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Fulbright NZ are providing their final information sessions for this year for graduate and scholar awards, registration details below:
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Join us for a discussion on the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in rangahau Māori. This webinar will explore how AI technologies are complementing, enhancing and presenting challenges to Māori research and researchers. Featuring expert speakers from the Māori tech and research communities, we’ll delve into the ethical considerations, opportunities, and obstacles of integrating AI with traditional and contemporary Māori knowledge and practices. Whether you're a daily user of ChatGPT or a complete technophobe, this session is about sharing new perspectives on the intersection of Māori culture, technology, and research.
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This groundbreaking research project centres whānau as catalysts for resilient, flourishing Indigenous futures. It explores how Māori families navigate work and livelihoods while nurturing a wellbeing-based economy grounded in te ao Māori. Through powerful insights and lived experiences, the study reveals the strength of grassroots, whānau-centred approaches. It shows how reconnecting with traditional values – kaupapa, tikanga, and collective leadership – can drive economic transformation from the inside out. At its heart, this project is a celebration of whānau innovation, self-determination, and the enduring potential of Indigenous knowledge systems to shape economic transformation that is equitable and sustainable.
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This groundbreaking research project centres whānau as catalysts for resilient, flourishing Indigenous futures. It explores how Māori families navigate work and livelihoods while nurturing a wellbeing-based economy grounded in te ao Māori. Through powerful insights and lived experiences, the study reveals the strength of grassroots, whānau-centred approaches. It shows how reconnecting with traditional values – kaupapa, tikanga, and collective leadership – can drive economic transformation from the inside out. At its heart, this project is a celebration of whānau innovation, self-determination, and the enduring potential of Indigenous knowledge systems to shape economic transformation that is equitable and sustainable.
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This groundbreaking research project centres whānau as catalysts for resilient, flourishing Indigenous futures. It explores how Māori families navigate work and livelihoods while nurturing a wellbeing-based economy grounded in te ao Māori. Through powerful insights and lived experiences, the study reveals the strength of grassroots, whānau-centred approaches. It shows how reconnecting with traditional values – kaupapa, tikanga, and collective leadership – can drive economic transformation from the inside out. At its heart, this project is a celebration of whānau innovation, self-determination, and the enduring potential of Indigenous knowledge systems to shape economic transformation that is equitable and sustainable.
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Hosted by Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia, the series will take place during the month of May and June, 2025.
This webinar series is designed for early-career researchers wanting to use social media to showcase their research.
Our final speaker in the series is Riana Te Ngahue. Themes explored during this webinar will be social media and audience segmentation, choosing platforms (TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook), engaging whānau/communities.
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Hosted by Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia, the series will take place during the month of May and June, 2025.
This webinar series is designed for early-career researchers wanting to use social media to showcase their research.
We have invited Professor Rangi Mātaamua to speak about how he shared his knowledge of astronomy via social media. His ability to communicate ideas in an engaging way is responsible for the creation of the Matariki public holiday
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Hosted by Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia, the series will take place during the month of May and June, 2025.
This webinar series is designed for early-career researchers wanting to use social media to showcase their research.
Our third speaker is Te Amohaere Ngata-Aerengamate who will be sharing the secret to her success communicating complex environmental issues.
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Hosted by Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia, the series will take place during the month of May and June, 2025.
This webinar series is targeted towards early-career researchers and PhD candidates wanting to use social media for greater research impact. We have chosen five highly successful social media influencers who will share the key elements to their success.
Our second speaker is Eru Kapa-Kingi who will be sharing his thoughts about the power of storytelling, using reo Māori, reconnection through meaningful narratives.
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Hosted by Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia, the series will take place during the month of May and June, 2025.
This webinar series is targeted towards early-career researchers and PhD candidates wanting to use social media for greater research impact. We have chosen five highly successful social media influencers who will share the key elements to their success.
Our first speaker is Dr Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown who will be sharing his insights about Māori researchers in digital spaces, institutional expectations vs community engagement, creating support for social justice and the value of sharing rangahau.
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Join us for this streamed public lecture from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - the Nin Tomas Memorial Lecture for 2024. The Special Rapporteur, Francisco Calí Tzay, will speak about lessons learned from constitutional reform movements and about the implementation of UNDRIP. Mr Calí Tzay's visit is an academic visit, coming at the request of local groups, Wairarapa Moana Incorporation and Wakatū Incorporation, the National Iwi Chairs Forum and Te Kāhui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission. His visit is focused on the state of Indigenous rights in Aotearoa, and the foundational role of te Tiriti o Waitangi in the country’s constitution.
We talk to Māori innovators and problem solvers about ways they are enabling data sovereignty for their communities.
Under discussion will be data sovereignty solutions, data colonialism, Māori data weaponisation and ChatGTP.
(Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Te Wehi, Ngāti Wairere, Ngāti Porou and Te Whanau a Apanui).·Te Kāhui Raraunga
Moka is a Technical Advisor for Waikato Tainui on the Data Iwi Leaders Group, the Te Whata Program Manager and Digital Technician on Te Kāhui Raraunga.
Moka has a Master of Philosophy from the University of Waikato majoring in Geographic Information Systems and is currently enrolled at Massey University to undertake his Phd.
He has worked as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) consultant in the GIS sector for nearly 30 years primarily with Māori and Indigenous communities. To date, Moka has worked with most iwi across New Zealand and Indigenous communities in Hawaii, Canada, the United States and the Middle East
Moka is the Managing Director of Digital Navigators Ltd. Moka was the Chair and Treaty Claims Manager for Te Rūnanganui of Ngāti Hikairo, and a Technical Advisor for Waikato Tainui on the Iwi Leaders Data Forum. Moka was the Technical Advisor for Te Arawa, Ngāti Porou, and Te Taitokerau for the Maori Land Service Project in 2017. Moka is a Google Earth Outreach Trainer and is on the Google Education Advisory Board which consists of international digital technology experts who advise Google and deliver technology training internationally. Moka has worked with Massey University to deliver GIS workshops as part of the Puhoro Academy STEM programme. He has held roles as the Chair of Te Kaahui Manu Hookai – the National Maori GIS Association, a Director of HistoryWorks Ltd, a Director of Te Potiki Trust, and was the GIS Advisor for the US Agency for International Development stationed in Iraq in 2008.
(Ngāti Kuri, Ngāi Takoto, Te Aupōuri)·Te Hiku Media
Gianna Leoni is a Data Specialist at Te Hiku Media. Te Hiku Media, also known as Te Reo Irirangi o Te Hiku o Te Ika, is an iwi radio, media and technology hub based in Kaitāia that was founded in 1991. The not-for-profit, charitable organisation is connected to the five iwi of the Far North; Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Kahu. The organisation's history determines its continued purpose to contribute to the revitalisation of te reo me ōna tikanga. Te Hiku Media are staunch advocates for Indigenous sovereignty over Indigenous data. They are kaitiaki, not owners, of the language data they hold, and have created a Kaitiakitanga License that states that the tools created from the data will be managed under tikanga Māori and guardianship.
(Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou)·Arataki Systems
CEO of Arataki Systems, Lee founded Arataki in 2016. Arataki Systems is a proudly Māori owned, whanau business that builds digital cultural storytelling platforms and end-to-end technology solutions. Arataki is run by Māori tech entrepreneurs who have developed NZ’s first proximity activated cultural content delivery platform. It offers a virtual self-guided fully immersive cultural experience. The platform seamlessly connects users with cultural content and information, at the right time, in the right location.
(Waikato-Maniapoto; Ngāti Porou; Ngāti Whakaaue)·The University of Waikato
Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan received a Diploma in Computer Engineering from CIT (Wellington) in 1987. He spent six years working as a hardware engineer for Datacom and Digital before returning to the Waikato and Waikato University. He received a BA through the Te Tohu Paetahi stream (Māori immersion) and in 1996 was awarded an MA having completed a thesis on traditional navigation. Te Taka worked with the Māori Department and then in 1997 switched to the Computer Science Department. He completed a PhD in 2007, titled Indigenous Language Usage in a Digital Library: He Hautoa Kia Ora Tonu Ai.
Te Taka has worked on a number of projects involving the Māori language and technology. These include the Māori Niupepa Collection, Te Kete Ipurangi, the Microsoft keyboard, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in Māori, Moodle in Māori, Google Web Search in Māori, and the Māori macroniser. In 2009 Te Taka spent 6 months with Google in Mountain View as a visiting scientist assisting with the Google Translator Toolkit for Māori. Further work with Google led to Translate in Māori.
