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The Human Cost of Inequality lecture series, May 2014, Auckland
The authors of the highly acclaimed book “The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone” are presenting the 2014 Sir Douglas Robb Lectures hosted by the University of Auckland. When:…
Deterritorialising geopolitical spaces and challenging neoliberal conditions through language revernacularisation in kōhanga reo
This article, written by Mere Skerrett, explores some of the influences shaping early childhood Māori language education in Aotearoa New Zealand. By drawing on Garcia’s socio-historical stages of language orientation…
Enacting Kaitiakitanga: Challenges and Complexities in the Governance and Ownership of Rongoā Research Information
This article explores the tensions one research team has faced in securing appropriate governance or stewardship (which we refer to as kaitiakitanga) of research data. Whilst ethical and regulatory frameworks…
Ka Awatea: An iwi case study of Māori students’ success
This Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga project incorporates most of the secondary schools and wharekura within the Rotorua school zone. From the literature, data gathered, and the matching and discussion…
Children and the Canterbury Earthquakes, Paper from the Child Poverty Action Group
“Even in developed countries, disasters have a knack of finding the poor and vulnerable” How are children affected by earthquakes? A number of young people between the ages of 10…
Kaupapa Māori wellbeing framework: The basis for whānau violence prevention and intervention
Authors: Terry Dobbs & Moana Eruera The purpose of this Issues Paper is to identify some key considerations for implementing kaupapa Māori frameworks at a government and iwi level, as…
International Indigenous Development Research Conference 25-28 November 2014
The 6th Biennial Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga conference will highlight indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for indigenous development. Presentations and papers will address aspects of the following themes…
Update: Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga funding
Māori researchers keep pressure on funding stalemate Māori researchers are calling on Government Ministers to come up with ways of tackling the issue of Māori research funding. They believe the…
Thought Space Wānanga
‘Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke’ is a research project that investigates the collective values that nourish and enhances the well-being of tamariki Māori as taonga within our whānau, hapū and iwi.…
The Fundamental Laws: Codification for decolonization?
Indigenous knowledge has sustained Indigenous peoples for centuries. Despite the traumatizing and coercive impacts of European, and later American colonization, Indigenous peoples have been able to maintain many aspects of…
Aboriginal Women’s Voices: Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness and Incarceration
This paper explores the cycling between incarceration and homelessness among 18 women in Calgary, Alberta and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan employing community based research and arts-based research. Women who participated in…
Nonprofit Technology Conference data related report
Stephen Blyth, Community Research’s communications and fundraising manger, reports on the Nonprofit Technology Conference, he attended in Washington DC, 13-15 March 2014. Whether data is recorded and analysed for fundraising,…