Professor Te Kani Kingi

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Ngāti Pukeko

Ngāti Awa

Director Māori

Massey University

Te Kani Kingi is Director of Te Mata o te Tau, The Academy for Māori Research and Scholarship at Massey University in Wellington. His specialist interests are in mental health research, psychometrics and Māori health.

He has been an executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, the Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, the National Ethics Advisory Committee, the National Health Committee and the Public Health Advisory Committee.

He currently sits on Statistics New Zealand’s Māori Advisory Group, the Pharmacy Council and is Chair of the Mental Health Commission’s Advisory Board. He was born and raised in Poroporo and attended St Stephens Māori Boys College in South Auckland. He has tribal affiliations to Ngāti Pukeko, Ngāti Awa and Ngāi Tai.

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NPM 2020 Matariki New Horizon Internships

These brand new mid-year NPM internships have been designed to support tauira and enhance research outcomes in these uncertain times. The internships require senior or mid-career researchers and students to work together to design an internship which will have relevance to Māori in the face of a fast changing and challenging Covid-19 environment.

In order to access these internships NPM Investigators and Researchers must conceive of and outline a project and connect with a student that they want to work with, submitting all details in one application. And so;

NPM Tautoko - Completion Scholarships for Tauira

Part of NPM’s Tautoko strategy given COVID-19 impact is to support 40 tauira (students) to complete their theses and degree requirements. A suite of new NPM completion scholarships are now open for Māori students across Aotearoa New Zealand. These scholarships provide opportunities and support for Honours, Masters and Doctoral students to complete their studies in 2020.

Applications for these scholarships are open and close 16 June 2020. Selections will take place in the final two weeks of June and all scholarships start from July 1.

Professor Poia Rewi appointed to Te Mātāwai

Hūrō te whare o Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga i te rangona, kua tapaina a Poia Rewi hei Tumu Whakarae hou mō Te Mātāwai. He tangata ngākaupai, whakaaro tika, a Poia, he ihumanea i ahu mai i te kāhui atamai o Ngā Pae. Kua roa te wā kua pōkaitia e ia te akaaka matua mō te reo me ōna tikanga. Nāna anō hoki ngā nohonga taioreore o Ngā Pae i hiki i huataki i tāwhai ake ki karamata kē.

Nā reira e te Taniwha Hikuroa, tēnei a Ngā Pae e poho kereru ana. Nei anō hoki tō hikuroa e takawiriwiri ana, e mihimihi ana, e whakamānawa ana.

Summer Intern Report Competition

NPM completed our 2019-2020 Summer Internship Summary Report Competition with short online presentations from the three finalists on Tuesday 19 May.

The finalists were:

Kelly Mitchell (Waikato-Tainui) from Victoria University of Wellington. Her supervisor was Dr Vini Olsen-Reeder also from Te Kawa a Māui – School of Māori Studies. Project: Te Whare Kōrero o Te Ure Tārewa.

Māori Researchers in the Media

Māori researchers from across the country have been making considerable contributions to current national discussions around the response to Covid-19 and what the future holds. Just a few of these contributions are as follows:

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Professor Te Kani Kingi