Project Reports and Working Papers

The research challenges facing New Zealand society are multi-dimensional and there is a critical need for multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams of researchers to collaborate on research issues. Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has accordingly supported many research projects fostering quality,collaboration and innovation at national and international levels.

Pdf versions of the reports and working papers of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga research are listed below. More project publications will be added over time.

Ōkahu Bay restoration: Internship report

Author: Ani Kainamu, Supervisor: Dr Dan Hikuroa. This project fulfils part of the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga summer studentship project that looks at the elements of ecological and Mauri restoration at Ōkahu Bay. This current study focused on the population abundance and distribution of marine benthic shellfish pipi (Paphies australis) and common cockle (proper name New Zealand Littleneck Clam;...

Phonological development in Māori speaking preschoolers: Internship Report

Author: Joshua Tahana. Supervisor Dr Elaine Ballard
This report outlines the background for a study to be undertaken tracking phonological development (speech skills) in Māori for Māori speaking pre-school children. Although there is a substantial body of literature on how children develop speech sounds in English we know nothing about the developmental trajectory in Māori.
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Transformations of entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership: Internship Report

Author: Raaniera Te Whata. Supervisor: Dr Merata Kawharu
As there has been no major analytical works on contemporary Māori leadership, the purpose of this project is to contribute to addressing this knowledge gap by examining entrepreneurial tribal Māori leadership and the role it can play in the revitalisation of wealth in New Zealand in terms of culture, identity, economics and...

Impacts of Fracking on Indigenous Reservations in Alberta: Internship Report

Author: Manaia Rehu. Supervisor: Dr Kepa Morgan
Hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ is emerging as the future of global energy. Fracking operations are increasing at an alarming rate throughout North America and the rest of the world. However, the process of fracturing fuel-rich subterranean rock deep below the surface to extract oil and gas has great uncertainty surrounding it.
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Marginalising Māori Parents: Internship Report

Author: Elizabeth Jurisich Strickett. Supervisors: Associate Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes and Dr Tim McCreanor.
This report was written while undertaking a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga internship with Whāriki, SHORE and Whāriki Research Centre, Massey University. The review topic of marginalising Māori parents arose out of a report on rangatahi and sexual coercion, which included an...

Māori Youth Employment: Internship Report

Author: Nimbus Staniland. Supervisor: Professor Charles Crothers
This report introduces quantitative analyses of Māori youth employment and occupational status using data from the New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS) issued by Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) in 2008 and 2010. This research project was conducted as a piece of a larger project entitled “Ways of being Māori updated:...

Reo Māori ki ngā Rorohiko o te Kura: Internship Report

Author: Tara Dalley. Supervisor: Dr Te Taka Keegan
The aim of this research was to determine the level of awareness and willingness to use software with a te reo Māori interface by the Māori medium education sector. The literature describes the importance and function of language in culture, society and as a part of identity; te reo Māori is an important part of Māori culture and...

Te Pae Tawhiti: Māori economic development
Economic Development

Te Pae Tawhiti (“the distant horizon”) is one of NPM’s most significant research programmes. This economic development research programme follows the start of Te Pae Tawhiti: Te Reo Māori in 2010, a three-year research initiative exploring the value of Māori language on New Zealand economy, culture and society.

Trends in wellbeing for Māori families 1981–2006
Health and Social Wellbeing

This project is contributing to the key policy area of whānau ora/ family wellbeing via new analysis of the wealth of data contained in the six national household censuses of 1981 to 2006. Indicators of family wellbeing have been developed to identify trends across 25 years with the team having produced several reports and publications on measuring changes and key factors affecting family...

Tetrodotoxin in Kaimoana: Science and Mātauranga Mitigating Health Risks from a Lethal Neurotoxin
Environmental Sustainability

The Hauraki Māori Trust Board and the Cawthron Institute collaborated in this research project which stemmed from a spate of dog deaths on the beaches of Tikapa Moana (the Hauraki Gulf) in August 2009.  The dogs died from the poison tetrodotoxin (TTX) and this poison was present in sea slugs that had washed up on beaches. It became apparent research was needed to determine the poisoning...