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He Rauheke Kura Taketake: A Descent of Treasured Origin

Scoping project · Commenced 2006

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Politics of Privilege Scoping Project

Scoping project · Commenced 2005

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…