Our vision is to unleash the creative potential of Māori peoples to bring about positive change and transformation in the world. Our mission is to conduct excellent research relevant to Māori communities – research which leads to transformation and positive change. Through research we seek to discover and enable development opportunities and creative potential in Māori communities – people, knowledge, assets, resources and organisations – and achieve solutions to needs and issues in these communities. The outcomes and benefits of this research are communicated and facilitated locally, nationally and internationally.

Objectives
Through excellent research we will:
■ Understand Māori peoples’ contribution to new frontiers of knowledge, economic development, environmental sustainability, health and social wellbeing and educational achievement
■ Build relevant research capacity and capability
■ Share knowledge effectively through a variety of methods to bring about positive change
■ Give meaningful expression to indigenous knowledge and mātauranga Māori to address issues, needs and opportunities
■ Advance our profile as a leader in indigenous development research internationally. 

Methods, benefits and capability building
Through research we seek to:
■ Create and apply distinctive, sustainable and successful approaches to knowledge creation and maintenance
■ Develop and use efficient and meaningful methods to enable the application of research outcomes
■ Grow and sustain a significant number of experts in these approaches and methods.

Read our Director, Professor Charles Royal’s strategic vision for Ngā Pae of te Māramatanga, including our values and foundations.