Projects

Te Hau Mihi Ata: Matauranga Maori and Science

Expertise: 
Traditional Knowledge

This project aims to develop processes and tools to facilitate inter-cultural dialogue and innovation at the interface of matauranga Maori and science.

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Maui Hudson

Te reo o te repo: The voice of the wetland

Expertise: 
Environment, Kaupapa Māori Research, Science / Engineering, Social Science, Traditional Knowledge
Region: 
New Zealand

Te Reo o te repo: The voice of the wetland. Connections, understandings and learnings for the restoration of our wetlands.

Te reo o te repo is an online cultural wetland handbook created collaboratively between the Waikato Raupatu River Trust and Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research. The editing team include Yvonne Taura, Cheri van Schravendijk-Goodman and Beverley Clarkson.

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Yvonne Taura

The Contributions of Māori Knowledge to an Indigenous Psychology: Implications for Psychology, Education, Research and Practice

Expertise: 
Psychology / Mental Health, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

Māori are more likely to be assessed and treated by a health practitioner trained within a western cultural system that pays little attention to Māori worldviews and continue to experience misdiagnosis, non-voluntary admissions, inappropriate psychometric testing, high suicide rates, limited choices, differences in medication regimes and poorer treatment outcomes.

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Waikaremoana Waitoki

The ethics, processes and procedures associated with the digitisation of the Pei Jones collection

Expertise: 
Information Technology, Tikanga - Maori Customs, Traditional Knowledge

Year: 2010
Primary Investigator(s): Hēmi Whaanga
Organisation: University of Waikato

The late Dr Pei te Hurinui Jones (Ngāti Maniapoto), one of Māoridom’s leading scholars, amassed a significant collection of books, manuscripts and taonga during his lifetime. His son Brian Hauāuru Jones donated the vast majority to the University of Waikato and a room, He Mahi Māreikura, was established in 2004 especially to house the collection. The room’s layout is based on a whare puni and adheres to tikanga principles.

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Hēmi Whaanga

The Future of Rongoa Maori: Wellbeing and Sustainability

Expertise: 
Health, Traditional Knowledge

This project identifies issues of sustainability and wellbeing for traditional Maori healers in Aotearoa.

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Maui Hudson

Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke: Māori childrearing within a context of whānau ora

Expertise: 
Health, Traditional Knowledge

Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke is a project focused upon tikanga and mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) models of wellbeing for whānau, with Te Pā Harakeke being a metaphor for whānau wellbeing. The project seeks to share with whānau and others, knowledge about successfully raising children in ways that are grounded within tikanga Māori, and have been and continue to be, practiced for generations.

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