Projects

Promoting Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Tourism Development

Expertise: 
History, Indigenous Development, Policy & Planning, Social Science, Tourism & Hospitality, Traditional Knowledge
Region: 
International

Funded by the New Zealand Insititute for Pacific Research I am working with Primary Investigator Dr Anne Ford, and co-investigators Professor Glenn Summerhayes (Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology), Nyssa Mildwaters (Otago Museum). This project will investigate the potential for the promotion of cultural heritage for sustainable tourism development within the Pacific, highlighting both the current opportunities and difficulties. Two case studies will be investigated in Samoa and Madang (PNG).

The objectives of the research are to:

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Anna Carr (Thompson-Carr)

Restoring the mauri to Rotoitipaku (industrial waste site): Implementing matauranga in a scientific paradigm

Expertise: 
Environment, Traditional Knowledge

Trustees of the former Lake Rotoitipaku, taken under the Tasman Enabling Act and used as an industrial waste dump site for more than 30 years, have entrusted us to provide them with the means to make informed decisions about the future of their land. The Trustees are looking to “science” as the means to make their informed decisions, but at present do not have the capacity to develop their own scientific research nor accessibility to those that do.

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Daniel Hikuroa

RINGIHIA I TE KETE: The language of the Stars

Expertise: 
Traditional Knowledge

Soon after separating Ranginui and Papatūānuku, Tāne travelled into the heavens with the various celestial bodies, to suspend them in the sky bringing light unto the world. Within the basket ‘Te Mangoroa’ Tāne carried the stars, from which he drew forth the brightest and placed them against the chest of Ranginui. So enthralled was Tāne at what he had achieved that he accidently knocked the basket over scattering the remaining stars across the cosmos. As the stars spilled from the basket they clattered against one and other creating a ringing sound that resonated throughout the universe.

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Rangi Mataamua

Significant Tainui Ancestresses: their impacts and contributions and how Tainui have maintained their histories

Expertise: 
History, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

Chapters covering Whakaotirangi, Marama, Ruapūtahanga, Mahinārangi, Rangiaho,  Rangitopeora and Kenehuru

Supervisor: Dr Rawiri Taonui
Associate Supervisors: Dr Gina Colvin, Professor Ngapare Hopa
Advisor: Margaret Evans

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Diane Gordon-Burns

Sustainable Seas Challenge

Expertise: 
Biology / Biotechnology, Education, Engineering/Science, Environment, Health, History, Indigenous Development, Information Technology, Kaupapa Māori Research, Law / Justice, Linguistics / Language, Policy & Planning, Science / Engineering, Social Science, Te Reo Māori, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

I am Vision Maatauranga (VM) programme lead for the Sustainable Seas Challenge. Currently working with all five programmes in the Challenge to integrate and incorporate Maaori knowledge, people and resources with research project processes, outputs and outcomes. The VM programme has three projects in total, as well as being involved in respective research projects in each programme.

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James Whetu