• Aroha Mead

    Ngāti Awa Ngāti Porou
    Senior Lecturer, MBU's Director, School of Management

  • Full project

    Connections and Flows: Precarious Māori households in austere times

    In addition to public and scholarly deliberations regarding increased inequalities in society, this project responds to the continued socio-economic exclusion of many Māori households.

    We draw on recent scholarship on the precariat as an emerging social class comprised of people experiencing unstable employment, unliveable incomes, inadequate state supports, marginalisation and stigma. Our focus is on the Māori precariat, whose rights are being eroded through punitive labour and welfare reforms.

    While we document issues of employment, food, housing and cultural insecurities shaping precarious lives, we also develop a focus on household connections, practices and strengths. This focus is important because connections, practices and strengths can buffer whānau against adversity for a time, render aspects of their lives more liveable, and enable human flourishing.

  • Full project

    Ngā Moemoea ō Ᾱpōpō: Empowering Taiohi Māori Leaders for the Future

    E kore e ngaro nga tapuwae i nga wa o mua,
    He arahina ke tatou ki te huarahi nei,
    Me hangaia e tatou e tatou ano

    We can never erase the footprints of our past,
    They lead us to the paths of the future
    We carve for ourselves.

    In the 21st century, indigenous youth face an uncertain and challenging future. In the years ahead they will need to deal with a daunting range of issues, some of potentially unprecedented scale and scope.

  • Professor Papaarangi Reid

    Te Rarawa
    Tumuaki

    Papaarangi is Tumuaki and Head of Department of Maori Health at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.  She holds science and medical degrees from the University of Auckland and is a specialist in public health medicine. She has tribal affiliations to Te Rarawa in the Far North of Aotearoa and her research interests include analysing disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous citizens as a means of monitoring government commitment to indigenous rights.

  • Professor Margaret Maaka

    Professor in Curriculum Studies

  • Dr Pauline Harris

    Rongomaiwahine Ngāti Rakaipaka Ngāti Kahungunu
    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Dr Pauline Harris is the Chairperson of the SMART board and a postdoctoral researcher at Victoria University. Her research involves searching for extra-solar planets.

  • Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki

    Ngāti Hako Ngāti Māhanga

    Waikaremoana Waitoki is a Research Officer in the Māori and Psychology Research Unit (MPRU) at the University of Waikato. She is also a Clinical Psychologist specialising in mental health.

  • Emeritus Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku MNZM FAWMM

    Te Arawa Tūhoe Waikato

    Emeritus Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku continues to contribute in the arts and creative sector. With degrees in Art History and English, her PhD (1981) was in cultural psychology. She wrote an early (1991) monograph on Maori research ethics. For decades she served in the heritage environment as a governor, curator and activist/advocate. Her scholarly works on culture, gender, heritage and sexuality, and her fiction and poetry, have been published and acclaimed locally and internationally.

  • Associate Professor Mohi Rua

    Tūhoe Ngāti Awa Ngāti Whakaue

    Mohi is NPM's Pou Pātai Whānau and is based at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau. He has research and teaching interests in: Māori health and inequities; Social determinants of health; Māori culture, heritage and identity; Poverty, the precariat and homelessness; Kaupapa Māori research, theory and methodologies; Decolonial practices; indigenous psychological perspectives of the interconnected self; Sport and rangatahi (Māori youth).

  • Associate Professor Leonie Pihama

    Te Ātiawa Ngāti Māhanga Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi

    Associate Professor Leonie Pihama is a Senior Research Fellow at the Te Kōtahi Institute, University of Waikato, and Director of Māori And Indigenous Analysis Ltd, a Kaupapa Māori research company. Her extensive research interests cover whānau, economic transformation and national identity. She has a long history of involvement in Māori education, including te kōhanga reo and kura kaupapa Māori (total immersion pre–schools and schools), and has published widely.
     

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