Associate Professor Mohi Rua
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Associate Head of School: Academic Māori and Pacific Studies
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Dr Mohi Rua is of Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Whakaue descent raised in Kawerau and Ruātoki. Dr Rua is an Associate Professor in Māori Studies, Te Wānanga o Waipapa, University of Auckland (Aotearoa/New Zealand). He has an extensive background in psychology, teaching at undergraduate and graduate level, specialising in Community psychology, Kaupapa Māori psychology and Indigenous psychology. Dr Rua's teaching and research is focused on areas of Māori social determinants of health and flourishing, community health, Māori health inequities, poverty, homelessness, Kaupapa Māori research methods and more recently Māori and sport.
Dr Rua has led or been an associate investigator on $12m worth of research projects funded by Royal Society Te Apārangi's Marsden fund, Ngā Pae o te Māramtanga, the National Science Challenges (Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities) and the MBIE fund. His current Marsden funded project is exploring the 'The intersections of indigenous imaginings, decolonisation and mainstream sport for Māori, as culturally Māori' (2023-2026). Dr Rua has served on a range of research related groups including the Kāhui Ārahi (senior leadership team) for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence) and the NZ Health Research Council.
Dr Rua also reviews journal articles for a range of national and international journals including the following:
- Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
- AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
- MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship
- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Journal of Public Health
- Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
- NZ Journal of Psychology
- Journal of Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
- First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal
Rangahau · Related projects
In addition to public and scholarly deliberations regarding increased inequalities in society, this project responds to the continued socio-economic exclusion of many Māori households. We draw on recent scholarship on the precariat as an emerging social class comprised of people experiencing unstable employment, unliveable incomes, inadequate state…
View projectConnections and Flows: Precarious Māori households in austere times
In addition to public and scholarly deliberations regarding increased inequalities in society, this project responds to the continued socio-economic exclusion of many Māori households.
We draw on recent scholarship on the precariat as an emerging social class comprised of people experiencing unstable employment, unliveable incomes, inadequate state supports, marginalisation and stigma. Our focus is on the Māori precariat, whose rights are being eroded through punitive labour and welfare reforms.
While we document issues of employment, food, housing and cultural insecurities shaping precarious lives, we also develop a focus on household connections, practices and strengths. This focus is important because connections, practices and strengths can buffer whānau against adversity for a time, render aspects of their lives more liveable, and enable human flourishing.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Associate Professor Mohi Rua
Associate Professor Mohi Rua
Mohi is NPM's Pou Pātai Whānau and is based at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau. He has research and teaching interests in: Māori health and inequities; Social determinants of health; Māori culture, heritage and identity; Poverty, the precariat and homelessness; Kaupapa Māori research, theory and methodologies; Decolonial practices; indigenous psychological perspectives of the interconnected self; Sport and rangatahi (Māori youth).
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Professor Darrin Hodgetts
Professor Darrin Hodgetts
Darrin Hodgetts is a Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Waikato. Previously he was a teaching fellow at Massey University, and then held a post-doctoral fellowship in Community Health at Memorial University, Canada, followed by a lectureship at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Darrin has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and three books relating to health, poverty, community and inequalities. He is an expert in the use of participative, action-orientated ethnographic research methods. Darrin is Co-Principal Investigator on the Ngā Pae o te…
Ētahi atu · Other people
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
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Professor Sarah-Jane Paine
Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa
Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec
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Associate Professor Deborah Heke
Kiri Edge
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Kiri has contributed to a wide range of interdisciplinary research and evaluation projects across both academic and…
