Associate Professor Lynne Russell
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Associate Professor (Research) Māori Health Health Services Research Centre
Dr Lynne Russell is Ahorangi Tūhono (Rangahau), Hauora Māori | Associate Professor (Research), Māori Health, and Manutaki Takirua | Co-Director of Te Hikuwai Rangahau Hauora | Health Services Research Centre (THRH) at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Much of her professional and academic work has centred around the Indigenous knowledge and healing practices used in recovery from trauma associated with mental distress, suicide loss and self-harm. She describes herself as an writer, activist and public speaker stirred by cultural resilience, social justice, Indigenous and LGBTI rights, and the amplification of voices more readily silenced in society.
Rangahau · Related projects
This project uses Kaupapa Māori theory to challenge the current dominant Western explanations for suicide, which fail to consider socio-cultural-political pressures and historical processes such as colonisation as core to Indigenous suicide.
View projectInvestigating the influence of socio-cultural-political pressures on Māori suicide: A comparison of known Māori suicides from 1840-1939 with those from 1940-2019
This project uses Kaupapa Māori theory to challenge the current dominant Western explanations for suicide, which fail to consider socio-cultural-political pressures and historical processes such as colonisation as core to Indigenous suicide.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Sonny Niha
Sonny Niha
Kaumatua Sonny Niha (Te Orewai, Te Uriroroi, Ngāpuhi) is the cultural advisor for the Child and Adolescent mental health team within Psychological Medicine at Waipapa Taumata Rau. He has also been the chair of Waipareira Kuamatua rōpu and has worked within the Auckland City Hospital service providing cultural advice and support to whānau Māori. He has been involved in tikanga and te reo Māori advancement in the Department of Psychological Medicine since 2020. In this role he works alongside Matua Te Waere to align the principles and practices of Te Ata Hāpara with Kaupapa Māori elements. -
Te Waere Ti Peeti
Te Waere Ti Peeti
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Witeria Ashby
Witeria Ashby
My name is Witeria Ashby and I am 68 years old. I have worked in the areas of youth development (justice and education), health promotion and Māori mental health. My current mahi includes Māori health workforce development, and from time to time I provide cultural supervision for researchers in these areas.I adhere to te Tiriti o Waitangi as a descendant of two signatories, Kāwiti (Ngāti Hine) and Whiorau (Te Whānau Rara, Ngāti Kawa). I grew up in Mōtatau, and was fortunate to sit at the feet of my grandfather, Te Pene i Hainatia te Tiriti o Waitangi and Tā Hemi Henare, listening to their…
Research on the impact of COVID-19 on Māori tends to highlight its negative outcomes. This strengths-based research project examines improvements in Māori wellbeing that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic The Koha of COVID strengths-based research project examines improvements in Māori wellbeing that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic…
View projectThe Koha of COVID
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Associate Professor Lynne Russell
Associate Professor Lynne Russell
Dr Lynne Russell is Ahorangi Tūhono (Rangahau), Hauora Māori | Associate Professor (Research), Māori Health, and Manutaki Takirua | Co-Director of Te Hikuwai Rangahau Hauora | Health Services Research Centre (THRH) at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Much of her professional and academic work has centred around the Indigenous knowledge and healing practices used in recovery from trauma associated with mental distress, suicide loss and self-harm. She describes herself as an writer, activist and public speaker stirred by cultural resilience, social justice, Indigenous and…
Ētahi atu · Other people
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine
Tūhoe
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine (Tūhoe) is a leading Māori health researcher and internationally respected authority on…
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine
Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa
Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec
Associate Professor Deborah Heke (Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa) is the Director of Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research…
Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Kiri Edge
Ngāti Maniapoto
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Kiri Edge has contributed to a wide range of interdisciplinary research and evaluation projects across both academic…
