The grounding of the MV Rena on Ōtāiti, 5 October 2011, had significant environmental impacts that were experienced in anthropocentric terms as impacts upon social, economic and cultural well-being. The…
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The grounding of the MV Rena on Ōtāiti, 5 October 2011, had significant environmental impacts that were experienced in anthropocentric terms as impacts upon social, economic and cultural well-being. The…
Social services are working more and more collaboratively to deliver services to New Zealanders. This occurs throughout the sector, from frontline NGOs delivering services on behalf of multiple agencies, all…
Consultation by Statistics NZ regarding proposals for content of the 2016 New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS) is now open. Every two years the NZGSS interviews 8,000 people aged 15…
A Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) will be funded as part of the Government’s increased investment in research excellence, Māori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples and Associate Tertiary Education,…
Researchers must ensure that the research process should be equal and balanced in the exchange and interaction of gifts, goods and services (HRC, 2004). For instance, researchers could provide opportunities…
Māori wellbeing is the foundation of Māori development, yet Indigenous peoples (including Māori) are often invisible in universal measures of wellbeing. In 2006 Mason Durie outlined Māori-specific measures of wellbeing,…
A new issue of MAI Journal is out. The focus of this Issue is outlined below: This latest issue is composed of five articles, one Commentary and three book reviews.…
There is an extensive history of research projects with Indigenous communities around the world where the projects were based on Western epistemologies and were neither collaborative, nor community- based.This editorial…
Most Māori think their whānau is doing well, according to results May 6th from Statistics New Zealand’s first survey of Māori well-being, Te Kupenga. Results from the survey showed that…
Education Review Office Thursday, 19 June 2014, 5.30-7.30pm ERO, Level 5, URS Building,13-15 College Hill, Ponsonby A presentation on evaluating in cultural contexts other than our own. It is to…
Opening: 5.30-7.30pm, 13th May, 2014. Running time: 14-27 May, 2014. Venue: Creative Waikato, 131 Alexandra street, Hamilton. An exhibition of finely woven taonga that celebrate the skill and dexterity of…
This article reviews literature on the gradual construction of teenage pregnancy as a social issue in North America. It shows how teen motherhood emerged not as an issue unto itself,…