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Big Data Insights into Treaty Principles Bill Submissions

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…
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Te kāhui kūaka: he tupuna, he taonga, he tohu

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…
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Maiea Te Mauri; Taiea Te Taiao: Connecting Indigenous Knowledge, Climate Change and Kōrero Tuku Iho for a Sustainable Future.

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…
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Evaluating and Enhancing the Kimi Ora Diabetes Programme through AI-Driven Innovation

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…
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Exploring Mātauranga Māori in sustainability-related disclosures in Aotearoa business entities

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…
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He Mahinga-Ora ki te Tairāwhiti: 'Ki te whai-ao, ki te ao-mārama'

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…
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He Mahinga-Ora ki te Tairāwhiti: 'Ki te whai-ao, ki te ao-mārama'

Project lead: Mr Kāhui Iles (Ngāti Porou), Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi This project explores future sustainable economic developments in Te Tairāwhiti, specifically within Te Rohe Pōtae o Ngāti Porou…
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Kaitiakitanga: On the Philosophical Foundations of Indigenous Climate Activism in Aotearoa

Project lead: Associate Professor Krushil Watene (Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua ō Orākei, Tonga) The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau (Host) Recognising the value and interconnectedness of human and…
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Mā te mōhio ka mārama: Understanding the primary care data and digital landscape to support hauora Māori and Māori health equity in Aotearoa

Project lead: Dr Karen Wright Kāi Tahu The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau (Host) Māori in Aotearoa experience large and persistent differences in health outcomes compared to non-Māori in nearly all…
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He Whawhai Hou – A New Struggle: Aotearoa Perspectives on Mass Incarceration

Project lead: Dr. Emmy Rākete Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau (Host) In the last four decades, New Zealand has begun imprisoning on a scale never seen before in this land’s history…
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Mana Ngahere: The Past, Present, and Future of Māori Forestry

Project lead: Professor Carla Houkamau Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāi Tahu The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau (Host) This research project partners Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland) with…
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Scoping Kaupapa Māori Grounding for ADHD Research Among Māori Adults

Project lead: Associate Professor Byron Rangiwai (Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Whare, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou), Unitec Institute of Technology | Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka This foundational phase of He Ara Mārama establishes…
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He taonga tuku iho: Multidisplinary and multitechnology approach to increase efficiencies in coastal kina ecosystem surveys within fisheries management.

Project lead: Dr Ani Kainamu Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Across Te Tai-o-Araiteuru, mana whenua must dispute the controversial issue of ‘kina barrens’; a biased view that is used…
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Ngā Pou Māreikura – Virtual pillars as building blocks for engagement.

Awardee: Deborah Heke (Nga Puhi. Te Arawa), Unitec Funding from this Grant will contribute to activities that support the dissemination, engagement, and impact of research and creative outputs, specifically: the…
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Kai, Race, Data, and Identity: Sharing Insights from Doctoral Research

Awardee: Hannah Rapata (Ngāi Tahu), Te Wānanga o Aotearoa The NPM Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant supports Māori researchers to achieve impact and transformational research outcomes and knowledge sharing…
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Tikanga 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…
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Creating 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…
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Pātaka 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…
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Ngā Au o Te Awaroa: Podcast Project Celebrating Māori Philosophy, Creativity, and Community.

Awardee: Kirsty Dunn (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa), University of Canterbury The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Ngā Au o Te Awaroa: Podcast Project Celebrating Māori…
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Ngāti Kuia: He Pūtake, Hei Pakiaka Ora | A History. The first book focused on the history and identity of Ngāti Kuia.

Awardee: Madi Williams (Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Rangitāne o Wairau), University of Canterbury The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Ngāti Kuia: He…
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Te Rito o te Harakeke: Collective Resilience and Relational Research with Whānau Māori.

Awardee: Anna Adcock (Ngati Mutunga), Victoria University of Wellington The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Te Rito o te Harakeke: Collective Resilience and Relational…
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Kia kārohirohi te wairua: Empowering rangatahi Māori and their whānau to understand, nurture, and practise wairuatanga to support wellbeing.

Awardee: Alan Haenga O'Brien (Ngāti Porou), Massey University The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Kia kārohirohi te wairua: Empowering rangatahi Māori and their whānau to…
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Lalanga e Ako’ae Māori and Pacific – Weaving together the learnings of Māori and Pacific ECR knowledge holders.

Awardee: Alehandrea Raiha Manuel (Ngāti Porou), The University of Auckland The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Lalanga e Ako’ae Māori and Pacific – Weaving together the…
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Māori nurse practitioners: Kaupapa Māori workforce development realising equity.

Awardee: Josephine Davis (Ngā Puhi me Ngāti Whatua Orakei), The University of Auckland The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Māori nurse practitioners: Kaupapa Māori…
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Te Waharoa Hīnātore.

Awardee: Dan Hikuroa (Tainui, Ngati Maniapoto, Te Arawa), University of Auckland The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Te Waharoa Hīnātore. Light has always carried…
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Nga Taonga Tuku Iho

Awardee: Dr Reuben Collier (Ngāti Porou, Rereahu-Maniapoto), Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi The Awardee will undertake the Whakaaweawe Impact and Transformation Grant titled Nga Taonga Tuku Iho. He Rau Aroha:…
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Kia Manawanui, Kia Manawaroa! Exploring what keeps Māori Midwives in Lead Maternity Care practice in Aotearoa.

Awardee: Waimarie Onekawa (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Ngāti Rongomaiwahine), Auckland University of Technology In Aotearoa, Lead Maternity Care (LMC) Midwives provide most healthcare services for pregnant people…
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Te-Pō-Namunamu-ki-Taiao. He Kawa Ānamata: Designing New Realities Through Māori Interactive Media

Awardee: Morgana Vicki Watson (Taranaki, Te Atiawa, Te Atihaunui-a-Papaarangi, Ngāpuhi), University of Canterbury This research explores how Māori Futurism can be realised through interactive media, merging…
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He māhurehure nō Te Whare Tapu o Ngāpuhi

Awardee: Deacon Fisher (Ngāpuhi (Te Parawhau, Te Uriroroi, Te Māhurehure ki Whatitiri)), Massey University In recent years, pūrākau have been an area of research interest. This has primarily resulted in the emergence…
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Experiences of Podiatry foot screening, for Māori with diabetes related amputations.

Awardee: Cynthia Otene (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa), Auckland University of Technology Māori have higher rates of diabetes Amputations than non-Māori. The Rangahau will utilise Kaupapa Māori methodology to explore…
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Reframing Fidgeting Through a Māori Lens: Exploring ADHD, Brain Activity, and the Cultural Significance of Movement

Awardee: Uenukuterangihoka Jefferies (Ngāti Raukawa, Te Whānau-a-Apanui, Ngāti Awa, Te Whakatōhea), University of Auckland This kaupapa Māori-informed study explores how fidgeting—small, repetitive movements often…
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A Timeless Approach to Mental Wellbeing: Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Oranga and Te Taiao

Awardee: Leticia Joesphine Ngoi Vizor (Leticia Joesphine Ngoi Vizor), The University of Auckland This research explores how Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei (NWŌ) whānau understand, experience, and sustain collective oranga and…
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Restor(y)ing Taru Rauhea: An Ethnography of Māori and Cannabis in Aotearoa

Awardee: Mona-Lisa Wareka (Ngātiwai, Ngāti Rereahu), University of Waikato This research aims towards facilitating transformative change by investigating the impacts and experiences Māori face under current cannabis…
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Anthropomorphising Whakairo: Creating Living Realities through Augmenting Carvings

Awardee: Hamiora Te Momo (Ngāti Porou (Ngāti Konohi), Ngāti Raukawa (Ngāti Whakatere), University of Waikato This doctorial study in computer science explores the design and development of a culturally grounded…
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Tahatū-o-te-rangi: a study of the experiences and contributions of MAI Te Kupenga PhD scholars

Māori doctoral scholars often face significant challenges in universities dominated by Western academic traditions. These environments can clash with Māori cultural values and needs, reflecting colonial legacies that…
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Kia tōnui te reo Māori – Prosperous whānau, prosperous reo Māori

Kia tōnui te reo Māori: Prosperous whānau, prosperous reo Māori, examines the conditions that support the growth, use, and intergenerational transmission of te reo Māori across whānau and communities in Aotearoa. The…
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Activating 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,…
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Ngā whenu haumaru hei raranga: Social Wellbeing

Since the arrival of visitors to Aotearoa, Māori have always been quick to assess and adapt language, technology and information. Contemporary society brings new languages, technology and information instantly to our…
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Māori Perinatal Mental Health Resource

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…
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Te rere o te Pīwakawaka: Modelling a maramataka-guided, strengths-based, lived-experience ADHD framework through Kaupapa Māori creative practice

This project focussed on expanding the conceptual lens of ADHD, focusing on traditional Māori narratives such as pūrākau and whakataukī to understand the Māori experience of ADHD and create an accommodating framework.
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Whare tangata ora: A whakapapa informed review of mātauranga Māori and literature

This internship was a literature review evaluating the available academic research pertaining to the role of wairua in whare tangata ora. It responds to the serious deficit of academic outputs in this area and…
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Exploring neurodivergence and Māori wellbeing through Indigenous-informed technology

The internship project was about Māori understandings of neurodiversity and development of digital technologies.
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He utu mō te kai: Exploring the economic benefits of kai sovereignty

This rapid review examined and contributed to the limited understanding of the economic benefits produced by kai sovereignty initiatives in Aotearoa through a te ao Māori lens and kaupapa Māori foundation.
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Te mana o te reo Māori: analysing word choice in assessments written in Māori

The project forms part of the wider initiative Manaakitia Te Reo: How Do We Support Assessments in Te Reo Māori, which aims to improve how tertiary institutions support and mark work submitted in Māori.
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Ko te hua o te rengarenga: he maumaharatanga - Supporting the archiving and analysis of Māori women’s leadership histories

This internship involved supporting the work of Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora - the Māori Women’s Welfare League through research, transcription, and thematic analysis of interviews with wāhine Māori.
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Hāpai te Hauora: Breathing your ancestors back into life

The focus of the project was to co-create and develop creative stories- pūrākau, that reflect the lived experiences of climate impacts from the perspective of rangatahi and whānau participants.
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Ngā pou māreikura: mapping literature to wāhine Māori wellbeing and belonging

This project is a Māori-led research project that explores wāhine Māori experiences of health, connection, and belonging through a framework grounded in mātauranga wāhine and relationships with te taiao.
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Matihiko whakairo Māori – carving Māori experiences with 3D digital technologies

The intern collaborated closely with leading technology providers and Dr Rory Clifford to explore how emerging digital tools—such as 3D modelling, carving simulations, and immersive environments—can deepen tamariki…
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Examining tino rangatiratanga in post-Treaty settlement Aotearoa through the Matike Mai Reports

This project examined claims that the Waitangi Tribunal has exceeded its original mandate by engaging with contemporary issues. By analysing Tribunal reports across its full history, the research focused on how the…
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Pharmacist precepting for cultural safety of students at He Rau Kawakawa (School of Pharmacy)

This project investigated how cultural concepts are incorporated into pharmacist preceptorship practices, with an emphasis on how these practices are explicitly demonstrated and communicated to pharmacy students during…
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Articulations of honourable kāwanatanga from submissions opposed to the defeated Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill 2025

This project involved listening to organisational submissions against the defeated Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill 2024 and analysing how submitters from different categories articulated what honourable kāwanatanga…
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He oranga whānau: mahi ngātahi whānau livelihoods within the context of work and Māori economies of wellbeing

This internship developed a visual identity for Te Ahunga atu ki ngā Ōanga Oranga Māori: Towards Māori Wellbeing Economies, bringing Māori wellbeing economies to life through design. The work supports whānau…
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Te Pītau Whakarei Karahipi Scholarship - Seagrass Restoration

This project advanced seagrass restoration in Aotearoa by building on new evidence that Zostera muelleri produces viable seeds, enabling less invasive restoration methods. It supports large-scale recovery of these…
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The Legitimacy of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Under International Law: Case Studies from the Americas

This internship examined how the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has influenced domestic law reforms, drawing lessons from Canada, Belize, and beyond. It explored strategies for Indigenous peoples…
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Explore the historical context of Lake Karapiro to support Māori holistic wellbeing

This internship explored Lake Karāpiro’s cultural narratives to support Māori holistic wellbeing and challenge colonial environmental views. Using indigenous frameworks, the project contributed to decolonising health…
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Tūrou Hawaiki: Morning karakia and waiata as a culturally responsive pedagogy

This internship explored the wellbeing benefits of daily karakia and waiata at the University of Canterbury, highlighting their role in fostering cultural connection and belonging. Using a braided rivers methodology,…
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Ko wai tō ingoa? Healing from language trauma by renaming and reclaiming ourselves using te reo Māori

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,…
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Wānanga Rau, Taumata Rau, Pukenga Rau

Project SummaryThis project, Wānanga Rau, Taumata Rau, Pukenga Rau, aims to provide an innovative conceptual toolkit and resources for the Māori Performing Arts community in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The resources…
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Ngā Pōito i te kupenga o Toi te Huatahi The Netfloats in the Ocean of Toi te Huatahi

Project SummaryThis creative-led project focuses on four sites: Poor Knights, Hen and Chicks, Little and Great Barrier Island. The islands’ isolation led to their designation as sanctuaries, a Western conservation…
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Pukapuka Hanganga Reo Matatini: Ngā Kōrero o Te Aitanga a Mahaki Iwi

Pukapuka Hanganga Reo Matatini brings treasured pūrākau of Te Aitanga a Māhaki to life through structured literacy children’s books that support neurodiverse tamariki to learn te reo Māori while connecting with their…
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Reflecting on 50 Years of the Waitangi Tribunal

In 2025, the Waitangi Tribunal marks 50 years since its founding. This new collection, edited by Carwyn Jones and Maria Bargh, will bring together Māori scholars to reflect on the Tribunal’s impactful work across key…
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He tumu herenga waka: Māori mothers navigating the never-ending beginnings of whakapapa

