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Vanessa Clark
Kanapu is a for Māori, by Māori-led approach to grow Māori talent and leadership in the RSI sector. Kanapu is led by…
Vanessa Clark
Kanapu is a for Māori, by Māori-led approach to grow Māori talent and leadership in the RSI sector. Kanapu is led by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and is located at the University of Waikato.
Vanessa obtained a Masters of Management Studies in 1998 and has spent the majority of her career in the Information and Communications Technology sector in Hong Kong, the UK, Australia, and the USA. Since returning to NZ in 2011, Vanessa has held a variety of roles in the private and public sectors. Most recently, she led Māori Engagement in the Research & Enterprise Office. Her research interests include Māori data sovereignty and entrepreneurship.
Miriama Cribb
Miriama Cribb is Te Ātihaunui-ā-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Tama, but is most active at her home in…
Miriama Cribb
Miriama Cribb is Te Ātihaunui-ā-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Tama, but is most active at her home in Whanganui. Miriama is completing a PhD in Management at Massey University, looking at implementing Indigenous frameworks in non-Indigenous organisations, using Te Awa Tupua as her case study. She also works part time as a researcher at Te Atawhai o Te Ao Research Institute in Whanganui. Her research interests are in Māori management and Māori business, organisational studies, and social and governance structures that advance hapū and iwi aspirations.
Dr Shaun Awatere
Shaun Awatere is facilitating this webinar. He is a member of the NPM research leadership team and works as a resource…
Dr Shaun Awatere
Shaun Awatere is facilitating this webinar. He is a member of the NPM research leadership team and works as a resource economist for Landcare Research. Shaun works to improve the incorporation of Mātauranga Māori into local government planning by developing the systems and processes that enable Māori values to be integrated into urban design and development.
Dr Joe Te Rito
Dr Joe Te Rito is of Ngāti Hinemanu descent from Ōmāhu out of Hastings. The community was devastated by Cyclone…
Dr Joe 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).
Meihana Watson
Meihana Watson is of Ngāti Hinemanu, Ngāi Te Upokoiri descent and lives in the small rural community of Omahu. He is…
Meihana Watson
Meihana Watson is of Ngāti Hinemanu, Ngāi Te Upokoiri descent and lives in the small rural community of Omahu. He is the current chairperson of Omahu Marae and the Ngāti Hinemanu, Ngāi Te Upokoiri me ōna Piringa Hapū Authority Trust (Piringa Hapū). Meihana leads the charge in calling for Piringa Hapū to responded to the devastation left by Cyclone Gabrielle within the takiwā of the authority. The efforts of the UTAINA 10-year Recovery Plan has been informed by the whānau, the community and validated by Price Waterhouse Coopers. Meihana is from the generation of Kōhanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa Māori, Wharekura and is a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts Māori from EIT. He is the former communications manager of He Toa Takitini, operations manager for Heretaunga Tamatea Settlement Trust and is currently employed as a senior advisor for Te Puni Kōkiri.
Kelly Stratford
Kelly represents the people of the Bay of Islands-Whangaroa General Ward on the Far North District Council. Her…
Kelly Stratford
Kelly represents the people of the Bay of Islands-Whangaroa General Ward on the Far North District Council. Her portfolio is housing and she sits on the Joint Climate Change Adaptation Committee and the Civil Defence Emergency Management Committee.
Willie Te Aho
Willie Te Aho is from Raukokore in Te Whanau a Apanui where he lives. He is married to associate Professor Linda Te Aho…
Willie Te Aho
Willie Te Aho is from Raukokore in Te Whanau a Apanui where he lives. He is married to associate Professor Linda Te Aho of Ngati Koroki Kahukura and they have two sons and a mokopuna of 10 months – the new centre of his universe! Willie holds a BA, LLB and MBA. He worked on housing developments within Maori Affairs in the late 1980s and has established a number of papakaenga developments from the Waikato to the Bay of Plenty. Willie was the inaugural Managing Director for Toitu Tairawhiti Housing Limited ($73m) until May 2022 when Annette Wehi who started with him succeeded him. Willie is Annette’s Strategic Adviser through to June 2023.
