NPM WEBINAR | Professional Excellence Series: Supervising Māori students and topics

Completing a postgraduate thesis can be one of the most satisfying accomplishments that a Māori student can attain. Too often, however, that experience can be hampered when issues arise with supervision and research topics.

In this online panel discussion, we’ll hear from capable and knowledgeable supervisors, Professor Jenny Lee-Morgan (Unitec) and Associate Professor Anaru Eketone (University of Otago), about supervising Māori students and projects. What works? What doesn’t? And, how can we not just survive, but thrive, in the research supervision relationship?

10am-11am, Wednesday 12 May 2021.

All welcome! Students, researchers, community members

The programme of weekly online Professional Excellence workshops/panels will be held on zoom (link provided on registration)

PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE
The Professional Excellence Programme builds on Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s goals to:

1. Increase our early career researchers’ skills in research excellence and career opportunities; and
2. Enhance and harness the Māori researcher excellence in research, research leadership, and supervision across all levels.

It also aligns with NPM’s four values of rangatiratanga, kaitiakitanga, manaakitanga and whanaungatanga by ensuring that the programme helps Māori researchers to:

1. Apply effective strategies for self-management and leadership in research (Rangatiratanga)
2. Identify opportunities and approaches to enhance wellbeing and balance in relation to research (Kaitiakitanga)
3. Apply research activities and outputs in ways that are inclusive and respectful (Manaakitanga)
4. Create and/or consolidate a supportive Māori research community/cohort (Whanaungatanga)

Host
The Professional Excellence Series of online webinars is hosted by Associate Professor Meegan Hall who is the Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Mātauranga Māori) at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and a member of Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga’s Research Leadership Team.

THE PANELISTS

Jenny Lee-Morgan (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Mahuta) is Professor of Māori Research at Unitec in Auckland and the founding Director of Ngā Wai a Te Tūī, Māori and Indigenous Research Centre. Jenny has a strong background in education, te reo Māori and community-based research and was formerly the Head of the School of Māori Education at the University of Auckland, and Deputy Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato. In 2016 Jenny was awarded Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education in recognition of her high-quality research and significant contribution to the Māori education sector. Jenny’s co-edited book, Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, research and practice (Hutchings & Lee-Morgan, 2016) provides a broad, decolonised agenda for Māori development and won Te Kōrero Pono (non-fiction category) in the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards 2017. She was also an investigator on the Ako Aotearoa funded project, Te tātua o kahukura (2017-2018), which identified 10 ways that supervisors can support Māori PhD scholars.

​Anaru Eketone (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato) is Associate Dean (Māori) and an Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Otago. Anaru has a background in youth work, community development, social work and health promotion. He teaches extensively in the area of Indigenous/Māori social work and bicultural social work. His primary research interests are in contemporary Māori economic and social development, and the impact of religious movements in his tribal area. He also supervises student research on kaupapa Māori, Māori community development and Māori economic and social development topics. Anaru has published articles and book chapters about kaupapa Māori research and biculturalism, as well as the importance of Indigenous research and practice.