Dr Paul Brown
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Senior Lecturer & Research Associate
Ko Karioi tōku maunga
Ko Whāingaroa me Kāwhia ōku moana
Ko Tainui tōku waka
Ko Tainui me Ngāti Hikairo ōku iwi
Kei te noho au ki Kirikiriroa
Ko Paul Brown tāku ingoa
I am an early career researcher in Statistics, with research interests in computational Bayesian inference and statistical modelling. Currently, I am working on projects with police on a range of projects, including statistical modelling crime and crime patterns in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton). As the use of data and algorithms in society become more prevalent, it is important that we understand the benefits and pitfalls that this may cause. On that front, I am interested in issues of algorithmic bias - especially in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand, and am involved in projects that include Māori data and digital sovereignty.
Rangahau · Related projects
Universities in Aotearoa hold a vast, largely unmapped, collection of Māori data. With that, these institutions are in positions of power to control the ways in which Māori data is collected, stored, accessed and used, often without meaningful involvement from Māori communities. Organised across three objectives, this project explores how Māori data…
View projectActivating Māori Research Data Sovereignty in universities
Universities in Aotearoa hold a vast, largely unmapped, collection of Māori data. With that, these institutions are in positions of power to control the ways in which Māori data is collected, stored, accessed and used, often without meaningful involvement from Māori communities. Organised across three objectives, this project explores how Māori data governance can be strengthened within academic policy and institutional contexts in ways which give effect to Māori Data Sovereignty for Māori hāpori, hapū and iwi.
The first objective investigates the potential for Machine Learning to identify and locate Māori research data held within universities.
Objective two examines existing approaches to Māori data governance within a university context and identifies opportunities to bring institutional policies and practices into alignment with Te Kāhui Raraunga's Māori Data Governance Model.
The third objective focuses on the relationships between Māori rightsholders and their data, exploring how Māori aspirations for MDSov can be at the centre of all decision-making.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Dr Paul Brown
Dr Paul Brown
Ko Karioi tōku maungaKo Whāingaroa me Kāwhia ōku moanaKo Tainui tōku wakaKo Tainui me Ngāti Hikairo ōku iwiKei te noho au ki KirikiriroaKo Paul Brown tāku ingoaI am an early career researcher in Statistics, with research interests in computational Bayesian inference and statistical modelling. Currently, I am working on projects with police on a range of projects, including statistical modelling crime and crime patterns in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton). As the use of data and algorithms in society become more prevalent, it is important that we understand the benefits and pitfalls that this may cause… -
Dr Dion O’Neale
Dr Dion O’Neale
Dion O’Neale is a Principal Data Scientist at Nicholson Consulting. With a background in Mathematics and Physics, Dion is interested in all things network science-related. This has spanned from using networks for economic geography (to understand how scientific innovations cluster within regions leading to technological specialisation); archaeology (using networks of co-occurring obsidian artefacts to infer social networks in pre-European Aotearoa); through to behavioural ecology (using networks of species and traits to understand the mating systems of spiders). Much of his recent work has… -
Professor Te Taka Keegan
Professor Te Taka Keegan
Nō Waikato-Maniapoto, nō Ngāti Porou, nō Ngāti Whakaue hoki.Kei Ngāhinapōuri e noho ana, kei te pūtake o te maunga o Pirongia.Kua roa ia e mahi ana ki te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, me tana aro ki te whai huarahi mō te reo rangatira ki te ao hangarau.Te Taka received a Diploma in Computer Engineering from CIT (Wellington) in 1987. He spent six years working as a hardware engineer for Datacom and Digital before returning to the Waikato and Waikato University. He received a BA through the Te Tohu Paetahi stream (Māori immersion) and in 1996 was awarded an MA having completed a thesis on… -
Dr Daniel Wilson
Dr Daniel Wilson
