Arianna Nisa-Waller
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Researcher, PhD Candidate
Arianna Nisa-Waller (Ngāi Te Rangi / Ngāti Ranginui) is a Māori researcher, Indigenous health educator, and storyteller. My mahi centres whānau wellbeing, Indigenous parenting journeys and relational models of care. My expertise sits within kaupapa Māori research, maternal and perinatal wellbeing, visual and narrative methodologies, and community-led approaches to healing and transformation. Through my doctoral rangahau, Pīkau ki Tua, I explored how ancestral parenting practices and intergenerational knowledge can illuminate new possibilities for whānau wellbeing in Aotearoa.
Rangahau · Related projects
Arianna’s project demonstrates that connecting to the practice of pīkau where our tipuna carried their babies on their backs provides an active place to reclaim the strengths of our earliest parenting traditions as a metaphor for flourishing whānau. Through the metaphorical values framework and practice of pikau, Arianna’s research follows the collective…
View projectPīkau i te Anamata: Re-imagining whānaucentric parenting practices in Aotearoa
Arianna’s project demonstrates that connecting to the practice of pīkau where our tipuna carried their babies on their backs provides an active place to reclaim the strengths of our earliest parenting traditions as a metaphor for flourishing whānau. Through the metaphorical values framework and practice of pikau, Arianna’s research follows the collective postnatal and parenting journeys of whānau Māori living in the Otago region.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Associate Professor Anne-Marie Jackson
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…
Ētahi atu · Other people
Awatea Waimārie Moxon
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngati Pahauwera , Ngāi Tahu
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Awatea Waimārie Moxon's PhD adopts a mixed-methods research approach to provide a thorough understanding of the…
Awatea Waimārie Moxon
Alyssa Thomas
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Alyssa’s research engages with the rangatahi of her hapū, Patuharakeke; with additional funding support from New…
Alyssa Thomas
Dr. Anna Adcock
Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Anna Adcock (Ngāti Mutunga) is a social researcher with a Master’s degree in sociology from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria…