Dr Amanda Black

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Tūhoe

Whakatōhea

Whānau-ā-Apanui

Lecturer / Māori Kaihautū

Lincoln University

Amanda’s research expertise is in environmental soil and water chemistry, focusing on major nutrient cycling, including the incorporation of molecular techniques to explore the relationship between functional gene expression and soil product activity.

She has recently focused her research on ecosystem resilience in soils from managed and natural ecosystems, with a particular focus on investigating disease resistant traits (i.e. evidence of PTA resistance in kauri forests). She is also part of a Māori Biosecurity Focus Group, seconded by the Ministry for Primary Industries, and is funded by MBIE to establish a Māori biosecurity network.

Amanda completed her BSc (Geology) and MSc (Environmental Science) at the University of Otago, before working at the Otago Regional Council and then CRL Energy as a consultant. She returned to academia with an ESR doctoral scholarship to study soil chemistry at Lincoln University, and was awarded an MSI Postdoctoral Fellowship (TTP scheme) before being employed in 2013 as a lecturer within the Bio-Protection Research Centre.

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Eru Thompson Māori Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Māori Academic Receives Prime Minister's Supreme Award

The annual Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards recognise and encourage outstanding excellence in tertiary education at the highest national level.

On Tuesday 8 August twelve awards were made across both the General Category and Kaupapa Māori Category. Dr Te Taka Keegan (Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakaue) from the University of Waikato was the recipient of both the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award and a Kaupapa Maori Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching Award.

Māori Knowledge Honoured

Last year, Te Tira Whakamātaki - the National Māori Biosecurity Network - was awarded a scoping grant by NPM. This new Māori network has been established to bring together iwi and hapū who are involved in protecting our biological resources from biosecurity risks and threats.

The scoping project is focused on questioning; “do hapū and iwi views and practices provide an alternative paradigm to Aotearoa New Zealand’s biosecurity system to better protect our taonga species?”

Tikanga Rangahau Wānanga Series - Auckland Workshop

Through its MAI Te Kupenga network, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and Te Kotahi Research Institute are currently providing a series of free wānanga and webinar events, which are hosted and organised through MAI ki Waikato.

Emerging Research Video Competition

NPM's Co-Directors encourage Māori early-career researchers and post-graduate students to get involved in a new Royal Society Te Apārangi initiative to encourage them to celebrate and share their research, innovations, discoveries and insights.

The 150 Years of Discovery: Emerging Research video competition aims to tap into the research stories of early career researchers who are driving the future of science, society and culture; contributing to the growth of our economy, industry, and cultural sectors in New Zealand and globally.

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Dr Amanda Black

Dr Amanda Black

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Eru Thompson Māori Postdoctoral Fellowship

Māori Academic Receives Prime Minister's Supreme Award

Māori Knowledge Honoured

Tikanga Rangahau Wānanga Series - Auckland Workshop

Emerging Research Video Competition