Our Research
NPM research solves real world challenges facing Māori. We do so in Māori-determined and inspired ways engendering sustainable relationships that grow the mana (respect and regard) and mauri (life essence) of the world we inhabit.
The excellence and expertise of the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga researcher network is organised by four Te Ao Māori knowledge and excellence clusters or Pae. Pae are where our researchers rise with Te Ao Māori knowledge, tools and expertise to build a secure and prosperous future for Māori and Aotearoa New Zealand. Pae are purposefully expansive and inclusive, supporting transdisciplinary teams and approaches. Our 2021-2024 programme of work will look to the far future to assure flourishing Māori futures for generations to come. With Māori intended as the primary beneficiaries of our research, our programme will reinforce the firmly established foundations of mātauranga Māori through sound research attuned to the lived experience of Māori.
Four Pātai or critical systems-oriented questions generate transformative interventions and policy advice for stakeholders and next users. All of our research will contribute mātauranga-informed theories, models and evidenced solutions in response to our Pātai. Our Pātai serve to integrate and energise our programme and Pae to synthesize our research for next stage impact and outcomes.
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Internship project
Project commenced:Pae OraPātai PuāwaiProject supervisor: Dr Karen Wright
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau
Raumati intern: Nadine Everson (Te Arawa)
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Internship project
Project commenced:Project completedPae AhureiPātai Te Ao MāoriProject supervisor: Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora
Institution: Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Raumati intern: Moana Murray (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa)
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Internship project
Project commenced:Pae AhureiPātai Te Ao MāoriProject supervisor: Dr Hurinui Clarke & Kari Moana Te Rongopatahi
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
Raumati intern: Georgia Palmer (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pikiao)
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Borrin Internship project Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Pae TawhitiPātai Te Ao MāoriProject supervisor: Associate Professor Linda Te Aho
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato
Raumati intern: Nikorima Te Iwi Ngaro Nuttall (Raukawa) & Noah Piripi Kemp (Te Aati Awa, Ngaapuhi, Ngaati Tuuwharetoa)
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Internship project
Project commenced:Project completedPae TawhitiPātai Te Ao MāoriProject supervisor: Heni Unwin, Māori Researcher for Marine Technologies, Cawthron Institute
Raumati intern: Toiroa Whaanga-Davies (Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungungu, Ngāti Rehua, Ngāti Wai)
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Internship project
Project commenced:Pae AhureiPātai Te Ao MāoriProject supervisor: Professor Linda Nikora
Institution: Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Raumati intern: Edie Balme (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama)
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Internship project
Project commenced:Pae AuahaPātai Te Ao MāoriProject supervisor: Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato
Raumati intern: Keenen Wood (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Rarua, Ngāti Toa Rangatira)
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Internship project Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Pae OraPātai MauriProject supervisors: Dr Tania Cliffe-Tautari & Dr Luke Fitzmaurice
Institution: Waipapa Taumata Rau
Raumati interns: Courtney Smith (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa) & Danielle Matthews (Ngāpuhi)
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Internship project
Project commenced:Pae OraPātai WhānauProject supervisors: Professor Denise Wilson & Dr Alayne Mikahere-Hall
Institution: Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau
Raumati intern: Hana Vause (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa)
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Internship project
Project commenced:Rautaki WhakaaweawePātai PuāwaiProject supervisor: Associate Professor Bridgette Masters-Awatere & Dr Amohia Boulton
Institution: Whakauae Research
Raumati intern: Grace Manihera (Ngaati Wairere, Ngaati Mahuta)
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Communiqué
Project commenced:Project completedThis communiqué was developed by the Indigenous Data Sovereignty Collab held at the 10th International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC22), 15-18 November 2022.
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Doctoral Thesis
Project commenced:Project completedPae TawhitiPātai PuāwaiPhD Candidate: Jennifer Tokomauri McGregor (Ngati Raukawa (Waikato))
Primary Supervisor(s): Dr. Alayne Mikahere-Hall
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Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae OraPātai WhānauMāori youth are over-represented in the negative indices for youth court apprehensions (8.3 times higher than non-Māori) (Ministry of Justice, 2020). Despite this, there is a dearth of research about the experiences of rangatahi Māori who offend, and their whānau (Suaalii-Sauni, Tauri & Webb, 2018).This project builds on recent PhD findings (Cliffe-Tautari, 2021) which indicated that Māori youth who offend, and their whānau, experience considerable trauma in their lives prior to, and during the times of rangatahi’ offending; including trauma resulting from state intervention into their lives.
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Doctoral Thesis
Project commenced:Project completedPae AuahaPātai WhānauPhD Candidate: Ella Ruth Newbold (Waikato, Ngāti Porou)
Primary Supervisor(s): Professor Tahu Kukutai
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Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae OraPātai Te Ao MāoriToiora, Hauora is a Kaupapa Māori arts-based collaboration to theorise the pedagogy of Māori creative practices that support flourishing Māori whānau wellbeing. This innovative research centres Māori arts-based practice ‘as teacher’, bringing together three established Māori arts scholar-practitioners to expand the currently under-researched field of Māori pedagogies, and to highlight the critical role of Māori arts practice and pedagogy to grow well and flourishing Māori futures.
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Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae OraPātai MauriTeachers are increasingly tasked with acknowledging their racial biases and the resulting impacts on their students’ learning and wellbeing. However, anti-bias trainings are typically generalised learning experiences with little effect. Through focus groups with Māori students in Northland schools, this project will identify common incidents of racism.
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Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae AhureiPātai Te Ao MāoriNgaati Koroki Kahukura are kaitiaki of lands and waters that span from their ancestral mountain, Maungatautari, to their tupuna awa, Waikato, including areas of national significance such as Cambridge (Te Oko Horoi a Taawhiao) and Karaapiro, the site of the last intra-iwi battle of Taumata Wiiwii in the 1800s.
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Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae OraPātai Te Ao MāoriIndigenous people will be more severely affected by global climate change than other populations. Despite increasing awareness of these inequities, national and global responses to climate change often fail to address issues of specific concern to Indigenous peoples and tend to overlook the potential contribution of Indigenous knowledges. Indigenous peoples’ knowledges are based on holistic and interdependent understandings of the environment and have the potential to inform action towards climate transformation.
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Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae AhureiPātai Te Ao MāoriKai piro was traditionally a staple component of the Māori diet. However, over time and due to post-european contact, the practice of sourcing, processing, and consumption of kai piro has lessened to the degree in which it is no longer part of the common Māori diet today. The practice of kai piro is maintained today by remnants of an ageing Māori population.
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Matakitenga project
Project commenced:Project completedPae AuahaPātai Te Ao MāoriThis research project explores the utilisation of sonic mapping and LiDar scanning of Motiti marae and Tapuiwahine A12 landblocks, located 7 km south-west of Te Kūiti, on Mangatea Road. The principal hapū associated with Mōtiti marae are Ngāti Te Puta-i-te-muri, Ngāti Tauhunu, Ngāti Urunumia and Ngāti Kinohaku.The wharepuni are named Ko Te Hunga-iti and Te Hāpainga. The marae connects ancestrally to the Tainui waka, the maunga Kakepuku and Pirongia, the awa Mangapū and the tribal collective of Ngāti Maniapoto.