LibGuides: Thesis Information: Māori Postgraduates

Support for Māori PGs at Otago

Māori Student Support

This covers a range of services, support people, resources and groups which support your success as Māori students at Otago. For those of you who did you undergraduate degree here at Otago, many of these faces will be familiar.
Māori Postgraduate Support Adviser, Dr Rachel SIzemore

As Māori PG Support Advisor, Rachel can offer support, advice and advocacy to help you in your research journey:
* acting as a link to the resources offered by the University;
* offering workshops, regular research hui and seminars;
* acting in an advocacy capacity;
* offering support to individual students;
* offering advice on scholarships; and,
* providing opportunities for you to meet other Māori postgraduate students and staff at Otago and nationally.

Tel +64 3 479 8082
Email: maori.postgrad@otago.ac.nz
Office: G.02, 103 St David Street
Hours: Wednesday, 8:30am to 12 noon; Thursday and Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm

Hocken Library Resources and Services for Māori students and staff including the Hocken guide

Contact our Kaitiaki Mātauraka Māori, Kākahu Banks Email: Kākahu.Banks@otago.ac.nz

Conduct Māori Research at the Hocken Library
Consult Te Hereka Taoka, a Hocken Library team dedicated to taoka Māori collections, supporting University of Otago students and staff, as well as supporting external kairakahau Māori (Māori researchers).
Library Kaiāwhina - contact your Divisional Library support librarian network

The University and its Library system can be a daunting environment. The Library's Engagement Advisors are knowledgeable, friendly and available to support Māori and Pacific students access and explore Library services, resources and spaces.

Donna Waitere
Māori Engagement Advisor
Te Pātaka Mātauraka | The Library

Email: donna.waitere@otago.ac.nz

Pou Whenua Tāwhaki

Kākahu Banks (She/her \ ia)

Kaitiaki Mātauraka Māori

Māori Research Themes at Otago

Poutama Ara Rau
Poutama Ara Rau is a multidisciplinary research collaboration and Research Theme lead by Māori academics at Otago since early 2016. It focusses on increasing the international reputation for Otago’s research excellence in ako (Māori learning and teaching) grounded in mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and Māori pedagogies.
Te Maea Māori and Indigenous Economy and Enterprise (2025-2028)
Associate Professor Katharina Ruckstuhl (Otago Business School Divisional Office); Associate Professor Diane Ruwhiu (Management)

Te Maea aims to advance collaborative and interdisciplinary research to build and sustain thriving economies and innovative organisations. Building on its network’s activities, it continues to focus research and researcher development on: traditional and contemporary Māori and indigenous forms of economy, governance and organisation along with their embedded values, practices and relationships – human and more than human; building competency in appropriate research practices – staff, students and community stakeholders – to develop innovative solutions for indigenous futures.
Genetics Otago (2025-2028)
Associate Professor Louise Bicknell (Biochemistry); Associate Professor Logan Walker (Pathology and Biomedical Science)

Genetics Otago is more than 400 scientists with expertise in fundamental science through to new technologies and policy, involving communities and stakeholders. Its goals are: building innovative researchers for impactful genetic research to meet the needs of New Zealand and beyond; advancing Rangahau Māori by providing a platform for community engagement and facilitating equitable Māori participation, embedding of Te ao and mātauranga Māori, and flourishing of essential partnerships; and growing Otago’s international visibility and reputation.

Aotearoa and beyond: Indigenous research centres and networks

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) is New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) funded by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) and hosted by The University of Auckland.
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga - Replay Media
Selection of videos, short documentary style, from the media, along with seminars, keynotes and presentations.
Te Hononga Pūkenga: Māori & Indigenous Researcher Directory
Connecting researchers, government & communities by making Māori and Indigenous research expertise, location and contact information readily available.
K.I.N. Knowledge in Indigenous Networks
Blog and networking