Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua

Research Leader: Dr Jessica Hutchings

Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati

Jessica is the Building Better Homes, Towns & Cities Director Māori. With a PhD in environmental studies, she is a kaupapa Māori research leader trained in the fields of environmental and indigenous studies. She has held senior management and leadership roles in the Māori science sector and is a widely published author, including recent books, Te Mahi Māra Hua Parakore (Te Tākupu, 2015) and Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice with Jenny Lee-Morgan (NZCER Press, 2016) both winners of the Kōrero Pono, Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Book Awards. Jessica works closely with the Ako Ahu to support cohesion across the Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua research programme. http://www.jessicahutchings.org.nz/

Rihi Te Nana

Ngāti Haaua, Ngāpuhi, Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa

Rihi is the Māori Development Leader for the counselling and social service agency Relationships Aotearoa (the largest counselling and education non-governmental organisation in New Zealand) and a Research Partner at Unitec's Tuapapa Rangahau. She is an experienced therapist who has been working alongside Māori whānau (family), hapū (familial tribes) and iwi (tribe) to develop and strengthen tikanga (customary) practices of health and well-being. She has previously worked on research projects through Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato.

Dr Ella Henry

Ngātikahu ki Whangaroa, Te Rārawa, Ngāti Kuri

Ella holds a Master of Philosophy in Management Studies and Employment Relations, focusing on Māori women and leadership, from Auckland University, and a PhD in Māori Development from AUT, focusing on Māori entrepreneurship. Ella is a Senior Lecturer in Te Ara Poutama, teaching Māori Media at undergraduate level, and on the Master of Cultural and Creative Practice. Ella has published nationally and internationally on Māori leadership, careers, screen production, business and development. Ella contributes to Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua through a Scoping Project, developing a large-scale quantitative survey of Māori perceptions of housing.

Irene Kereama-Royal

Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāpuhi, Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa

Irene has an LLM (1st Class Hons) and has worked in the public sector for many years in relationship management and engagement roles with Iwi, Māori and Māori sector interests including, Māori housing, Māori education, Māori resource management and Māori land development. She has spent over 15 years developing research relationships with Māori and the science community, managed research services in Crown research institutes, a tertiary environment and had oversight of science research funding programmes for central government. Irene also works extensively in voluntary roles within the health community (NFP sector) as well as being a member of a number of Iwi Governance Boards and Trusts.

Helen Potter

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāpuhi

Helen has been involved in kaupapa Māori research for over 15 years – predominantly in the fields of education, adult learning, whānau wellbeing, and more recently, in health, housing, and environmental wellbeing. She has worked as a research manager and senior advisor for the Māori Party and Mana Movement in Parliament. She has also worked as a senior researcher in Te Wāhanga, the kaupapa Māori research unit at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Helen has a Bachelor of Science and Technology from the University of Waikato, and an Honours degree and PhD in Sociology from Massey University.

Rau Hoskins

Iwi: Ngā Puhi, Hapū: Ngāti Hau

As a practitioner and educator working in the field of Māori architecture and cultural landscape design, Rau brings a rare combination of kaupapa Māori design skills coupled with significant experience with urban design, Māori heritage, cultural and educational design consultancy over the last 25 years. Rau is a founding Director of designTRIBE architects (www.designtribe.co.nz) which specialises in the field of Māori architecture particularly within cultural / marae, visitor, health, urban design, educational and papakāinga / Māori housing environments. With a M.Arch (Hons.), Rau has been an Auckland Urban Design Panel member since 2012 and continues to work with local iwi and the Auckland Design Office, Auckland Transport and Pānuku Development Auckland on the application of the Te Aranga Māori design principles, which he co-developed, in a range of high profile urban design projects including the City Rail Link (CRL), Waterfront Auckland and Downtown projects. Rau also completed filming (as co-writer / presenter) for the thirteen-part ‘Whare Māori’ architecture television series for Māori Television, which screened from May 2011. In 2014, Rau was part of the project team that designed and installed the inaugural New Zealand exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, returning again in 2016 to provide specialist cultural support to the New Zealand ‘Future Islands’ entry.

Prof Charles Crothers

Charles is Professor of Sociology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington and has worked at the VUW, the University of Auckland, and the University of Natal in Durban. Charles’ current areas of research include Social Theory, Methods of Applied Social Research and policy processes, the History and Current Situation of Sociology, and Settler Societies (especially New Zealand and South Africa) with a particular interest in settlements. He is Editor of The Royal Society of New Zealand’s Kotuitui and Vice-President of the Research Committee on the History of Sociology of the International Sociological Association.

Rihi Te Nana

(See profile in Papakāinga Whenu.)

James Berghan

Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri

James is a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor, Member of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, and PhD student based in the National School of Surveying at the University of Otago, Dunedin. His PhD project is situated within the wider Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities research programme and focuses on the role of traditional tribal communalism in contemporary urban housing. James is also a member of Ngā Aho Māori Design Professionals, and is involved in two other projects across the Challenge, with one of those being the exciting work for the Rangatahi Ahu looking at youth perceptions of housing including papakāinga.

Jacqueline Paul

Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, and Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga

Jacqueline is a graduate landscape architect. She recently completed a dissertation which discusses how papakāinga housing that incorporates Māori knowledge, principles, and practices can contribute to medium-density housing in cities. Jacqueline is a researcher in the Te Ara Poutama department at AUT University. She is currently involved in two NSC projects. The future neighbourhoods research stream looking at the urban regeneration in Glen Innes and the KTKR Rangatahi Ahu looking at youth perceptions of housing including papakāinga. Jacqueline is a proactive advocate for better youth inclusiveness in the development of planning the future cities and communities. She is a Komiti Whakahaere member of Ngā Aho Māori Design Professionals and an appointed member on the Auckland Youth Advisory Panel.

