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Dr Paul Brown
Ko Karioi tōku maungaKo Whāingaroa me Kāwhia ōku moanaKo Tainui tōku wakaKo Tainui me Ngāti Hikairo ōku iwiKei te noho au ki KirikiriroaKo Paul Brown tāku ingoaI am an early career researcher in Statistics, with research interests in computational Bayesian inference and statistical modelling. Currently, I am working on projects with police on a range of projects, including statistical modelling crime and crime patterns in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton). As the use of data and algorithms in society become more prevalent, it is important that we understand the benefits and pitfalls that this may cause…
Dr Dion O’Neale
Dion O’Neale is a Principal Data Scientist at Nicholson Consulting. With a background in Mathematics and Physics, Dion is interested in all things network science-related. This has spanned from using networks for economic geography (to understand how scientific innovations cluster within regions leading to technological specialisation); archaeology (using networks of co-occurring obsidian artefacts to infer social networks in pre-European Aotearoa); through to behavioural ecology (using networks of species and traits to understand the mating systems of spiders). Much of his recent work has…
Tracy Maniapoto
Te Āti Haunui-a-PāpārangiNgāti TūwharetoaNgāti PorouNgāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa I draw inspiration for my designs from my love of weaving kete whakairo and kākahu, having learned with the Hetet School of Māori Art for a number of years.I also draw inspiration from te reo Māori, the Māori language. I did not grow up learning te reo and have struggled to reclaim this learning. As a full-time post-graduate student with Te Pūtahi-a-Toi, Massey University, I have been gifted the opportunity to engage with te reo through research. My doctoral research explores the revitalisation of te reo Māori in…
Te Mihinga Komen
Neke atu i te 25 tau kua whakaako a Te Mihinga i te reo Māori me ngōna tikanga, kōhungahunga mai, pakeke mai, puta i ngā tūmomo akomanga katoa. Hei tāna, “Ko tōku reo tōku oranga.” Kātahi anō ia ka wehe i tōna tūranga hei Pou Ārahi i academyEX ki te whai i tana tohu kairangi. I reira, i whakangungua e ia ngōna hoamahi me ngāna ākonga ki ngā tini āhuatanga o tōna ao Māori, arā, ko te reo Māori, tikanga, karakia, waiata, ngā āhuatanga o te Kaupapa Māori, hautūtanga Māori, mātauranga Māori me te whakaako i te tauira Māori i te kura. Nāna hoki i kōkiri Te Ara Kōtihi, te rautaki ako o te kamupene…
Dr Kim Southey
Dr Kim Southey (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Koata) serves on the Rangahau team of Te Manawahoukura, based in Kirikiriroa. She is a Ngā Pūanga Pūtaiao Fellow, bringing a kaupapa-driven research programme grounded in mātauranga Māori and community-connected practice.Kim is a registered community psychologist with experience across government and Māori provider organisations. Her mahi has focused on advancing health equity through policy development and frontline roles grounded in Whānau Ora principles. She has led community and iwi-based research across a range of kaupapa, including child…
Aamon Hāwea Apiata
Hāwea Apiata (Ngāti Kura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Toarangatira) currently works as the Poukōkiri Mātauranga Toi based in Te Iho o Te Manawataki|Library. In this role he works across both the University’s art & taonga collections as well as the open research space (research dissemination & publishing).In his work in the arts space he curates exhibitions, advises on and contributes to the campus gallery’s exhibition program, and applies an Indigenous lens to collection care, management, and research alongside the Poutiaki Taonga and Kaitiaki Mātangireia.In the open research space, he supports…
Dr. Kiri West
Ko Moehau te maunga, ko Tikapa te moana, ko Waihou te awa, ko Matai Whetu te marae, ko Ngāti Whaanga te hapū, ko Ngāti Maru (ki Hauraki) te iwi. Tihei Mauriora. I am an Indigenous researcher, kaupapa Māori theoriser, Communication lecturer and a reluctant storyteller. My research background includes Māori data sovereignty, tikanga and technology and research ethics. In an increasingly digitised world, I am interested in the ways in which we can give meaning to the above fields through the telling of our own stories. I draw on storytelling as a method of sense-making, particularly through the…
Professor Georgina Stewart
Georegina Stewart's (Ngāti Kura, Ngāpuhi) book ‘Māori Philosophy: Indigenous thinking from Aotearoa’ (Bloomsbury 2021) explains her original delineation of Māori Philosophy as a Kaupapa Māori approach for investigating topics in Māori knowledge. Her research contributes to the debate between science and Māori knowledge, a local form of a global discussion about the role of Indigenous knowledge in science, in the face of looming environmental multi-crises. She's also engaged in ongoing investigations of what it means to be Māori today, as an example of living cultural difference, even after…
Ahinata Kaitai-Mullan
Ahinata Kaitai-Mullane (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha)—is a Post-Doctoral Fellow writer, and thinker whose work moves through the intersections of gender, Kāi Tahuness, and creative expression.
