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Professor Carla Anne Houkamau
Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Professor & Dean Business and Economics
Carla Houkamau (PhD) is a Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and the Interim Dean for…
Professor Carla Anne Houkamau
Carla Houkamau (PhD) is a Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and the Interim Dean for the Faculty of Business and Economics.Carla is of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā descent. She holds a deep personal interest in the history of Māori-Pākehā relations and promoting cultural understanding. Her current research focuses mainly on intergroup relations, chiefly how group memberships influence attitudes and behaviour. Her publications typically examine how ethnicity helps reproduce socio-economic inequalities but can be leveraged to address… -
Associate Professor Brad Coombes
Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Associate Professor
Associate Professor Brad Coombe's (Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) research focus is the participation of indigenous…
Associate Professor Brad Coombes
Associate Professor Brad Coombe's (Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) research focus is the participation of indigenous peoples in conservation management and environmental planning. This research focuses on the obstacles to establishing partnership approaches, and the appropriateness of comanagement, collaborative science and community-based management for resolving conservation conflicts. He has been involved in several research projects which were commissioned to support the environmental claims of iwi (Maori tribes) before the Waitangi Tribunal. Those projects focus on the capacity of… -
Professor Tīmoti Kāretu
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu
Sir Tīmoti Kāretu (Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) is one of Māoridom’s most respected linguists. He was the first Māori…
Professor Tīmoti Kāretu
Sir Tīmoti Kāretu (Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) is one of Māoridom’s most respected linguists. He was the first Māori language commissioner, between 1987 and 1999, and then was executive director of Te Kohanga Reo National Trust from 1993 until 2003. In 2003, he was closely involved in the foundation of Te Panekiretanga o te Reo, the Institute of Excellence in Māori Language, and served as its executive director.In 2019, Tīmoti translated nine songs from English to Māori language for the album, Waiata/Anthems, which peaked at No. 1 on the New Zealand album charts in September 2019.He is considered… -
Professor Te Kani Kingi
Ngāti Pukeko, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tai
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Executive Director of Research and Innovation
Prior to his role as Executive Director of Research and Innovation at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Professor Te…
Professor Te Kani Kingi
Prior to his role as Executive Director of Research and Innovation at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Professor Te Kani Kingi was an Associate Professor at Massey University in Wellington and concurrently held three roles as Director Māori (within the Office of the Associate Vice-Chancellor) Director of the Research Centre for Māori Health and Development (within the College of Health) and Director of Academy for Māori Research and Scholarship. He has formally been an executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, The Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, the National Ethics… -
Professor Tania Ka'ai
Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu, Hawaiian, Cook Islands, Samoan
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Professor & Director of Te Ipukarea
Professor Tania Ka’ai came to AUT in 2007 with a goal to form the National Māori Language Institute, which was…
Professor Tania Ka'ai
Professor Tania Ka’ai came to AUT in 2007 with a goal to form the National Māori Language Institute, which was established in 2008. The International Centre for Language Revitalisation was then launched in 2011.Tania was born and raised in New Zealand. She is of Hawaiian, Cook Islands, and Samoan descent through her father’s side and she is of Māori descent on her mother’s side.Tania completed a Bachelor of Education from the University of Waikato and a Master of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. The focus of her thesis was the transition of children from Te Kōhanga Reo to school and… -
Professor Taiarahia Black
Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whānau a Āpanui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Professor
Taiarahia Black is a New Zealand academic known for advancing Māori language revitalisation and reclamation through…
Professor Taiarahia Black
Taiarahia Black is a New Zealand academic known for advancing Māori language revitalisation and reclamation through scholarship, teaching, and cultural knowledge work. Rising to full professor at Massey University, he built a career that blends Māori language priorities with academic credibility and institutional service. His public engagements have also reflected an educator’s instinct: interpreting language and cultural values in ways that can be carried into everyday life. Across decades in higher education, he has come to represent a careful, language-centered approach to sustaining… -
Paora Sharples
Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Pou
Paora Sharples is Kaihautu Tikanga (Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori leader) at NPM and also a Professional Teaching Fellow…
Paora Sharples
Paora Sharples is Kaihautu Tikanga (Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori leader) at NPM and also a Professional Teaching Fellow at the Department of Māori Studies, University of Auckland where he lectures in Kapahaka, Traditional & Contemporary Māori Performing Arts and Te Reo Māori. He has had a significant career in kapahaka as well as traditional and contemporary Māori performing arts, including areas of performing, teaching/training, directing, judging as well as choreography and composition within this indigenous genre of dance.Paora has also spent 30 years developing, teaching and promoting the… -
Associate Professor Rachel Wolfgramm
Te Aupouri, Ngāi Takoto, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Patumoana, Tonga
University of Auckland
Associate Professor & Director University Research Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society
After two decades of initiating and leading multiple Sustainability and Māori initiatives locally and internationally…
Associate Professor Rachel Wolfgramm
After two decades of initiating and leading multiple Sustainability and Māori initiatives locally and internationally, Rachel was appointed Associate Dean Māori, Associate Dean Pacific, and Director of the Dame Mira Szászy Research Centre at the University of Auckland Business School. Rachel was also appointed Director of Ngā Ara Whetu, Center for Climate, Biodiversity and Society along with fellow colleagues Professor Jaqueline Beggs, Professor JR Rowland, Professor David Noon, Professor Said Baroutian, Professor Rod McNaughton, Professor Niki Harre, A/Professor Maria Amoudian… -
Associate Professor Robert Joseph
Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepuhunga, Te Pae o Raukawa, Ngäti Paretekawa o Ngāti Maniapoto
University of Waikato
Associate Professor & Director of Māori Indigenous Governance Centre Te Piringa Faculty of Law
Robert is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and was a senior research fellow for the Te…
Associate Professor Robert Joseph
Robert is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and was a senior research fellow for the Te Mātāhauariki Research Institute at the University of Waikato under the leadership of Judge Michael Brown and Dr Alex Frame. Dr Robert Joseph was the second Māori in New Zealand - and the first Māori male - to graduate with a PhD in Law in 2006.Robert's research interests are many and varied: the realisation of the Treaty of Waitangi rights and responsibilities, the interface of traditional Māori knowledge systems and western science; internal self-determination rights and… -
Garth Harmsworth
Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Raukawa
Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua
Capability Leader
Garth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Landcare Research since 1992…
Garth Harmsworth
Garth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Landcare Research since 1992. His career spans over 28 years in resource management, land resource assessment, national environmental databases, GIS applications, and indigenous research. Garth pioneered much of the Māori led research in Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Ltd., working on a wide range projects with Māori organisations and regional councils throughout New Zealand, particularly in the areas of land use planning, ecosystem health, bio-physical and cultural indicators, restoring indigenous…