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Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Research Methods and Skills Scholarships

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is pleased to announce its scholarships for research methods and skills via the New Zealand Social Statistics Network (NZSSN) Winter Programme 2011, 11 - 15 July.

We are offering up to four scholarships to emerging researchers and researchers undertaking research that contributes to NPM's research plan to attend any of the short courses offered by NZSSN in their Winter Programme 2011 at the University of Auckland (refer to www.nzssn.org.nz for further details of the courses offered).

Ngā pae o te māramatanga Research methods and skills Māori scholarships

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is pleased to announce its scholarships for research methods and skills via the New Zealand Social Statistics Network (NZSSN) Winter Programme 2011.

Sir Tīpene O’Regan honoured as University of Auckland Fellow

Sir Tīpene O’Regan has been honoured as a University of Auckland Fellow in recognition of his contribution to The University, particularly for his work as Chair of the Board of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.

Annual Report 2010 – Electronic Copy Available for Download

LOOKING TO THE FAR HORIZON: ARCHITECTS OF A NEW FUTURE

2010 has yet again been a busy year in the life of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and here we present the breadth and range of research and activities undertaken, hosted and supported by our Centre over the year. While addressing needs in our communities now, we are also looking firmly to the future, to the far horizon, and supporting research and activities that will transform the research discipline, our communities and society in general.

Horizons of Insight Seminar Series (2011)

Addictions are now epidemic in New Zealand society and the lifestyles of Māori modelled on non-Māori is now creating considerable health issues in whānau. Results of an exploratory study on the impact of gambling on Māori will be presented in relation to the need for Whānau Ora to be a bipartisan policy and programme for at least a decade or more to address intergenerational trauma.

MAI review launch

A Special Issue of MAI Review, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s open access scholarly journal, entitled: Community Research Engagement with take place at the Fale Pasifika, University of Auckland. An overview of this Journal Issues contents is well described by the following abstract:

Researching with Whānau Collectives
Fiona Cram, Vivienne Kennedy

Horizons of Insight Seminar Series (2011)

Just as there is no global economic justice without cognitive social justice, equally there can be no equity within academia without cognitive equity. However, indigenous knowledge remains inequitably positioned within the academy yet in this great transitional moment, indigenous knowledge is more critically relevant than perhaps ever before.

Te Pae Tawhiti: Māori Economic Development Launch

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga will this week launch Te Pae Tawhiti: Māori Economic Development, a major research initiative that aims to optimise Māori economic performance and growth. The Honourable Georgina te Heuheu, Associate Minister of Māori Affairs, will launch Te Pae Tawhiti and the Honourable Pita Sharples, Minister of Māori Affairs, will speak at the launch.

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga to research Māori economic development

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 2010 Seminar Series

The most important response to the post-war period changes in Central America, to the exhaustion of testimonio and to the hybrid contradictions of representation of the subaltern subject by the Mestizo letrado, is given by Maya literature. Maya literature is a notable effort because of both its bilingualism and its representation of a uniquely different gaze on the Americas as a whole. It is also a renaissance of one of the great cultures of the Americas.

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