Researcher

Sebastian Lowe

Sebastian J. Lowe (Tangata Tiriti) is an anthropologist, interdisciplinary artist, and educator from Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in Kirikiriroa Hamilton and having spent time overseas, his work moves across places, disciplines, and ways of knowing. Working between creative practice and community collaboration, Sebastian explores how critical-creative research can support meaningful social change. His interests include sound worlds, co-creative research methods, ethics, and community-led inquiry. Grounded in collaborative work in Whanganui and guided by the ethos of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, his doctoral research explores taonga pūoro as a relational practice of listening, improvisation, and shared responsibility.

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What best describes me

Educator, Academic or Lecturer, Other involvement with community : I work with various community groups around the country. This includes research projects but also creative/performance projects depending.

Key areas of interest and knowledge

Action and participatory research, Critical Treaty Analysis, Indigenous research (and evaluation) methodologies, Kaupapa Māori theory and methods, Literature review, meta analysis, Lived experience perspectives and narratives, Research and evaluation best practice, Statistics, quantitative data collection and analysis, Text-based methods, analysis and reporting, Other: I am an anthropologist working with qualitative methods. These are often creative and Te Tiriti o Waitangi led.