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Chelsea is a respected wāhine Māori leader in education, kaupapa Māori research and governance. She holds a PhD in Education from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and is the founder of an indigenous…

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…

Hona Black (Tūhoe, Te Whānau a Apanui, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) works in te reo Māori revitalisation and has a particular interest in language acquisition and the restoration and expansion of te reo Māori…

Dr Meika Foster has a background in Law, Biochemistry and Nutrition Science, with particular interests in the development of plant-based, functional foods and ingredients of benefit to human and animal wellbeing and the…

Sonia Garcia grew up in Spain with Catalan, Galician and Spanish as her family languages. Her career has largely focused on policy and programme management.In the Catalan public service, Sonia designed and managed…

I research how to interpret the past using the material remains found by archaeologists. This has involved field work in a number of regions of the world including southwest France, semi-arid and tropical regions of…

Project lead: Professor Waikaremoana Waitoki (Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Māhanga), The University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato The ACT Party introduced the Treaty Principles Bill in 2024, proclaiming to protect…

Project lead: Dr Vincent van Uitregt (Ngaa Rauru, Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi, Tūhoe), Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka Climate change related research is preoccupied with the impacts on human life…

Project lead: Professor Tom Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Apakura), The University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato This project will document Māori-led responses to climate change through a Te Ao Māori…

Project lead: Dr Te Wai Barbarich-Unasa Ngāti Paoa, Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto AUT University | Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau Type 2 diabetes continues to be a major health challenge for Māori, who are more than…

Project lead: Dr Riri Ellis Ngati Raukawa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngati Tahu The University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Sustainability disclosures are central to the ongoing global debate about accountability in…

Project lead: Dr Mahonri Owen (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa), The University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Additive manufacturing technology (3D printing) can be used to accelerate the design/development…

A childhood visit to glow worm caves left researcher Aymee Lewis with an enduring curiosity about creatures that glow in the dark.

Manukura has been punching above its weight for over 20 years and now one of its own is digging into the reasons for its success.

Mahonri Owen (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) are part of the team at Te Kura Rau Mahara working to better connect the brain with prosthetic limbs.

Each month we feature one of our NPM lead researchers. This month our kōrero is with Dr Ani Kainamu. Ani is the Kaihautū Māori Research Impact Leader at Bioeconomy Science Institute (BSI).

Amelia Blundell undertakes a PhD study on how people relate to kūmara across time, place and cultures.

A Māori sci-fi fantasy video game is in development and NPM researcher Hine-Kaunuku (Morgana) Watson says it's been a long time coming.

Fulbright NZ are providing their final information sessions for this year for graduate and scholar awards, registration details below:Online information session, Fulbright NZ Graduate Awards, 9 June, 5.30pm,&nbsp…

If you would like to improve your communication confidence and skills, we welcome your application to participate in our annual Media Savvy two-day workshop. NPM hosts this workshop, alongside the Science Media Centre,…

Join us for a discussion on the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in rangahau Māori. This webinar will explore how AI technologies are complementing, enhancing and presenting challenges to Māori research and…

This groundbreaking research project centres whānau as catalysts for resilient, flourishing Indigenous futures. It explores how Māori families navigate work and livelihoods while nurturing a wellbeing-based economy…

This groundbreaking research project centres whānau as catalysts for resilient, flourishing Indigenous futures. It explores how Māori families navigate work and livelihoods while nurturing a wellbeing-based economy…

This groundbreaking research project centres whānau as catalysts for resilient, flourishing Indigenous futures. It explores how Māori families navigate work and livelihoods while nurturing a wellbeing-based economy…

We invite researchers based at a NPM partner entities to submit proposals to host and supervise an intern over the summer period.

Fulbright NZ and NPM NZ Graduate Award and NZ Scholar Award are open for applications. If you are interested in the opportunity to study in the USA, you can learn more by attending the information sessions held at…

As a national Centre of Research Excellence, we value the connections that we have to our 21 partners Te Tira Takimano who share our vision of research that empowers flourishing Māori futures. This month we were…

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s 2026 PhD Scholarships are now closed, we are proud to support Māori researchers to shape the future through Indigenous excellence.

