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Dr Amohia Boulton
Dr Amohia Bolton is the Research Director at Whakaue Research for Māori Health & Development with a career that has spanned public policy and academia. She has previously worked as a data analyst (Ministry of Education) policy analyst, senior analyst (Te Puni Kōkiri) and Private Secretary (Māori Affairs) and was awarded an HRC Māori Health Training Fellowship to pursue doctoral study at Massey University in Palmerston North. Her post-doctoral research took her to the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada where she worked with the Lheidli T'enneh First Nations people.Her research…
Professor Amanda Black
Ko Maungapōhatu te maungaKo Tauranga te awaKo Matahi te maraeKo Ngāi Tama te hapuKo Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, me te Whānau a Āpanui te iwiKo Amanda Black ahauMy research area is in environmental soil chemistry and biochemistry, focusing on the health of soil ecosystems. My current areas of focus are understanding the relationship between gene expression and soil productivity such as carbon storage; halting kauri dieback through discovery of disease suppressive traits in soils; and focusing on biosecurity and climate change issues that are of concern to Maori and indigenous communities. I am the…
Professor Carla Anne Houkamau
Carla Houkamau (PhD) is a Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and the Interim Dean for the Faculty of Business and Economics.Carla is of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu and Pākehā descent. She holds a deep personal interest in the history of Māori-Pākehā relations and promoting cultural understanding. Her current research focuses mainly on intergroup relations, chiefly how group memberships influence attitudes and behaviour. Her publications typically examine how ethnicity helps reproduce socio-economic inequalities but can be leveraged to address…
Associate Professor Brad Coombes
Associate Professor Brad Coombe's (Kati Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) research focus is the participation of indigenous peoples in conservation management and environmental planning. This research focuses on the obstacles to establishing partnership approaches, and the appropriateness of comanagement, collaborative science and community-based management for resolving conservation conflicts. He has been involved in several research projects which were commissioned to support the environmental claims of iwi (Maori tribes) before the Waitangi Tribunal. Those projects focus on the capacity of…
Professor Tīmoti Kāretu
Sir Tīmoti Kāretu (Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) is one of Māoridom’s most respected linguists. He was the first Māori language commissioner, between 1987 and 1999, and then was executive director of Te Kohanga Reo National Trust from 1993 until 2003. In 2003, he was closely involved in the foundation of Te Panekiretanga o te Reo, the Institute of Excellence in Māori Language, and served as its executive director.In 2019, Tīmoti translated nine songs from English to Māori language for the album, Waiata/Anthems, which peaked at No. 1 on the New Zealand album charts in September 2019.He is considered…
Professor Te Kani Kingi
Prior to his role as Executive Director of Research and Innovation at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Professor Te Kani Kingi was an Associate Professor at Massey University in Wellington and concurrently held three roles as Director Māori (within the Office of the Associate Vice-Chancellor) Director of the Research Centre for Māori Health and Development (within the College of Health) and Director of Academy for Māori Research and Scholarship. He has formally been an executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, The Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, the National Ethics…
Professor Tania Ka'ai
Professor Tania Ka’ai came to AUT in 2007 with a goal to form the National Māori Language Institute, which was established in 2008. The International Centre for Language Revitalisation was then launched in 2011.Tania was born and raised in New Zealand. She is of Hawaiian, Cook Islands, and Samoan descent through her father’s side and she is of Māori descent on her mother’s side.Tania completed a Bachelor of Education from the University of Waikato and a Master of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. The focus of her thesis was the transition of children from Te Kōhanga Reo to school and…
Professor Taiarahia Black
Taiarahia Black is a New Zealand academic known for advancing Māori language revitalisation and reclamation through scholarship, teaching, and cultural knowledge work. Rising to full professor at Massey University, he built a career that blends Māori language priorities with academic credibility and institutional service. His public engagements have also reflected an educator’s instinct: interpreting language and cultural values in ways that can be carried into everyday life. Across decades in higher education, he has come to represent a careful, language-centered approach to sustaining…
Paora Sharples
Paora Sharples is Kaihautu Tikanga (Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori leader) at NPM and also a Professional Teaching Fellow at the Department of Māori Studies, University of Auckland where he lectures in Kapahaka, Traditional & Contemporary Māori Performing Arts and Te Reo Māori. He has had a significant career in kapahaka as well as traditional and contemporary Māori performing arts, including areas of performing, teaching/training, directing, judging as well as choreography and composition within this indigenous genre of dance.Paora has also spent 30 years developing, teaching and promoting the…
Associate Professor Rachel Wolfgramm
After two decades of initiating and leading multiple Sustainability and Māori initiatives locally and internationally, Rachel was appointed Associate Dean Māori, Associate Dean Pacific, and Director of the Dame Mira Szászy Research Centre at the University of Auckland Business School. Rachel was also appointed Director of Ngā Ara Whetu, Center for Climate, Biodiversity and Society along with fellow colleagues Professor Jaqueline Beggs, Professor JR Rowland, Professor David Noon, Professor Said Baroutian, Professor Rod McNaughton, Professor Niki Harre, A/Professor Maria Amoudian…
Associate Professor Robert Joseph
Robert is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and was a senior research fellow for the Te Mātāhauariki Research Institute at the University of Waikato under the leadership of Judge Michael Brown and Dr Alex Frame. Dr Robert Joseph was the second Māori in New Zealand - and the first Māori male - to graduate with a PhD in Law in 2006.Robert's research interests are many and varied: the realisation of the Treaty of Waitangi rights and responsibilities, the interface of traditional Māori knowledge systems and western science; internal self-determination rights and…
Garth Harmsworth