Hera Ngata-Gibson
Hera Ngata-Gibson is of Te Aitanga a Hauiti people of Uawa (Tolaga Bay) on the East Coast of the North Island of New…
Hera Ngata-Gibson
Hera Ngata-Gibson is of Te Aitanga a Hauiti people of Uawa (Tolaga Bay) on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and lives with her family in Anaura. Community and environmental advocate, Hera led the charge in calling for an independent inquiry into land use in the region after the devastation wrought by recent weather events. She is a member of Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti, a group which represents farmers, landowners and conservation workers seeking to change outcomes when adverse weather events occur in the region.
Associate Professor Reremoana Theodore
Research Associate Professor Reremoana (Moana) Theodore is the Co-Director of the National Centre for Lifecourse…
Associate Professor Reremoana Theodore
Research Associate Professor Reremoana (Moana) Theodore is the Co-Director of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research (NCLR), and a member of the Royal Society Te Apārangi Council. Moana is an inaugural HRC Māori Health Research Emerging Leader Fellow. She is an Investigator on the Graduate Longitudinal Study NZ (GLSNZ) and Te Kura Mai i Tawhiti – a Māori community research programme. She is a Co-Investigator on the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and an Associate Investigator in Brain Research New Zealand. Moana is a member of the University of Otago Te Poutama Māori (Māori academic staff caucus), an Associate Investigator on the University of Otago Poutama Ara Rau Research Theme and a member of the University of Otago Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre. Moana is a former HRC Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie Postdoctoral Fellow.
Her research interests include lifecourse research, Māori health and education, child health and development and the development of chronic disease.
Associate Professor Ricci Harris
Dr Ricci Harris (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi Tahu) is a public health physician and Research Associate…
Associate Professor Ricci Harris
Dr Ricci Harris (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi Tahu) is a public health physician and Research Associate Professor at Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare. She has research expertise in Māori health, epidemiology (including quantitative aspects of Kaupapa Māori research) and the investigation and elimination of ethnic health inequities in New Zealand. This has included research into the classification of ethnicity, ethnic disparities in health status and receipt of health services, and the impact of social determinants (e.g. SES and racism) on Māori health and inequities. Her current research focus is on racism as a determinant of health. This includes the relationship between experiences of discrimination and health, the impact of socially-assigned ethnicity, ethnic consciousness and ethnic density on health, and ethnic bias among health professionals.
Hana Burgess
Hana (Ngäpuhi, Te Roroa, Te Ätihaunui a Päpärangi, Ngäti Tüwharetoa) (she/her) is doing a PhD in Mäori health…
Hana Burgess
Hana (Ngäpuhi, Te Roroa, Te Ätihaunui a Päpärangi, Ngäti Tüwharetoa) (she/her) is doing a PhD in Mäori health, with supervision from Donna (Käi Tahu, Käti Mämoe) (she/her) and Papaarangi (Te Rarawa) (she/her)
Associate Professor Jason Paul Mika
Jason is Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu. He is an associate professor at Te Raupapa Waikato Management…
Associate Professor Jason Paul Mika
Jason is Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu. He is an associate professor at Te Raupapa Waikato Management School and Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Jason’s research, teaching, writing, and practice centres on Indigenous business philosophy in multiple sites, sectors, and scales, including Indigenous trade, tourism, agribusiness, and the marine economy. In 2015, Jason completed a PhD in Māori entrepreneurship at Massey University. In 2019, Jason was a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga senior scholar at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment and the University of Arizona’s Native Nations Institute. Jason is a member of the Academy of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, and Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand. Prior to academia, Jason was a management consultant and policy analyst in Māori economic development. Jason’s research has influenced several areas of public policy, including trade, environment, and statistics.
Che Wilson
Che Wilson is a Poukura (director) of Naia Limited, a Māori consultancy based in Christchurch and Waikato. At Naia, Che…
Che Wilson
Che Wilson is a Poukura (director) of Naia Limited, a Māori consultancy based in Christchurch and Waikato. At Naia, Che is leading research into the Māori New Year for his tribal region and the application of tūpuna wisdom relating to weather and land use practices. He is also a leadership and strategy mentor, facilitator and resource developer.