Daniel Wilson (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Pikiao) is a lecturer in Computer Science at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland. His teaching and research are in the areas of AI, Māori Data Sovereignty, Māori Algorithmic Sovereignty, and AI ethics. Daniel is a member of Te Pokapū in The Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga, Co-Director of the Centre of Machine Learning for Social Good, member of the Kāhui Māori for the AI Forum, treasurer of the AI Researchers Association, and an establishment member of the AI in Health Research Network. Daniel has a PhD in Philosophy and a Master of… -
Tracy Maniapoto
Tracy Maniapoto
Te Āti Haunui-a-PāpārangiNgāti TūwharetoaNgāti PorouNgāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa I draw inspiration for my designs from my love of weaving kete whakairo and kākahu, having learned with the Hetet School of Māori Art for a number of years.I also draw inspiration from te reo Māori, the Māori language. I did not grow up learning te reo and have struggled to reclaim this learning. As a full-time post-graduate student with Te Pūtahi-a-Toi, Massey University, I have been gifted the opportunity to engage with te reo through research. My doctoral research explores the revitalisation of te reo Māori in… -
Dr Maree Sheehan
Dr Maree Sheehan
As a researcher, educator, and composer, I have the privileged role of responding to the educational aspirations of many communities. My personal belief is that outstanding achievements are invariably the result of planned and sustained collaboration. This is especially true when the team has diverse skills and are kaupapa-driven, committed and hardworking, therefore I also acknowledge those who work with me. I especially have had the benefit of many mentors in my lifetime and want to acknowledge those who have supported me to be where I am today. Over the last 15 years, I have worked as a… -
Te Mihinga Komen
Te Mihinga Komen
Neke atu i te 25 tau kua whakaako a Te Mihinga i te reo Māori me ngōna tikanga, kōhungahunga mai, pakeke mai, puta i ngā tūmomo akomanga katoa. Hei tāna, “Ko tōku reo tōku oranga.” Kātahi anō ia ka wehe i tōna tūranga hei Pou Ārahi i academyEX ki te whai i tana tohu kairangi. I reira, i whakangungua e ia ngōna hoamahi me ngāna ākonga ki ngā tini āhuatanga o tōna ao Māori, arā, ko te reo Māori, tikanga, karakia, waiata, ngā āhuatanga o te Kaupapa Māori, hautūtanga Māori, mātauranga Māori me te whakaako i te tauira Māori i te kura. Nāna hoki i kōkiri Te Ara Kōtihi, te rautaki ako o te kamupene… -
Dr Kim Southey
Dr Kim Southey
Dr Kim Southey (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata) serves on the Rangahau team of Te Manawahoukura, based in Kirikiriroa. She is a Ngā Pūanga Pūtaiao Fellow, bringing a kaupapa-driven research programme grounded in mātauranga Māori and community-connected practice.Kim is a registered community psychologist with experience across government and Māori provider organisations. Her mahi has focused on advancing health equity through policy development and frontline roles grounded in Whānau Ora principles. She has led community and iwi-based research across a range of kaupapa, including child… -
Aamon Hāwea Apiata
Aamon Hāwea Apiata
Hāwea Apiata (Ngāti Kura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira) currently works as the Poukōkiri Mātauranga Toi based in Te Iho o Te Manawataki|Library. In this role he works across both the University’s art & taonga collections as well as the open research space (research dissemination & publishing).In his work in the arts space he curates exhibitions, advises on and contributes to the campus gallery’s exhibition program, and applies an Indigenous lens to collection care, management, and research alongside the Poutiaki Taonga and Kaitiaki Mātangireia.In the open research space, he supports…
Ētahi atu · Other people
Mona-Lisa Wareka
Ngātiwai, Rereahu, Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei
University of Waikato
I have been in, at and around the University of Waikato for the past ten years as a student, tutor, research assistant…
Mona-Lisa Wareka
Dr Rewi Nankivell
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāpuhi, Waikato
University of Waikato
Rewi Nankivell is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Waikato. He contributes to the intersection between…
Dr Rewi Nankivell
Aamon Hāwea Apiata
Ngāti Kura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira
University of Waikato
Hāwea Apiata (Ngāti Kura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira) currently works as the Poukōkiri Mātauranga Toi based in Te Iho…