In 2013 Te Taka was awarded the University of Waikato's Māori/Indigenous Excellence Award for Research. In 2017 Te Taka was awarded the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
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On Tuesday, 24 October, NPM and Te Wānanga o Waipapa hosted ngā manuhiri tūārangi Kristin Ruppel, Department of Native American Studies, Montana State University, and Coy Harwood (Blackfeet/Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), Acting Director, Piikani Lodge Health Institute.
Visiting Tāmaki Makaurau for the U.S. & Oceania Summit: Internationalization Across the Pacific in 2023 and beyond Kristin (Indigenous research methodologies, land tenure and food systems) and Coy (Hunter, Health and Wellness Advocate) were also interested to connect with Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Food Security and Health experts during their visit. After a modified kai hākari at the quad, our manuhiri spent a few moments of reflection in Tāne-nui-ā-Rangi before leaving campus. Online connections were made with Kiri Dell (Business School, Management and International Business) who also has research interests in Māori plant and food technologies and other Indigenous issues.
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This joint NPM-Science Media Centre initiative provides an excellent opportunity for researchers to get comfortable communicating with the media. This is a chance for professional development and it is helpful for researchers wanting their research to reach the general public. Researchers will have opportunities to meet and interact with the media and will upskill their practical and strategic communication skills. Entry is by selection. Media SAVVY workshops are two-day, fees-free training by the Science Media Centre:
When: 16-17 March 2023
Where: Waipapa Marae, Tāmaki Makaurau.
Apply here: https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/media-savvy-maori/
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Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence (NPM) brings you the second session of our Wānanga Paetukutuku series on high quality research and evidence for interventions and policies. With colleagues, Pou Matarua Co-Director Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora will advance a panel discussion on what needs to be done to realise the vision of flourishing Māori futures.
Based at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau, Waimarie has research and teaching interests in: Indigenous psychologies; Maori flourishing; Tangi : Māori ways of mourning; traditional body modification; ethnic and Māori identity; cultural safety and competence; Māori mental health and recovery; social and economic determinants of health; homelessness; relational health; and social connectedness.
Mohi is NPM's Pou Pātai Whānau and is based at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau. He has research and teaching interests in: Māori health and inequities; Social determinants of health; Māori culture, heritage and identity; Poverty, the precariat and homelessness; Kaupapa Māori research, theory and methodologies; Decolonial practices; indigenous psychological perspectives of the interconnected self; Sport and rangatahi (Māori youth).
Te Taka is NPM's Pou Pae Auaha. He is based at the University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. Te Taka has worked on a number of projects involving the Māori language and technology. These include the Māori Niupepa Collection, Te Kete Ipurangi, the Microsoft keyboard, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in Māori, Moodle in Māori, Google Web Search in Māori, and the Māori macroniser. In 2009 Te Taka spent 6 months with Google in Mountain View as a visiting scientist assisting with the Google Translator Toolkit for Māori. Further work with Google led to Translate in Māori.
Ocean is NPM's Pou Pae Tawhiti and is based at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka. Ocean focuses on how mātauranga and science connect and relate, particularly in educational and environmental contexts. Her current research includes understanding how te taiao advocacy connects communities to place; ocean knowledge to support iwi interests; understanding groundwater with mātauranga and Māori perceptions of novel biotechnological controls of pest wasps in Aotearoa. Her research also explores Māori and Indigenous conceptions of mapping and place, and kaupapa Maori reading of films. She is the presenter of Maori Television's Project Matauranga and presents for TVNZ’s Coast.
This blended online symposium is an opportunity to strengthen connections within your MAI site whānau and, together, to consider the wider impact and reach of our collective research to grow, nurture and support Indigenous research relations.
The impact of COVID 19 on MAI students over the last two years has meant we have of necessity turned to our own local, whānau and professional networks to connect and support our journeys. The them for this blended gathering is Hono Atu Hono MAI and reminds us that we are working in, for and with a larger Indigenous network of relationships; that MAI research serves our communities locally and internationally; that forming, sustaining and nurturing relationships are a critical part of MAI scholarship.
Nau mai haere mai!
Please contact your MAI site coordinator for further details.
