of indigenous autonomy, sovereignty, gender, neoliberalism, violence, migration, social justice, and activist research. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Spanish, and has published seven books and edited volumes, including her most recent, Incarcerated Stories…
Professor Troy Storfjell
Sámi
Pacific Lutheran University, USA
Professor and Director Native American and Indigenous Studies
Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist…
Professor Troy Storfjell
Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies. In his scholarship Troy works to create a place for Indigenous intellectual and philosophical traditions within the academy, bringing Sámi ways of knowing to bear on such topics as settler colonial literature, multicultural diversity and trans-Indigenous film studies. In his teaching Troy strives for a student-centered approach and for classrooms that can become collaborative learning communities. He teaches in Norwegian and Scandinavian Area…
Professor Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
Quechua
University of Minnesota, USA
Professor of Comparative and International Development Education
Situated in the Mantaro Valley of Junín, Peru is an autochthonous Quechua Indigenous community that I call home. My…
Professor Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
Situated in the Mantaro Valley of Junín, Peru is an autochthonous Quechua Indigenous community that I call home. My mother and her siblings were born and raised in an adobe family house built by my grandparents, Antonieta Jesusa Carhuamaca and Antonio Huaman. Two floors of small rooms are linked by a wooden ladder that leads up to a balcony where a view of the entire valley includes one of our sacred mountain glaciers, Waytapallana—source of epistemic and ontological affirmation and renewal for the Indigenous people of this region. I am an educational researcher because of my connections to…
Kanako Uzawa
Ainu
University of Melbourne
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Kanako Uzawa is an Ainu scholar, artist, museum curator, and advocate dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices…
Kanako Uzawa
Dr. Kanako Uzawa is an Ainu scholar, artist, museum curator, and advocate dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices worldwide. As the founder of AinuToday and CEO of K. Uzawa Consult, she bridges academic and public platforms to celebrate Indigenous identity. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity at Hokkaido University and an affiliated researcher at the Historical Museum of the University of Oslo, Norway.Dr. Uzawa holds an MA in Indigenous Studies and a PhD in Community Planning and Cultural Understanding from UiT Arctic…
Dr. Isla Emery-Whittington
Rereahu, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa
Emery Whittington Consultants Ltd
Occupational Therapist / Researcher / Tiriti antiracism educator / NESP mental health and addictions educator
Isla Emery-Whittington is an occupational therapist and consultant. Her research examines western theories and notions…
Dr. Isla Emery-Whittington
Isla Emery-Whittington is an occupational therapist and consultant. Her research examines western theories and notions of everyday occupations as shaped and produced by colonisation. The research aims to reveal taken for granted colonial notions of daily occupations and privilege exploration of a Kaupapa Māori theory of everyday occupations as accessible spaces of healing and connections to kaitiakitanga.
Dr. Sandra Yellowhorse
Diné/Navajo
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Research Fellow
Shí ié Sandra Yellowhorse yínishií. Kinyaa’aani nishłí adóó Bílligáana báshíchiin. Tachiinii dashichei adóó Kin’łichní…
Dr. Sandra Yellowhorse
Shí ié Sandra Yellowhorse yínishií. Kinyaa’aani nishłí adóó Bílligáana báshíchiin. Tachiinii dashichei adóó Kin’łichní dashináli. Nani’zhoozhí di shiʼdizhch. Tāmaki Makaurau Aotearoa déé naasha.I am a critical Indigenous disability scholar who specialises in Indigenous perspectives of disability and autism. I center first-person experiences and family cultural narratives to reframe understandings of disability to combat social stigma and build nurturing environments of belonging and empowerment. Committed to Diné ancestral, land-based knowledge, my research explores the abundance of many ways…
Emalani Case
Kanaka Maoli
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Lecturer in Pacific Studies & Associate Head of School: Postgraduate Māori and Pacific Studies
Emalani Case is a lecturer in Pacific Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa, the School of Māori and Pacific Studies at…
Emalani Case
Emalani Case is a lecturer in Pacific Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa, the School of Māori and Pacific Studies at Waipapa Taumata Rau, The University of Auckland. As a Kanaka Maoli activist, teacher, and writer, she is deeply engaged in issues of Indigenous rights and representation, settler colonialism and decolonisation, militarism and demilitarisation, and environmental and social justice. Her work, including her teaching, is motivated by a desire to draw on Pacific and Indigenous knowledges and histories to reflect upon the past, promote action and solidarity in the present, and envision…
Dr. Joni Angeli-Gordon
Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre
Dr Joni Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa) is Te Paemanu | Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre at…
