The successful 2018 Marsden Fund recipients have been announced from across the country and this year the list includes many past and present NPM researchers working as Principal Investigators and Associate Investigators on a number of new, engaging and exciting projects.
The Marsden Fund grants support New Zealand’s best investigator-initiated research in the areas of science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanities and it is important that research borne out of matauranga Māori has been recognised and celebrated this year.
NPM's congratulations go to all the successful recipients, including:
Dr Aroha Harris (University of Auckland)
- Whānau Ora With, Against, and Beyond the State
- A question of identity: how connected are Māori youth to ancestral marae, and does it matter?
- He Taonga te Wareware?: Remembering and Forgetting Difficult Histories in Aotearoa/ New Zealand
- E kore au e ngaro! The enduring legacy of whakapapa
- Te Kāpaukura a Kupe: The Ocean in the Sky - Māori Navigation Knowledge
- The embrace of our ancestors: re-imagining and recontextualising mātauranga Māori in psychology
- Te Hau Kāinga: Histories and Legacies of the Māori Home Front, 1939-45
ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATORS
- He Taonga te Wareware?: Remembering and Forgetting Difficult Histories in Aotearoa/ New Zealand
- When and why did all the pā arrive? A multidisciplinary investigation into the spatial-temporal role of pā in the development of Māori culture
Professor Paul Tapsell (University of Melbourne)
- A question of identity: how connected are Maori youth to ancestral marae, and does it matter?
- When and why did all the pā arrive? A multidisciplinary investigation into the spatial-temporal role of pā in the development of Māori culture
Dr Krushil Watene (Massey University)
- A question of identity: how connected are Maori youth to ancestral marae, and does it matter?
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