• Waikato Ngāti Mahuta Ngāti Te Ahiwaru
    Deputy Director - Te Kōtahi Research Institute
    Pou Pae Ahurei, Kāhui Arahi

    Dr Lee-Morgan is Professor of Māori Research and was a founding Director of Ngā Wai a te Tui Māori Research Centre, Te Whare Wananga o Wairaka Unitec. Initially a secondary school teacher, she became a teacher educator and kaupapa Māori researcher in education with a focus on Maori pedagogy and methodology.

  • Te Whānau a Āpanui
    Associate Professor - Te Puna Wananga, Faculty of Education and Social Work

    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.

  • Ngaruahine Rangi Ngāti Ruanui Te Ati Awa
    Senior Researcher
  • Ngāti Ranginui Ngāti Tūwharetoa
    Associate Professor - Centre for Academic Development, Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Mātauranga Māori)

    Meegan teaches courses on higher education learning and teaching and hosts teaching orientations and events. Most of her teaching is to lecturers and tutors whilst she also contributes to the programme offered by Te Kawa a Māui, the School of Māori Studies, such as their introductory course about Māori society and culture and their postgraduate course about Māori research methodologies.

  • Ngāpuhi
    Director - Tōmaiora, Māori Health Research / Senior Lecturer

    Dr Matire Harwood (PhD, MBChB) lives in Auckland. Matire’s background is in primary health care and rangahau hauora Māori. 

    She is the Director for Tōmaiora, Māori Health Research, and Senior Lecturer at the Auckland Medical School; editor for the Māori Health Research Review; and GP Champion for Primary Care Health Targets at Counties Manukau DHB.

    Dr Harwood sits on the Board and Māori Health Committee at the Health Research Council, and the Māori Advisory Committee for Auckland / Waitemata DHB.

  • Whakatōhea
    Researcher
  • Ngāti Tiipā Ngāti Kinohaku Te Aupouri
    Professor

    Tahu is the incoming Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and is Professor of Demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato. She specialises in Māori and Indigenous demographic research and has written extensively on issues of Māori population change, Māori identity, official statistics and ethnic and racial classification.

  • Ngāti Kahu Te Rarawa Ngāti Whatua
    Professor of Māori Studies

    Professor Margaret Mutu is of Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua and Scottish descent. She is the Professor of Māori Studies at the University of Auckland where she teaches and conducts research on Māori language, tikanga (law), history and traditions, rights and sovereignty, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and treaty claims against the English Crown, constitutional transformation and Māori-Chinese encounters.

  • Ngāti Whatua Te Rarawa
    Research Fellow

    Lisa Te Morenga is a Research Fellow in the Department of Human Nutrition and is affiliated with the Riddet Institute – a National Centre of Research Excellence in food science and nutrition. Lisa works closely with Professor Jim Mann and collaborates with researchers associated with the Edgar National Centre for Diabetes and Obesity Research at the University of Otago Medical School. Her PhD was on “the effects of macronutrient composition on risk of diabetes” in 2010, both at the University of Otago.

  • Ngāti Tūwharetoa
    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Hauiti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at Te Tumu - University of Otago and specialises in collecting information about waahi tapu, waahi tipuna (sacred|cultural/heritage|ancestral sites), oral narratives (moteatea - traditional songs/chants, korereo purakau - stories) and whakapapa (genealogies) embedded in ancestral landscapes and uses modern GIS mapping technology to enhance this process.

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