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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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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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Te Pae Tawhiti: Māori economic development

Research Programme · Commenced 2011

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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Virtual Repatriation: A database of Māori taonga in overseas museums

Scoping project · Commenced 2011

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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Pae Tawhiti: Te Kura Roa

Research Programme · Commenced 2010

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

Full project · Commenced 2010

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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Tetrodotoxin in Kaimoana: Science and Mātauranga Mitigating Health Risks from a Lethal Neurotoxin

Full project · Commenced 2010

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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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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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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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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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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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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The impact of gambling on Māori

Full project · Commenced 2009

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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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…