Research Overview

Georgia, McCarty (Waikati Tainui, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa), University of Otago

Understanding the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) preferences of rangatahi Maaori and adapting or creating a specific HRQoL measure will contribute knowledge, help improve the efficiency of health funding decision-making and reduce health disparities for Maaori. This study is utilising qualitative methods underpinned by kaupapa Maaori principles to conduct a scoping review of the advantages and disadvantages of existing youth HRQoL measures for rangatahi Maaori. These findings will be used to investigate the acceptability and feasibility of existing youth HRQoL measures through waananga and think aloud sessions with rangatahi Maaori and their whaanau. Findings will be analysed, synthesised and interpreted and will be disseminated in a variety of ways.

Kapua O’Connor (Ngāti Kurī), The University of Auckland

Ahikā was a well-established tikanga that described the occupation of lands by hapū, conveyed through them being present on their land to stoke their fires. In conjunction with whakapapa connection to the land, the tikanga of ahikā conferred mana on hapū, as the following whakataukī demonstrates:

Ka wera hoki i te ahi, e mana ana anō

While the fire burns, the mana is effective

Ahikā provided the principle that in order to maintain mana, hapū needed to continuously occupy their lands. Ahiteretere described the flickering fires of hapū who had been away for any time longer than normal seasonal absence. Ahimātaotao described the rapidly cooling, or extinguished fires of hapū who had been way for a long time, measured in generations.

Louise Mahinarangi, Kewene-Doig (Tainui/ Ngāti Maniapoto), University of Otago

Waratah, Taogaga (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi), The University of Auckland

How can we - indigenous peoples, navigate spaces where cultural awareness is not normalised? There is an abundance of literature that recognizes the connected nature of indigeneity and social psychology (Johnathan Friedman, 1994; Geertz, Clifford, 1973; Maaka, Roger C.A. (1994) Walker, Ranginui (1989a) , how people are able to define an indigenous identity (Alan Chadwick 2021; Hilary Weaver 2001, Taylor, D. M., & Kachanoff, F. J, A Wilson 1996) and the influence indigeneity has on identity (Paradies 2006, Jackson, S. J., & Hokowhitu, B. (2002) Forte, M. C. (Ed.). (2013).

Meri Haami (Iwi affiliation Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Rangi, Ngā Rauru Kītahi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Victoria University of Wellington

Petera Hudson (Te Whakatoohea), Waikato University

This research takes the position that technologies using AI techniques are promoting a diversity crisis throughout industry, academia, and society. These techniques are amplifying biased stereotypes that are now being observed in automated systems.

This research will examine the ways in which my whānau, members of Te Uri o Patumoana rāua ko Raikete Amoamo, seek to respond to dominant, colonially influenced technologies, and to explore approaches that ensure a new form of colonial oppression does not become a reality.