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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Kaupapa · Projects 547
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 Act 2014, questioning its effectiveness in protecting Ngāti Toa’s interests within current legal frameworks.
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 burning.
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 land desecration and Crown confiscation, and how their activism was represented in feminist media.
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.
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 Māori perspectives in legal education and support future lawyers to engage meaningfully with te ao Māori and Māori legal knowledge.
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.
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.
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 utilised by modern AI systems to build generative AI tools for te reo Māori that support Māori Data Sovereignty. The research informs…
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 explore the facilitators and barriers of immunisation for tamariki Māori in NZ. The rationale of exploring the vaccine landscape for tamariki…
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.
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 components into practical formats—including FAQs, presentations, and social media-ready content—to support wider understanding and application…
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 whānau Māori to better understand and navigate issues like facial recognition technology and the future of our digital information.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Professor Tahu Kukutai FRSNZ
Professor Tahu Kukutai FRSNZ
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Co-Director Tahu Kukutai is Professor of Demography at Te Ngira: Institute for Population Research, The University of Waikato where she specialises in Māori and Indigenous demography and data sovereignty. Tahu is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. She co-edited Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda (ANU Press, 2016), Indigenous data sovereignty and policy (Routledge, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology (Oxford) . Tahu has undertaken research with and for numerous…
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.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Professor Tahu Kukutai FRSNZ
Professor Tahu Kukutai FRSNZ
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Co-Director Tahu Kukutai is Professor of Demography at Te Ngira: Institute for Population Research, The University of Waikato where she specialises in Māori and Indigenous demography and data sovereignty. Tahu is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. She co-edited Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda (ANU Press, 2016), Indigenous data sovereignty and policy (Routledge, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology (Oxford) . Tahu has undertaken research with and for numerous…
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 electoral rolls by the Electoral Commission.
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 Māori research team. The project explored the development of a Kaupapa Māori-informed co-design of outpatient care for thyrotoxicosis, aiming…
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.
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 iwi’s Tohe Ora Wānanga Whenua programme. The project informed efforts to reconnect whānau with their whenua and promote maara kai for…
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 waiū and strengthen intergenerational knowledge around breastfeeding.
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 Indigenous peoples, our lands, and the global ecosystem. This communiqué is an urgent message intended for world leaders, policymakers, environmental…
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 update of the 2011 first edition, which continues to be widely used in university courses.The book draws on kōrero from hui Māori held around…
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 builds leadership and resilience—supporting their flourishing as rangatahi Māori and contributing to the celebration and preservation of…
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 approaches to recognising and responding to signs of change in Antarctica.
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Alyssa Thomas
Alyssa Thomas
Alyssa’s research engages with the rangatahi of her hapū, Patuharakeke; with additional funding support from New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society. Over the course of a three-day wānanga, Alyssa gained an insight into the aspirations of ngā rangatira mō apōpō, with particular regard to the management of Pukekauri dam, a local freshwater resource. Through whakapapa and whakawhanaungatanga, the rangatahi connected with te taiao and began/continued their journey of kaitiakitanga and tino rangatiratanga. Alyssa presents her research and findings of rangatahi visioning and aspirations for…
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 literature to screen. Briar’s research seeks to fill this gap by researching the influence of oral narrative forms on Māori literature and how…
Kairangahau · Researchers
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Associate Professor Deborah Walker-Morrison
Associate Professor Deborah Walker-Morrison
Deborah Walker-Morrison (Ngati Kahungunu; Rakai Paaka; Ngati Pahauwera; Ngai Te Ipu, Ngai Tamanuhiri) was awarded the Dunmore Medal (awarded yearly by the Fédération des Alliances Françaises of New Zealand in recognition of major contributions to knowledge of the part played by the French people and French culture in the Pacific). She has received the NZ Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards, nomination (awarded by the University of Auckland).