Che was raised in a large whānau at the foot of Mount Ruapehu. He was given access to his tribal Houses of Knowledge. With a career that spans governance, leadership and cultural advocacy, Che has held prestigious roles as Chair, General Manager and Negotiator for his tribe, Ngāti Rangi, as well as Deputy Secretary for the Ministry for the Environment. He also served as president of Te Pāti Māori.
Che has been a director in tribal governance, the primary sector, on government advisory roles, Māori and government cultural and business delegations abroad and international philanthropy. He chairs Te Reo o Whanganui, a board dedicated to the revitalisation of the Whanganui dialect and is a board member of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.
Associate Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem
A Pacific feminist development geographer of Cook Island, Niuean and Pakeha descent, Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem is…
Associate Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem
A Pacific feminist development geographer of Cook Island, Niuean and Pakeha descent, Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem is the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga connector to the Pacific Aotearoa Researcher Collective.Yvonne joined the staff in Pacific Studies, Te Wānanga o Waipapa (Maori Studies and Pacific Studies), Faculty of Arts in 2021 after many years in Development Studies. Her expertise areas are: Gender and development, critical population geographies, feminist political ecology, Pacific development, and progressive social movements.
Associate Professor Ocean Mercier
Ocean’s teaching and research interests are varied, but her key focus is how mātauranga Māori and science connect and…
Associate Professor Ocean Mercier
Ocean’s teaching and research interests are varied, but her key focus is how mātauranga Māori and science connect and relate, particularly in educational contexts and using novel digital technologies. She co-leads a National Science Challenge project investigating the perceptions of novel biotechnological controls of pest wasps in Aotearoa. Her research also involves kaupapa Māori reading of films. She is the presenter of Māori Television's Project Mātauranga and presents for TVNZ’s Coast.
Current research projects
- Social and cultural perceptions of novel biotechnological controls of pest wasps, with Prof. Phil Lester
- Virtual exchanges on Indigenous knowledge(s) and science in global contexts, with Dr Beth Leonard, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- Student learning and engagement in the Te Kawa a Māui Atlas
- Place-based and map-based work in Māori Studies
- The 48 Hour Film Competition: what do the audio commentaries reveal?
Research interests
- The interface between mātauranga Māori and science
- Cultural mapping and digital media in documenting local knowledge and diversifying the tertiary education experience
- Kaupapa Māori readings of film, especially those of Taika Waititi
- Portrayals of culture in limited-time film, especially the V48 Hours Furious Filmmaking Competition
- Use of locally relevant 'cultural context' in science resources, especially Te Whata Kura Ahupungao, an initiative of the Faculty of Science (Equity) that has provided multimedia resources for learners and teachers of physics. Short, educational films can be downloaded or watched online in te reo and English.
- Indigenous academic experience.
Rebecca Kiddle
Rebecca Kiddle began her career working for the New Zealand government. Following the completion of undergraduate…
Rebecca Kiddle
Rebecca Kiddle began her career working for the New Zealand government. Following the completion of undergraduate degrees in Politics, Women’s and Maori studies, where she worked predominantly as a Housing policy analyst for the Aotearoa/New Zealand government and as Private Secretary Housing for the Associate Minister of Housing in New Zealand’s parliament. During this time she became increasingly aware of the need to link housing research and policy to physical space design more directly. This led her to undertaking an MA and PhD in urban design at the Joint Centre for Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University, throughout which she has focused my research on topics that aim to realise the built environment implications of current policy and practice. For her MA, she explored the spatial implications of policy that encourages mixed income neighbourhoods. For my PhD, she investigated the spatial implications of social constructivist pedagogy on university educational space. Throughout my PhD, she taught on both postgraduate and undergraduate modules at the Joint Centre of Urban Design.
More recently she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London on a project called Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging funded by the European Research Council. This transnational and interdisciplinary project explores “what indigeneity has come to mean in particular places and at key moments over the last several decades, and what kind of cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic issues are negotiated within its canvass” (www.indigeneity.net). Her fellowship sought to understand how Māori notions of sustainability and Māori identity generally could be used to inform New Zealand’s place identity.