The Tū Mai: Rongoā Māori Symposium reflects a pivotal time in the recognition of the mana of Rongoā Māori by the health and disability sector in Aotearoa. This Symposium was inspired through working with the Rongoā Māori community as part of a Health Research Council-funded project, Te Ao Rauropi: Mapping the Biosphere of Rongoā Māori.
The Ministry of Health, Accident Compensation Corporation, the interim Māori Health Authority, Whakauae Research Services and Rongoā communities have partnered to host this Symposium. We will share current perspectives on the place of Rongoā as a taonga tuku iho in our collective commitment to improve health equity for all New Zealanders. This Symposium will ask:
This is an exciting opportunity to look our challenges in the eye and share the wealth of mātauranga we have accrued in recent times about the potential of two worlds working together to forge a better future.
Click the link for more information
https://rongoa-symposium.whakauae.co.nz/
“Mana motuhake ki te kāinga. Matatū, Mataora, Matatini ki te ao.”
Research reports from leading Māori academics of Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga – The University of Auckland, Te Wānanga o Raukawa and Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, confirm the benefits of kapa haka to the development and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Ngā Hua a Te Matatini: The Benefits of Te Matatini was commissioned by Te Matatini Society Incorporated and Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori in 2019, and is a collection of four evidence-based reports that focuses on four areas of the impact that kapa haka makes to the Māori health index, the economy of Aotearoa, the educational success of students who actively participate in kapa haka and the revitalisation of te reo Māori.
Te Wānanga o Raukawa reported that the material contribution of kapa haka to Māori health and wellbeing, in all of its dimensions—physical, spiritual, mental and social, was significant. It goes on to say that a substantial increase in Crown support would enable kapa haka participants and supporters to build on the extraordinary work that is already being done, generating further significant benefits which will extend well beyond Māori communities.
“Kapa haka is inclusive and an integral part of the values and norms that govern Māori society. The positive contributions that kapa haka makes to the social, cultural and economic wellbeing of our diverse communities are many,” says Carl Ross, Te Manahautū a Te Matatini.
Ngā Hua a Te Matatini research reports will be released and available to the public on Wednesday 6 July, at 5 AM on the Te Matatini and NPM websites respectively: tematatini.co.nz/our-process/publications/
To mark the release of the reports, Te Matatini and NPM are hosting a same-day webinar with researchers from 6pm – 7pm.
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Celebrating 20 years of being Aotearoa New Zealand’s only Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) are excited to invite you to join us online from 15 – 18 November 2022 for our 2nd virtual and 10th International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC).
IIRC is a time for reflection, sharing, planning, innovating, getting inspired. Everything about our conference is Indigenous. Hot topics include: climate change, living sustainably, Indigenous rights and wellbeing, Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous distinctiveness, and building firm foundations for flourishing Indigenous futures.
Given this is our second online conference, we appreciate that multiple modes of engagement are important to enable participants to ‘plug in’ and experience conference.Engagement modes include – Master classes, premiere keynotes, discussion fora, social connects, live and pre-recorded papers and posters.
Join us to celebrate and acknowledge a uniquely Indigenous-led online international conference designed to shape a promising future for locally inspired and globally relevant Indigenous-led research.
In this quarterly webinar series NPM Co-Directors Professors Linda Waimarie Nikora & Tahu Kukutai will be leading a discussion on high quality research and evidence for interventions and policy.
For the first wānanga, Tahu will be taking a long term view over the pae (horizon) with some of NPM’s senior research leaders and discussing what needs to be done to realise the vision of flourishing Māori future.
The October 20 webinar recording of the discusssion had with the authors of the report 'He huringa āhuarangi, he huringa ao: a changing climate, a changing world' is now available for viewing on our Media Centre.
Media SAVVY workshop for Māori researchers is a fees-free workshop aimed at increasing the visibility of Māori researchers and impacts from their work in both mainstream and Māori media outlets. The workshop is facilitated by the Science Media Centre, in partnership with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.
Entry is by application.
Applicants should be:
Applications for 2022 are now closed.
All workshop fees have been waived, thanks to support from A Nation of Curious Minds – He Whenua Hihiri i te Mahara, A National Strategic Plan for Science in Society. Please visit here for more information on our SAVVY training or to register your interest in future workshops.