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Dr Lynne Russell works as a Senior Research Fellow - Maori Health with the Health Services Research Centre (HSRC) at Victoria University of Wellington. Much of her professional and academic work has centred around the Indigenous knowledge and healing practices used in recovery from trauma associated with mental distress, suicide loss and self-harm. She describes herself as an writer, activist and public speaker stirred by cultural resilience, social justice, Indigenous and LGBTI rights, and the amplification of voices more readily silenced in society.

Donna has been involved in work on the collection and classification of ethnicity data in New Zealand, particularly as it relates to measuring and monitoring disparities. Most recently, Donna has been focused on work examining disparities in cancer outcomes and access to cancer services for Māori. She is involved in the Differential Colon Cancer Survival by Ethnicity in New Zealand project as well as Unequal Treatment: The Role of Health Services with Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pōmare.

Brad's 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 indigenous peoples to influence landscape change and halt environmental degradation through the planning process. They also emphasise the impacts of conservation on the communities which surround national parks, and the search for policies which attempt coexistence between conservation, development and Treaty rights.

He also has research interests in long-standing dilemmas in environmental management, conflicts about and approaches to promoting indigenous habitat protection and water quality control on private land, strategies to motivate the public to participate in environmental projects and community-based restoration projects throughout New Zealand.