Rebecca then spent 3 years working in China at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design before returning home to Aotearoa to work for Victoria University as a Lecturer in Environmental Studies and Geography.
Professor Kyle Powys Whyte
Kyle Whyte is George Willis Pack Professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability…
Professor Kyle Powys Whyte
Kyle Whyte is George Willis Pack Professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, teaching in the school's environmental justice graduate specialization. He is Affiliate Professor of Native American Studies and Philosophy. In the U.S., Kyle currently serves on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, the Resilient America Roundtable of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the 5th National Climate Assessment. Kyle is President of the Board of Directors for the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition and the Pesticide Action Network North America.
Professor Charles Menzies
Professor hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies) is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of…
Professor Charles Menzies
Professor hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies) is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.
Professor Menzies' primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations' issues, maritime anthropology and the archaeology of north coast BC. He has conducted field research in, and has produced films concerning, north coastal BC, Canada (including archaeological research); Brittany, France; and Donegal, Ireland.
His current research project, Laxyuup Gitxaaɫa, combines archaeological and socio-cultural anthropology to document the traditional territory of Gitxaaɫa Nation. Other projects include founding and directing the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC, establishing an online journal, New Proposals, and acting as the coordinator of an ecological anthropology research group at UBC, Forests and Oceans for the Future.
Professor Megan Davis
Dr Megan Davis is a Professor of Law and an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court. Professor Davis…
Professor Megan Davis
Dr Megan Davis is a Professor of Law and an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court. Professor Davis is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a member of the NSW Sentencing Council.
Megan is the Chair and UN expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples and holds portfolios including Administration of Justice and Gender and Women and is the focal point for UN Women and UN AIDS.
Megan was the Rapporteur of the UN EGM on an Optional Protocol to the UNDRIP in 2015 as well as the author of a UNPFII study on a supervisory mechanism for UNDRIP (2014). Megan was the UN Rapporteur for the International Expert Group Meeting on Combating violence against indigenous women and girls: article 22 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the UN Rapporteur for the International EGM on Indigenous Youth.
Professor Davis researches in public law and public international law. Her current research focuses on constitutional design, democratic theory and Indigenous peoples. Megan is one of the CIs in an ARC project on the impact of extra-legal factors on the sentencing of Indigenous offenders of sexual abuse of Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory.
Professor Chellie Spiller
Dr Chellie Spiller, of Matawhaiti Iwitea, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, is Professor of Management and Leadership…
Professor Chellie Spiller
Dr Chellie Spiller, of Matawhaiti Iwitea, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, is Professor of Management and Leadership, and Associate Dean Māori at the University of Waikato. She was previously a senior lecturer and Associate Dean Māori and Pacific at the University of Auckland Business School. She has over 30 years of corporate experience in tourism, finance and marketing, holding senior executive positions in New Zealand and abroad, and brings this experience to her academic work and leadership and management development programmes. Her research explores how Māori and indigenous businesses create authentic and sustainable wealth and wellbeing.
Chellie was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Arizona between November 2011 and March 2012. She was a recipient of a 2011 Dame Mira Szászy Māori Alumni Award, 2011 National Māori Academic Excellence Award, and 2010 AuSM Best Lecturer Award, AUT University. In 2013 she released a co-edited book with Professor Donna Ladkin titled Reflections on Authentic Leadership: Concepts, Coalescences and Clashes published by Edward Elgar Press, which was nominated in the top ten leadership books of 2013 (University of San Diego Outstanding Leadership Book Awards).
Chellie is a co-author of a book on traditional Polynesian navigation Wayfinding Leadership: Groundbreaking Wisdom for Developing Leaders with Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr and John Panoho. She is a co-editor of Indigenous spiritualties at work: Transforming the spirit of business enterprise with Dr Rachel Wolfgramm and a co-editor on two special issues: “Intellectual Shamans, Wayfinders, Edgewalkers, Difference Makers, Social Entrepreneurs, and Other Change Makers” for the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and “Indigenous leadership” for Leadership.