Dr. Joni Angeli-Gordon
Dr Joni Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa) is Te Paemanu | Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Her research is an invitation to return to aroha as an intellectual discipline, to ancestral intelligence as method, and to gentle insistence as a transformative force. Working across Kaupapa Māori, Indigenous child development, Māori mindfulness (mauritau), educational psychology, and placefulness, Joni explores what it means for mokopuna and whānau to thrive — not in theory alone, but in lived, intergenerational, and embodied ways. Her work centres…
Dr. Tania Canas
Salvadoran
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of forced displacement, borders, memory…
Dr. Tania Canas
Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of forced displacement, borders, memory, and decoloniality through community-led creative and performance practices. Her research is grounded in arts-based, practice-led, and participatory methodologies that foreground lived experience. Her lived experience as a Salvadorian refugee who grew up in Naarm on unceded Kulin Territory informs her scholarship with a deeply personal, ethical, and critical perspective, shaping her commitment to relational and community-embedded modes of knowledge-making. In 2023, the…
Professor Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Huanca Quechua
Indiana University, USA
Professor in Curriculum and Instruction
I am an Indigenous scholar from South America and a native speaker of Huanca Quechua, an endangered variety spoken in…
Professor Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
I am an Indigenous scholar from South America and a native speaker of Huanca Quechua, an endangered variety spoken in the central highlands of Peru. My life and work are deeply informed by my cultural and linguistic roots, which ground my scholarship, teaching, and activism. I earned my Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics/Sociolinguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where I specialized in the study of language, power, and identity in multilingual and multicultural contexts. Before that, I received my M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from The Ohio State University, an experience that provided…
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Central Connecticut State University, USA
Professor of History and African Studies
Dr. Gloria T. Emeagwali is a Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University.In…
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Dr. Gloria T. Emeagwali is a Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University.In 'africahistory.net' we present various perspectives on African Indigenous Knowledge Systems(AIK) from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts from scholarly works on the subject and focus on several areas. We are proud to say that this site has been listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the top 50 of African websites
Associate Professor Hiria McRae
Te Arawa, Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Associate Professor, Associate Dean
Hiria Mcrae (Te Arawa,Tūhoe,Ngāti Kahungunu) is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Associate Dean…
Associate Professor Hiria McRae
Hiria Mcrae (Te Arawa,Tūhoe,Ngāti Kahungunu) is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Associate Dean Māori for the Faculty of Education, Health & Psychological Sciences. She has extensive experience in working with practicing teachers and teaching postgraduate students and teacher trainees in the areas of mātauranga Māori, te reo Māori, science and technology, critical pedagogies, education for sustainability. Her research focuses broadly on Māori education in areas ranging from iwi Māori student success models, kaiako Māori leadership and computational thinking.
Associate Professor Jade Le Grice
Ngāi Tupoto, Ngāti Korokoro, Te Pouka, Ngāti Wharara, Te Mahurehure
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Association Professor Psychology
Tēnā koutou kātoa, he uri ahau o Ngāpuhi me Te Rarawa. Ko Ngai Tupoto, Ngati Korokoro, Ngati Wharara, Te Pouka ngā…
Associate Professor Jade Le Grice
Tēnā koutou kātoa, he uri ahau o Ngāpuhi me Te Rarawa. Ko Ngai Tupoto, Ngati Korokoro, Ngati Wharara, Te Pouka ngā hapū. Nō Motukaraka me Pakanae ahau. I am an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, where I am also Co‑Director of Te Pūtahi o Pūtaiao, The Centre for Kaupapa Māori Science. I teach into three undergraduate and postgraduate courses that support foundational skills in Indigenous, kaupapa Māori & critical psychology. I have supervised over 15 doctoral, masters, honours, and clinical psychology students to…
Professor Peter Adds
Te Ātiawa
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Professor (Teaching)
Peter Adds is an Associate Professor at Te Kawa a Maui - the School of Māori Studies at Victoria University of…
Professor Peter Adds
Peter Adds is an Associate Professor at Te Kawa a Maui - the School of Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. He is from the Otaraua Hapu of Te Ātiawa in Taranaki. His academic training is in archaeology but he has extensive experience in Treaty Settlements and is also an accomplished Treaty trainer. He was the claimant researcher for the Taranaki Land Claim and subsequently the claim negotiator for Te Ātiawa. He is also the inaugural and current Chairperson of the Māori Association of Social Science.