Project SummaryThe project builds on a case study, “Ko te whaea te takere o te waka: Māori mothers as navigators of change,” which examined Māori mothers as key change-makers for their whānau. The study produced a…
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Tairāwhiti Waka, Tairāwhiti Tāngata: Exploring Tairāwhiti Voyaging Philosophies

Project SummaryThis project translates the findings of lead researcher Dr Ngahuia Mita’s doctoral research Tairāwhiti Waka, Tairāwhiti Tāngata; Examining Tairāwhiti Voyaging Philosophies into practical printed and…
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Toitū te Hakapupu: Restoration of the Pleasant River – a documentary journey

Project SummaryThis project is part of a ‘circular economy’ research project based on a Jobs for Nature’ [J4N] river restoration programme, Toitū te Hakapupu, being undertaken by Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki …
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Whakakahangahia te Rangatahi wāhine ki te Waka Ama - Empowering Young Women in Waka Ama

This research explored how participation in Waka Ama supports the wellbeing of young Māori women. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori, it examined how the sport strengthens cultural identity, promotes health and fitness, and…
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Whanake te kura i Tawhitinui – Building resilience within Māori communities

This research explores how mātauranga Māori enriches natural hazard resilience in Aotearoa by integrating Indigenous knowledge with science. It highlights Māori-led solutions that strengthen cultural identity, wellbeing…
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Māmā aroha: Implementing recommendations of a research project to update and enhance the first free Indigenous digital breastfeeding resource to improve support for whānau

Māmā Aroha, the first Indigenous breastfeeding app, is being updated and enhanced to better support Māori whānau. Grounded in a Kaupapa Māori approach, this project explores how digital tools can uphold the whakapapa of…
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He Tohu Āhuarangi: Climate Change Signs between Antarctica and Aotearoa

This project explored how the Māori concept of tohu—environmental signs—could inform Antarctic research and stewardship. By weaving te ao Māori into international climate science, the research supported Indigenous-led…
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The State of Māori Rights, 2nd Edition

The second edition of The State of Māori Rights gathers Māori perspectives on key events and issues that have shaped our lives over the past thirty years. Scheduled for publication in 2025, it is a major revision and…
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He Kahu Kōrero – Cloaks that speak

He Kahu Kōrero – Cloaks that Speak will be an accessible scholarly book celebrating the art of whatu kākahu and the transformative journeys of six Māori women and their whānau.
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Commissioning a musical score and accompanying actions to a poi-waiata (called “Te Proton Poi”)

This project created “Te Proton Poi” — a waiata integrating mātauranga Māori with quantum physics to support community engagement with advanced health technologies. Inspired by MRI concepts and kapa haka, the project…
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He hakune rangahau o Te Atiawa: What could a Te Atiawa research model and methodology look like?

This internship examined publicly available sources to build a research report on Te Atiawa knowledge, perspectives, and values, aiming to develop a research model grounded in Te Atiawa mātauranga. The project informed…
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The Treaty of Waitangi and its principles – an analysis of select Waitangi Tribunal jurisprudence

This internship project aimed to make key Waitangi Tribunal jurisprudence more accessible to public sector policy-makers. By reviewing Tribunal reports, the research focused on how the Tribunal identifies and balances…
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Tikanga and Te Tiriti –transforming law and policy in Aotearoa

This internship explored how tikanga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi are transforming Aotearoa’s legal landscape through case law and legislation. Guided by Associate Professor Linda Te Aho, interns gained hands-on…
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E hoa, e hoariri rānei? How will Corbicula Fluminea affect Te Mauri o Waiwaiā?

This project examined the impact of the invasive freshwater gold clam on the mauri of Waiwaia and taonga species in the Waipā River. It assessed the species' role from a Te Ao Māori perspective and proposed culturally…
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Māori Pharmacists: Staying, going, or gone?

Why do Māori pharmacists stay—or leave—the profession? This project explored the career experiences of Māori pharmacists, using surveys and literature to uncover the key factors influencing their decisions. The findings…
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Māori whānau mental health and addiction journeys

How do Māori experience and navigate cannabis and methamphetamine use in their lives and communities? This kaupapa Māori project internship centred whānau voices to better understand the challenges and solutions from…
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INFORMING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MATAURANGA MAORI MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH TOOL

How do whānau define and experience quality engagement from health services? This internship included a Kaupapa Māori-informed literature review to inform development of a maternal mental health tool.
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Borrin Internship: Supporting the build of a research and teaching repository for the Indigenisation of the LLB

InternOcean Bartlett, Ngati Porou, Ngāpuhi, University of CanterburySupervisorAdrienne Paul, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of CanterburyThe internship is provided as part of the prestigious NPM Borrin…
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Tihei Mauri Ora, Tihei Mana Motuhake: Investigating how trauma impacts rangatahi Māori who offend and their whānau engaged with the youth justice system

This internship project focussed on analysing data to address two questions 1. How does trauma impact Māori youth who offend, and their whānau, and 2. how can their lived experiences and Māori approaches to Trauma…
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Effective Co-Governance of Natural Disasters

This project investigated the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on Māori and wider communities in Hawke’s Bay, highlighting the delayed government response. It explored how co-governance between Māori and local authorities…
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Raw material identification of toki in the Auckland War Memorial Museum archaeology collection

This internship uncovered the hidden stories of 2,000 toki from Auckland Museum’s collection, combining archaeology and mātauranga Māori to trace their stone origins and reconnect them to whakapapa. The work opens new…
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Providing the voice for kanakana –assisting with storytelling and being part of the restoration journey for this taonga species

This internship is about the kanakana/piharau/pouched lamprey, a struggling fish species in New Zealand due to decline in river water quality, industrialisation, and river alteration.
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PARS wars: a systematic review of 'Play, Active Recreation and Sport' (PARS) in promoting mental health among Māori youth

This internship investigates how physical activity and sports (PARS) support the mental wellbeing of rangatahi Māori, combining research review and lived experiences to explore culturally relevant pathways to…
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Māori community action and responses to severe weather events

This internship canvassed a localised Māori community’s response to severe weather events to highlight the implications for psychology.
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A REVIEW OF THE CURRENT LEGAL STATE AND GOVERNANCE OF THE HAKA KA MATE

This project explored the intersection of te ao Māori and intellectual property law through a case study on the haka Ka Mate and the rights of Ngāti Toa Rangatira. It critically examined the Haka Ka Mate Attribution…
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Rebuilding ahi kaa - keeping the home fires bright

This internship explored how urban-raised Māori postgraduate students can reconnect and rekindle their ahi kā with ancestral marae, strengthening their sense of belonging and empowering them to keep the home fires…
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WĀHINE MĀ KŌREROTIA: TE REO O TE WĀHINE ME TE WHENUA - A MANA WĀHINE ANALYSIS OF BROADSHEET MAGAZINE

This research analysed kōrero by wāhine Māori on whenua protection and protest, as expressed in Broadsheet magazine (1979–1984). It contributes to the Mana Wāhine Kaupapa Inquiry by examining how wāhine Māori challenged…
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Linking the push for a ‘by Māori, for Māori’ child protection system to the wider decolonisation movement.

This internship focused on decolonisation in the context of Aotearoa’s child protection system.
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Supporting the build of a research and teaching repository for the Indigenization of the LLB

This project supported the indigenisation of the LLB at the University of Canterbury by developing an online repository of Māori-focused legal resources. The intern helped compile and organise materials to strengthen…
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Mātauranga Māori and the Patent Law System: Collision and Contest

This internship project examined the collision and contest of te ao Māori and the intellectual property system with respect to mātauranga Māori.
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Intergenerational impacts of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder on Indigenous whānau, hapū, iwi and hapori

This internship project explored the intergenerational impacts of FASD on Indigenous whānau, hapū, iwi and hapori.
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Reo Māori Corpora Format for generative Māori AI

InternPunua Waitoki, University of WaikatoSupervisorAssociate Professor Te Taka Keegan, University of WaikatoOverviewThis internship investigated suitable Māori language data formats and quantities that can be best…
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Exploring culturally responsive vaccine delivery for Māori: A kaupapa Māori framed review of literature

InternStacy-Ria Te Kurapa-King, University of AucklandSupervisorDr Anneka Anderson, University of AucklandOverviewThis internship project was a targeted literature review adopting a Whakapapa research methodology to…
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HE ARA PŪKEKO: PATHWAYS TO MĀORI DATA FUTURES

This internship focused on the creation of a ‘supervisor’s package’ to support He Ara Pūkeko, an apprenticeship programme.
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Toolkit for Māori Data Governance Model

This internship explored the emerging field of Māori data governance, focusing on unmet needs within current data systems. The project unpacked Te Kāhui Raraunga’s Māori Data Governance Model and repackaged its…
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Māori Data Sovereignty

How do we protect our data as Māori? This internship explored Māori data sovereignty—what it means, how it’s practiced, and why it matters. Through a series of easy-to-understand research briefs, the project supports…
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He Taonga te Raraunga: Exploring Māori data sovereignty practices for whānau Māori

This internship created briefs for whānau Māori that explored what Māori Data Sovereignty is and why the protection of Māori data is important in today’s world of rapid technological advancement.
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NPM Te Kāhui Raraunga Karahipi Internship

This internship aim was to scope the possibilities hapū, iwi and Māori organisations have to exercise Māori data sovereignty over electoral roll data, collected compulsorily about Māori for the administration of the…
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How will Āta Tiaki Taonga Tuku Iho help to meet the needs of Taumata Whakapumau Tiaki Taonga?

This summer internship project researched how Auckland Museum could support Tiaki Taonga through museum practices, using Āta Tiaki Taonga Tuku Iho as an example framework.
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Tohe-Ora Wānanga Whenua Ngā Kīanga a Te Whakatōhea

This research supported Te Whakatōhea's vision of mana Māori motuhake through a focus on kai sovereignty and climate resilience. The intern gathered and analysed mōteatea recordings relating to kai, contributing to the…
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Reimagining Dissemination: Utilising co-design and kaupapa Maaori to create a dissemination outcome

InternKeely Ranga, University of OtagoSupervisorDr Jade Tamatea, Waipapa Taumata Rau; The University of AucklandOverviewTōku Ara OraNGA – TAONGA was a Māori-led, multi-stage research project, with an almost entirely…
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Māori whānau mental health and addiction journeys

This internship contributed to a larger postdoctoral research fellowship project: a kaupapa Māori analysis of Māori experiences of cannabis and methamphetamine use.
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ADHD in Australasia and the Pacific: A comprehensive literature review

This internship project, aimed to compile an extensive literature review on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with a focus on the Australasian and Pacific regions.
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Whakamana: Empowering Well-being for Rangatahi Takatāpui – Weaving a Whāriki for Mana-Enhancing Engagement

This project aimed to redress the lack of culturally safe, gender-affirming, and inclusive support services available for rangatahi takatāpui and their whānau within the Te Ranga Tupua rohe.
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Decolonising child protection in Aotearoa: What can be learned from First Nations internationally?

This internship focused on global efforts by First Nations and Indigenous peoples to decolonise and re-indigenise child protection systems.
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Effects of historical trauma for Māori through their experiences of state welfare

This internship contributed to a broader research project exploring how experiences of state welfare have contributed to historical trauma for Māori.
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The Trajectory of Tangonge

Tangonge is a hugely significant taonga, historically referred to as the Kaitaia Lintel or Kaitaia Carving. It is now understood to have been a waharoa (gateway) and is considered the earliest surviving Māori carving in…
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Kaitiaki pā harakeke for socio-environmental wellbeing

This internship project employed a tikanga-based and marae-based regenerative environmental approach, emphasising the reciprocal relationship between people and te taiao.
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Scoping the mental health impacts of climate change on food sovereignty in Indigenous Peoples

This internship aimed to address the critical shortage of literature in this field by providing insight into the ways climate change has impacted the mental health of Indigenous Peoples.
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The Interaction of Tikanga Māori Law, Climate Change and Tort Law

This Kaupapa Māori research centred Māori worldviews, values, and lived experiences. It drew on legal analysis and case study work to investigate how tikanga Māori is reshaping law and dispute resolution in Aotearoa’s…
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Imagining honourable kawanatanga: Insights from Waitangi Tribunal reports

This project served as an introduction to the ongoing study Honourable Kāwanatanga: A Prerequisite for Constitutional Transformation. The overall study was designed to answer the following key questions: 1. What is…
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Indigenous Visual Jurisprudence – developing a definition

The interns contributed to a research project exploring a new area of law, visual jurisprudence, which is a legal theory that considers how visual legal information affects people's perceptions of the law and its impact…
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Kaumātua Futures: Ko te pae tawhiti, whāia kia tata. Ngāti Whakaue Case Study

This Ageing Well NSC research project explored the unique role of kaumātua within Ngāti Whakaue, challenging government definitions that homogenise Māori elders. It highlights how kaumātua serve whānau, marae, hapū, and…
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“Kei whea rā he oranga mō taku iwi e”: A critical biography of Tuaiwa Hautai Rickard

Hineitimoana’s research is a critical biography of her grandmother, Tuaiwa (Eva) Rickard, a Tainui Ngāti Koata woman known for her influential role in the Māori land rights movement of the 1970s.
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Hauora: a Ngāti Kahungunu perspective

Sharron’s doctoral research is a strengths-based study called ‘Hauora: A Ngāti Kahungunu perspective’ and the research question is, “What is the relationship between kaupapa Māori community-led initiatives and Māori…
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Māori Adaptation Theory & Practice: Oral Traditions, Literature, and Cinema

Māori have a long history of storytelling, which remains a central aspect of te ao Māori and a space for rangatiratanga. This is true of contemporary art forms, though little research has been conducted into adapting…
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He rau rangatira, he rau MANUKURA: A Māori Model of Education