This webinar series is targeted towards early-career researchers and PhD candidates wanting to use social media for greater research impact. We have chosen five highly successful social media influencers who will…

The 2025 Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Matakitenga Research Round is now open. We invite research applications aligned across our Matakitenga Research Framework – this year priority will be given to Pae Auaha applications …

1 November 2024Open Letter to the President of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Distinguished ProfessorDame Jane Harding DNZM FRSNZ FRACPE te Kahurangi, e Jane, tēnā koe,The Māori signatories to this letter have strong…

NPM was thrilled to extend a warm welcome to the directorship team from the newly funded ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures. Hosted by the University of Queensland, the Centre is the first ever ARC…

Te Pūtahitanga - a nationwide collective of Māori scientists and researchers responded to the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment's (MBIE) Te Ara Paerangi - Future Pathways Green Paper  - a…

The University of Canterbury Mauriora Platform Research Team, in conjunction with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is hosting a one-day, online symposium to celebrate the culmination of two and a half years research by the Te…

REGISTER HERE: Wānanga Paetukutuku | May 3rd, 1-2pm In this quarterly webinar series NPM Co-Directors Professors Linda Waimarie Nikora & Tahu Kukutai will be leading a discussion on high quality…

Link to video On Wednesday 30th September Professor Rāwinia Higgins from Victoria University of Wellington, presented a professorial lecture on the current state of te reo Māori. The whakataukī - Ka tangi…

Discussion paper on advice provided to the Minister of Education in October 2024 on the use of kupu Māori in the Ready to Read Phonics Plus Readers. Author: Professor Gail Gillon, Fellow of the Royal Society and…

Because This Land Is Who We Are is an exploration of environmental repossession, told through a collaborative case study approach, and engaging with Indigenous communities in Canada (Anishinaabe), Hawai'i (Kanaka Maoli)…

This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns of urban behaviour are thrown into crisis. It can result in establishing…

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sustainable…

Highlighting collaborative archaeological research that centers the enduring histories of Native peoples in North America “A perfect embodiment of the major transformations occurring in North American archaeology…

In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together…

The Borrin Foundation wishes to contribute to increasing Māori postgraduate scholarship in law. CLOSED - REOPENING IN 2025

NPM Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grants support Māori researchers employed at a NPM partner entity to achieve research outcomes and knowledge sharing pathways that harness connectedness and promote research…

The Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Māori (NPM) Futures Programme supports promising Māori students as a means to growing an expert and capable Māori researcher workforce for Aotearoa New Zealand. Internship applications are…

CALL FOR INTERNSHIP PROJECT PROPOSALS FROM SUPERVISING NPM RESEARCHERS Project applications open 25 May 2026

The Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Māori (NPM) Futures Programme supports promising Māori senior undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral students as a means to growing an expert and capable Māori researcher workforce for…

This is a Request for Proposals for Māori led research projects that contribute to specific outcomes within the overall NPM mission as expressed through the NPM Matakitenga Research Framework. Applications open 24…

This webinar explores how AI technologies are complementing, enhancing and presenting challenges to Māori research and researchers. Featuring expert speakers from the Māori tech and research communities, we’ll delve…

This groundbreaking research project centres whānau as catalysts for resilient, flourishing Indigenous futures. It explores how Māori families navigate work and livelihoods while nurturing a wellbeing-based economy…

This groundbreaking webinar presents findings from the first comprehensive, population-level study examining the long-term outcomes of Māori and Pacific PhD graduates in Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite growing numbers of…

Our final speaker in the series is Riana Te Ngahue. Themes explored during this webinar will be social media and audience segmentation, choosing platforms (TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook), engaging…

Hosted by Awanui Te Huia this webinar series is designed for early-career researchers wanting to use social media to showcase their research. We have invited Professor Rangi Mātaamua to speak about how he shared…

This webinar series is designed for early-career researchers wanting to use social media to showcase their research.;Our third speaker is Te Amohaere Ngata-Aerengamate who will be sharing the secret to her success…

This impact brief is part of the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga: New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence (NPM) Te Arotahi policy paper series. This peer-reviewed brief summarises insights from a 2025 study that…

This Arowhānui paper, part of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s (NPM’s) Te Arotahi policy paper series, is an evidence synthesis designed for policy analysts. It draws on 20 years of NPM climate change research to inform…

This Aropū paper, part of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s Te Arotahi policy paper series, is a short impact brief summarising the main insights from Te Ahunga atu ki ngā Ōhanga Oranga Māori: Towards Māori Wellbeing Economies…

Higher education confers significant private benefits for graduates, such as higher earnings and rates of employment, and also generates wider social benefits for communities and society. Māori and Pacific Peoples …

Iwi/hapū (tribe/subtribe) governance institutions are increasingly asserting their rangatiratanga (autonomy) to manage climate change risks and meet the well-being of whānau (family)/hapū/ iwi. However, there is a…

Scholars at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga call for a 1988 report to be our blueprint for how we begin to restructure our country in the wake of Covid-19.

Matika te pae, toro te pae, tū te pae, takoto te pae. He pae whenua, he pae moana, he pae tangata,  He pae kaupapa, he pae kōrero, he pae rangakura. Whāia te pae, e…

Amo ake, amo ake, amo ake ai taku toki ko Te ĀwhiorangiHe toki kai ito, he toki kai piere nuku, he toki kurupatupatuPōkai ā-nuku taku toki ki ngā matawhāura o muri neiWhano, whano! Tau mai te toki! Haumi ē!, Hui ē!…

For over two decades Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has stood as Aotearoa’s only Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence. Here we present our 2023 contributions and the impact we achieved as a network of highly skilled and…

For two decades Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has stood as Aotearoa’s only Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence. In 2022, we reflected on our beginnings, our contribution and the impact we achieved as a network of highly…

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Annual Report submitted to TEC for the reporting period 1 July to 31 December 2021 (6 months). This is our first report representing the new Matakitenga framework and while it is challenging…

This Annual Report highlights the achievements of our CoRE over the period January 2020 to June 2021. It also marks the end of our TEC funding for the period 2016-2021. Much has been achieved during this time including,…

Kua pō te ao! Kua pō te ao!Kua pō uriuri, te ao taketake!Kua puta a Aituā i Whiti-nuku ki Whiti-reingaTūātia ana, whakawahia rā hei kaitiaki o te mateHinenuitepō! Hei āhea mākona ai tō matekai? E te tawhito e…

Our PhD tauira never cease to inspire us. This e-pānui celebrates just two of the remarkable researchers in our whānau — a reminder of the creativity, depth, and purpose that defines scholarship at Ngā Pae o te…

We were thrilled to partner with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) to host the first Radical ‘Interdisciplinarities: Indigenous Knowledges’ forum in Banff, Canada this month. The forum gathered 40…

As a national Centre of Research Excellence, we value the connections that we have to our 21 partners Te Tira Takimano who share our vision of research that empowers flourishing Māori futures. This month we were…

As we head into another busy year, we are grateful for our whānau at NPM and Kanapu who approach everything they do with purpose and commitment to our shared vision of flourishing Māori futures. In this e-pānui, we…

E ngā kaipupuri mātauranga – tēnā rawa atu koutou. I have been reflecting on my first year as Pou Matarua and the enormous privilege it has been to work alongside Tahu, the NPM secretariat, our Kāhui Ārahi and the many…

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s Zotero publication database brings together the full breadth of our research and knowledge-sharing outputs in one accessible collection. It includes books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal…

Peace In Conflict: An Oceania Reimagining of Peace and Conflict StudiesApril 2026AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous PeoplesThis special issue offers a decolonial intervention into Peace and…

IIRC 2022 Building the foundations for flourishing Indigenous FuturesIIRC is a time for reflection, sharing, planning, innovating, getting inspired. Everything about our conference is Indigenous. Hot topics…

Kanapu is designed by Māori, for Māori to ignite Māori talent and leadership across te ao Māori in research, science and innovation spaces; on marae, within hapū and iwi mahi, and throughout our hapori in the…

About IICCRS Around the world Indigenous peoples are actively engaged in finding actionable solutions in response to climate change to ensure the survival and flourishing of our planet, places and peoples. IICCRS 13…

2022 IIRC Conference Website Building the foundations for flourishing Indigenous Futures https://www.iirc.ac.nz Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) is the founding host of the biennial International Indigenous…