Maia Ratana

Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Ngaa Rauru, Ngāti Raukawa

Maia is currently studying a Masters in Architecture at Unitec. Her design thesis will focus on how architecture can better reflect and positively impact Māori through collaborative processes and understanding of mātauranga Māori. Maia is a member of Ngā Aho Māori Design Professionals  and the Tuia Charitable Trust. She also works for ĀKAU; a not for profit architectural practice that puts rangatahi engagement at the forefront of their design process. Through her mahi at ĀKAU, she is a member of the Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua team researching rangatahi perceptions of papakainga and housing.

Dr Fiona Cram

Ngāti Pahauwera

Fiona has a PhD in social and developmental psychology from the University of Otago, and has lectured in Social Psychology. She has also been a Senior Research Fellow within IRI (the International Research Institute of Māori and Indigenous Education), at the University of Auckland. In 2003, Fiona established Katoa Ltd. Fiona’s research interests are wide-ranging including Māori health, justice, and education. The over-riding theme of Fiona's work is Kaupapa Māori. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA) new evaluation journal, Evaluation Matters - He Take Tō Te Aromatawai, published by the NZCER.

Prof Angus MacFarlane

Ngāti Whakaue

Angus is Professor of Māori Research at the University of Canterbury. He is an experienced educator and practitioner and has been an advisor and professional development provider for Special Education Services and the Ministry of Education on a number of national projects. His interest is the exploration of cultural concepts and strategies that affect positively on professional practice, on which he published widely. In 2010, Angus was presented with the Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award to acknowledge his significant contribution to Māori research, and in 2015, he received the Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching in a Kaupapa Māori Context. His book, Responsive Pedagogy, was published in October 2011.

Dr John Reid

Ngāti Pikiao

John focuses his research on the development of applied models for first nations economic and social development that draw upon indigenous knowledge and traditions. The models have been developed in partnership with hapū, iwi, and government agencies. John considers housing to be a central pillar of Maori economic and cultural self-determination. He is a director, and advisor to, several research centres and programmes, and works as an independent consultant and Senior Research Fellow within the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury.

Dr Tyron Love

Te Atiawa

Tyron is Associate Dean Māori in the School of Business at the University of Canterbury. His research is grounded in critical and Indigenous approaches to the study of organizations and their management. His research is largely methodological in nature. Tyron supervises a number of Māori and Pasifika PhD students who are working on a diverse range of topics. He is also working on a number of individual and team-based projects exploring: grand challenges through Indigenous ways of knowing, sustainability from clan/tribal perspectives, Indigenous organization using critical approaches to researching.

Dr Diane Menzies: ONZM

Ngāti Kahungunu

Di is a director of Landcult Ltd, focusing research on Māori issues. Her PhD is in resource studies. Previously a director for Ministry for the Environment, and a Commissioner with the Environment Court, she now also teaches and researches for universities. Diane is an Komiti Whakahaere member of Ngā Aho Māori Design Professsionals, and awarded Kāhui Whetu. She is an honorary member of the International Federation of Landscape Architects and New Zealand representative on the ICOMOS-IFLA Cultural Landscape Committee. She is preparing a literature review as a basis for interviews on the economics and financing of Māori housing.

Grace Walker

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngaruahine Rangi

Grace is a psychology PhD student based at Canterbury University. She also works as an Assistant Research Fellow for the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS), which provides her data for her thesis examining the pathways and outcomes associated with the timing of parenthood and variations by gender and ethnicity. As a new and emerging researcher, Grace is interested in the dual application of qualitative and quantitative research methods when developing policy and programs that are focused on indigenous populations.

Associate Professor Jo Smith

Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu

Jo has a longstanding interest in understanding how media shapes worldviews, relationships and identities. Based in the Media Studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington, Jo researchers and teaches on Māori media, and issues to do with race, ethnicity and identity. The author of Māori Television: the first ten years (2016, AUP) Jo has recently contributed to kaupapa Māori projects to do with decolonisation and the media, Māori agribusinesses and soil health. Jo leads the Ako Ahu to support Māori housing research through the storytelling powers of the media.

Dr Becky Kiddle

Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi

Becky has degrees in urban design and politics. Her research focuses on urbanism, decolonising urban form, Māori identity and decision-making. She is also interested in educational space design and facilitating youth involvement in built environment decision-making. A Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, Becky teaches courses focused on Māori and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental Resource Management and Contemporary Urban Issues. She is also co-chair Pōneke for Ngā Aho Māori Design Professionals and a member of the Auckland Urban Design Panel. Becky brings this expertise to the Ako Ahu.

Desna Whaanga-Schollum

Iwi: Rongomaiwahine, Pāhauwera, Kahungunu

Desna collaborates with a diverse range of communities, business professionals, artists, and academics to effect cultural change in place-based practice. Chairperson of Ngā Aho Māori Design Professionals and Artspace NZ, Desna is actively involved in Māori design, visual communication and mātauranga discourse via research, exhibitions and wānanga. Desna has a Bachelor of Design (Unitec, grad.1997) and her Science Communication Master's Thesis (University of Otago), is titled Taipōrutu, Taonga Tuku Iho. Articulating a Mātauranga Māori Sense of Place. The thesis reflects on the complex system of interconnected factors contributing to the current relationship between Māori and their land base. Desna contributes to Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua research through the Ako Ahu.