Keita’s research is a qualitative case study on MANUKURA and sets out to explore what practices and/or principles are gained from the kura that support ākonga Māori in their educational aspirations. To achieve this,…
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‘Taiahahā, taiahahā - ko au ko koe, ko koe ko au…’ Exploring the Mokoia Taiaha Wānanga in relation to cultural reclamation, resilience and affirmation

The whakatauakī - 'Ko au ko koe, ko koe ko au,' stands as a determining principle behind the legacy created by Mita Hikairo Mohi and his teachings of the discipline of mautaiaha.  Many from across the motu have attended…
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Mapping Tuangi (cockle) populations using Māori knowledge to inform co-management practices in Ōhiwa harbour

This study has been initiated by the iwi of Ōhiwa, led by Ngāti Awa to establish techniques and practices to provide information to assist in the co-management of Ōhiwa harbour.
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Taonga tuku iho: The contribution of Māori Nurse Practitioners towards the transformation of Primary Healthcare

Ebony’s PhD research will explore the contribution of Māori nurse practitioners and opportunities to transform Primary Healthcare services within Aotearoa.
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He whakapapa o ngā whare tikanga Māori me te uruhi ai i ngā ture mā i te Pākeha: A history of Māori building practises and imposed Pākehā building legislations

Savannah’s research aims to compile mātauranga of whare tikanga (Māori building practises) to understand the processes and practices involved in customary whare Māori (Māori buildings) construction.
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Kia rere te hekatai kei runga kia panonitia i te rehutai ¬– the transformative power of creative flows, tracing the spirals of mauri, wairua and ha

The research considers our whanaungatanga relationships and whakapapa connections to ngā rākau and ngāhere. This has led to the creation of a plant-based 16mm film developer, replacing the environmentally damaging Kodak…
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Pīkau i te Anamata: Re-imagining whānaucentric parenting practices in Aotearoa

Arianna’s project demonstrates that connecting to the practice of pīkau where our tipuna carried their babies on their backs provides an active place to reclaim the strengths of our earliest parenting traditions as a…
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Towards developing a Māori theory of fragmentation

Simon’s research is concerned with the imposition of Western thought on Māori which has displaced our ways of knowing and being. Colonisation is most visible in the political and biophysical spheres, however, less…
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Making Mōkihi: Kāi Tahu Learning and Care of Our Iwi and Gender Identities

Ahinata’s project engages with the experiences of wāhine and gender diverse Kāi Tahu, informed by iwi and gender specific contexts, in order to answer the question: How do we as wāhine and gender diverse Kāi Tahu learn…
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Taitamawahine Narratives of Abortion

This research will increase our understanding of the sexual and reproductive journeys of taitamawahine to make clear recommendations to improve the provision of abortion healthcare so it’s accessible and culturally…
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Wairuatanga: Exploring understandings of wairua for rangatahi Māori in a youth forensic setting

This research will explore wairua and spirituality for rangatahi Māori involved with a youth forensic service in Aotearoa, New Zealand
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Indigenising movement: Building technology to fuel cultural vitality among rangatahi and whānau Māori in Aotearoa

Kapa haka provides a space for cultural expression, physical movement, and identity development. But how can technology be used to develop accessible kapa haka-informed physical movement resources that promote cultural…
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Weaving Māori Hearts in the Digital Wharenui: Nurturing Whakawhanaungatanga Through a Kaupapa Māori Social Media Platform - Tōku Whānau

The project will explore the research question: What would a kaupapa Māori based social media platform for Māori communities and whānau look and feel like?  The research will involve engaging with a specific Māori…
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Kauora ki te Ao

Kauora is a whānau-derived theory and practice of swimming, developed through Raureti’s doctoral research, that redefines how whānau engage in kaupapa wai. This project supports its implementation by developing a data…
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Investigating the influence of socio-cultural-political pressures on Māori suicide: A comparison of known Māori suicides from 1840-1939 with those from 1940-2019

This project uses Kaupapa Māori theory to challenge the current dominant Western explanations for suicide, which fail to consider socio-cultural-political pressures and historical processes such as colonisation as core…
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Hononga Raraunga - Te Rohe Eke a Turora

This research project is creating a Digital Data Dashboard that links land blocks and sites with tūpuna and hapū names for the uri of Turora.
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Understanding and Enhancing Climate & Oranga/Wellbeing Research in Te Tairāwhiti

In collaboration with Te Weu Charitable Trust, this research seeks to address critical gaps in our understanding of climate change impacts and adaptation strategies specific to Māori communities in Te Tairāwhiti.
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What is Data Sovereignty in Triangulation with Māori Innovation and Western Intellectual Property Regimes? Of Registries, Reality and Rangatiratanga

The research project is analysing the WIPO’s proposal to develop databases of Indigenous Knowledge and genetic resources through a case study on mātauranga Māori innovations in papakāinga and assessing findings about…
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Mā te Taiaho Matawai kia Whakahura Ngā Korero o Nehe – Laser Beam Scanning Technologies for Unlocking Landscape Narratives

LiDAR technology offers unprecedented access to the whenua—capturing the contours of the landscape at fine detail and revealing wāhi tapu and heritage sites often lost under forest canopies or inaccessible locations…
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Te Rangianiwaniwa a Te Harakeke – The Harakeke’s Rainbow

This research supports iwi-led, tikanga-informed innovation, grounded in Kaupapa Māori methodology. Through wānanga and co-design with Ngāti Tukorehe, the team is developing safe, solvent-free dye processes that respect…
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Te Ara Pokanga o te Kiri – Patient Experiences of Apronectomy for Excess Skin Removal following significant Weight Loss in Te Tairāwhiti

Underpinned by a Kaupapa Māori methodological stance, this project seeks to undertake research at the interface of mātauranga Māori and surgery to produce resources that will practically improve care for whānau who have…
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Tohunga Talks: Digital Narratives of Tohunga that Nurture Multiliteracies of Ākonga

This project explores how digital narratives of tohunga can be curated to support and enrich the multiliteracies of ākonga, particularly in Te Tai Tokerau. At its heart, Tohunga Talks is a collaborative digital…
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International Indigenous Climate Change Summit (IICCRS) communiqué

We, the delegates of the International Indigenous Climate Change Summit (IICCRS), gathered from November 13th to 17th, 2023, recognize the profound climate crisis facing our world and its dire consequences for…
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Māori Streets

Street design in Aotearoa has had limited involvement from iwi, hapū and Māori hāpori to date and yet streets are everywhere, they connect us to each other, they are communication channels and spaces and places to…
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Mō Ngā Uri a Muri Ake Nei: Supporting Te Tai o Araiteuru Inter-generational Decision-making Through Sea-rise Visualisation

Sea level rise is threatening many marae and coastal cultural sites across Te Tai o Araiteuru. Yet existing climate models are complex and often not locally relevant or easy to understand. This project created a dynamic…
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Te Taunaha i ngā Tapuwae ō mātou Tīpuna: Piloting the use of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels by Ngā Hapū o Waimārama for their Archaeological sites

Indigenous histories are held in archives—but often without the authority of the people they belong to. This project pilots the use of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels within ArchSite, Aotearoa’s national…
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He Uru Mānuka — Creative cultural mapping and ‘restorying’ networked relations on the Waiapu River

Inspired by an ancient mōteatea and grounded in the living whenua of Ngāti Porou, He Uru Mānuka is a creative cultural mapping project breathing new life into ancestral knowledge. As climate shifts reshape the Waiapu…
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 Whakarongo, titiro, korikori kōrero ki ngā wāhine – exploring embodied and reciprocal healing relationship with our natural environments

Māori (and Indigenous) women engage in embodied relationship with the natural environment in a range of ways, such as raranga, rongoā, or physical activity. This research explored what these embodied relationships can…
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Me whakaoreore tātou: Mobilising mapping technologies that benefit Tahamata Incorporation’s coastal farm in Kuku, Horowhenua

Bringing together cutting-edge mapping tools, mātauranga Māori, and regenerative farming practices, this iwi-led project empowers Tahamata Incorporation to reimagine the future of their coastal farm. Through GIS, LiDAR,…
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Strengthening the place and practice of mātauranga to support climate health outcomes in Aotearoa.

This project explores how mātauranga Māori can strengthen climate change responses in Aotearoa. By analysing policy and interviewing experts working in te taiao initiatives, the research aims to identify how government…
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Developing methodological approaches to tracking historical trauma

This kaupapa Māori project addresses one of the most devastating impacts of colonisation in Aotearoa – the forced institutionalisation of Māori children between 1950–1999. Drawing on the Abuse in Care Royal Commission…
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Mana Taiao Tairawhiti (MTT) submission to the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Te Wairoa

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga supported Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti (MTT) in their submission to the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Te Wairoa. Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti (MTT) is an informal…
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NPM Borrin Foundation Raumati Legal Research Internship Award Project: Tikanga and Te Tiriti –transforming law and policy in Aotearoa

Through the 2022/2023 Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Legal Research Internship, two Māori students explored the growing recognition of tikanga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi within New Zealand law and…
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NPM Cawthron Te Pītau Whakarei Karahipi: Mātauranga Māori research and learning resources

Bridging marine science and Mātauranga Māori, this internship helped develop learning resources for Cawthron Institute’s aquaculture and freshwater programmes—strengthening research through Indigenous knowledge.
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Tangi as a transferable mourning and grief model

This project explored Māori experiences of grief and mourning by reviewing existing literature to identify key insights and gaps. The findings will support the development of a culturally grounded model of grief,…
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He hakune rangahau o Te Atiawa: What could a Te Atiawa research model and methodology look like?

This internship explored Te Atiawa knowledge, perspectives, and values to help develop a research model grounded in Te Atiawa mātauranga. Drawing on lived experience and community connections, the project supports…
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Kākāpō: Regenerating knowledge of an endangered Taonga species

This internship explored archival sources for Māori knowledge and stories about kākāpō, supporting efforts to protect this taonga species. Guided by NPM researchers, the intern contributed to public education…
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Exploring the long-term impact of COVID on the social, cultural, mental, and physical wellbeing of individuals, communities, and workplaces

This internship explored the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on wellbeing across communities and workplaces through an in-depth literature review. In collaboration with NPM and Methodist Mission Northern, the intern…
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eHealth initiatives in surgery: Cultural co-design of a general surgical patient-centred App

This project supported the co-development of eHealth tools in surgery that reflected Māori cultural values and health perspectives. The intern reviewed pre- and post-operative practices to identify opportunities for…
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He mauri tō te tamaiti: Ākonga Māori motivation in education

This internship explored what motivates Ngāpuhi Year 5/6 students to succeed, revealing diverse expressions of success grounded in whanaungatanga and wellbeing. Supervised by Professor Melinda Webber, the project…
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Maramataka Māori Embedding Indigenous Knowledge(s) in Education

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…
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Traditional understandings of wāhine Māori, their roles, and maintenance of their safety: Kaumātua and kuia perspectives

This internship applied kaupapa Māori methodology and Mana Wāhine theory to analyse interview data from the E Tū Wāhine, E Tū Whānau project. Working with leading researchers, the intern explored culturally grounded…
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Flourishing Wāhine Māori Identities in Women’s Rugby

This internship explored the wellbeing and identity of wāhine Māori in rugby, highlighting barriers and opportunities through a systematic literature review. The project offers insights to better support wāhine Māori…
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Hangaia ana te whare o Indigenous Science

This project explored archival and historical material across Aotearoa and the Pacific to inform a whare metaphor for the new Centre of Indigenous Science at the University of Otago. The intern contributed to kaupapa…
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Building an Indigenous Science curriculum in tertiary education

This internship focused on Indigenous Science curriculum through a kaupapa Māori lens, producing a literature review of Māori and global Indigenous approaches. Working with Te Koronga and the Centre of Indigenous…
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A kaupapa Māori literature review of cannabis and methamphetamine use experiences of Māori

This Kaupapa Māori literature review examined how cannabis and methamphetamine use is discussed in Aotearoa, with a focus on Māori experiences and implications for health and justice responses. The research, part of a…
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Using a Māori lens to analyse media discourse on the introduction of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

This internship explored media coverage of the Pae Ora Act 2022, analysing tone, key messages, promises around Māori health outcomes, Treaty and equity framing, and budget considerations. Working with Associate…
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Health systems and decolonisation: Preliminary activities to understand health system perspectives

This internship supported the design of a survey to capture health system perspectives on decolonisation in Aotearoa. Working within a Kaupapa Māori research team, the intern contributed to stakeholder engagement and…
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Tihei Mauriora, Tihei Mana Motuhake: Breathing mauri and mana motuhake into the lives of rangatahi Māori who offend and their whānau with lived experience of trauma

This internship project explored how trauma affects Māori youth who offend, and their whānau, aiming to inform more responsive youth justice policy. Through a systematic literature review and development of a policy…
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Te reo Māori Smart Home Voice Assistant

The internship focused on developing an openHAB plugin that understood commands in te reo Māori for smart home systems. Supervised by Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan and others at the University of Waikato, the…
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Developing a Bibliography of Politics Research by Kairangahau Māori

This internship compiled a bibliography of politics research by kairangahau Māori, supporting more inclusive and responsive political studies in Aotearoa. Guided by a multidisciplinary rōpū, interns built research…
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Promising Futures Te Kawau Mārō: The Lifeworlds of highly qualified Māori - a cohort study of Māori PhD students and graduates

This nationwide research programme set out to deepen our understanding of the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Māori PhD graduates across Aotearoa. By tracing the post-graduation journeys of nearly 800…
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Toitū he Kāinga: Healthy Environmental Relationships in Urban Settings

Reimagining our cities through Indigenous knowledge, identity, and environmental care. Today, over 85% of Māori live in urban environments across Aotearoa. These modern kāinga (settlements) are more than places to…
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Research to Interrupt Racism and (In)equity (RIRI)

This research programme dives beneath the surface to expose how efforts to address racism in Aotearoa can be symbolic, sidelining Māori worldviews and limiting true transformation. Led through a kaupapa Māori lens,…
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Universities Communiqué

This communiqué was developed by the Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collab held at the 10th International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC22), 15-18 November 2022. Hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Centre of…
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Ngā miru ā ira kawe hā: Modified local soil and oxygen nanobubble technology to heal unwell taonga lakes.

