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2017 Wāhine Ora Award

Applications for the 2017 Wāhine Ora: NPM New Horizons for Women Trust Research Award are currently open.

This is an NPM co-funded research award of $10,000 with New Horizons for Women Trust (NHWT) and is focused at Wāhine Māori researchers.

The Wāhine Ora Award aims to support research that benefits Māori women, girls and/or whānau in Aotearoa New Zealand, is made annually and is a one off grant to assist research and/or living expenses.

2017 Māori Research Opportunities

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga's 2017 Grants and Awards programme has been launched, and it is positioned to build capability and expand capacity across all of NPM's research platform areas.

Each of the opportunities below has a formal application process and assessment criteria - please check the grant or award's criteria and apply online.

Dr Teresia Teaiwa

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Ngarungaru Te Moana Nui A Kiwa

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E te mātanga a te kupu, E te ngākau nui tonu

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2017 Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Awards

We are very proud of our scholars and students that have travelled and studied abroad through our successful partnership with Fulbright NZ. This continues in 2017 with two awards, the Fulbright-NPM Graduate and the Fulbright-NPM Scholar Awards.

Hosting Manuhiri and Researcher Wānanga

Over recent weeks Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has hosted and engaged in deep discussion and relationship building at Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland.

On Thursday 2 February and Friday 3 February NPM brought its researchers (Principal Investigators) together for a Research Wānanga focused not only on whakawhanaungatanga but also on fostering greater cohesiveness across and within our Te Reo me Ngā Tikanga Māori, Whai Rawa, Te Tai Ao and Mauri Ora research programme strategy.

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Te Hononga Pūkenga

Te Hononga Pūkenga - ‘the connection of experts’, was created by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga to make Māori and Indigenous research expertise, location and contact information readily available, in response to the need for stronger engagement between Māori Researchers and Government, the wider public/private sector and to facilitate our communities to access us as Māori & Indigenous researchers. Visit site.

Projects

Arotahinga Rangahau – Research Focus: Te Aho Tapu

Te Tai Ao - Natural Environment

Environment

Te Aho Tapu

What are the links between environmental integrity and the health, wellbeing and wealth of Indigenous communities?

Ensuring the sustainable management of our natural resources is increasingly becoming an issue of national and international concern, and understandably so.

The Cost of Doing Nothing - Health inequities between Māori and non-Māori Adults in New Zealand

Mauri Ora - Human Flourishing

Health

What is the cost of Māori health inequities in Aotearoa?

In New Zealand, the most compelling and consistent health inequalities occur between Māori and non-Māori. Although the cost of reducing inequalities is perceived as high, a recent study for Māori children showed that the economic cost of “doing nothing” is significant for New Zealand society highlighting the fact that such inequalities are preventable, unnecessary and a breach of human rights.

Mai i te Mahana ki te Apakura Makariri

Te Tai Ao - Natural Environment

Environment

What can be learnt and applied now from traditional knowledge and adaptation to future environmental and resource issues?

This project seeks to understand how quickly early Māori society changed from its initial wasteful use of environmental resources soon after the Polynesian migrations, to then live within its ecological means in the face of resource decline pressures. These pressures were largely caused by ongoing extinctions and depletion, compounded by adverse climate change during the period 1350-1900.

Ngā Ture o Te Tai Ao - New Laws for the Environment

Te Tai Ao - Natural Environment

Environment

How can New Zealand’s state legal system recalibrate to challenge the Crown’s assumption of sovereignty over lands and waters treasured by Māori?

Drawing on the research findings of the other Te Tai Ao foundational projects, this project will lead to new laws, policies, plans and models for government and iwi/Māori communities, and will enable Māori to reassert traditional knowledge in governing land, water and resources to better enable flourishing Māori health, wellbeing and prosperity.

Persisting Inequalities and the Potential for Intervention through “New” Governance Models

Whai Rawa - Māori Economies

Economic Development

What is the potential for new governing structures to intervene in persisting social, cultural, political and economic inequalities that disproportionately accrue to Māori?

The multiple accountabilities of Māori leaders to whānau and community members, beneficiaries and external stakeholders make Māori governance challenges unique. Māori entities are collective, ancestry based and do not have easy exit mechanisms for owners and so Māori governance poses complex challenges.

2017 Wāhine Ora Award

2017 Māori Research Opportunities

Dr Teresia Teaiwa

2017 Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Awards

Hosting Manuhiri and Researcher Wānanga

Pages

Arotahinga Rangahau – Research Focus: Te Aho Tapu

The Cost of Doing Nothing - Health inequities between Māori and non-Māori Adults in New Zealand

Mai i te Mahana ki te Apakura Makariri

Ngā Ture o Te Tai Ao - New Laws for the Environment

Persisting Inequalities and the Potential for Intervention through “New” Governance Models