With just four months to go before we host IIRC26, our NPM team is in full swing preparing to welcome you! The record number of abstracts received highlights the incredible momentum and appetite for Indigenous research…
E-pānui 55
This month we were excited to launch our "Amazing Māori Researchers" reels series. We created the bite-sized video series to make NPM’s research more accessible, bringing the mahi of our researchers straight to your…
Kua pō te ao! Kua pō te ao!
Kua pō uriuri, te ao taketake!
Kua puta a Aituā i Whiti-nuku ki Whiti-reinga
Tūātia ana, whakawahia rā hei kaitiaki o te mate
Hinenuitepō! Hei āhea mākona ai tō matekai?
E te tawhito e Tamati, e moe!
Kei te ruānuku e Hirini, okioki ai!
E te hīnātore e Whatarangi, takoto!
Our PhD tauira never cease to inspire us. This e-pānui celebrates just two of the remarkable researchers in our whānau — a reminder of the creativity, depth, and purpose that defines scholarship at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.
Hine-Kaunuku (Morgana) Watson is breaking new ground in the gaming world, creating action-adventure games that centre wāhine Māori and bring Indigenous storytelling to a global audience.
Meanwhile, Amelia Blundell is weaving together personal history and rigorous research, with a PhD study focused on the kūmara plant which is the taonga at the heart of her whānau life and livelihood.
We were thrilled to partner with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) to host the first Radical ‘Interdisciplinarities: Indigenous Knowledges’ forum in Banff, Canada this month.
The forum gathered 40 Indigenous ECRs from Aotearoa, Australia, South Africa, Botswana, Norway, Greenland, Taiwan, India, Rapanui, Chile, Belize, Amazonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Canada and the United States to develop interdisciplinary research collaborations around three main kaupapa.
As a national Centre of Research Excellence, we value the connections that we have to our 21 partners Te Tira Takimano who share our vision of research that empowers flourishing Māori futures.
This month we were grateful to be hosted on the whenua of Waikato-Tainui College for Research and Development for our two-day Kāhui Ārahi research impact wānanga.
As we head into another busy year, we are grateful for our whānau at NPM and Kanapu who approach everything they do with purpose and commitment to our shared vision of flourishing Māori futures. In this e-pānui, we farewell those who have made an enduring contribution to NPM – including our longest serving AlterNative Co-Editor Professor Tracey McIntosh – and welcome in new team members. We also reflect on the re-release of Ngā Mōteatea, the extraordinary four-volume collection of Māori songs and chants, and get up close and personal with a giant glowing earthworm and 2026 Bug of the Year contender, Noke Waiū (Anisochaeta gigantea).
E ngā kaipupuri mātauranga – tēnā rawa atu koutou. I have been reflecting on my first year as Pou Matarua and the enormous privilege it has been to work alongside Tahu, the NPM secretariat, our Kāhui Ārahi and the many affiliated researchers, kaimahi and hapori members who exemplify our overarching kaupapa of Flourishing Māori Futures. NPM’s important mahi wouldn’t come to fruition if everyone wasn’t actually on the waka and paddling in the same direction! As such, I am taking the liberty of using some space in this last e-pānui of 2025 to say “e mihi nunui ana ki a koutou katoa”. I acknowledge and appreciate all of the contributions you make - ahakoa he iti, he pounamu.
The NPM team is preparing for a jam packed November with researchers across our network attending four major events. The first is the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education (WIPCE), hosted by AUT from 16-20…
Summer is nearly upon us, and, with that, we look forward to welcoming a new cohort of researchers into the NPM whānau through our annual Summer Internship projects and NPM-Borrin Legal Internships. Each year our…
Education Minister Erica Stanford’s decision to remove kupu Māori (except character names) from the Ready to Read Phonics Plus series generated much public debate and commentary this month. The decision affected 12 books and was based on concerns that the inclusion of kupu Māori might confuse children learning English phonics.
Whanaungatanga is one of the core values we pride ourselves on at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. With that in mind, we were delighted to have the opportunity this month to visit with the Hon Dr Shane Reti, the Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology, and to update him on the good mahi being undertaken at NPM and Kanapu.
Being able to support the next generation of excellent, impactful Māori researchers is an enduring kaupapa at Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and one that makes our hearts sing. In this e-pānui we are thrilled to announce the…
As Matariki approaches, and we anticipate new beginnings, it is also time to reflect on key moments over the past year and the people who helped shape them. While Matariki is a time for renewal and remembrance, this…
Each month our wonderful Pouhere Whakapā Cindy McQuade comes up with new stories about the excellent and impactful research that our NPM researchers are doing. This month she talks to Associate Professor Phillip Wilcox…
Our NPM researchers have hit the ground running in 2025, with a flurry of activity across research programmes, conferences, capability building initiatives and media. We truly appreciate the way that our researchers…
NPM is excited to begin 2025 by welcoming on board a new Pou Matarua, Professor Melinda Webber (Te Paatu, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Whakaue). A long-time NPM researcher, Melinda brings a wealth of experience as a…
What a month it has been with NPM welcoming 661 delegates from across the globe to the International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC) at Waipapa Taumata Rau. IIRC fostered a unified and community-driven kaupapa…
The NPM offices are abuzz with activity and excitement as we head into our biggest ever International Indigenous Research Conference yet. We send a heartfelt thanks to our IIRC sponsors - The Faculty of Arts, Waipapa…
Amid ongoing efforts by the coalition government to redefine Aotearoa’s founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori around the motu continue to collectivise and strategize ways forward. The recent ‘Designing our…
Our NPM team has been working hard over the past month to confirm the programme for IIRC24 which will be held at Waipapa Taumata Rau, 12 - 15 November. With more than 500 participants confirmed, seven keynotes and 200+…
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In last month’s e-pānui we announced that Distinguished Professor Marcia Langton AO FASSA FTSE will be the opening keynote for our International Indigenous Research Conference to be held in Tāmaki from November 12 to…