Associate Professor Gregory Cajete
Chair of the Native American Studies and Associate Professor Education The University of New Mexico
Associate Professor Gregory Cajete
Chair of the Native American Studies and Associate Professor Education
The University of New Mexico
Professor Karina Walters
Karina L. Walters is the Associate Dean for Research and the William P. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed University…
Professor Karina Walters
Karina L. Walters is the Associate Dean for Research and the William P. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed University Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work. Dr. Walters is also the Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute National Center of Excellence funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The Institute’s many notable contributions include hosting the 2010 International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development conference, a biennial gathering aimed at improving the health of indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States through indigenous and community-led research, health services and workforce development. Dr. Walters is also a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Senior Research Award where she was an honorary visiting scholar at Ngā Pae o te Maramatanga National Institute for Research Excellence in Maori Development and Advancement at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Her research focuses on historical, social and cultural determinants of physical and mental health among American Indians and Alaska Natives. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on her research and mentors numerous American Indian and Alaska Native junior faculty, researchers, post-doctorate, graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Walters serves as principal investigator on several groundbreaking studies associated with health-risk outcomes among American Indian individuals, families and communities funded by the National Institutes of Health. These include the HONOR Project — a nationwide health survey that examines the impact of historical trauma, discrimination and other stressors on the health and wellness of Native American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and two-spirited men and women; and Healthy Hearts Across Generations — a project in collaboration with a Northwest Tribe to design and test a culturally appropriate, feasible and generalizable cardiovascular disease prevention program with American Indians living in the Pacific Northwest.
Professor Martin Nakata
Professor Nakata is a Torres Strait Islander who graduated with a Bachelor of Education with honours from James Cook…
Professor Martin Nakata
Professor Nakata is a Torres Strait Islander who graduated with a Bachelor of Education with honours from James Cook University where he subsequently was awarded his PhD in 1998. He is Chair of Australian Indigenous Education,and Director of Nura Gili at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is also a Board member of the Collections Councils of Australia Ltd. He has presented eighteen plenary and keynote addresses at national as well as international conferences in ten countries, and published over seventy articles on Indigenous Australians and education in various academic journals and books in Australia and abroad. He is a former member of the editorial board of The Australian Educational Researcher and current member of the editorial board of the Journal of Indigenous policy and Balayi
Associate Professor Harald Gaski
Associate Professor in Sami literature at the world’s northernmost university, the University of Tromsø, Norway…
Associate Professor Harald Gaski
Associate Professor in Sami literature at the world’s northernmost university, the University of Tromsø, Norway, situated on the 70th latitude. Gaski is the author and editor of several books, journals and articles on Sami literature and culture. The Sami are the indigenous people of the northernmost regions of Fenno-Scandia and the Kola peninsula of Russia. Gaski has been visiting scholar at several universities in the US, Australia, and in Greenland, and is very much used as speaker internationally on Sami issues. Gaski has been instrumental in establishing Sami literature as an academic field. He is a member of the joint coordinating committee of the Norwegian Program for Development, Research and Education (NUFU)-funded research program in Nicaragua conducted as a collaborative project between the University of Tromsø and URACCAN university in Nicaragua. Currently he is also a board member in the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, and the chair of the Sami Non-fiction writers association in Norway.
Gaski's research topics include indigenous peoples’ literatures with a specific emphasis on Sami literature. He has also specialized on oral tradition – especially the transition of the traditional Sami singing, the yoik poetry, into contemporary lyrics. Gaski has participated in translating Sami prose and poetry into English, which can be found in his anthology In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun. Contemporary Sami Prose and Poetry, 1997. He has also translated the award-winning Sami poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää into Norwegian and English. He has edited Sami Culture in a New Era. The Norwegian Sami Experience, 1997, and published a trilingual book on a Sami myth Biejjien baernie – Sami son of the Sun, 2003. His most recent publication is an annotated collection of Sami proverbs, entitled Time is a Ship that Never Casts Anchor, 2006. He debuted as a writer of fiction books for young adult readers in 2002 (in collaboration with Lars Nordström) with the award-winning book Ciezain cáziin in Sami, published in English in 2004, Seven kinds of water.