Over the past 60 years, the water quality has declined in many large NZ lakes, including Rotorua, Pupuke, Rotoehu, Rotoiti, Tutira and Horowhenua in the North Island, and Lakes Ellesmere (Te Waihora) and Forsyth …
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Te Kōrero a te Reporepo – Understanding the Connection Between Tohu, te Maramataka and the Health of te Taiao

This kaupapa explored the relationships between environmental tohu (signs) observed in reporepo (swamplands), the phases of the maramataka, and the health of local ecosystems in the Hokianga.
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Whakamana: Empowering well-being for rangatahi takatāpui - Phase 1

This project marked the first phase of an initiative to support the long-term flourishing of rangatahi takatāpui within Te Ranga Tupua rohe (Whanganui, Rangitīkei, Ruapehu, and South Taranaki).
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E rua ngaa marae, kotahi te Iwi – Stories of Ngaati Koroki Kahukura

Spanning from Maungatautari to the Waikato River, this project centres the identity, resilience, and knowledge of Ngaati Koroki Kahukura. Through research grounded in whakapapa, reo, tikanga and mātauranga, we…
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Examining the contribution of mātauranga Māori to climate health in Aotearoa

Climate change disproportionately affects Indigenous communities across the globe. In Aotearoa, Māori face these inequities while also holding deep-rooted knowledge systems that offer powerful, holistic responses to…
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The use of tikanga Māori law in Te Kōti Whenua Māori Land Court dispute resolution mediation service and the outcomes for Māori landowners.

This research is at the cutting-edge of expanding legal research theory, methodology and legal knowledge in the development of a bijural legal system in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2021, Te Kōti Whenua Māori initiated a…
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Toiora, Hauora: Developing Māori arts-based pedagogy for whānau wellbeing

Toiora, Hauora is a Kaupapa Māori arts-based collaboration that theorises the pedagogy of Māori creative practices, specifically focusing on how Māori arts can support flourishing Māori whānau wellbeing.
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Motiti Marae and Tapuiwahine A12 whenua landblocks: The seen and the unseen – Exploring whenua and waterways ecosystems through sonic mapping and LiDar scanning technologies.

Motiti Marae and Tapuiwahine A12 whenua are full of unseen stories, rhythms, and vibrational energies. This research brought together cutting-edge sonic mapping and LiDar scanning technologies to explore the ecosystems…
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Hikairo whānau book series – Culturally responsive teaching in Aotearoa

Project SummaryCurrently, the New Zealand Education system is failing Māori in almost every measure of educational progression. A significant part of the problem is the lack of cultural competence of the non-Māori…
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Kai Piro, Oranga Tangata: Māori Fermented Food and Derived Health Benefits to Māori

Revitalising kai piro – reconnecting traditional Māori food practices with community health, cultural identity, and future innovation.
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Combatting bias in schools: A Kaupapa Māori study into students’ experiences of racism by Māori, with Māori, for the benefit of Māori

Despite growing calls for anti-racism in education, many interventions fall short of meaningful impact. This kaupapa Māori project listened directly to Māori students in Northland to document their lived experiences of…
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Tihei Mauriora, Tihei Mana Motuhake: Breathing mauri and mana motuhake into the lives of rangatahi Māori who offend, and their whānau, who have lived experience of trauma.

Māori youth are vastly over-represented in New Zealand’s justice system — a clear sign that the system isn’t working for everyone. This project aims to change that.
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Tutungia te kāpura hei oranga mō te hapū: Light the fires for our collective vitality

This PhD offers a re-examination of the tikanga of ahikā—traditionally understood as a metaphor for sustained occupation—by exploring the literal fires that burned on hapū lands. Through investigating the diverse uses…
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Protecting Ngāti Tiipa hapū data sovereignty

This project explores hapū data sovereignty for Ngāti Tiipa, using tikanga to protect and manage data for whānau. It tests a Māori data privacy framework with Ngāti Tiipa’s digital databases, drawing on their mātauranga…
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Hua o te Kawariki – Ngāti Whātua Curriculum

‘Hua o te Kawariki’ explores Ngāti Whātua mātauranga to inform future teaching, learning and leadership. Grounded in the prophetic mōteatea He aha te hau, this research draws on the wisdom of Ngāti Whātua mātanga to…
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He oranga tuku iho: Oranga through mahinga toi. He tirohanga nō Te Whānau a Apanui.

This research explored how mahinga toi—through process, theory, and creative output—supported whānau, hapū, and iwi oranga and mana motuhake. Grounded in Te Whānau a Apanui, it developed a tukunga iho methodology that…
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The Inequities of the NASC system in Aotearoa for Whaikaha Māori

This project explores the barriers Māori whānau face in accessing disability funding through New Zealand’s Needs Assessment and Coordination system. Combining a literature review with interviews of whānau and Kaupapa…
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Te Kai Ora a Kāi Tahu: Conceptualising Kāi Tahu kai sovereignty and Māori nutrition data sovereignty

This research explored how Kāi Tahu can strengthen control over kai systems, sources, and practices. By weaving together insights on Māori food and nutrition data sovereignty, it offers a foundation for future whānau-…
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Utilising Mātauranga to Guide Biomedical Research

This research draws on mōteatea, whakataukī, and insights from Māori experts to illuminate the ethical foundations of Kaupapa Māori methodologies. By mapping these principles against Western theories, it guides…
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Kawa Whakaruruhau: Culturally-safe spaces for Māori nurse practice development

PhD Candidate: Jennifer Tokomauri McGregor (Ngati Raukawa (Waikato)) Primary Supervisor(s): Dr. Alayne Mikahere-Hall Background:  Despite being a long-term government priority, the inequity of Māori…
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Mō ngā uri whakatipu: Women leaders paving a pathway for future generations in governance

What does Māori women’s leadership in governance look like when told through their own voices? This project centres wāhine rangatira experiences and mentorship to develop a mana wāhine-led model of leadership and…
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Mana Tinana, Mana Mōmona, Mana Wāhine: Ngā Pūrākau o Ngā Tinana Body Sovereignty and Fat Māori Wāhine

How do fat Indigenous wāhine reclaim body sovereignty as a form of resistance? This research centred on the lived experiences of fat Māori wāhine, challenging colonial and biomedical narratives through the lens of…
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Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu: How do wahine Māori nurses utilise mātauranga Māori as a means to address health equity in Te Tai Tokerau?

PHD Candidate: Coral Wiapo (Ngati Whātua) Primary Supervisor(s): Dr Sue Adams  Work is underway in Te Tai Tokerau to strengthen the Māori nursing workforce by supporting kaimahi to enter the nursing…
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Tautohetohe: The Art of Debate

This project investigated the linguistic features of te reo Māori in formal debates (tautohetohe) broadcast in the 1990s, supporting the development of Papa Reo—an Indigenous-led multilingual language research platform.
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Whakarauora: Whanganui pātaka construction

This internship supported the Whakarauora Project by researching traditional Whanganui pātaka practices to help revive customary fishing and storage methods. Working with Te Morehu Whenua, the project contributes to…
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Separatism, or sovereignty? Exploring social media and news media narratives of Maaori tino-rangatiratanga in politics and health

This internship analysed how race and racism are framed in New Zealand’s social and traditional media around key issues like constitutional reform and Māori health. Guided by a research team, the intern conducted…
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Unravelling the Whakapapa and Pūrākau of the Waikouaiti Recreation Reserve

This project explored how the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi align—or conflict—with the management of public reserves, through a case study of Waikouaiti Recreation Reserve in the Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki rohe. …
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Whakapapa: Whānau Narratives

This project explored whānau-submitted narratives to understand the potential of whānau research in reclaiming knowledge, supporting healing, and navigating barriers. The intern analysed submissions and reflected on…
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Tūrou Hawaiki: Morning karakia and waiata as a culturally responsive pedagogy

This internship explored the wellbeing benefits of daily karakia and waiata at the University of Canterbury, highlighting their role in fostering cultural connection and belonging. Using a braided rivers methodology,…
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Te Au Roa – Predator sound lure trial: Draw possums out of those difficult to reach places on Taranaki Mounga

This project trialled a bush-ready acoustic sound lure, co-developed with Auroa School students, to help draw out remaining possums from hard-to-reach areas of the Kaitake ranges. Supporting Taranaki Mounga Project and…
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Investigating traditional mahinga kai practices of preservation throughout Aotearoa

This internship compiled a database of traditional Māori food preservation practices to better understand archaeological midden sites and mahinga kai history. Working with Otago’s SPAR team, the project links…
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He oranga whānau: mahi ngātahi: Whānau livelihoods within the context of work and Māori economies of wellbeing

He oranga whānau: mahi ngātahi: Whānau livelihoods within the context of work and Māori economies of wellbeing. These groundbreaking works celebrate Māori futures rooted in kaupapa Māori values while fostering pathways…
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Ngā Hua a Te Matatini : The benefits of kapa haka to Aotearoa

Conscious of the lack of serious inquiry into Kapa Haka, the CEO of Te Matatini Inc, the National Organisation for Kapa Haka in Aotearoa New Zealand approached Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of…
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He Tohu Maumahara ki a Paora Mato

This internship created a 3D-printed Tekoteko trophy using a biodegradable harakeke filament to honor the memory of Dr Paora Mato. The project blends traditional Māori carving with contemporary art, sparking…
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He huringa āhuarangi, he huringa ao: a changing climate, a changing world

A new report from Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) and Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research provides guidance for Te Ao Māori on climate change adaptation and mitigation. He huringa āhuarangi, he huringa ao: a…
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Feed the Pā

Often Kaumātua and elders generally, are seen as vulnerable and passive recipients of services throughout the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic. However, in the village of Ohinemutu and as citizens of their iwi Ngāti Whakaue,…
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Hoki atu ki tōu maunga kia purea ai e koe ki ngā hau o Tāwhirimātea

This research explored how uri of Ngā Wairiki Ngāti Apa found new and creative ways to reconnect with their whenua and te taiao during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through intergenerational interviews, the project highlighted…
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‘Ubiquitous Maths Learning Made Easy for Rangatahi and Adult Learners. (Especially if we are in lockdown!)’

‘Ubiquitous Maths Learning Made Easy for Rangatahi and Adult Learners. (Especially if we are in lockdown!)’ Adults and rangatahi often come to maths learning with an already formed (negative) mathematics learning…
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Privileging whānau voices, whakapapa narratives towards whānau ora

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of Whakarewarewa Village Tours. The hapū of Whakarewarewa resolved to re-open the village in December 2020 however, the decimated context of the tourism industry, change of…
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The mental, relational, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing of Māori during and post-lockdown

New research analyses the mental, relational, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing of over 3000 Māori during and post-lockdown through Te Rangahau o Te Tuakiri Māori me Ngā Waiaro ā-Pūtea | The Māori Identity and…
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Lived experiences of Māori employees during Covid-19

Māori are facing many challenges in their work experiences, especially during Covid-19. This research seeks to understand the unique cultural strategies that employees engage in that make these challenges more bearable.
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The Koha of COVID

Research on the impact of COVID-19 on Māori tends to highlight its negative outcomes. This strengths-based research project examines improvements in Māori wellbeing that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic …
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Building a Virtual Papakāinga: A review of best practice

This project asks whether there are lessons to be had found in both the Māori Covid-19 response to date and the growing body of evidence that papakāinga living has benefits beyond the physical home that could inform a…
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"Seeing" kāpō Māori: Documenting the oft invisibilized experiences of kāpō Māori during and post-COVID-19

  Western views on disability & underfunding of Indigenous health marginalises kāpō Māori. New research aims to change this & centre kāpō Māori lifeworlds Traditional forms of Māori story-telling…
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Perceptions of Papakāinga: An examination of ‘home’ and how to cater services for Māori

This study will explore how comparative views of “home” relate to concepts such as identity, whakapapa, and hauora and how these concepts thereby impact service utilisation and uptake in two areas (one rural and one…
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A Kaupapa Māori Approach to Human Resource Management Practices in Aotearoa Workplaces

What unique Human Resource Management (HRM) practices are offered in Aotearoa workplaces that directly engage in a positive way with Māori employees?  What do these look like? How are the perceived (and received)…
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What we were and what we could be: Restorative Justice and its impact on Māori

We have identified a set of questions relating to Māori restorative justice in the Aotearoa Justice system and its effectiveness for Māori: What are the barriers Māori face when they participate in restorative…
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Tuurangawaewae Marae: A Place to Stand

The guiding research question for this project are: 1) How has Tuurangawaewae Marae fostered community mauri ora (wellbeing) within Waikato and in Te Ao Maaori more broadly? 2) What role has Tuurangawaewae Marae…
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Tangaroa Ara Rau: Whānau connections & Water Safety

This report has been prepared for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga as part of the summer internship programme 2018-2019. This project is titled Tangaroa Ara Rau: Whānau connections and Water Safety with a purpose to understand…
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Tangaroa Ara Rau: Tangaroa the Atua of Human Movement

This research report has been titled Rākau-nui as an acknowledgement to the full moon phase in the Maramataka (Māori lunar calendar). Rākau-nui also represents the collected journey to which this full report has been…
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Tikanga Māori and Our Lexicon

What does tikanga Māori mean in today’s context; how is tikanga Māori understood and practiced within iwi, hapū, whānau, marae and more broadly in our everyday practices and national institutions; and how can key Māori…
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O Nāianei Tae Atu ki te Anamata: Normalising te Reo Māori and Culture in the Modern World

What existing research, collation, archivingand disseminating of knowledge specific to te reo me ngā tikanga Māori has been done to date across Aotearoa New Zealand within Māori communities, government agencies, and…
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Collectivising Te Reo me Ngā Tikanga Rangahau Māori

How do we collectivise what we have for greater gain? How can we best create sustainable new te reo me ngā tikanga narrative led research to refresh, renew and recover te reo me ngā tikanga knowledge narratives and…
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Aro ki te Wairua o te Hā – Wairua Approach to Birthing and Pregnancy

What is the current state of knowledge on wairua, pregnancy and birthing, what are the key initia-tives and opportunities for collaborative research pro-jects, and who are the key stakeholders in this area? Pregnancy…
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The Impact of Incarceration on Whānau Health and Wellbeing

What are the knowledge gaps pertaining to the impact of incarceration on whānau health and wellbeing, what is the nature and scope of current initiatives for whānau who have a family member incarcerated, and what are…
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Scoping Rangatahi Primary Mental Health Issues, Care and Services – A Kaupapa Māori Approach to Identifying the Gaps and Need

What are the mental health needs for rangatahi, what services are available to them, what are the gaps in rangatahi primary mental health care, and what are the potential innovations/strategies that would fill these…
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Māori Leading Speech Language Therapy: Future Directions for Aotearoa

What Māori-focused research has been undertaken in the field of speech-language therapy, what does this research tell us about the speech-language therapy needs of Māori, and what evidence is there in the broader health…
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Harakeke for a Sustainable Future in Whakaki

Is harakeke one key to a sustainable future for Aotearoa and, if it is, how do we utilise it to develop this sustainable future? This project is examining the interface between mātauranga Māori and ecological science…
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Genomics for Kaitiakitanga: Whakapapa and Sustainability of Ipipiri Brown kiwi

How can local tangata whenua be empowered to make the best decisions for sustainable management of Northland’s brown kiwi, and how can the isolated kiwi populations from Ipipiri (Eastern Bay of Islands) be managed to…
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Ahi Kouka i te Ata, He ai i te Pō – The Value of Kouka From a Māori Lens

What mātauranga exists that can support our flora for their continued existence as taonga and how can Māori build their response capability to biological threats on taonga plant species? This project forms the…
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"Kia Ū"; Kia ū tōu kawai whakapapa, kia mātau ai, ko wai koe, e anga atu koe ki hea

Kia ū ki tau kawai whakapapa, kia matau ai, ko wai koe, e anga atu koe ki hea – Take ahold of your ancestral stem, so that you might know, who you are, and what direction you're going in. Can virtual reality technology…
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Whakahonotia Ngā Taonga Rerekē – Exploring Māori Values and Uses of Ecological Bio-control Agents

What values do Māori use to shape their views around the use of bio-control agents to control both exotic and Indigenous species and to values, and how to they assign risk posed by the introduction of a bio-control…
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Te Hononga: Modelling Indigenous Collaborative Enterprise

What are the bases for Māori enterprise collaboration? How do Māori activate Indigenous entrepreneurial capabilities for collaboration and what forms do Māori enterprise collaborations take? By exploring Māori…
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Taking Control: Māori Responses to Money, Wealth and Savings

What current methods do Māori use to manage money? What financial products and services are likely to be effective for Māori and how might these be successfully implemented? What support can Māori organisations …
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The Science of Language: Examining the linguistic structure of te reo Maōri

This summer internship investigated the evolution of te reo Māori by examining its linguistic structures, oral traditions, and the impact of historical and policy changes. The research aimed to enhance educational…
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Ngā Kōwhiringa Whenua Māori – Māori land-use opportunities

Exploring horticultural futures in Wairoa, this project identified saffron, feijoa, and gevuina as promising crops to protect whenua from erosion and support sustainable Māori land use.
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Te Poutuarongo o Te Whare Kōkōrangi

Building on the 2013 project Ringihia i te kete – the language of the stars, this research developed a Māori astronomy database to preserve and expand mātauranga Māori about the stars. It aimed to strengthen the…
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How Great Can We Be? Identity Leaders of the Māori Economic Resistance

This internship explored concepts of cultural richness through a Māori lens, guided by whanaungatanga, manaakitanga and aroha. Blending personal narrative and research, the project examined how cultural richness and…
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Te Kaahurewa: Drones in Māori environmental strategies

This internship used drone technology to capture aerial imagery of the Tapuwae block, exploring how cultural mapping and environmental monitoring can support Māori-led approaches to understanding and responding to…
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Breaking the Barrier: A History of Māori Spiritual and Religious Entanglements at Aotea from 1889

Intern: Kelly M. Klink Supervisor: Dr Nēpia Mahuika University of Waikato This research seeks to examine the intergenerational impacts that Christianity— and particularly Mormonism—have had on the Māori at…
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Ngā uri o Matihiko: Digital Native Stories

This summer internship project explores nga uri o matihiko –the Māori digital generation. Qualitative research and input from digital natives provides insight into the behaviours, thoughts and actions and how identity…
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Mātauranga Māori in psychology: Contributions to an Indigenous Psychology

What does a uniquely Māori psychology look like? This research explored how mātauranga Māori—rooted in language, art, emotion, ethics, and connection—could shape a psychology curriculum grounded in Indigenous ways of…
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Wai-Tai, Wai-Rua: A mātauranga Māori approach to Heke Ngaru

How can a mātauranga Māori based Heke Ngaru contribute to flourishing whānau? Māori continue to experience health inequalities in terms of the social determinants of health. Indeed, rangatahi Māori are a…
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Te rangiwhāwhā o ngā Atua Māori: The widespread influence of atua Māori in a modern world

What are the implications of reclaiming and reviving the mātauranga associated with nga atua Māori and how does it contribute to reimagining the role of atua Māori in the modern world? How and why are atua Māori, and…
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Kia Whakapiri Mai: Bridging the home and away divide to enhance engagement

This NPM Platform Project is building an understanding on how to build stronger, more connected iwi, through enhancing engagement with Māori governance entities. In Phase 1 of the research, we are exploring the…
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Practices of Sustenance: Collaborative explorations into the contours of wellness: Cultural reflections and contentions

This project explored how tamariki, rangatahi, and their whānau thrived in a changing world by supporting Māori wellbeing and success in diverse workplaces. Through research, interviews, and stakeholder input, it aimed…
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Resilient legacies: Mānawa te taonga tuku iho: The application and influence of taonga tuku iho in rugby

Resilient Legacies: Mānawa te Taonga Tuku Iho explored how Māori cultural treasures—taonga tuku iho—are used, valued, and commodified in Aotearoa’s rugby world. From haka to carved trophies, and digital taonga on the…
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Strengthening Māori Agency: Te Whakamaru o Horohoro Maunga

This project explored how Ngāti Kea/Ngāti Tuara are revitalising their role as kaitiaki of Horohoro maunga near Rotorua. Faced with ecological threats from pests and limited access control, the hapū is leading efforts…
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Community Connections to Place

This platform project explores how Māori-led taiao initiatives reconnect whānau and hapū with place, identity, and whakapapa. Through case studies, wānanga, and digital tools, the project examines the aspirations,…
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Digital Solutions to Support Knowledge and Connections

This project explored how Māori and Indigenous communities used digital platforms to protect and share mātauranga, with a focus on te taiao. It investigated tikanga-based digital protocols and iwi/hapū needs, informing…
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Developing a Māori Theory of Value

This project investigated how Māori values underpinning the Māori economy can be theorised and applied to enhance community wellbeing. By stocktaking existing literature and engaging across sectors, the researchers…
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Kai governance, kai sovereignty, and the (re)production of kai: He moumou kai, he moumou tāngata - Enhancing culturally matched outcomes

In this platform research, our focus makes the distinction between ‘kai’ as a culturally defined Māori notion and western interpretations of ‘food’. “He moumou kai, he moumou tāngata” describes a state where our…
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Future Proofing Māori Development Opportunities: Huringa Rangi Huringa Oranga

This project brought together a multidisciplinary Māori research team to identify tikanga-based strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation. It consolidated Indigenous knowledge, promoted Māori-led…
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Te Mātauranga Wakatere Waka

What is the reo of traditional navigation? How, why, when and where were these navigational aids used in Māori navigation? What are the perspectives of contemporary tohunga whakatere waka on Māori navigation…
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Financial literacy for Māori realities: Designing culturally-responsive financial services and savings programmes for whānau Māori

What current methods do Māori (particularly those on low incomes and/or living in conditions of poverty) use to manage money? What financial products and services are likely to be effective for Māori and how might…
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Te Pā o Rākaihautū – Wetekia kia rere: Kaitiakitanga and decolonising methodologies

This proposed research will undertake a co-generative process with our community and collaborating researchers to scope and develop specific research questions that would form the basis of individual applications to…
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Understanding and supporting Whānau Consent

To scope traditional and contemporary understandings of ‘whānau consent’ in regards to genetic, tissue and organ testing, collection, donation and banking. To understand how whānau go about gaining ‘whānau consent’…
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Waiora ō Tātou Taonga – Healthy Water our Treasure

How can the synthesis of kaitiakitanga and green polymer science enhance and protect the mauri of water in Aotearoa? How can innovative polymer technologies protect and improve the mauri, wairua and kaitiakitanga of…
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Seeking Pathways to mauri ora for tangata Māori with long-term conditions

The need for this project arises from a previous study conducted by MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB), which identified the following questions as essential: 1.        …
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Mahi Tahi mo Te Hinonga: Indigenous Collaboration for Enterprise and the role of Indigenous Business Networks

This project explores the role that enterprise plays in indigenous self-determination. In New Zealand, we have chosen to examine Māori business networks (MBNs), which we argue are a manifestation of this struggle, but…
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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…
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Analysis of the Cultural, Ethical, Research, Legal and Scientific (CERLS) Issues Inherent in Rongoā Māori Research

What are the cultural, ethical, research, legal and scientific (CERLS) issues that are inherent in research on rongoā Māori plants and healing? Debate about the misappropriation of information and knowledge in…
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Whaia te Mana Māori Whakahaere Tōtika ki Whai Rawa – In Pursuit of Māori Self-Determination and Good Governance for Wealth and Well-Being

How can 21st century Māori self-determination and self-governance jurisdiction aspirations best be supported in law to assist with meeting strategic Māori community economic objectives of wealth and well-being? What…
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Taiora (Marine Life Monitoring Project)

He āta mātai, he rangahau i te oranga o te waitai i tētahi rohe o te Tairāwhiti kia mōhiotia ai he wai ora rānei, he tai ora rānei, he mate rānei tēnei momo taiao. Hei reira anō ka whakamōhiotia atu ki ngā mana tiaki o…
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Embedded expressions of a people

This summer internship project will identify occasions where haka, waiata and other oral art forms were commonly used as a form of expression, the frequency in which these occasions occurred and the purpose of…
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Tikanga, Technology & Trust: Approaches to the Governance of Māori Data

The purpose of this internship project is to further the operationalising of Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles by identifying tikanga that could inform practical data governance mechanisms. We will use…
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Te Reo o te Pā Harakeke

This summer internship project is in support of one of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga's large te reo research projects, led through Te Ipukarea. Te Reo o te Pā Harakeke seeks to understand the factors that…
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Whai Rawa: The role of Māori women in the Māori economy

This summer intern research project explores from the perspective of Māori women, their understanding of the ‘Māori economy’ and the roles they have in developing intergenerational growth within the Small-to-medium…
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Māori whānau experience of Hospital Transfers

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…
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Establishing the maternal gaze: The 4th trimester and life outside the womb

Pregnancy is well known as consisting of 3 gestational periods; however very little research has been conducted that explores the postpartum, 4th trimester. The 4th trimester refers to the 3 month period post-birth, and…
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He taonga te tamariki: exploring healthcare interactions with whānau e kōrero ana i te reo

This qualitative summer internship research aims to: Explore key components of a child health consultation with te reo speaking tamariki and whānau in a primary health care setting. Specific objectives include: •…
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Māori-led education for sustainability – collective learning through observatories

This ummer intern project will document Māori community engagement with open days and public observatories as a means of achieving the goals of transformative education in a more culturally appropriate and publicly…
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The spatial dimension of cultural identity

The purpose of this summer intern project is to source information (cultural and spatial) that describes the student’s relationship to their marae in preparation for learning how to use spatial information technology to…
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Tapuwaekōrero: Iwi Talking Map

He rangahau i ngā kōrero mō Ngāti Ira o te Tairāwhiti. Nō te wā i tuhituhia e Apirana Ngata tana tuhinga e kīia nei ko ‘Raurunui a Toi Lectures’ (Ngata A.T., 1944) ka whakawhāiti ia i ngā kōrero me ngā whakapapa o te…
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Iwi Development Integration of Papakāinga and NET Innovations

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Wainuiomata Marae: Setting the Scene for Urban Regeneration

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Te Koronga: Indigenous Science Research Theme Internships

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Building a Takatāpui Research Foundation – An annotated bibliography

This internship project seeks to create a foundational annotated database of takatāpui literature and resources, including whakawahine and tangata ira tane and other gender non-conforming takatāpui, which are often left…
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Hauora and Pūtaiao Solutions for Te Toki Voyaging Trust

The purpose of this summer internship project is to explore the potential to develop hauora and pūtaiao solutions for Te Toki Voyaging trust in their kaupapa of kaitiakitanga and mauri ora of the marine environment…
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He aha to wairua? He aha te mauri? In search of wairua and Amauri

The purpose of this summer internship project is to conduct an extensive search and review of literature relating to the constructs ‘wairua’ and ‘mauri’. In particular, the project aims to identify sources…
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The Cost of Doing Nothing - Health inequities between Māori and non-Māori Adults in New Zealand

This project examined the economic costs of health inequities between Māori and non-Māori adults in Aotearoa. Using both quantitative data and Māori lived experiences, it highlighted the significant social, economic,…
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Mai i te Mahana ki te Apakura Makariri

What can be learnt and applied now from traditional knowledge and adaptation to future environmental and resource issues? This project seeks to understand how quickly early Māori society changed from its initial…
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Ngā Ture o Te Tai Ao - New Laws for the Environment

How can New Zealand’s state legal system recalibrate to challenge the Crown’s assumption of sovereignty over lands and waters treasured by Māori? Drawing on the research findings of the other Te Tai Ao foundational…
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Persisting Inequalities and the Potential for Intervention through “New” Governance Models

What is the potential for new governing structures to intervene in persisting social, cultural, political and economic inequalities that disproportionately accrue to Māori? The multiple accountabilities of Māori…
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Promoting Effective Māori Leadership and Decision Making for Prosperous Economies of Wellbeing – Te Whakatairanga i te Ārahitanga Whai Hua me te Māori te Whakatau Kaupapa

What are the distinctive dimensions and drivers of innovative Māori leadership and integrated decision making, and how do these characteristics deliver pluralistic outcomes that advance transformative and prosperous…
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Choices and Connections for Māori Youth on the Margins

The human capital theory holds that education is a form of investment in that the individuals who are consumers of education acquire skills and knowledge that can be converted into work and income in the post-school…
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He Ara Toiora: Suicide Prevention for Ngātiwai Youth through the Arts

In 2012, a wave of youth suicides in Northland featured far too many of Ngātiwai descent. 19 people under 25 years took their own lives, a huge increase from 5 the year before (Penney & Dobbs, 2014). Suicide rates…
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Entrepreneurial ecosystem efficacy for indigenous entrepreneurs

The overarching research question is: what constitutes entrepreneurial ecosystem efficacy with respect to indigenous entrepreneurs’ innovation intentions and activity? In order to investigate this overarching research…
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Occupying Science by Reclaiming Space and Place

How can a pūtaiao ‘living laboratory’ approach that uses local learning environments help rangatahi Māori reclaim science in Te Hiku? Our aim is to “science-up” Māori communities by exploring the untapped potential…
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Te Tira Whakamātaki – Māori Biosecurity, protecting our taonga for future generations

Our main question is ‘do hapū and Iwi  views  and practices provide an alternative paradigm to New Zealand’s biosecurity system to better protect our taonga species? Māori have developed practices and…
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Te Pū o te Rākau: The pedagogy of pūrākau

What is the pedagogy of pūrākau, and how does it operate as an Indigenous story work approach to advance kaupapa Māori research and innovative contributions to broader research and pedagogical processes within Aotearoa?…
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Enduring Aspirations in a Digital Age

We have identified a set of questions relating to indigenous data governance, ownership and access, along with potential solutions for benefit sharing and value generation. What are the key challenges to realising…
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Te ruru a Te Ihonga: Threshold concepts in Māori studies

What are the threshold concepts for undergraduate study in the field of Māori studies? How can the identification of Māori studies’ threshold concepts be used to support teaching and student achievement in Māori…
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Mātauranga Māori: Enhancing Māori-medium schooling

What aspects of mātauranga Māori are relevant to Māori-medium schools, for example mātauranga pūtaiao, that promote the wellbeing of the students, the kura, the place and the community? Māori-medium schools have been…
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He Pounga: the Māori Jurisprudence Project (Stage 1)

This research seeks to investigate Māori jurisprudence. Māori jurisprudence, broadly speaking, comprises a set of tikanga and how those tikanga are used in everyday life to make decisions that affect Māori communities…
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He rongoā tō te reo – Te Reo Māori as a form of healing

What are some of the psychological, emotional and spiritual influences that learners have experienced when learning te reo Māori? How are these influences related to past trauma or negative experiences of theirs (or…
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Te Whare Matihiko o te Reo

The project aims to contribute to the intellectual infrastructure of the discipline of te reo Māori revitalisation by collating oral, visual digital and written sources, including a dictionary, thesaurus and…
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Hospital transfers: Whānau involvement in the healing equation

While all hospitalisations can be stressful for patients and their whānau, hospitalisations involving transfers away from home can be even more so and can present unique issues in terms of how whānau negotiate distance,…
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Identifying Frameworks for Effective Iwi and Hapū Development

What do alternative models to tribal corporations look like for iwi and hapū development? A wealth of historical narratives provide alternative examples of successful tribal economic development and management…
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Challenges and continuities: Unintended impacts of Te Reo Māori language revitalisation efforts

We are now 30+ years on from when our children first had the opportunity to attend Kōhanga. They are a part of a fortunate generation, like those who will follow them. And so too are those that are following. But what…
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Te Reo o te Pa Harakeke

What strategies and resources are effective in establishing te reo Māori in the home to raise first language Māori-speaking children? Te Reo o te Pā Harakeke is a three year research project that seeks to…
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Te Awaroa – 1000 Rivers in a State of Ora by 2050

Across New Zealand, many rivers are unsafe parts of the ecosystem, with Kiwis seriously concerned about declining river health. The ‘bottom line’ regulatory approach of the government's freshwater reforms requires…
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The Intergenerational Reality for Māori Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME): Building resilience of Māori SMEs for the future

The significance of this research project lies in its contribution to deeper understand what role Māori SMEs have as critical constituents of the Māori Economy. Recent years have seen attention paid to the merit of the…
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Connections and Flows: Precarious Māori households in austere times

In addition to public and scholarly deliberations regarding increased inequalities in society, this project responds to the continued socio-economic exclusion of many Māori households. We draw on recent scholarship…
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Te Aho Tapu

Māori have a long association with the natural environment and are well-positioned to make important contributions to sustainably managing natural resources in New Zealand and the world. Kaitiakitanga and other…
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Ngā Moemoea ō Ᾱpōpō: Empowering Taiohi Māori Leaders for the Future

This research explores how rangatahi Māori are navigating a world of deep uncertainty. Amidst climate change, poverty, injustice and cultural upheaval, this project centres Māori youth as powerful future-makers. Led by…
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Hybrid Construction Component Portable Infrastructure Solution Research

The original research pilot for this project arose out of a desire to make the transition for many whānau relocating from their city/urban lives back home, as comfortable as possible. It was felt that this could be best…
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Te Rongoā Pastures: Healthy Animals, Resilient Farms

This research identified native rongoā plants that improve animal health and pasture resilience on farms. The project explored integrating these species into pastures to support biodiversity, reduce erosion, and enhance…
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Pae Tawhiti: Te Kura Roa

Te Reo Māori represents an amazing opportunity to New Zealand for its potential to enrich society and culture and transform the experience and consciousness of those who are exposed to and use the language. The Māori…
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What is the cost? Estimating the economic costs of Māori: non-Māori child health inequities in Aotearoa: a scoping study

View Report  Inequalities in child health between tamariki Māori and non-Māori are largely preventable and unnecessary. An example is rheumatic fever, where tamariki Māori are 30 times more likely to contract…
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Te Tupunga Māori Economic Development

He Mangōpare Amohia: Strategies for Māori Economic Development Critical success factors for Māori economic development have been identified in a just released report on the three-year Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM)…
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Te Rau Tītapu – Wānanga Project:

Wānanga are iwi located and managed events whose purpose is to share knowledge, create knowledge and to foster community identity, cohesion and wellbeing. Wānanga are conducted regularly by every iwi community in the…
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Te Tētere Kōkiri o Te Ata: Optimising Economic Performance of Māori Land Trusts in the Waiariki Region.

The research questions for this project are; - How can active management enhance the economic performance of Māori land trusts? and, - What models of collaboration can Māori land trusts use to enhance economic…
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Economic and Spatial Modelling for informed Māori Land Development

The challenge for Māori carrying out development is to determine how to balance the drivers of a neo-liberal economic approach with the very ideals and principles that define us as Māori to ensure quality social and…
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Maori Engagement in NZ’s Extractive Industry (EI): Innovative Legal Solutions

This research project looks at what the basic conditions are that would need to be in place in order for whanau/hapu and iwi communities to be ready to engage with Extractive Industry (EI); enter joint ventures with EI;…
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Critical Success Factors for Māori SMEs: Evidence from the South

The overarching question driving this research is, what are the critical success factors for Southern Māori SMEs at the different stages of the business life-cycle? To address this question the project team will…
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Liberating Psychologies : Māori Moving Forward

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…
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Measuring the restoration of mauri and ecosystem services at Ōkahu Bay

Ōkahu Bay lies adjacent to Te Whenua Rangatira, occupying a dominant headland near the mouth of the Waitemata Harbour, collectively the ancestral home of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei. The spiritual significance of the land was…
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Measuring the restoration of mauri and ecosystem services at Whenua Rangatira

Whenua Rangatira lies adjacent to Okahu Bay, occupying a dominant headland near the mouth of the Waitemata Harbour. The headland and surroundings are the ancestral home of Ngāti Whātua o Ōrākei. Under the Ōrākei Act…
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Do Kahawai enter rivers during summer to spawn?

The purpose of this project is to determine if Kahawai (Arripis trutta) in fact enter rivers during summer to spawn. Located in the field in the Eastern Bay of Plenty as well as at Victoria University the intern will…
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Tangaroa Ara Rau: Examining the Archival Material of Tangaroa

The purpose of this project is to examine the Māori and Pacific archives in the Hocken Library pertaining to Tangaroa, the ocean and the sea. The intern will undertake archival research specifically within the Hocken…
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Māori values in the workplace

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,…
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Harnessing Hapū Hiko

Ngāti Kea/Ngāti Tuarā recently built a micro-hydro plant at their marae, Kearoa, and this generates more electricity than the marae can use. The hapū Māori Land Trust is keen to use the electricity as part of a strategy…
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Whangapoua Harbour Mauri Model Analysis

Whangapoua Harbour is within the Ngati Huarere rohe and they are kaitiaki for the harbour which is considered a taonga. Ngati Huarere are concerned about the effects of the Matarangi Wastewater Treatment Plant discharge…
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Communicative Language Teaching for Indigenous languages

Can communicative language teaching (CLT) help save indigenous languages? This project is a review of literature on CLT and its relevance to indigenous language revitalisation. It forms part of a broader research…
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Māori Law Stories

This internship project involves preliminary research for a book proposal on "Māori Law Stories". The book will aim to tell the stories behind a number of historical and contemporary legal cases involving Māori. This is…
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Research Impact Evaluation

Author: Nick Allison In 2014 Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) commissioned a report from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) to assess the economic, social and other impacts of the Māori Centre of…
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The contributions of Māori Knowledge to an Indigenous Psychology: Implications for psychology, education, research and practice

Māori are more likely to be assessed and treated by a health practitioner trained within a western cultural system that pays little attention to Māori worldviews. Māori continue to experience misdiagnosis, non-voluntary…
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Taunakitia Te Marae: Te Arawa Marae Centres of Excellence

Taunakitia Te Marae aims to research the key contributors of success that will enable marae to be centres of excellence for hapū development. It will explore with whānau, hapū and iwi the characteristics that enable or…
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Māori Academic Socialisation and the University

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…
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Ringihia i te ketenui a Tane: The language of the stars

Astronomy is the study of the objects in the sky (stars, planets, moons, galaxies, comets etc). Traditionally Māori held great knowledge of astronomy and their studies of the night sky played an important role in…
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The contributions of Maori knowledge to an indigenous psychology; Implications for psychology, education, research and practice

Practitioner wisdom is an undervalued source of knowledge, particularly that of practitioners working successfully with Māori in uniquely Māori ways. In the field of psychology, there are some who have successfully…
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Optimising the Māori in Māori Economic Development – How Māori values inform investment decisions for collective assets

Some economists argue for diversity in the way collective resources are managed rather than an unquestioning faith in leaving things to the market. We support this thinking and looked at how ethics and Māori knowledge…
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Māori Academic Socialisation and the University

This study investigates how Māori and other indigenous scholars make a distinctive contribution to the disciplinary knowledge bases that drive national development in Aotearoa. It explores the ways that Māori and…
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South island Māori researchers gather for first-ever symposium

“The gathering was a landmark event as the first of its kind in the South Island and it showed the great increase of Māori researchers and the breadth of areas they were involved in.” -Dr Rāwiri Taonui, Head of Māori…
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Opening up new territory for Māori and business

“Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s MAI Doctoral Support Programme was of incredible value, especially in connecting me with other PhD students for advice.”
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Shared knowledge succeeds in protecting bird population

“….a very positive experience. We were able to preserve our mātauranga and build up our capacity in field work survey and monitoring methods along with gaining a new knowledge about our manu in the process.” Toko Renata…
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Dr James Ataria: Producing a better environment by matching science and tangata whenua knowledge

“I think all New Zealanders pride ourselves on being clean and green, but we are increasingly asking what we need to do to protect that…” When winning support from local authorities, these days it’s the numbers that…
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Hāromi Williams: Capturing a unique legacy to build a better future

“We want our children to go out from school confident of who they are, where they come from and who they represent.” “It’s important the stories people tell about themselves,” Hāromi Williams says. At her office at…
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Helping more children succeed at school

“Teachers enter the profession because they want to make a difference. This approach helps them do that.” MORE THAN 30 years ago when Russell Bishop first started teaching at Mana College in Porirua, he was struck by a…
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The iwi household whānau wellbeing project

This project investigates the wellbeing (economic indicators) of Māori households whānau of a specific iwi using New Zealand Census data from 1991–2006. This project aims to provide greater sovereignty to iwi by…
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Dietary intake and its effect on early life course, with particular focus on Māori communities

Metabolic health issues such as Type 2 diabetes and obesity are increasingly prevalent in our community, in keeping with worldwide trends. There is now a considerable amount of evidence that events during pregnancy and…
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Tāmaki Herenga Waka

Tāmaki Herenga Waka is the over-arching theme for a series of activities aimed at building a positive Māori consciousness and a more dynamic and connected community in Auckland City. The principle of the proverb dating…
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Exploring Mātauranga Māori for assessing volcanic hazards and improving monitoring approaches for hapū and iwi planning

This internship project contributes to a project exploring Mātauranga Māori further in terms of volcanic hazards. The research will assist to develop an authoritative compilation of scholarly, heritage and contemporary…
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The transfer and integration of cultural knowledge: aligning strategic, commercial and cultural objectives

The purpose of this project is to deliver key environmental, economic and cultural knowledge relevant to the Wakatu Incorporation's development generally as well as the development of its products (food and beverage)…
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He Whakaoranga Kia Puta Kia Ora

This research project explores the relationship between cultural connectedness and wellbeing (as a social determinant of health). The research will provide evidence relating to wellbeing and cultural connection within…
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Mapping and assessment of shellfish beds in Tauranga Harbour

The intern Victoria Paul will assist with the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the distribution and abundance of shellfish throughout Tauranga Moana.The supervisor is Associate Professor Paul Kayes
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Protective Factors Impacting Maori and Pasifika Student Success in Higher Education

Māori and Pasifika students are under-represented in higher education. Despite important interventions, such as The University of Auckland's Tuakana programme, Māori and Pasifika students are still under-represented in…
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Antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity in Kawakawa leaf extract

Traditional use of plants for medicinal purposes is a feature of indigenous human societies. The biological principles that underpin many such traditional remedies has been established using various scientific…
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Recreational shellfish survey in Tauranga Harbour

The intern Wiremu Smith will detail recreational fishing hotspots within Tauranga Harbour, especially shellfish and identify species found at each location. He will also observe fishing activity and approach a selection…
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Mining impact assessment using the Mauri Model

This is an extension of the Mauri Model based assessment conducted in 2011/2012 which assessed the impact of fracking on the Blood Tribe's lands in Ontario. The findings of this research will be extended by encompassing…
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Establishing a space-time dataset as the basis for assessing future spatial changes in indigenous agroecology practice

Intern Mariana Pagan will work with Dr Marion Johnson, CSAFE Otago University during summer 2012-13. This project will scope and implement the collection and storage of land cover spatial data using Geographic…
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In pursuit of the possible: Indigenous well-being - A study of indigenous hope, meaning and transformation

We know many of the key elements for social transformation, but what is not known is how to actively stimulate them at the right time, pace and scale, with the appropriate self-correcting mechanisms and forms of…
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How do we return the mauri to its pre-Rena state?

This research project evaluated and monitored the environmental, social, economic and cultural impacts of the grounding of the ship Rena on Otaiti, with a particular focus on the impacted areas of Maketū, Mōtītī, and…
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Fostering te pā harakeke: Advancing Healthy and Prosperous Families of Mana

This research project aims to determine how whānau might flourish. The researchers, led by Professor Mason Durie, focuses on six themes – the characteristics of flourishing whānau; profiling the contemporary lives of…
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Waka Wairua: Landscape heritage and the creative potential of Māori communities

This research will unravel heritage threads and leadership principles that connect New Zealand and Polynesia. It will explore narratives relating to entrepreneurial leaders, including the early navigators who travelled…
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Reo Māori ki ngā Rorohiko o te Kura: Internship Report

Author: Tara Dalley. Supervisor: Dr Te Taka Keegan The aim of this research was to determine the level of awareness and willingness to use software with a te reo Māori interface by the Māori medium education sector. The…
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Māori Youth Employment: Internship Report

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 …
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Marginalising Māori Parents: Internship Report

Author: Elizabeth Jurisich Strickett. Supervisors: Associate Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes and Dr Tim McCreanor. This report was written while undertaking a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga internship with Whāriki, SHORE and…
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Impacts of Fracking on Indigenous Reservations in Alberta: Internship Report

This internship applied the Mauri Model Decision Making Framework to assess the impacts of fracking on an Indigenous reservation in Alberta, Canada—highlighting environmental, cultural, and social consequences. The…
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Transformations of entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership: Internship Report

Author: Raaniera Te Whata. Supervisor: Dr Merata Kawharu As there has been no major analytical works on contemporary Māori leadership, the purpose of this project is to contribute to addressing this knowledge gap by…
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Phonological development in Māori speaking preschoolers: Internship Report

Author: Joshua Tahana. Supervisor Dr Elaine Ballard This report outlines the background for a study to be undertaken tracking phonological development (speech skills) in Māori for Māori speaking pre-school children…
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Aue Ha! Māori men’s relational health

This project addresses the crucial gap in previous research by studying the everyday lives and positive relationships of Māori men in the context of men’s health. Māori men face many challenges in maintaining health and…
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Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke: Māori childrearing within a context of whānau ora

Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke is a project focused upon tikanga and mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) models of wellbeing for whānau, with Te Pā Harakeke being a metaphor for whānau wellbeing. The project seeks to share with…
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Indigenous Agroecology

Agroecology, grounded in local knowledge and communities, applies ecological principles to agricultural systems. Indigenous agroecology is an opportunity for mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and totohungatanga&nbsp…
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An investigation into the fisheries resources and interests of iwi, hapū and marae within Tauranga Moana and the impacts caused by the grounding of the CV Rena

This Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga research project aims to assess the status of selected taonga shellfish (including pipi, tuatua, kina and pāua) resources within the Rohe Moana o Tauranga Moana, and the impacts caused by…
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Networks of support for Māori mental health: The response and recovery of Tangata Whaiora through the Ōtautahi earthquakes

This research looked at how the 2010/11 earthquakes in Ōtautahi (Christchurch) have affected Māori mental health communities. The research team led by Dr Simon Lambert focused on how the support networks for Tangata…
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Ka Awatea: An iwi case study of Māori students experiencing success

This Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga project incorporates most of the secondary schools and wharekura within the Rotorua school zone. From the literature, data gathered, and the matching and discussion of this information; the…
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Kaumātua Ngā Kuia: Taonga Aroha

The Life and Living in Advanced Age; A Cohort Study in New Zealand (LILACSNZ): Te Puāwaitanga o Ngā Tapuwae Kia Ora Tonu is the first large-scale study of people in advanced age in Aotearoa, New Zealand and the only…
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Ōkahu Bay restoration: Internship report

Author: Ani Kainamu, Supervisor: Dr Dan Hikuroa. This project fulfils part of the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga summer studentship project that looks at the elements of ecological and Mauri restoration at Ōkahu Bay. This…
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Construction Workshops with Uku

This research project developed from a need to solve a problem for Māori: to find a more cost-efficient, sustainable building technology than timber for papakāinga housing. The roots go back to the 1990s, when timber…
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Te Kotahitanga: Improving the Educational Achievement of Māori students in Mainstream Education

Over 30 years ago when Professor Russell Bishop started teaching he was struck by a single question: Why did so many Māori students start out well but fail as they went through school? Bishop, Professor of Māori…
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Through Our Eyes: Mapping the Social Landscapes of Māori Youth

This research project focused on Māori youth and documenting their social territories using multi-media visual data generated by the participants, in conjunction with wānanga and university-based practitioners and…
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Ngā Tātai Rangahau: Connecting Māori Education Research Literature 1980-2004

This project reviewed published literature relating to Māori education, in the compulsory schooling sector, from 1990 to 2008. The researchers concluded as a general finding that there is a need for increased commitment…
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Science, Mātauranga Māori and Schools

This project examined current practices for measuring Māori participation and achievement in science and mathematics, investigated student experiences of science and mathematics in English medium and Māori medium…
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Whangaia te hinengaro: Reading to learn in te reo Māori

This project focused on kaiako literacy instruction practices and tauira learning pertaining to reading comprehension and Māori vocabulary development. It involved five Kura Kaupapa Māori schools located in rural…
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Social Change in Eastern Bay of Plenty: Outcomes of the Forestry Industry on Māori Communities

The objectives of this research were twofold: first, to assess the societal impacts of the forestry industry on the wider Māori community as a result of the presence of the Whakatāne Board Mill and the Kawerau Norske…
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Eugenics, Race ideologies and Biotechnology in Aotearoa: a Scoping Study

This research project examined the extent to which eugenics and race theories as discourses promoted certain forms of relationships that played a key role in defining social structures for both Māori and Pākehā.
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Towards the development of guidelines for handling, use and storage of Māori genetic material in research

Efforts have been made to develop protocols for the use and handling of blood samples, but at the time of this study starting, the formation of guidelines that take into account the needs and views of Māori had not been…
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Ngā tāngata Māori i noho ai i tāwāhi: Māori Communities Abroad

This project explored how Māori migrants, while striving for greater economic development, have nonetheless been able to maintain a distinctive Māori identity. A particular focus of the research was how these overseas…
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Ko te huarahi ki mua: Roads for change

This project sought to identify and assess the damage done to Papatūānuku (Mother Earth) by chemical contamination from road construction in the Auckland metropolitan area, and to consider ways in which she may be…
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He pūau awa – he ūngututanga mātauranga

This research project aims to characterise the possible effects of agricultural and industrial activity on the well-being of the Mataura River, using an approach that includes a monitoring framework developed by Ngāi…
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Te Mana o Tūhoe – Kaumātua Narratives of Rūātoki Marae

This project had three goals:  to build community research capacity; to collect, gather and record kaumātua narratives; and to create a teaching resource for Tūhoe schools. Central to this project was the…
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Tuia, Tui, Tuia: An exercise in hybridity

This research project asked the question “What new and interesting performance works can be created when two or more music traditions talk to each other, and can these culturally hybrid artistic forms communicate…
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He Rauheke Kura Taketake: A Descent of Treasured Origin

This scoping exercise investigated how He Rauheke as a contextual framework can be developed and applied to the field of early intervention to inform assessment, early identification, programmes of intervention, and…
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Use of advanced technologies to develop culturally appropriate pest-management strategies for rural Māori communities

Current methods for the control of possums, primarily aerial broadcasting of sodium fluoroacetate (i.e. “1080”), are often at odds with the needs of rural Māori communities. Large-scale aerial broadcasting can lead to…
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Tū Whare Ora – Building Capacity for Māori Driven Design in Sustainable Settlement Development

There is emerging awareness among Māori that mātauranga Māori and Māori values have an important part to play in papakāinga design as well as in modern urban planning and settlement design. This research project, based…
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Ngāi Te Rangi Iwi Community Action Research Project

This research was a community action research project dedicated to identifying ways in which to advance Te Reo Māori within the homes of Ngāi Te Rangi whānau. The research team worked with whānau to develop strategies…
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Population size and the rate of evolution: energy is only half the story

This project builds on an earlier Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga study led by Dr Shane Wright that shows faster evolution occurs in more productive, high energy, tropical climates. This is the first research worldwide to…
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Mauriora ki ngā Oi – Hauraki traditional knowledge of grey-faced petrels

In this research project, Hauraki traditional knowledge concerning the harvest of oi (oi, grey-faced petrel, Pterodroma macroptera gouldi) on the Ruamaahua (Aldermen) Islands was recorded and analysed.  The harvest…
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Māori women speak back: Our stories, laws and histories

This research grew from the concern about how to stimulate discussion and debate within Māori communities about the role of Māori women, in the past, present and future.  This research sought women’s stories, in…
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He moemoeā mō Ahuriri: A vision plan and health assessment for the Ahuriri Estuary

The Ahuriri or Napier Estuary is of significant value to both tangata whenua and the Hawke’s Bay community as a whole. Historical and current environmental pressures, together with some questionable management processes…
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Future Moves in Māori Dance

This research project contributed to a growing body of critical analysis and examination of Māori dance and performance as a primary form of cultural expression in which the synthesis of diverse cultural and historical…
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Māori and assisted human reproduction: An exploratory study

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…
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Kaupapa Māori epidemiology in health research: Finding our own standards

A Kaupapa Māori epidemiology is sensitive to the demographic circumstances of the Māori population. Itreinforces the development of policy and practice that is responsive to Māori.  A Māori standard population (or…
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Bring ‘Me’ Beyond Vulnerability. Elderly Care of Māori, by Māori

This research project led by Dr Mere Kēpa undertook a series of interviews and focus groups to answer how Māori people can humanise the care of elderly Māori. The researchers identified significant shortcomings in…
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Amplifying youth voices: The synthesis of two major youth research studies on taitamariki

This research project integrated two distinct but complementary pieces of research to amplify the voices of young Māori who entrusted their experiences, opinions, and ideas to the two research teams; and to speak back…
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Mangoroa: a collaboration between a digital artist and a sculptor

This project has two artistic outcomes, Aniwaniwa and UFOB. Both of these artworks were exhibited and generated ongoing public exhibition opportunities and interest. The themes addressed were rising sea levels in the…
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He Kumete Kōrero: An Adult Māori Literacy Study

This project challenged the definition of literacy used in New Zealand compared with definitions used overseas and focused on the importance of orality and listening for Māori, based on the premise that without orality…
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Responding to the changing pattern of the HIV/AIDS epidemic

This research project sought to answer a fundamental question: What do Māori men who have sex with men need in order to reduce their risk of HIV infection? The researchers in order to answer this focused on the…
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Te Reo, a language for Māori alone? An enquiry into the views of Māori

This research study canvassed Māori opinion at flax-roots level on the idea that te reo Māori, their language, be shared by all New Zealanders. A wide range of views and various types of data  were gathered, and…
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A new paradigm for evolution: Does the flow of energy determine the rate of evolutionary change?

Dr Shane Wright (Te Āti Hau, Tūwharetoa) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Auckland. The idea for this research project started to form in his twenties, when he was…
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Knowledge and reporting of a concussion by young sports persons

A concussion implies a temporary disturbance to brain function and can be serious. A medical consultation to judge the severity of the injury, and to specify a management plan are important. Failure to do so can lead to…
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Tikanga Pākihi/Tikanga Māori: The Impact of Business Practices on Māori Organisations and their Communities

The purpose of this research is to investigate what influences business practices have on Māori organisations and their communities. Current business ideology does not acknowledge or recognise tikanga Māori, nor does it…
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Te Kokonga Ngākau – mō wai te mātauranga?

This project examined Māori resilience, with particular reference to Māori systems of assessment and management of issues pertaining to mental health and wellbeing. In New Zealand, the researchers proposed, we have two…
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“He Aha te Hau e Wawa Ra?” The Life History of Joe Hawke

Joe Hawke was a young boy when his people were forcibly removed from the place he knew as home; the Ngāti Whātua papakāinga at Ōkahu Bay, which was burned to the ground in a move regarded by the government of the day as…
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Constructing Respectful Relationships

This research project adopted an approach which is grounded in Māori cultural values and beliefs to answer three questions: what are the dreams, aspirations and goals that whānau in the Porirua community have for their…
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Kaupapa Māori Methods: Sharing our Experiences

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…
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The Politics of Privilege Scoping Project

This study on the nature of privilege sheds light on how those with the least advantage are positioned to seem as though they are receiving ‘special benefits’, while unearned advantages that accrue to the privileged…
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Essential Services for Isolated Communities

People living in isolated communities often live in homes that lack essential amenities such as clean reliable water, energy or power sources, vehicle access, telecommunications and waste management systems. Under these…
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Tetrodotoxin in Kaimoana: Science and Mātauranga Mitigating Health Risks from a Lethal Neurotoxin

The Hauraki Māori Trust Board and the Cawthron Institute collaborated in this research project which stemmed from a spate of dog deaths on the beaches of Tikapa Moana (the Hauraki Gulf) in August 2009.  The dogs…
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The making of indigenous personhood: a comparative assessment of legal processes for the establishment of indigeneity

Project Purpose: Settler societies such as Aotearoa New Zealand are fundamentally founded on the encounter between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. As the Europeans expanded their territorial rule, they had to…
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AWHI – Aunty Whakahaere Hapunga Initiative

Project Purpose: Timely registration rates with lead maternity carers (LMC) for Māori are low, and research is critically needed to investigate methods of reaching Māori women sooner and to encourage engagement with…
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Ōkahu Bay Restoration Project

Project Purpose: The Ōkahu Bay Restoration Project is being undertaken by Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei and is an all-encompassing restoration project. Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei are working with The University of Auckland,…
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Ways of Being Māori updated: Characteristics, Attitudes and Behaviours of Urban Māori

Project purpose: To analyse patterns in the characteristics, attitudes and behaviours of Māori distinguished by various attributes e.g. urban/rural, different definitions of Māori ethnicity, in order to reveal some of…
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Publishing the Te Kawa a Maui Student-Built Atlas

Project purpose: To facilitate the publication of map layers that students 2009-11 have contributed to the TKAM Atlas, and secondly to organise and analyse student feedback data related to their Atlas work, for…
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Reo Māori ki ngā Rorohiko o te Kura

Project purpose: To determine what factors affect the usage of computers in te reo Māori by students in the schooling sector? The programme of work to be carried out: Identifying Māori Medium Schools that could…
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Transformations of entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership

Project purpose: The project is a Marsden Fund grant that examines entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership. For 40 years there has been no major analytical work on contemporary Māori leadership. The economic condition…
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Mate Māori - Kōrero Kaumātua

Project purpose: Mate Māori - Kōrero Kaumātua is a project within Te Puawaitanga o Ngā Tapuwai Kia Ora Tonu - Life and Living in Advanced Age: a Cohort Study in New Zealand (The LILAC Study NZ). The purpose of Mate…
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Māori networks and the Otautahi earthquakes: their role and future prospects

Project purpose: This research project aims to promote and deepen New Zealand’s understanding of Māori and their culture by ensuring that the stories and voices of Māori affected by the Canterbury earthquakes are heard,…
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Scoping study of the impacts of fracking on indigenous reservations in Alberta using the Mauri Model decision making framework

Project purpose: Assist indigenous resistance to petrochemical exploitation of Papatūānuku The programme of work to be carried out: Investigation and identification of fracking impact upon ecosystem and indigenous…
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Māori Problem Gambling: Too many chances

Project purpose: Hapai Te Hauora Tapui Ltd was set up in 1996 with a specific focus on Māori Public Health. The shareholder organisations are: Te Runanga o Ngāti Whatua, Raukura Hauora O Tainui and Waipareira Trust…
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Whakapakari Reo Māori

Project purpose: To carry out a literature search and review on the topic of language revitalisation – with a focus on Māori language (particularly the Rongomaiwahine/Ngāti Kahungunu dialects where possible). The…
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Marginalising Māori Parents

Project purpose: Parents of young children, as the intimate stewards of a new generation, carry the weight of societal expectation upon their often youthful shoulders. While it is true that parenthood has probably never…
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Whenua Ora-Tangata Ora

Project purpose: Whariki Research Group is involved in collaborative, action-oriented research working with hapū and iwi in the field of Whenua Ora-Tangata Ora. One key project involves kaitiakitanga practices that are…
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Constructing a tidal phase response curve in the marine isopod Eurylana

Project purpose To investigate the mechanisms controlling the timing of behaviour of the marine isopod Eurylana (the sea louse) over the tidal cycle and to collect preliminary data on the phase responsivenessof the…
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Good-practice Guidelines for Supervising Māori Postgraduate Students

Project purpose: The importance of producing more Māori doctoral and other postgraduate qualification completions, for Māoridom and New Zealand society generally is well understood – Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga set…
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The phonological skills of Māori speaking four year olds: a pilot study

Project purpose: The project is a pilot for a larger project tracking phonological development (speech skills) in Māori for Māori speaking pre-school children. Although there is a substantial body of literature on how…
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The PATH Planning Tool and its potential for Whānau Research

The purpose of the project is to reflect on the value of the use of the PATH planning 6 key tool in the Whānau Ora context and the contribution this has made to realising the Whānau Ora goals. Currently the tool is…
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Blue Economy Aotearoa

Project purpose: In the face of climate change, peak oil and food insecurity Māori land trusts face serious challenges to retain and economically develop Māori land. Traditional operations of sheep, beef, dairying and…
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What is the cost?

Inequalities in child health between tamariki Māori and non-Māori are largely preventable and unnecessary. An example is rheumatic fever, where tamariki Māori are 30 times more likely to contract the disease than non…
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Working towards an integrative freshwater co-management model in New Zealand

Māori have expressed a desire to be involved in freshwater management in a way that reflects their values. This remains a challenge both for Māori communities and government agencies. Māori groups wanting to work with…
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Adélie Penguin Population Response to Climate Change in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

This scoping project focussed on determining the Adélie penguin population's responses to climate change. It also successfully lifted the profile of Māori participation, contribution and leadership in the Antarctic…
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Te Pae Tawhiti: Te reo Māori

Led by Dr Rawinia Higgins and Associate Professor Poia Rewi, this research investigates how Te Reo Māori supports economic development, cultural identity, and social cohesion. It focuses on increasing language…
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He rito whakakīnga whārua: Language value and development in communities

Even after 30 years of Māori language revitalisation movements, the Māori language continues to be in a perilous state. Despite these efforts there is no one method that can stem the decline as societal factors still…
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Te Kura Roa – Waiaro: State responsiveness towards the Māori language

There are multiple Government funded initiatives aimed at addressing Māori language decline, including increasing the amount of Māori Language spoken, maintenance and quality. Te Puni Kokiri (2006 Health of the Māori…
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Trends in wellbeing for Māori families 1981–2006

This project is contributing to the key policy area of whānau ora/ family wellbeing via new analysis of the wealth of data contained in the six national household censuses of 1981 to 2006. Indicators of family wellbeing…
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Te Pae Tawhiti: Māori economic development

Led by Distinguished Professor Graham Smith, this iwi-partnered research programme explored Māori-led economic development grounded in mātauranga Māori. Working with Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and…
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Kanakana harvest mātauranga: Potential tools to monitor population trends on the Waikawa River, Southland/Murihiku?

The population of kanakana (piharau, lamprey) is poorly understood and believed to be declining. In Murihiku concern for this taonga species led to this research in the Waikawa River.  
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Triangulating on the mechanism for the lunar clock: Insights from the Māramataka and science

The researchers will use wānanga, catch information, laboratory experiments in which the lengths of the day-night and tidal cycles are systematically varied, and simulation modelling to: identify similarities and…
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Te Ataakura: Re-connecting voyage collections in archives and museums through the creation of digital taonga

This project draws together in digital form taonga exchanged during European voyages to Polynesia between 1765 and 1840. The digital format helps increase knowledge of the collections and reconnects iwi with their…
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Adapting principles from rongoā into ecologically and culturally sustainable farm practice

This project examines rongoā (traditional Māori knowledge of medicinal plants) to find ways to improve animal health naturally, and overall, manage farms with respect for the land. Principal Investigator Dr Marion…
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Computer decision support to aid sustainable customary use of taonga species

Rakiura Māori muttonbirders and researchers collaborated to build and test a computer-based decision support package to allow individual kaitiaki to choose optimal harvesting strategies on their own whānau’s ancestral…
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The ethics, processes and procedures associated with the digitisation of the Pei Jones collection

The late Dr Pei te Hurinui Jones (Ngāti Maniapoto), one of Māoridom’s leading scholars, amassed a significant collection of books, manuscripts and taonga during his lifetime. His son Brian Hauāuru Jones donated the vast…
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He Iho Reo: Developing a “tool-box” to support Māori language transmission and maintenance

Otago has very low numbers of Māori language speakers – French is the most widely spoken second language in the region. Given this context, it is important that any interventions aimed at revitalising and maintaining…
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Commercial feasibility of using mātauranga Maori-based fish traps to eliminate bycatch – Phase 2

The commercial fishing industry is a complex system, and one issue that can hamper the success of fishing companies is the inadvertent capture of fish that are not target species. Under the Quota Management System,…
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Exploring a Māori classificatory system of flora and fauna within Tainui waka

For many years, the knowledge of indigenous peoples has been the preserve of Western anthropologists and ethnographers. Like other indigenous people, Māori are concerned with the ongoing neglect, misuse and erosion of…
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Virtual Repatriation: A database of Māori taonga in overseas museums

There are more than 16,000 Māori treasures held in overseas museums, art galleries and allied institutions. Unfortunately, the knowledge about many of these taonga has been mainly confined to museum personnel, academics…
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Towards the New Whare Tapere: The creative potential of mātauranga Māori in the performing arts

Whare tapere were pā based ‘houses’ of storytelling, dances, music, games, puppets and other entertainments. This research explores how fragments of traditional knowledge concerning the whare tapere can be used in a…
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Aituā: Death in a changing Māori World

Tangi is the ultimate form of Māori cultural and community expression. Addressing the dearth of scholarly information, this study considers tangi practice, whakapapa, changing environments, community values, sharing…
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Effective leadership for educational reform

This project set out to identify what might constitute effective leadership of educational reform that seeks to raise the achievement of students not currently well served by the system. The hypothesis was developed…
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The impact of gambling on Māori

This research was carried out on behalf of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. The primary research aim was to find out how Māori individuals and whānau have been affected by problem gambling and the strategies they have taken to…
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Mum, I want to be an Engineer: Differential access to high ability mathematics standards

We don’t have many Māori or Pacific Engineers and we need them. The University of Auckland’s Engineering degree programme is challenging and lists Level 3 Mathematics with Calculus as a compulsory prerequisite for…
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Organisational pre-requisites to fund implement and sustain a Māori health promotion model in a primary care setting.

Health promotion was traditionally delivered within a public health setting in New Zealand. With changes to primary care delivery, health promotion is increasingly delivered within the primary care setting due to…
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Ngā Tikanga Mate: Māori death and burial customs

The rise in cross-cultural marriages between Māori and other cultural groups in Aotearoa New Zealand has raised the issue of who decides where a deceased Māori person is to be buried, after they die, when his or her…
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He Reo no te Whenua:The establishment of a Māori-centric conservation paradigm

The research team for this project in collaboration with Ngāi Tūhoe have sought to actively engage tanagata whenua with all agencies that support building capability in management of wild populations of  Whio (Blue…
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Commercial feasibility of using mātauranga Māori based fish traps to eliminate bycatch

The commercial fishing industry is a complex system, and one issue that can hamper the success of fishing companies is the inadvertent capture of fish that are not target species. Under the Quota Management System, if a…
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Whatukura: A bioengineered model of the human eye

This project is developing a computer based bioengineered model of the human eye to give greater insight into eye disease and treatments. This will help patients and families better understand their eye and vision exams…
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Mātauranga Māori of naturally occurring toxins in native plants: Potential for Possum Control

Māori have voiced a range of concerns regarding the aerial application of 1080 bait and expressed the view that alternatives to 1080 are needed. One idea is that there may be toxins already present in plants in New…
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Kia areare ki ngā Reo o ngā Tīpuna

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…
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The Donald McLean Papers: Letters in Māori

First a public servant in the Native Lands Purchase Department then later MP for Napier and Minister for Native Affairs, Sir Donald McLean (Makarini) was a major architect in the most formative period of our colonial…
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Māori whānau experiences of neonatal care experiences

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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Au e ihu! Nga Morehu Taua

This project has involved the digitisation and categorisation of a diverse range of tāonga from the 28 Māori Battalion, D Company veterans and their families, including videoed interviews, handwritten and typed letters…
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Restoring the Mauri to Rotoitipaku (Industrial waste site)

The Ngāti Tuwharetoa ki Kawerau iwi places great significance on Te Kete Poutama, an area that encompasses Lake Rotoitipaku near Kawerau, because it has been integral to their economic, cultural, spiritual and social…
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Harvesting the Fruits of Papatūānuku

Māori have used geothermal waters and materials for centuries, yet in contemporary times only a few iwi groups have developed their geothermal resources, even though geothermal energy has sustainable and renewable…
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Body area networks in medical information and communication technology for ubiquitous medical monitoring

This research aimed to develop a Body Area Network using novel ideas from swarm intelligence and, in particular, Ant Colony Optimization. A Body Area Network is a network of sensors (sometimes mobile sensors) outside or…
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The Restitution of Marae and Communities through Mahinga Kai

Māori are increasingly taking on environmental management roles (often on a voluntary basis) that juggle the responsibilities of both traditional networks and government regulations. The focus of this scoping project…
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Māori and the Waitangi Tribunal: History, crisis and healing

Historical trauma is a term commonly used by Native American researchers who have investigated the impact of past relationships between native populations and settler governments on current and future generations of…
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