Dr Annie Te One
Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Mutunga
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Senior Lecturer
Annie Te One (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Mutunga) is the current tumuaki of Te Kawa a Māui. Annie’s PhD is from the Australian…
Dr Annie Te One
Annie Te One (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Mutunga) is the current tumuaki of Te Kawa a Māui. Annie’s PhD is from the Australian National University and focussed on iwi and local government relationships in Wellington and the Hutt Valley. She worked on the Mana Wāhine Inquiry (WAI2700) for the Waitangi Tribunal, is a key researcher on 'Generation Kainga' a rangatahi-centred MBIE funded research project focussing on rangatahi experiences and aspirations for kainga in Aotearoa, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholar award in 2023 to teach and research at the University of Hawaii and the Univerersity of…
Cheryle Rewha Willoughby
Ngāti Kuta, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Kaihāpai Hautaka, Pouhere Kaiwhakarite
Cheryle has a BA in Media/Marketing and Māori studies from Massey University. Diploma in Project Management (TWWOA) and…
Cheryle Rewha Willoughby
Cheryle has a BA in Media/Marketing and Māori studies from Massey University. Diploma in Project Management (TWWOA) and Sales Management, Business Studies (AUT). Her background is advertising and marketing working at Wilson & Horton Ltd for 12 years as EA and Sales Exec. Also in Event Management and Operations, finance, HR, sales and training.She has worked with her whanau and hapu over 35 years. As a secretary, trustee and negotiator, for the Hauai whenua claim and the first successful settlement with the Crown, on behalf of her hapu.Working as a Marketing Consultant with Dept of Labour…
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…
Professor Michelle Thompson Fawcett FRSNZ, DNZG, MNZPI
Ngāti Whatua, Ngāti Te Ata
University of Otago
Poutoko Taiea | Distinguished Professor
Dr Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Te Ata) is Distinguished Professor in the School of Geography at the…
Professor Michelle Thompson Fawcett FRSNZ, DNZG, MNZPI
Dr Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Te Ata) is Distinguished Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Otago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. She has 40 years’ experience in planning practice and university teaching and research. Michelle’s research explores urban and environmental planning activities by Indigenous communities at the local level. In particular, she examines the extent to which groups are able to engage in, influence, and achieve self-determination in regard to urban and environmental decision-making. She works with Māori communities on their aspirations for…
Summer Rangimaarie Wright
Ngāti Maniapoto
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Research Fellow
Summer (Ngāti Maniapoto) trained as a dietitian and is a public health researcher focused on climate justice, health…
Summer Rangimaarie Wright
Summer (Ngāti Maniapoto) trained as a dietitian and is a public health researcher focused on climate justice, health equity, and food sovereignty. She has also worked in disability as a youth worker and support worker. Summer has a few creative pursuits and likes to spend time outside and with animals.
Professor Te Kawehau Hoskins
Ngāti Hau, Ngāpuhi
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori
Professor Te Kawehau Hoskins affiliates to the people of Ngāti Hau in Whakapara, a community located north of the…
Professor Te Kawehau Hoskins
Professor Te Kawehau Hoskins affiliates to the people of Ngāti Hau in Whakapara, a community located north of the Whangārei district. She is the former HOS of Te Puna Wānanga, the school of Māori and Indigenous Education and Te Tumu-Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work. Te Kawehau has pursued an academic career in Māori education. She has further developed expertise in qualitative social and educational research, politics, ethics of Indigene, settler relations, and multicultural and bicultural education. She is presently the Pro-Vice Chancellor Māori at Waipapa Taumata Rau…
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…
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 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…
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.
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…
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…
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 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)
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…
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…
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 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…
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, University of Otago
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Māori
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ is a proud University of Otago graduate and since 1999 has had an…
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ is a proud University of Otago graduate and since 1999 has had an award-winning career based in the Faculty of Law.Her research considers how state legal systems should reconcile with their Indigenous peoples, their laws and knowledges, and specifically considers how law and policy can be more Te Tiriti o Waitangi compliant to better enable Māori to contribute towards caring for, owning, managing and governing lands and waters. Her work has advanced options including legal personality of the environment and creating a bijural legal education. Her…
Professor Tracey McIntosh MNZM
Tūhoe
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga / University of Auckland
Professor & Head of School Māori and Pacific Studies
Tracey McIntosh, MNZM, is Ngāi Tūhoe and is Professor of Indigenous Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa (School of Māori…
Professor Tracey McIntosh MNZM
Tracey McIntosh, MNZM, is Ngāi Tūhoe and is Professor of Indigenous Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa (School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies) at the University of Auckland. She is a Commissioner of Te Kāhui Tātari Ture: Criminal Cases Review Commission. She has recently finished her appointment as Chief Science Advisor for the Ministry of Social Development. She was the former Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence.She previously taught in the sociology and criminology programme at the University of Auckland. She was a Fulbright Visiting…
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…
Marie-Chanel Berghan
Te Rarawa, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tarāwhai, Te Arawa
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Pouhere Matua, Kaitaki, Rangahau Research and Innovation
Marie-Chanel Berghan looks after the financial, contract and operations (physical resources and infrastructure)…
Marie-Chanel Berghan
Marie-Chanel Berghan looks after the financial, contract and operations (physical resources and infrastructure) management of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. As well as managing the publications, specifically the two NPM Journals; AlterNative and MAI Journal. Marie-Chanel has a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration and in Business, Māori Development. Before joining the centre, she was the Whakapiki Ake Project Manager at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences for five years and prior to that, a Project Administration Manager at Hewlett Packard.
Emeritus Professor Poia Rewi
Ngāti Manawa, Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whare , Tūwharetoa
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.
Daniel Patrick
Ngāti Pākehā, Irish, Danish
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Kaiwhakahaere Matua: Executive Director
Daniel is the Executive Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, and has been since 2011. He directs and plans the entire…
Daniel Patrick
Daniel is the Executive Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, and has been since 2011. He directs and plans the entire Centre’s business activities, including contracting, financial operations, resources planning, risk management, systems and performance measures and manages the Centre's investment portfolios. Daniel holds two degrees, a Bachelor's degree in Applied Sciences and a Master's degree in Health Sciences with honours, and is a member of the Project Management Institute and PM practitioner. He came to the Centre having been the Research Programme Manager for the Social Statistics…