• Taking Control: Māori Responses to Money, Wealth and Savings

    Full project Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

    What current methods do Māori use to manage money? What financial products and services are likely to be effective for Māori and how might these be successfully implemented? What support can Māori organisations (including iwi) and the government provide to increase whānau financial literacy and savings?

    Poverty within many Māori communities is perpetuated by low incomes, poor financial literacy and a lack of whānau role models who encourage saving. For change to occur, financial education, collaborative community efforts and radical behavioural shifts are required.

    Project commenced:
    Whai Rawa - Māori Economies
    Economic Development

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  • Hua o te Kawariki – Ngāti Whātua Curriculum

    Doctoral Thesis

    PhD Candidate: Waratah Mihiwira Taogaga (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Barkindji (NSW), Ngāti Hāmoa.)

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    Rautaki Kounga
    Pātai Te Ao Māori

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  • Tuurangawaewae Marae: A Place to Stand

    Scoping project

    The guiding research question for this project are:

    1) How has Tuurangawaewae Marae fostered community mauri ora (wellbeing) within Waikato and in Te Ao Maaori more broadly?

    2) What role has Tuurangawaewae Marae played as both a repository and a place of action for te Reo me ngaa Tikanga in Waikato and in Aotearoa-New Zealand?

    3) What are the factors underpinning Tuurangawaewae Marae’s endurance as a centre for Maaori political action and manaakitanga (caring for community) both nationally and for Waikato whaanau

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    Te Reo me Ngā Tikanga Māori
    Te Reo

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  • How Great Can We Be? Identity Leaders of the Māori Economic Resistance

    Internship project

    Intern: Rewi Nankivell

    Supervisor: Dr Carla Houkamau

    The University of Auckland Business School

    This research seeks to determine the concepts of cultural richness through a Māori lens and within the principles of whanaungatanga, manaakitanga and aroha. Nankivell blends personal narrative and research to examine cultural richness and social capital and how these themes can be integrated into an urban setting.

    Project commenced:
    Whai Rawa - Māori Economies

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  • Ngāpuhi
    Lecturer
    Faculty of Business and Economics
    University of Auckland
    Whai Rawa - Māori Economies

    Jamie is a lecturer in Management and International Business at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland. He is also the CEO of Soul Capital, which invests in social enterprises and social business in Aotearoa New Zealand.

    He is a board member on the National Advisory Board for Impact Investment, on Connect: Supporting Recovery, on Social Enterprise Auckland and works as a consultant on Business Model Innovation, Strategy and Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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    Full project

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    Developing a Māori Theory of Value

    The theory of value research platform is concerned with considering:

    • How can the values that drive the Māori economy be understood and articulated within a theoretical context?
    • How can the values that drive the Māori economy be utilised by Māori communities to enhance wellbeing?

    The theory of value platform project seeks to build on research conducted by the Whai Rawa theme in the areas of Indigenous economics and entrepreneurship and Māori enterprise. Māori values research has indicated that they go beyond Māori business and entrepreneurship.

  • Ngāto Porou
    Lecturer
    Faculty of Business and Economics
    University of Auckland
    Whai Rawa - Māori Economies

    Kiri is a lecturer in property in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland. Her teaching focuses on Māori land issues and Māori entrepreneurship and business development. Kiri’s research and areas of expertise focuses on competitive Māori strategy, Māori economics and Māori business.

    Related Projects

    Full project

    Project commenced:

    Developing a Māori Theory of Value

    The theory of value research platform is concerned with considering:

    • How can the values that drive the Māori economy be understood and articulated within a theoretical context?
    • How can the values that drive the Māori economy be utilised by Māori communities to enhance wellbeing?

    The theory of value platform project seeks to build on research conducted by the Whai Rawa theme in the areas of Indigenous economics and entrepreneurship and Māori enterprise. Māori values research has indicated that they go beyond Māori business and entrepreneurship.

  • Māori-led education for sustainability – collective learning through observatories

    Internship project

    This ummer intern project will document Māori community engagement with open days and public observatories as a means of achieving the goals of transformative education in a more culturally appropriate and publicly accessible form.

    Project commenced:
    Te Tai Ao - Natural Environment

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  • Te Rarawa Ngāpuhi
    University of Auckland
  • Te Whānau a Āpanui
    Associate Professor - Te Puna Wananga, Faculty of Education and Social Work
    University of Auckland
    Te Reo me Ngā Tikanga Māori

    Tony’s research interests are broadly focused on a number of areas in the teaching and learning of mathematics in the medium of Maori.

    This includes researching the complex relationship between te reo Maori and mathematics, particularly the development of the mathematics register and the teaching and learning of the register.

    His research also focuses on student achievement in Maori medium mathematics and the factors that support and impinge on student progress.

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    Kia Ārohi Kia Mārama - Scoping Excellence

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    Mātauranga Māori: Enhancing Māori-medium schooling

    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?

  • Ngāti Rongomai Ngāti Pikiao Te Arawa
    Senior Lecturer Medical - Te Kupenga Hauora Māori
    University of Auckland
    Mauri Ora - Human Flourishing

    Dr Elana Taipapaki Curtis is a Public Health Physician currently working as Senior Lecturer Medical at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, University of Auckland. 

    She is Director Vision 20:20 which provides academic leadership of Hikitia Te Ora - Certificate in Health Sciences (bridging/foundation education for Māori and Pacific), Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme (MAPAS, admission and retention support for Māori and Pacific students) and the Whakapiki Ake Project (WAP, Māori recruitment). 

    In 2004-2005, Elana was a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy based at the University of California (San Francisco) - investigating ethnic disparities in breast cancer mortality and survival.  Prior to this, Elana worked at the National Screening Unit, Ministry of Health in Wellington where she investigated Maori:non-Maori disparities in breast cancer epidemiology, and at Te Ropū Rangahau Hauora ā Eru Pōmare – Māori Health Research Centre at the University of Otago investigating ethnic disparities in access to invasive cardiovascular procedures/caesarean sections and the relationship between disparities and deprivation. 

    She has recently submitted her Doctorate of Medicine (MD) focused on indigenous health workforce development and is involved in Kaupapa Māori Research investigating the teaching of indigenous health within medical education, ethnic inequities within emergency department settings, ethnic inequities in cardiovascular care and is developing a research focus exploring the prevalence of dementia amongst Māori.

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