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Developing a Māori Theory of Value

Full project · Commenced 2018

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

Full project · Commenced 2018

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

Full project · Commenced 2018

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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Financial literacy for Māori realities: Designing culturally-responsive financial services and savings programmes for whānau Māori

Full project · Commenced 2018

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

Full project · Commenced 2018

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

Full project · Commenced 2018

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

Full project · Commenced 2018

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

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2018

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

Full project · Commenced 2018

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

Kia Tō Kia Tipu - Seeding Excellence · Commenced 2018

  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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Whaia te Mana Māori Whakahaere Tōtika ki Whai Rawa – In Pursuit of Māori Self-Determination and Good Governance for Wealth and Well-Being

Full project · Commenced 2018

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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17DS14Tohorā Stranding in Aotearoa

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2017

Jordan Aria Housiaux (Te Ati Awa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa), Massey University This doctoral project clearly sits within the Ngā Pae o Māramatanga Research Theme: Te Tai Ao. Specifically, this…

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17SD11Sprouts of knowledge: Weaving Te Ao Māori and the Western knowledges of Geography to further understand our ancestral landscapes

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2017

Jovan James Mokaraka-Harris (Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa & Ngati Wai), University of Otago This study will explore the physical/ecological relationship hapū have with their ancestral landscape. New horizons will be sought as…

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17DS10Te mana me te mahi-atua a Māui: Remixing Pūrākau from a Māori perspective

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2017

Zak Waipara (Ngati Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngati Ruapani, Ngati Kahungnu), Auckland University of Technology All pūrākau are concerned with how to make sense of our world and ourselves, especially so for indigenous…

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17DS09Waiho hoki au i raro nei-Leave me here below": Unearthing the wisdom of Hinenui Te Pō through the art of survival narratives

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2017

Helen Pearse-Otene (Ngāpuhi-Ngāti Kurī; Rongomaiwahine-Ngāti Kahungunu; Ngāti Pahawauwera; Ngāti Ruanui; Ngāti Pākehā), Massey University The project is a partnership based on already existing relations between…

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17DS03 Restoring Māori Literacy Narratives to Create Contemporary Stories of Success

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2017

Melissa Derby (Ngāti Ranginui), University of Canterbury The study explores literacy as a human right that is key to accessing other human rights associated with health and wellbeing, community engagement, cultural…

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Te Mātauranga Wakatere Waka

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2017

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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Analysis of the Cultural, Ethical, Research, Legal and Scientific (CERLS) Issues Inherent in Rongoā Māori Research

Kia Tō Kia Tipu - Seeding Excellence · Commenced 2017

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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Taiora (Marine Life Monitoring Project)

Internship project · Commenced 2017

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

Internship project · Commenced 2017

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

Internship project · Commenced 2017

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

Internship project · Commenced 2017

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

Internship project · Commenced 2017

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

Internship project · Commenced 2017

This summer internship joins and contributes to a research project on Māori whānau experience of Hospital Transfers by being involved and undertaking literature review, in depth analysis of interview data and…