NPM researchers nominated for Māori of the Year

Two Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) researchers have been nominated for Marae Investigates Ngā Toa Whakaihuwaka (Māori of the Year) 2011, as people who have increased the mana of Māori in 2011.

Research Methods and Skills Scholarships

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is pleased to announce its Research Methods and Skills Scholarships via the New Zealand Social Statistics Network (NZSSN) summer programme 2012.

Research finds Māori women presenting with symptoms for male whānau at GPs

New research out shows Māori women are presenting with proxy symptoms to GPs to get medications for male whānau members. The research is published in a special health issue of AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples launched this week.

Māori scholar to research indigenous challenges to property law

University of Otago law academic Jacinta Ruru (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto) has been awarded this year’s Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Senior Scholar Award. She will undertake research into indigenous challenges to Western property law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Symposium will bring together key influencers to discuss Māori Economic Development

Key Māori economic development influencers and experts, including Whaimutu Dewes and Professor Graham Smith, will speak at a symposium hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) this month.

MAI Journal Call for Papers

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is pleased to call for papers for MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship. MAI Journal is an open access scholarly journal to be launched by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga in 2012. We are now calling for papers for the inaugural issue.

Research RFPs Released

We are pleased to announce two new Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to fit within NPM’s two new research streams. We are looking to increase NPM research to address our strategic direction, research themes and our identified research priorities. The streams are:

Award recipient to share experience in Pacific quality assurance

Pefi Kingi, a New Zealander of Niuean heritage from Auckland, will present her decades of work on developing a quality assurance framework for Pacific cultural practices in healthcare at the second Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i next month. Pefi’s trip is supported by a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Travel Award, designed for New Zealand academics, artists or professionals to present their work in areas of indigenous development to audiences in the United States of America.

Applications open for Internship Programme

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is pleased to announce applications are now open for its summer internship programme 2011-12. The programme is intended for Māori and indigenous students interested in advancing their skills and capacity in indigenous development research. There are 10 internships available with a wide range of projects to select from. Applicants can be upper level undergraduates, postgraduates or enrolled in a Master’s programme but cannot be enrolled in a PhD programme or already have a PhD.

Northland school students take step back in time with exhibition

Northland secondary school students travelled back in time when the Nga Taonga Tuhituhi – Written Treasures exhibition visited them in August.