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The Cost of Doing Nothing - Health inequities between Māori and non-Māori Adults in New Zealand

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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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Entrepreneurial ecosystem efficacy for indigenous entrepreneurs

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2016
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

Kia Tō Kia Tipu - Seeding Excellence · Commenced 2016
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

Scoping project · Commenced 2016
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

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2016
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

Scoping project · Commenced 2016
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

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2016
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

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2016
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)

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2016
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

Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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

Full project · Commenced 2016
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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Choices and Connections for Māori Youth on the Margins

Internship project · Commenced 2015
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

Internship project · Commenced 2015
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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Te Tupunga Māori Economic Development

Research Programme · Commenced 2015
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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He Whakaoranga Kia Puta Kia Ora

Commenced 2015
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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Antiviral and anti-inflammatory activity in Kawakawa leaf extract

Commenced 2015
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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