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Kaupapa · Project

23WHA10The State of Māori Rights, 2nd Edition

Whakaaweawe - featured impact · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2025
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…
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23WHA16Whakakahangahia te Rangatahi wāhine ki te Waka Ama - Empowering Young Women in Waka Ama

Whakaaweawe · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
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…
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23WHA12He Tohu Āhuarangi: Climate Change Signs between Antarctica and Aotearoa

Whakaaweawe · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
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…
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23PHD29Māori Adaptation Theory & Practice: Oral Traditions, Literature, and Cinema

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2025
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…
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23PHD18Taitamawahine Narratives of Abortion

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2026
This research will increase our understanding of the sexual and reproductive journeys of taitamawahine to make clear recommendations to improve the provision of abortion healthcare so it’s accessible and culturally…
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23WHA01Commissioning a musical score and accompanying actions to a poi-waiata (called “Te Proton Poi”)

Whakaaweawe · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
This project created “Te Proton Poi” — a waiata integrating mātauranga Māori with quantum physics to support community engagement with advanced health technologies. Inspired by MRI concepts and kapa haka, the project…
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23MR13Māori Streets

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
Street design in Aotearoa has had limited involvement from iwi, hapū and Māori hāpori to date and yet streets are everywhere, they connect us to each other, they are communication channels and spaces and places to…
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23MR12Mō Ngā Uri a Muri Ake Nei: Supporting Te Tai o Araiteuru Inter-generational Decision-making Through Sea-rise Visualisation

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023
Sea level rise is threatening many marae and coastal cultural sites across Te Tai o Araiteuru. Yet existing climate models are complex and often not locally relevant or easy to understand. This project created a dynamic…
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23MR11Te Taunaha i ngā Tapuwae ō mātou Tīpuna: Piloting the use of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels by Ngā Hapū o Waimārama for their Archaeological sites

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
Indigenous histories are held in archives—but often without the authority of the people they belong to. This project pilots the use of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels within ArchSite, Aotearoa’s national…
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23MR08He Uru Mānuka — Creative cultural mapping and ‘restorying’ networked relations on the Waiapu River

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
Inspired by an ancient mōteatea and grounded in the living whenua of Ngāti Porou, He Uru Mānuka is a creative cultural mapping project breathing new life into ancestral knowledge. As climate shifts reshape the Waiapu…
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23MR07 Whakarongo, titiro, korikori kōrero ki ngā wāhine – exploring embodied and reciprocal healing relationship with our natural environments

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
Māori (and Indigenous) women engage in embodied relationship with the natural environment in a range of ways, such as raranga, rongoā, or physical activity. This research explored what these embodied relationships can…
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23MR05Me whakaoreore tātou: Mobilising mapping technologies that benefit Tahamata Incorporation’s coastal farm in Kuku, Horowhenua

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
Bringing together cutting-edge mapping tools, mātauranga Māori, and regenerative farming practices, this iwi-led project empowers Tahamata Incorporation to reimagine the future of their coastal farm. Through GIS, LiDAR,…
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23MR04Strengthening the place and practice of mātauranga to support climate health outcomes in Aotearoa.

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023
This project explores how mātauranga Māori can strengthen climate change responses in Aotearoa. By analysing policy and interviewing experts working in te taiao initiatives, the research aims to identify how government…
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23MR03Developing methodological approaches to tracking historical trauma

Matakitenga project · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
This kaupapa Māori project addresses one of the most devastating impacts of colonisation in Aotearoa – the forced institutionalisation of Māori children between 1950–1999. Drawing on the Abuse in Care Royal Commission…
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21-24RP04Promising Futures Te Kawau Mārō: The Lifeworlds of highly qualified Māori - a cohort study of Māori PhD students and graduates

Research Programme · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2024
This nationwide research programme set out to deepen our understanding of the experiences, challenges, and contributions of Māori PhD graduates across Aotearoa. By tracing the post-graduation journeys of nearly 800…
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23PHD37Wairuatanga: Exploring understandings of wairua for rangatahi Māori in a youth forensic setting

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2026
This research will explore wairua and spirituality for rangatahi Māori involved with a youth forensic service in Aotearoa, New Zealand
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Mana Taiao Tairawhiti (MTT) submission to the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Te Wairoa

Scoping project · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2023
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga supported Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti (MTT) in their submission to the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Te Wairoa. Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti (MTT) is an informal…
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22PHD03Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu: How do wahine Māori nurses utilise mātauranga Māori as a means to address health equity in Te Tai Tokerau?

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2026
PHD Candidate: Coral Wiapo (Ngati Whātua) Primary Supervisor(s): Dr Sue Adams  Work is underway in Te Tai Tokerau to strengthen the Māori nursing workforce by supporting kaimahi to enter the nursing…
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23PHD46“Kei whea rā he oranga mō taku iwi e”: A critical biography of Tuaiwa Hautai Rickard

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2023 · Completed 2025
Hineitimoana’s research is a critical biography of her grandmother, Tuaiwa (Eva) Rickard, a Tainui Ngāti Koata woman known for her influential role in the Māori land rights movement of the 1970s.
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22-23INT09A kaupapa Māori literature review of cannabis and methamphetamine use experiences of Māori

Internship project · Commenced 2022 · Completed 2023
This Kaupapa Māori literature review examined how cannabis and methamphetamine use is discussed in Aotearoa, with a focus on Māori experiences and implications for health and justice responses. The research, part of a…
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22INTB01-S2Tikanga and Te Tiriti –transforming law and policy in Aotearoa

Internship project · Commenced 2022 · Completed 2023
This internship explored how tikanga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi are transforming Aotearoa’s legal landscape through case law and legislation. Guided by Associate Professor Linda Te Aho, interns gained hands-on…
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22-23INTB01NPM Borrin Foundation Raumati Legal Research Internship Award Project: Tikanga and Te Tiriti –transforming law and policy in Aotearoa

Internship project · Commenced 2022
Through the 2022/2023 Borrin Foundation – Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Legal Research Internship, two Māori students explored the growing recognition of tikanga Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi within New Zealand law and…
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22INTC01NPM Cawthron Te Pītau Whakarei Karahipi: Mātauranga Māori research and learning resources

Internship project · Commenced 2022 · Completed 2023
Bridging marine science and Mātauranga Māori, this internship helped develop learning resources for Cawthron Institute’s aquaculture and freshwater programmes—strengthening research through Indigenous knowledge.
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22INTP22Tangi as a transferable mourning and grief model

Internship project · Commenced 2022
This project explored Māori experiences of grief and mourning by reviewing existing literature to identify key insights and gaps. The findings will support the development of a culturally grounded model of grief,…
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