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Kaupapa · Project

Privileging whānau voices, whakapapa narratives towards whānau ora

COVID project · Commenced 2020 · Completed 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of Whakarewarewa Village Tours. The hapū of Whakarewarewa resolved to re-open the village in December 2020 however, the decimated context of the tourism industry, change of…

Kaupapa · Project

The mental, relational, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing of Māori during and post-lockdown

COVID project · Commenced 2020 · Completed 2021

New research analyses the mental, relational, psychological, and spiritual wellbeing of over 3000 Māori during and post-lockdown through Te Rangahau o Te Tuakiri Māori me Ngā Waiaro ā-Pūtea | The Māori Identity and…

Kaupapa · Project

Lived experiences of Māori employees during Covid-19

COVID project · Commenced 2020 · Completed 2021

Māori are facing many challenges in their work experiences, especially during Covid-19. This research seeks to understand the unique cultural strategies that employees engage in that make these challenges more bearable.

Kaupapa · Project

21COV11The Koha of COVID

COVID project · Commenced 2020 · Completed 2021

Research on the impact of COVID-19 on Māori tends to highlight its negative outcomes. This strengths-based research project examines improvements in Māori wellbeing that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic …

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"Seeing" kāpō Māori: Documenting the oft invisibilized experiences of kāpō Māori during and post-COVID-19

Full project · Commenced 2020 · Completed 2021

  Western views on disability & underfunding of Indigenous health marginalises kāpō Māori. New research aims to change this & centre kāpō Māori lifeworlds Traditional forms of Māori story-telling…

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Perceptions of Papakāinga: An examination of ‘home’ and how to cater services for Māori

Scoping project · Commenced 2020

This study will explore how comparative views of “home” relate to concepts such as identity, whakapapa, and hauora and how these concepts thereby impact service utilisation and uptake in two areas (one rural and one…

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What we were and what we could be: Restorative Justice and its impact on Māori

Scoping project · Commenced 2020

We have identified a set of questions relating to Māori restorative justice in the Aotearoa Justice system and its effectiveness for Māori: What are the barriers Māori face when they participate in restorative…

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Tuurangawaewae Marae: A Place to Stand

Scoping project · Commenced 2020

The guiding research question for this project are: 1) How has Tuurangawaewae Marae fostered community mauri ora (wellbeing) within Waikato and in Te Ao Maaori more broadly? 2) What role has Tuurangawaewae Marae…

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19DSC04Māori co-designed intervention to refocus New Zealand health service delivery.

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2019

Nikki Barrett (Ngāti Hauā me Ngāti Porou), University of Waikato My PhD will focus on Māori-specific interventions that refocus delivery of health services to become holistic and responsive to Māori need. The key…

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19DSC02The Impact of State Welfare Care on Māori

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2019

Aaron Smale (Ngati Porou, Nga Puhi, Whakatohea), Victoria, University of Wellington Although there is a significant research showing Maori are over represented in negative social statistics, there has been very…

Kaupapa · Project

Kaumātua Futures: Ko te pae tawhiti, whāia kia tata. Ngāti Whakaue Case Study

Full project · Commenced 2019 · Completed 2022

This Ageing Well NSC research project explored the unique role of kaumātua within Ngāti Whakaue, challenging government definitions that homogenise Māori elders. It highlights how kaumātua serve whānau, marae, hapū, and…

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A Kaupapa Māori Approach to Human Resource Management Practices in Aotearoa Workplaces

Scoping project · Commenced 2019

What unique Human Resource Management (HRM) practices are offered in Aotearoa workplaces that directly engage in a positive way with Māori employees?  What do these look like? How are the perceived (and received)…

Kaupapa · Project

Tangaroa Ara Rau: Whānau connections & Water Safety

Internship project · Commenced 2019

This report has been prepared for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga as part of the summer internship programme 2018-2019. This project is titled Tangaroa Ara Rau: Whānau connections and Water Safety with a purpose to understand…

Kaupapa · Project

Tangaroa Ara Rau: Tangaroa the Atua of Human Movement

Internship project · Commenced 2019

This research report has been titled Rākau-nui as an acknowledgement to the full moon phase in the Maramataka (Māori lunar calendar). Rākau-nui also represents the collected journey to which this full report has been…

Kaupapa · Project

18DBG02 A space for women sex workers to share their experiences of sport and physical activity

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018

Grace O'Leary (Te Arawa, Nga Puhi), University of Waikato Māori sex workers are over-represented in street level sex work - an area known to be prone to more human rights abuses, unreported violence, riskier health…

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22PHD05Mana Tinana, Mana Mōmona, Mana Wāhine: Ngā Pūrākau o Ngā Tinana Body Sovereignty and Fat Māori Wāhine

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018 · Completed 2023

How do fat Indigenous wāhine reclaim body sovereignty as a form of resistance? This research centred on the lived experiences of fat Māori wāhine, challenging colonial and biomedical narratives through the lens of…

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18DBG03 History of nonviolent movements in Aotearoa New Zealand

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018

Griffin Manawaroa Leonard (Te Arawa), University of Otago The Radical Nonviolence in Aotearoa hui was the first hui of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand. Nonviolent movements and the academic study of them is not new…

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18DBG08He tōnga kākano – The planting of the seed

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018

Sophie Williams (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa), University of Auckland He tōnga kākano – The planting of the seed is a collaborative study of indigenous performative knowledge within a contemporary dance context. The focus…

Kaupapa · Project

18DBG05Improving grid-based Bayesian methods using Low Discrepancy Sequences

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018

Paul Tamataatoi Brown (Waikato, Ngaati Hikairo), University of Waikato I am currently at the final stages of writing up the thesis. The submission deadline for the thesis is 31st May 2018, which we are currently on…

Kaupapa · Project

18DBG04Moerewa School and the statutory intervention of a Commissioner in 2012

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018

Keri Milne-Ihimaera (Ngāi Tahu), Te Whare Wānanga o AwanuiarangiMy doctoral research explored the story of Moerewa School and the statutory intervention of a Commissioner in 2012, during the time I was principal of the…

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22PHD15He oranga tuku iho: Oranga through mahinga toi. He tirohanga nō Te Whānau a Apanui.

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018 · Completed 2022

This research explored how mahinga toi—through process, theory, and creative output—supported whānau, hapū, and iwi oranga and mana motuhake. Grounded in Te Whānau a Apanui, it developed a tukunga iho methodology that…

Kaupapa · Project

18DBG01Māori water safety and health

Doctoral thesis · Commenced 2018

Chanel Phillips (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi), University of Otago There is very little published research that examines why Māori have high rates of drowning despite a cultural connection to water, and fewer literature…

Kaupapa · Project

Tikanga Māori and Our Lexicon

Full project · Commenced 2018

What does tikanga Māori mean in today’s context; how is tikanga Māori understood and practiced within iwi, hapū, whānau, marae and more broadly in our everyday practices and national institutions; and how can key Māori…

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O Nāianei Tae Atu ki te Anamata: Normalising te Reo Māori and Culture in the Modern World

Full project · Commenced 2018

What existing research, collation, archivingand disseminating of knowledge specific to te reo me ngā tikanga Māori has been done to date across Aotearoa New Zealand within Māori communities, government agencies, and…