• Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    The need for this project arises from a previous study conducted by MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB), which identified the following questions as essential:

    1.              What are the experiences of long-term conditions for tangata Māori?

    2.              What are the main support systems utilised by tangata Māori in the 'self-management' of their long-term conditions?

  • Full project Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    This project explores the role that enterprise plays in indigenous self-determination. In New Zealand, we have chosen to examine Māori business networks (MBNs), which we argue are a manifestation of this struggle, but suffer from the absence of a sustainable business model. Our research question is, 'what is the role of Māori business networks in Māori self-determination and sustainable economic development'?

  • Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    The overarching research question is: what constitutes entrepreneurial ecosystem efficacy with respect to indigenous entrepreneurs’ innovation intentions and activity? In order to investigate this overarching research question, the following questions will be explored: (i) how do Māori entrepreneurs think about innovation? (ii) How does enterprise assistance support Māori entrepreneurs’ to innovate? And (iii), what are the implications for enterprise assistance targeting Māori entrepreneurs?

  • Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    What is the pedagogy of pūrākau, and how does it operate as an Indigenous story work approach to advance kaupapa Māori research and innovative contributions to broader research and pedagogical processes within Aotearoa?

    Given this is a scoping proposal, the following questions are pertinent to the investigation of the above research question:

    What is the theory, methodology, and pedagogy of pūrākau? How was it used in traditional Māori society, and how is it utilised today?

    How do pūrākau connect to the pedagogy of Indigenous story work and storytelling (including non-Indigenous) approaches?

  • Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    We have identified a set of questions relating to indigenous data governance, ownership and access, along with potential solutions for benefit sharing and value generation.

    What are the key challenges to realising indigenous data sovereignty and how might they be addressed?

    What are the key mechanisms needed to realise indigenous data sovereignty at global, national and local scales?

    What is the transformative potential of indigenous data sovereignty for Māori?

    What can we learn from ‘best practice’ examples of indigenous data sovereignty that already exist? 

  • Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    What are the threshold concepts for undergraduate study in the field of Māori studies?

    How can the identification of Māori studies’ threshold concepts be used to support teaching and student achievement in Māori studies programmes?

    According to Māori oral tradition, Te Ihonga was a demi-god who could tie intricate knots. The resulting entanglements became known as ‘te ruru a Te Ihonga’ (the ties of Te Ihonga) (Mead and Grove 2001:206). They were regarded as so complicated and secure that only people who knew Te Ihonga’s secret were thought to be able to untie them.

  • Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    What aspects of mātauranga Māori are relevant to Māori-medium schools, for example mātauranga pūtaiao, that promote the wellbeing of the students, the kura, the place and the community?

  • Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    This research seeks to investigate Māori jurisprudence. Māori jurisprudence, broadly speaking, comprises a set of tikanga and how those tikanga are used in everyday life to make decisions that affect Māori communities. For this research we wish to focus specifically on the most important institution of Māori decision-making: the hui. This pilot project will investigate a limited set of hui, specifically examining decision-making and the role of tikanga in such decision-making, within urban contexts.  The research hypothesis upon which this project is designed is that modern everyday Maori jurisprudence is observable and distinct, despite the impact of Western legal frameworks.

  • Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    Project commenced:

    What are some of the psychological, emotional and spiritual influences that learners have experienced when learning te reo Māori?

    How are these influences related to past trauma or negative experiences of theirs (or others) and in what ways have these influences impacted their engagement with and learning of te reo Māori?

    What kinds of intergenerational trauma are having an impact on the ability to engage with and learn/speak te reo Māori?

    In what ways do learners overcome these barriers to being motivated to learn te reo Māori?

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