Tania Williams-Blyth
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District Court Judge
Judge Williams-Blyth initially worked as a solicitor in Hamilton with Norris Ward, and went on to establish herself as a barrister in Rotorua and more recently Hamilton, practising mostly in the family law area.
She has been a District Inspector for Mental Health since 2008 and a member of the Parole Board since 2014. She has been instrumental in working with iwi leaders and local communities around the country in an effort to increase knowledge and awareness of Family Court and Oranga Tamariki procedures.
Judge Williams-Blyth will be sworn in on 10 June and take up her appointment at the Whangarei District Court.
Rangahau · Related projects
Oranga Tamariki: new knowledge for evaluating and empowering whānau well-being
How will tikanga Māori empower the evaluation of the experience of Māori whānau in crisis to measure the performance of the Government’s new obligations in law to Te Tiriti o Waitangi? Our longterm objective is to bring new evaluative knowledge to empower the mana of whānau in crisis. Māori have clearly and consistently stressed that a Māori child’s…
View projectOranga Tamariki: new knowledge for evaluating and empowering whānau well-being
How will tikanga Māori empower the evaluation of the experience of Māori whānau in crisis to measure the performance of the Government’s new obligations in law to Te Tiriti o Waitangi? Our longterm objective is to bring new evaluative knowledge to empower the mana of whānau in crisis. Māori have clearly and consistently stressed that a Māori child’s wellbeing is inherently linked to their place within, and connection to, whānau, hapū and iwi. New legislation in 1989 recognised the importance of this. Acclaimed as world-leading child welfare legislation, the Children Young Persons and Their…
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Professor Khylee Quince
Professor Khylee Quince
Tena koutou katoa - ko Khylee Quince toku ingoa, no Ngapuhi, Te Roroa, Ngati Porou, me Ngati Kahungungu.Professor Khylee Quince is the Dean of the School of Law, where she has been on staff since 2017. Prior to that she was the Associate Dean Maori at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law, where she was on staff since 1998. Khylee is an expert in criminal law and justice, youth justice and Maori legal issues. She has taught and researched in these fields, and in 2014 was awarded a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence, following Faculty of Law and University… -
Dr Amohia Boulton
Dr Amohia Boulton
Dr Amohia Bolton is the Research Director at Whakaue Research for Māori Health & Development with a career that has spanned public policy and academia. She has previously worked as a data analyst (Ministry of Education) policy analyst, senior analyst (Te Puni Kōkiri) and Private Secretary (Māori Affairs) and was awarded an HRC Māori Health Training Fellowship to pursue doctoral study at Massey University in Palmerston North. Her post-doctoral research took her to the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada where she worked with the Lheidli T'enneh First Nations people.Her research… -
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ is a proud University of Otago graduate and since 1999 has had an award-winning career based in the Faculty of Law.Her research considers how state legal systems should reconcile with their Indigenous peoples, their laws and knowledges, and specifically considers how law and policy can be more Te Tiriti o Waitangi compliant to better enable Māori to contribute towards caring for, owning, managing and governing lands and waters. Her work has advanced options including legal personality of the environment and creating a bijural legal education. Her… -
Tania Williams-Blyth
Tania Williams-Blyth
Judge Williams-Blyth initially worked as a solicitor in Hamilton with Norris Ward, and went on to establish herself as a barrister in Rotorua and more recently Hamilton, practising mostly in the family law area.She has been a District Inspector for Mental Health since 2008 and a member of the Parole Board since 2014. She has been instrumental in working with iwi leaders and local communities around the country in an effort to increase knowledge and awareness of Family Court and Oranga Tamariki procedures.Judge Williams-Blyth will be sworn in on 10 June and take up her appointment at the…
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
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine (Tūhoe) is a leading Māori health researcher and internationally respected authority on Indigenous child wellbeing. She is Research Director and Principal Investigator of Growing Up in New Zealand, Aotearoa’s flagship longitudinal study of child development, and a Professor at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.Her work in Kaupapa Māori epidemiology has influenced national policy in maternal and child health, racism and child wellbeing, food security, and youth wellbeing. Known for combining scientific rigour with strong community…
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
Associate Professor Deborah Heke (Ngā Puhi, Te Arawa) is the Director of Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research Centre at Unitec. With a background in Exercise Physiology, Psychology, and Public Health, her current research centres on Mana Wahine scholarship. Recent work includes an exploration of Māori and Indigenous women’s embodied practices and physical activity in te taiao as a means for connecting, communicating, and healing. Deborah is also passionate about building the capability and capacity of Māori and Indigenous (future) scholars and providing spaces for Indigenous…
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…
Kiri Edge
Kiri Edge has contributed to a wide range of interdisciplinary research and evaluation projects across both academic and community contexts. Kiri is experienced working within complex and sensitive topics, and engaging with people, whānau, and communities that some consider ‘hard to reach’. Kiri’s research interests are diverse, but pivot towards endeavours that contribute towards Māori wellbeing and flourishing, equity, social justice and sustainable community-driven development. Kiri’s current rangahau interests include reclamation of indigenous pathways to wellbeing, grieving within and…