In 2006 Gaski was awarded the The Nordic Sami Language Prize, Gollegiella, established by the Nordic Sami Ministers and the Presidents of the Sami Parliaments in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The same year he also received the Award for Outstanding Dissemination of Research at University of Tromsø. In 2005-2006 Gaski served as a member of a Nordic assessment committee to evaluate the quality of the Finno-Ugric education at Swedish universities. The committee was appointed by the National Agency for Higher Education in Sweden. He has recently been appointed to the International Research Advisory Panel for Nga Pae o te Maramatanga the National Institute for Research Excellence in Maori Development and Advancement.
Associate Professor Amokura Kawharu
Associate Professor Amokura Kawharu holds a BA/LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Auckland and an LLM with a…
Associate Professor Amokura Kawharu
Associate Professor Amokura Kawharu holds a BA/LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Auckland and an LLM with a major in international law from the University of Cambridge. She has worked as a practising lawyer and as an academic and is currently President of the New Zealand Law Commission.
Her research interests include international trade and investment law, arbitration, and international disputes resolution. She contributes reviews on disputes settlement for the New Zealand Law Review and co-authored the leading text on New Zealand arbitration law with David Williams QC, "Williams & Kawharu on Arbitration" (LexisNexis, 2011).
Associate Professor Te Manahau Morrison
Scotty is well-known presenter of Māori current affairs programmes Te Karere and Marae Investigates. He holds a Diploma…
Associate Professor Te Manahau Morrison
Scotty is well-known presenter of Māori current affairs programmes Te Karere and Marae Investigates. He holds a Diploma of Teaching, Bachelor of Education and Masters degree (Education) from the University of Waikato, is currently working towards his PhD at Massey University and was recently appointed as Associate Professor Massey University.
Scotty has been an Adjunct Professor and the Director of Māori Student and Community Engagement at Auckland's Unitec Institute of Technology, where he continues to promote te reo Māori through awareness, administration and specialised courses. He is also the author of the bestselling The Raupo Phrasebook of Modern Māori and Māori Made Easy.
Born and raised in Rotorua, he now lives in Auckland with his wife Stacey Morrison and their children, Hawaiki, Kurawaka and Maiana. Scotty is a graduate of Te Panekiretanga and has a strong national media profile.
Professor Pare Keiha
Professor Pare Keiha (QSO, MSc, PhD, MBA, MComLaw, FRSA, MInstD, MRSNZ) Te Whānau-a-Taupara o…
Professor Pare Keiha
Professor Pare Keiha (QSO, MSc, PhD, MBA, MComLaw, FRSA, MInstD, MRSNZ) Te Whānau-a-Taupara o T’Aitanga-a-Māhaki, and Rongowhakaata. is the Pro Vice Chancellor for Māori Advancement, Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Society and Tumuaki of Te Ara Poutama, the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development, at the Auckland University of Technology.
Pare has an extensive background in the governance of public and private companies. He was a member of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology’s Board from 2002 to 2010. His past directorships include the Legal Services Agency, Waitematā District Health Board, Metrowater Ltd, Port Gisborne Ltd, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures Australia + New Zealand. He is chair of the Mika Haka Foundation. In 2008 he was made a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for his services to business, education and Māori.
He advises a number of Māori enterprises and state sector entities in business development, management and strategy. He is a trustee of the Te Whānau-a-Taupara Trust Board and his tribal affiliations lie with the principle tribes of Tūranga (Gisborne), specifically the Whānau-a-Taupara hapū of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, and Rongowhakaata.
Dr Jane Kitson
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. Currently, Dr Kitson works in a consultancy capacity undertaking environmental research, science, and project management. Previously, Dr Kitson worked at Te Ao Mārama Incorporated in Invercargill (2012 -2013), which is a resource management agency set up by Ngāi Tahu ki Murihiku to look after resource management and other aspects related to local government in Southland.
Dr Kitson 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 in various scientist roles at Environment Southland, Southland Regional Council (2002 – 2011).
Dr Kitson led the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) project on kanakana/lamprey and the use of harvest mātauranga to monitor population trends. She also managed the compilation of the State of Southland’s Freshwater Environment Reports, co-authored by Environment Southland and Te Ao Marama Inc. and until recently was involved in the science of Waituna Lagoon.