NPM Researcher
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Dr Amanda Black
Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Whānau-ā-Apanui
Lincoln University
Amanda’s research expertise is in environmental soil and water chemistry, focusing on major nutrient cycling, including…
Dr Amanda Black
Amanda’s research expertise is in environmental soil and water chemistry, focusing on major nutrient cycling, including the incorporation of molecular techniques to explore the relationship between functional gene expression and soil product activity. She has recently focused her research on ecosystem resilience in soils from managed and natural ecosystems, with a particular focus on investigating disease resistant traits (i.e. evidence of PTA resistance in kauri forests). She is also part of a Māori Biosecurity Focus Group, seconded by the Ministry for Primary Industries, and is funded by… -
Associate Professor Carla Anne Houkamau
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Carla Houkamau (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business, the Director…
Associate Professor Carla Anne Houkamau
Carla Houkamau (PhD) is an Associate 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… -
Dr Brad Combes
Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Brad's research focus is the participation of indigenous peoples in conservation management and environmental planning…
Dr Brad Combes
Brad's 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 indigenous peoples to influence landscape change and halt… -
Professor Tīmoti Kāretu
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
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
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 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… -
Paora Sharples
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
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… -
Dr Rachel Wolfgramm
Te Aupouri, Ngāi Takoto, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Patumoana, Tonga
University of Auckland
Rachel's training has been multi-disciplinary, incorporating the fields of organisation, consumption, leadership and…
Dr Rachel Wolfgramm
Rachel's training has been multi-disciplinary, incorporating the fields of organisation, consumption, leadership and economic theory and practice. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Management, Organisation Behaviour, Māori Enterprise, Sustainability, Business, Culture and Society, Business Ethics and Sustainability. Rachel is currently investigating the “Romance of Sustainability; enchantment, illusion, entrapment and re-enchantment”. This is examined in the context of management, consumption and leadership theory and practice. She is also co-leading a longitudinal… -
Dr Robert Joseph
Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepuhunga, Te Pae o Raukawa, Ngäti Paretekawa o Ngāti Maniapoto
University of Waikato
Robert is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and was a senior research fellow for the Te…
Dr 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…
