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2020 Writers' Fellowship Recipients

Helen Parker
Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Tūhourangi

Mispronounciation of Māori names and the impact on Māori students in mainstream secondary schools

Kim Southey
Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kuia

Day-to-day racism in health. Re-presenting Māori and indigenous understandings of being: Deconstructing the notion of mental illness

Kirsten Gabel
Ngāti Kahu

Mana Motuhake: Healing intergenerational trauma through the reclamation of customary child-rearing practices

Raimona Inia
Te Arawa, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Te Whakatōhea

Māori history, oral narratives of kaumātua, and iwi archives

2020 PHD Scholarship Recipients

Hana Burgess
Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāpuhi

Doctor of Philosophy in Māori Health, The University of Auckland

Whakapapa as a way of being, knowing, and doing, and the role of genomics

Jamie Metzger
Ngāi Tahu

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, University of Otago

The customary concept of mauri from the perspective of taonga

Tarapuhi Vaeau
Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi

Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington

Whānau-based recovery pathways for healing

2020 Masters Scholarship Recipients

Jade Gifford
Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngāi Tūhoe

Master of Arts in Māori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

Kapa haka as an avenue of healing for rangatahi Māori

Jasmine Sampson
Ngā Wairiki-Ngāti Apa

Master of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato

Nā wai koe? Our tūpuna call us home: Looking at whānau kōrero tuku iho and the reconnection processes of whānau to their whenua tūpuna

Merekara Warrington
Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahungunu

Master of Arts in Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato

Restoration and sustainable management of freshwater bodies, taonga species, and hauanga kai resources in reclaiming food sovereignty

Ruben Kearney-Parata
Te Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Ruanui

Master of Political Science, Victoria University of Wellington

Māori experiences within the New Zealand electoral system

Te Kororia Ote Ata Netana-Rakete
Ngāpuhi

Master of Heritage Conservation, The University of Auckland

Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology

Heritage conservation and Māori science, and rongoā Māori in the care and conservation of mana taonga