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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…