Garth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Landcare Research since 1992. His career spans over 28 years in resource management, land resource assessment, national environmental databases, GIS applications, and indigenous research. Garth pioneered much of the Māori led research in Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Ltd., working on a wide range projects with Māori organisations and regional councils throughout New Zealand, particularly in the areas of land use planning, ecosystem health, bio-physical and cultural indicators, restoring indigenous…
Professor Chellie Spiller
Ko Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa tōku iwi.Ko Ngāi Tahu Matawhaiti Iwitea tōku hapū.I am Professor of Leadership and Management at Waikato Management School, University of Waikato. My research explores how people, organisations and communities cultivate the capacities needed to act wisely within relationships, responsibilities and conditions of uncertainty. Across my work, I bring together Indigenous leadership, Māori economies of wellbeing, wayfinding, stewardship, relational wealth, cultural intelligence, wisdom and systems change.My doctoral research developed the idea of relational wellbeing…
Professor Chellie Spiller
Dr Chellie Spiller, of Matawhaiti Iwitea, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, is Professor of Management and Leadership, and Associate Dean Māori at the University of Waikato. She was previously a senior lecturer and Associate Dean Māori and Pacific at the University of Auckland Business School. She has over 30 years of corporate experience in tourism, finance and marketing, holding senior executive positions in New Zealand and abroad, and brings this experience to her academic work and leadership and management development programmes. Her research explores how Māori and indigenous businesses create…
Associate Professor Bridget Robson
Bridget Robson (Ngāti Raukawa) is the director of Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare at the University of Otago, Wellington. Her research interests are in the areas of social and economic determinants of health, inequitable treatment in the health system, the impact of racism on health, and the development of kaupapa Māori epidemiology.Bridget is the Principal Investigator of Unequal Treatment: The Role of Health Services. She is also involved in the Mauri Tangata project on unemployment and health, several projects on Māori cancer outcomes, and she is active in providing Tackling…
Aroha Mead
Aroha Mead (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tuhourangi and Ngāi Tūhoe) traverses many different fields and disciplines. She's a political scientist (international relations) specialsing on the contribution of indigenous peoples to national, regional and global policy and law. Aroha has experience in journalism, public policy, diplomacy, senior management, governance boards, academic lecturer and researcher. She's worked in many different sectors including the public service, international organisations, community groups and in the voluntary sector. Her experience traverses working…
Professor Tim McCreanor
Tim McCreanor is a senior researcher at SHORE and Whariki Research Centre, within the College of Health at Massey University in Auckland. His broad public health orientation and interest in the social determinants of health and wellbeing, provide a platform for social science projects that support and stimulate social change. In particular his research seeks to foreground, critique and redress the mechanisms of talk, text and other forms of communication that operate to produce, maintain and naturalise the disparities, exclusions and inequities so evident in our society. Discourse analysis…
Dr Gail Tipa
Gail Tipa (Kai Tahu) completed a BA at the University of Otago and taught for six years at schools in Dunedin and the Taieri before completing a Master's degree in Resource and Regional Planning. She then worked in the planning field firstly for Electricity Corporation of New Zealand and then for the Southern Regional Health Authority.In 1996 Gail began consultancy work, being involved with the Ngai Tahu claim and other iwi resource management projects.Since 1996 Gail has increasingly focused on work that enhances Maori aspirations. This includes representation of her rununga and iwi on…
Wendy Henwood
Wendy Henwood lives and works from home in the Hokianga. She has a background in community health and development, and research and formative/process evaluation of community public health and community development type programmes. She also is provides evaluation and planning training with community providers in the north. Wendy is actively involved with marae/hapu developments and iwi affairs. Recent research projects have included Te Mauri O Te U-kai-po: intergenerational experiences of environment and wellbeing of an iwi, and Interconnections: the links between whānau and marae in Te…
Mr. Garth Harmsworth
Garth Harmsworth is a senior environmental scientist based in Palmerston North and has worked for Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research since 1992. His professional career spans over 38 years in resource management, land resource assessment, national environmental databases, GIS applications, and indigenous research. Garth pioneered much of the Māori led research in Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Ltd., working on a wide range projects with Māori organisations, Government agencies, regional councils, industry, and communities throughout New Zealand, particularly in the areas of land use planning…
Professor Diane Ruwhiu
Diane Ruwhiu (Ngāpuhi) teaches strategic operations and supply chain management at under and post-graduate levels. In addition, she also introduces Māori values and practice into other areas, such as entrepreneurship, research methods, business communication, and organisations and sustainability.Diane's PhD, 'The Sleeping Taniwha: Exploring the practical utility of kaupapa Māori in firm performance', engaged with the premise that improved Māori firm performance and sustainable advantage, are not merely an outcome of economic activity, but are also determinants of the value derived from…
Professor Papaarangi Reid
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 Michael Walker
Professor Michael Walker is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Royal Institute of Navigation in London. He is best known for his research on the existence, capacities and use of the magnetic sense in navigation over long distances. Recently, he has developed research investigating the mechanisms of the lunar and tidal rhythms in marine organisms. He also led other NPM projects, He Reo no te Whenua: The establishment of a Māori-centric conservation paradigm and Use of advanced technologies to develop culturally appropriate pest-management strategies for rural Māori…
Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes
Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes is based out of Massey University and is currently Director of Whāriki and Co-director of the SHORE and Whariki Research Centre. She has worked on research in many areas; more recently relationships between the health of people and the health of environments, sexual coercion, alcohol and youth well-being and identity.Her work is both qualitative and quantitative and she is also involved in developing research within Māori paradigms. Helen is a long time NPM researcher and is now a NPM Theme Leader (Te Tai Ao - Natural Environment ) and member of our Research…