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24WHA05Māori Perinatal Mental Health Resource
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2024 · Completed 2025

This research, grounded in Kaupapa Māori and mana wāhine methodologies, explores the experiences of Māori mothers and whānau during the perinatal period. It highlights the expertise of Māori birthing parents and identifies strengths and solutions to address inequities in perinatal mental health care.A publicly accessible resource was developed to share…

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24WHA19Ko wai tō ingoa? Healing from language trauma by renaming and reclaiming ourselves using te reo Māori
Whare wānanga · Host Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Matakitenga · Framework
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2024 · Completed 2025

This te reo Māori publication shares powerful naming narratives from reo champions who reclaim Māori names as part of their language journeys. Through these stories written entirely in te reo it celebrates identity, resistance, and reo revitalisation, and includes teaching resources for kura kaupapa and wharekura.

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Liberating Psychologies : Māori Moving Forward
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2014

The purpose of this proposal is for interns to: - experience the ethos of the Māori & Psychology Research Unit and a culture of research excellence; - enhance their knowledge of indigenous psychology; the process of indigenising psychology; and the task of energising an indigenous Māori psychology. - engage with the research cycle and be active in…

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Māori Academic Socialisation and the University
Whare wānanga · Host Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2013

Despite the proliferation of equity and diversity plans and policies that have been established in universities across New Zealand over the past 25 years, Māori academic staff make up only a very small proportion of the nation’s academic workforce (6%) and the proportion of Pacific academic staff is even smaller (2%). This study explored the ways that Māori…

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Kia areare ki ngā Reo o ngā Tīpuna
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2009

This research project’s origins date back 27 years when Dr Joe Te Rito helped establish local Māori radio station Radio Kahungunu at the Hawke’s Bay Polytechnic, Taradale. Joe saw how the dialect of his iwi Rongomaiwahine-Ngāti Kahungunu was diminishing in quality, in terms of grammatical and spoken fluency, with each generation. The station was to fill the…

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Internship project

22-23INT15Maramataka Māori Embedding Indigenous Knowledge(s) in Education
Whare wānanga · Host Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec
Matakitenga · Framework
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2022 · Completed 2023

This internship explored how Maramataka Māori and mātauranga can be meaningfully integrated into English and Māori-medium education in Aotearoa. It supported the protection and sharing of tohunga knowledge through research and a symposium connecting Indigenous educators across the Pacific.

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Māori whānau experience of Hospital Transfers
Whare wānanga · Host University of Waikato
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2017

This summer internship joins and contributes to a research project on Māori whānau experience of Hospital Transfers by being involved and undertaking literature review, in depth analysis of interview data and considering and reflecting on their research and the research impact and contribution. Publicly-funded hospitals are large healthcare institutions…

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Māori values in the workplace
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2014

A survey study conducted in 2012 investigated whether employee perceptions of the extent to which their organisation espoused 5 core Māori values identified in the literature (manaakitanga, wairuatanga, auahatanga, whakawhanaungatanga, and kaitiakitanga), influenced their disposition to engage in helping behaviours at work and feel more committed to the…

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Māori Youth Employment: Internship Report
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2012

Author: Nimbus Staniland. Supervisor: Professor Charles Crothers This report introduces quantitative analyses of Māori youth employment and occupational status using data from the New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS) issued by Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) in 2008 and 2010. This research project was conducted as a piece of a larger project entitled…

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Māori and assisted human reproduction: An exploratory study
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2004

This research explored Māori views and access to Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR). The researchers carried out a series of interviews with key stakeholders to identify key themes, and a number of hui were run to ascertain broader Māori views towards infertility, use of AHR, AHR policy and legislative change, and the interface between tikanga Māori and…

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Kaupapa Māori Methods: Sharing our Experiences
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2006

This project involved gathering and mapping the whakapapa kōrero of four land, river, coastal pathways in the rohe of Ngāti Apa. The researchers worked with four whānau to research and identify old walkways or travel paths.

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Māori whānau experiences of neonatal care experiences
Wā rangahau · Timeline Commenced 2008

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.

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