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The Research Centre governance group members have input via two caucuses.

The Tangata Whenua caucus are members who work within organisations at the level of whanau, hapu and iwi:

Kataraina Pipi: CO-CHAIR
Iris Pahau: SECRETARY
Leon Hawea
Yvonne Hawke
Pania Coote
Riripeti Reedy
Sonya Rimene

The Tangata Tiriti caucus are members who work within organisations and who are able to facilitate the voices of the Tangata whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector: 

Garth Nowland-Foreman: CO-CHAIR
Sally Fenwick Ridley: TREASURER
Margy-Jean Malcolm
Carolyn Cordery
Pat Hanley
Bonnie Robinson
Jackie Sanders

Tangata Whenua caucus members

Co-Chair Kataraina Pipi
Ngati Porou, Ngati Hine.

Kataraina's current role is director of the Paewhenua Hou Partnership operating as FEM (2006) Ltd.  She is a project manager, research and evaluation consultant, trainer and facilitator.  Kataraina has seven years as a practising evaluator and researcher and is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society, the American Evaluation Society, and the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association.

Secretary Iris Pahau
Te Aupouri and Ngati Kuri.
“Kotahi te hoe, ka u te waka ki uta”

A mother of four and grandmother of five, Iris is a company director for AWE Consultants Limited along with her husband, Wereta. Iris specialises in assisting organisations respond to their commitment to Te Tiriti/Treaty of Waitangi along with strategic planning, business planning, risk management and community engagement. Her multiple voluntary roles in the Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector includes National Development Manager, Community Sector Taskforce, the President of the Rimutaka MWWL, Convener for Te Muka Tangata, member of the New Zealand Coalition to End Homelessness, Co-Chair of the Hutt Housing Forum, and Board member of the Development Resource Centre (DRC) along with being an Executive Member of this Research Centre.

Pania Coote (nee Simeon)
Kai Tahu and Ngati Kauwhata

Pania has experience in the social, health, education and voluntary sectors with a particular interest in Maori initiatives.  She is a member of the Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector Taskforce, the Bluff Community Board, the SIT Social Services Advisory Committee and Counselling Advisory Committee, the ANZASW Competency Assessment Panel & Mentors, Te Runaka o Awarua Committee and the Bluff Rugby Club Committee.  Pania lives in Bluff with Russell, they have three children and one mokopuna.

Sonya Rimene
Rangitane, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu and Te Arawa.

Sonya has worked with the Ministry of Women's Affairs heading the Treaty Relationship Unit and as as Kaihautu.  She has held senior advisory roles in the Department of Corrections, the Ministry of Education, the Department of Work and Income, and the Ministry of Social Development.  Sonya has a Masters in Social Work and has been involved as a board member with Rangitaane o Wairarapa, Wairarapa Moana Trust, Ex Officio Maori Advisory Group's National Screening Unit, Ministry of Health, Maori and Pacific Advisory Group - Social Workers Registration Board, Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa - Rimutaka Board, and the Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Maori Wardens.

Yvonne Hawke
Ngati Ranginui, Ngati Awa and Ngati Pikiao.

Yvonne's role is Vice President Waitakere and Community at Unitec in Auckland.  She is responsible for the strategic leadership of Unitec's Waitakere and North Shore campuses.  She is also responsible for leading regional facilitation and engagement, Te Noho Kotahitanga and Pasifika responsiveness.  Her teaching and research interest areas are Treaty of Waitangi responsiveness, diversity, regional engagement and the role of TEI's in regional economic transformation, leadership and management, and Maori pedagogy.

Leon Hawea
Ngai Te Whatuiapiti

Leon's background lies in education. First as a secondary school teacher then as a lecturer at Wellington Polytechnic which later became Massey University in Wellington. He then worked with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority developing unit standards, qualifications, resources and reviewing them. Leon returned to Hawkes Bay to take up the role as the Iwi Liaison Officer to the Hastings District Council. Through the Maori Services Network of Heretaunga, he was asked to represent this group on the Community Sector Taskforce and one of the projects he worked on was the establishment of a community based research centre. He is of Ngai Te Whatuiapiti descent on the East Coast and has involved himself with many of the present issues that whanau face in looking for resolve and a pathway towards achieving tino rangatiratanga.

Riripeti Reedy

Information coming.

Co-Chair Garth Nowland-Foreman runs Community Solutions, a small consulting and training firm which specialises in strategy, evaluation and governance for non-profit organisations and those who fund them.  He also lectures part time in the Unitec NZ Graduate Programme in Not for Profit Management – in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific - specialising in governance, social policy, community research, social audit, ethics, change management, strategy, and capacity building for non-profit organisations.  He has researched and written widely on these topics and also on non-profit funding and accountability, and strategic philanthropy.  Garth has a number of voluntary roles and is on the boards of the Lottery Grants Board, Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research (ANZTSR), and the Christchurch Methodist Mission.  He chairs the Committee for the Study of the New Zealand Non Profit Sector, and was the initial editor for the Community Research "How to" pages of www.community.net.nz.  Garth was also the first SAN registered Social Auditor in Aotearoa New Zealand.  Previously, he worked as an NGO lobbyist, heading up a government policy and research unit, and worked in a Cabinet Minister’s office.  He was national director of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) for six years.  Garth has two teenage boys, one of whom has a number of disabilities.

Treasurer Sally Fenwick Ridley is originally from the north and spent most of her life in Waitetuna, in the Waikato.  Sally is the Research and Communications Manager at Social Services Waikato.  Her focus is on community research and development, building capacity and disseminating information.  She has a Masters in Social Sciences and a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Psychology, and is a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association, and a board member of the Institute of Community Psychology Aotearoa.

Pat Hanley began working in community development in Canada in the 1970's and settled permanently in New Zealand in 1984.  He is an independent consultant specialising in social planning and research, community government relationships, community based research, community/voluntary sector policy analysis, disability services research and development.  He has worked with First Nations in Canada and with Maori organisations in Aotearoa.

Pat has experience in public policy analysis, machinery of government, socioeconomic research and analysis, project management, organisational development, community participation programmes, voluntary sector leadership, local government planning and policy development, cross cultural awareness, public advocacy, advocacy support, charity law and disputes resolution systems.  He serves on an international committee of CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation and chairs his local residents association in Pukerua Bay, near Wellington.

Carolyn Cordery is a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington and Chair of the Not-for-profit Sector Advisory Committee at the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She is actively involved in local community and voluntary sector organisations in governance and treasurer roles. Carolyn is particularly interested in researching funding into and accountability from the sector and is on the Funding and Accountability Working Group drawn together by the Office of the Community and Voluntary Sector. She actively encourages post-graduate students from the School of Accounting and Commercial Law to respond to research needs from the sector and utilises case studies from the sector in her accounting information systems and audit classes at under-graduate and post-graduate levels.

Bonnie Robinson has worked in policy, research and social service management roles in the not-for-profit social service sector.  Bonnie is the community facilitator for Presbyterian Support Northern.  Other roles have included Manager of Policy for Age Concern New Zealand, Executive Officer of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, National Executive Officer for Presbyterian Support New Zealand and Deputy Director of The Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit.

Bonnie has also worked on a range of government policy projects and participated in a number of government committees and reference groups.  Bonnie's research interests include low income housing, prison policy, the impact of income inequality on social cohesion, participatory research methodology, and capacity and performance in not-for-profits.

Margy-Jean Malcolm's involvement in community development and community- focused research includes social impact assessment, the national Time Use Survey, and evaluation research in the youth work and museums sector.  In her community sector leadership roles, she has established partnerships with universities to support research work to inform the organisations' service delivery work and their government policy advocacy role.  More recently Margy-Jean has been Programme Director for Unitec NZ's Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management.  She has recently moved to Dunedin to be closer to her whanau, and to make space for her own postgraduate research around capacity strengthening, while maintaining her Unitec teaching work part time.