Dr Emerald Muriwai
Emerald Muriwai (Ngāti Ira, Ngai Tamahaua, Ngāti Patumoana, Te Whakatōhea, Airihi) is a Clinical Psychologist with a background in kaupapa Māori research, public health, indigenous psychology and sport psychology.She is a Clinical Psychologist at Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland in Adult Mental Health. She also serves as co-chair on the Executive Governance Board for Ngā Pou Mana Tangata Whenua Allied Health, which was established to provide a forum for Māori allied health professionals to discuss Māori allied health issues within and between professions. Emerald is also a certified Les…
Associate Professor Lara Greaves
Associate Professor Lara Greaves (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā, Tararā) is an associate professor in politics at Victoria University of Wellington and a senior research fellow in statistics at the University of Auckland.She is a Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Discovery Fellow (2024-2029), investigating improvements to democracy and participation in New Zealand, particularly focusing on Māori and intersectionality.With colleague Dr Rituparna Roy, she co-leads a work package or EU-CIEMBLY, funded by Horizon Europe. The project seeks to make citizens' assemblies more inclusive, also focusing on…
Dr Jose Romeo
Jose Romeo (Pepe), is a researcher in Statistics, specialised in survival analysis, interested in applying statistical models for decision-making in public-health and social sciences. He holds a Statistical Engineering degree (University of Santiago, Chile) and a PhD in Statistics (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). Since December 2016, he works at SHORE providing statistical expertise on quantitative research projects led by social and public-health researchers on topics including alcohol consumption and policy and drugs trends. He provides advice on research design and analyses as grant…
Dr Belinda Borell
Belinda Borell (Ngati Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi, Whakatōhea) has expertise in understanding racism as a social determinant of health. Dr Borell has a broad public health and social science background. She is particularly interested in how structural privilege works to maintain and entrench health and social inequities. She is currently examining how government datasets can be utilised to examine the ways trauma, and privilege, may be passed through generations.Her doctoral work, The Nature of the Gaze: a conceptual discussion of societal privilege from an indigenous perspective examines how…
Assoc Professor Rhys Jones
Dr Rhys Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) is a Public Health Physician and Associate Professor in Te Kupenga Hauora Māori (TKHM). As Co-Director of Teaching in TKHM, he contributes to oversight of Māori Health teaching, learning and assessment in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. He has a strong track record of leadership in teaching and learning, which was nationally recognised when he received the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence in 2020.Rhys’s research broadly addresses Indigenous health and health equity. In 2005-06, he was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care…
Moira Poutama
Moira Poutama is an iwi researcher with over 20 years’ experience leading kaupapa Māori and taiao-focused projects. Her work spans oral history, environmental restoration, and iwi engagement, producing evidence and research that support iwi aspirations. She has contributed to award-winning studies and collaborative reports on ecosystems, waterways, and whānau wellbeing.
Hayden Fowler
Hayden Fowler has a Master of Fine Arts from UNSW Australia and an earlier degree in Ecology. He employs the dynamics of a hybrid practice, incorporating emerging theory from both the sciences and humanities to develop projects that engage audiences conceptually, aesthetically and immersively. His practice is motivated by the planetary human-nature crisis, exploring the effects of alienation from the natural world on the human psyche and the potentials of non-anthropocentric thought in the generation of transformed futures.Fowler's work and thinking is located within colonial/ post-colonial…
Nathan Galluzzo
Landscape Architect, researcher and investigator working across environmental, trans-disciplinary, Māori and Aboriginal projects, and tutor at the University of Technology Sydney. Nathan’s practice and research are grounded in a strong interest in creative thinking, ecological enhancement, traditional knowledge and the relationships between people, culture and Country.Nathan is currently undertaking PhD research exploring how Indigenous-led forms of visual storytelling can support the communication and recognition of Indigenous knowledge within Western legal and evidentiary frameworks. His…
Meretini Bennett-Huxtable
I was born in Whanganui and raised in Taihape, where I now live as a mum to three young mana wahine on our ancestral lands in Mōkai Pātea. I'm raising our girls in the lessons of sustainability and survival with the whenua whether as a gardener, hunter, gatherer or diver immersed in our taiao. We live flanked by the landmarks and sites of significance as told through our whakapapa.An eagerness from a young age to learn the intricate art of whakapapa, under my mother's watchful eye, has helped to acquire transferable skills in building relationships, networking and collaborating. I have always…
Assistant Professor Melissa Vera
Dr. Vera is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing and The Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH).As a citizen of the Tsm’syen and Yaqui First Nations, her research focuses on Indigenous health and climate change and is heavily grounded in Indigenous research methods and Indigenous knowledges. She focuses on social determinants of health, anti-racist praxis, and amplifying marginalized voices in health literature and policy.EducationBachelor of Arts (BA), Creative Writing, Seattle University, Seattle, WABachelor of Science (BSN), Nursing, Boise…
Graeme Atkins
Graeme currently serves as a Kaitieki Ranger in the Raukūmara Pae Maunga Restoration Project, a Māori-led initiative dedicated to the revitalisation of indigenous landscapes. In this role, he is an essential leader and pou in ongoing developments, collaborating closely with local communities, and sharing Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) to guide restoration efforts. Graeme's work exemplifies a deep respect for the cultural and ecological significance of the whenua (land).