About this research
The premature birth of babies is a highly stressful and tense event for whānau. The care of such babies is focused within hospital based Neonatal Intensive Care Units.
This Kaupapa Māori research investigated the experiences of Māori whānau who have had their babies admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units. The research focused on the kōrero of whānau Māori as a means by which to provide insights into the needs of whānau Māori and their premature babies within the mainstream context of hospital neonatal intensive care units. The research undertook analysis of whānau experiences and provided research-based recommendations to those organisations that provide such services.
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Awardee: Linda Te Aho (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui), University of Waikato The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Tikanga and the State - Selected Papers of Sir E. Taihākurei Durie. This collection brings together published and unpublished papers by Tā E. Taihākurei Durie, organised around the theme of…
View projectTikanga and the State - Selected Papers of Sir E. Taihākurei Durie.
Awardee: Linda Te Aho (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui), University of Waikato
The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Tikanga and the State - Selected Papers of Sir E. Taihākurei Durie.
This collection brings together published and unpublished papers by Tā E. Taihākurei Durie, organised around the theme of hapū and Māori communities as the location of Māori authority. While Durie’s 1994 Custom Law paper is pre-eminent in bringing custom law into the realm of jurisprudence, the collection spans a remarkable range of papers and reports written over four decades, each exploring different facets of tikanga.
Awardee: Lisa Jean Kremer, University of Otago The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Creating digital assets and illustrations for whānau who have pēpi in the neonatal unit. In the neonatal intensive care setting, whānau receive a significant amount of written and verbal information about multiple procedures…
View projectCreating digital assets and illustrations for whānau who have pēpi in the neonatal unit
Awardee: Lisa Jean Kremer, University of Otago
The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Creating digital assets and illustrations for whānau who have pēpi in the neonatal unit.
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Awardee: Tia Barrett (Ngāi Tahu, Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto), Auckland University of Technology The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Pātaka Wā: storehouse for time. The recipient is a lecturer in Visual Arts, a lens-based artist, and a PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology. Their doctoral research…
View projectPātaka Wā: storehouse for time.
Awardee: Tia Barrett (Ngāi Tahu, Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto), Auckland University of Technology
The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Pātaka Wā: storehouse for time.
The recipient is a lecturer in Visual Arts, a lens-based artist, and a PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology. Their doctoral research explores how time is experienced, told, and embodied within te ao Māori. Their creative practice is grounded in kaupapa Māori and environmental relationships, and they are currently developing a new version of an installation titled Pātaka Wā: a storehouse for time. This work has previously been exhibited and tested and is now being prepared for installation at RM Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau in 2026.