NPM is honoured to welcome 20 Raumati Interns who will work with researchers from our national network over the summer on a diverse range of exciting projects. The Raumati Internship Programme aims to grow and support the professional development of our up-and-coming researchers. They are a passionate and enthusiastic group and we look forward to supporting them to flourish in their academic lives while making lasting connections within their professional network.

 

Intern: Sophie Newton | Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Tukorohe

Intern: Ben Barton | Te Arawa

Developing a Bibliography of Politics Research by Kairangahau Māori

Supervisor: Dr Lara Greaves | Ngāpuhi

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland

 

Intern: Keenen Wood | Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Rarua, Ngāti Toa Rangatira

Te reo Māori Smart Home Voice Assistant

Supervisor: Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan| Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakaue

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato

 

Intern: Courtney Smith | Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa

Tihei Mauriora, Tihei Mana Motuhake: Breathing mauri and mana motuhake into the lives of rangatahi Māori who offend and their whānau with lived experience of trauma.

Supervisor: Dr Tania Cliffe-Tautari | Te Arawa, Ngāi Tahu

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland

 

Intern: Nadine Everson | Te Arawa

Health systems and decolonisation: Preliminary activities to understand health system perspectives

Supervisor: Dr Karen Wright | Kai Tahu

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland

 

Intern: Grace Manihera | Ngaati-Wairere me Ngaati-Mahuta

Using a Māori lens to analyse media discourse on the introduction of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022

Supervisor: Associate Professor Bridgette Masters-Awatere | Te Rarawa, Ngai te Rangi, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau and Dr Amohia Boulton | Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Pukenga

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato

 

Intern: Te Hirea Doherty | Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngapūhi

A kaupapa Māori literature review of cannabis and methamphetamine use experiences of Māori

Supervisor: Dr Erena Wikaire | Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi

 

Intern: Emma Jones | Ngāti Porou

Building an Indigenous Science curriculum in tertiary education

Supervisor: Associate Professor Anne-Marie, Jackson | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Wai

Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago

 

Intern: Tane Whitehead | Te Āti Awa me Taranaki

Hangaia ana te whare o Indigenous Science

Supervisor: Associate Professor, Anne-Marie, Jackson | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Wai

Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago

 

Intern: Hinemoa Watene | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Rongowhakaata

Flourishing Wāhine Māori Identities in Women’s Rugby

Supervisor: Dr Jeremy Hapeta | Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Wai

Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago

 

Intern: Hana Vause | Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa

Traditional understandings of wāhine Māori, their roles, and maintenance of their safety: Kaumatua and kuia perspectives

Supervisor: Professor Denise Wilson | Tainui, Ngāti Porou ki Harataunga, Whakatohea, Ngāti Oneone, Tūwharetoa, and Dr Alayne Mikahere-Hall | Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua, Tainui

Institution: Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau | Auckland University of Technology

 

Intern: Georgia Palmer | Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pikiao

Maramataka Māori Embedding Indigenous Knowledge(s) in Education

Supervisor: Dr Hurinui Clarke & Kari Moana Te Rongopatahi

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | The University of Canterbury

 

Intern: Kate Palmer-Neels | Ngāpuhi

He mauri tō te tamaiti: Ākonga Māori motivation in education

Supervisor: Professor Melinda Webber | Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland

 

Intern: Te Hau Ariki Gardiner | Ngai te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāpuhi

eHealth initiatives in surgery: Cultural co-design of a general surgical patient-centred App

Supervisor: Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai | Ngāti Porou

Institution: The Whare Wānanga o Ōtāgo | University of Otago

 

Intern: Ashleigh Witehira | Ngāpuhi, Whakatōhea, Tainui

Exploring the long-term impact of COVID on the social, cultural, mental, and physical wellbeing of individuals, communities, and workplaces.

Supervisors: Dr Kiri Edge | Ngāti Maniapoto, and Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Māhaki

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland

 

Intern: Moana Murray | Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa

Kākāpō: Regenerating knowledge of an endangered Taonga species

Supervisor: Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki

Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland

 

Intern: Tama Blackburn | Ngati Maniapoto; Ngati Kinohaku

He hakune rangahau o Te Atiawa: What could a Te Atiawa research model and methodology look like?

Supervisors: Dr Kiri Edge | Ngāti Maniapoto, and Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tuhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki

Institution: (NPM) Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland

 

Intern: Jasmine Fraser | Te Arawa, Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa and Ātihaunui ā Pāpārangi

He oranga whānau: mahi ngātahi Whānau livelihoods within the context of work and Māori economies of wellbeing

Supervisors: Professor Chellie Spiller | Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Associate Professor Jason Mika | Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu

Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato

 

Intern: Toiroa Whaanga-Davies | Ngāti Rakaipaaka/Ngāti Kahungungu Ngāti Rehua/Ngāti Wai

NPM Cawthron Te Pītau Whakarei Karahipi : Mātauranga Māori research and learning resources 

Supervisor: Cawthron - Heni Unwin | Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi



Intern: Edie Balme | Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga

Tangi as a transferable mourning and grief model

Supervisor: Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora | Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Māhaki

Institution: (NPM) Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland