• Cultural competence : facilitating indigenous voices within health promotion competencies 

      Hicks, Karen (SAGE Open, 2018)
      Research Question 1: Were Indigenous cultural values and practices used within the Aotearoa/New Zealand competency consultations? If so, how were they used? Research Question 2: What is the significance of using Indigenous ...
    • The impacts of COVID-19 on tangihanga 

      Rangiwai, Byron; Sciascia, A.D. (Macquarie University, 2021)
      The influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million people, has been acknowledged as the most significant disease event in human history. In response to the pandemic, the ways in which tangihanga (Māori funeral practices) ...
    • Manaakitanga: A marae response to Covid-19 

      Penetito, Kim; Lee-Morgan, Jenny; Eruera, Ngahuia (Otago Polytechnic, 2021-11)
      Marae-led community development and well-being (käinga ora) is at the heart of this research project known as Marae Ora, Käinga Ora (MOKO). MOKO is a three-year research project designed to explore a holistic notion of ...
    • Reflections on Nan’s liver transplant 

      Rangiwai, Byron (Auckland University of Technology, 2022-02-01)
      The first liver transplant in Aotearoa New Zealand took place in 1998 following the establishment of the New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit (NZLTU) at Auckland Hospital (Gane et al., 2002). From that time to 30 December ...
    • Some brief notes on kai Māori 

      Rangiwai, Byron (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)
      Food is a signifier of identity and status (Hayden, 1998, 2009; Hayden & Villeneuve, 2011; Neill et al., 2015). In traditional times, Māori consumed a range of hunted, gathered, and cultivated foods (Royal & Kaka-Scott, ...
    • “Wake up, Sheeple!”: Conspiracy theories and Māori during COVID-19 

      Rangiwai, Byron (2021)
      This situation report outlines some of the literature about conspiracy theories and its application to Mäori during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report shows that while there are some psychological factors at play with ...
    • Wānangatia te wahakura: Weaving wellbeing for mokopuna and whānau 

      White, Tanya (Norwegian Crafts (Organization)Objectspace (Gallery), 2022)
      Wahakura (woven bassinets) are vessels of wellbeing, providing safe sleeping spaces that give tangible form to applications and processes of tikanga pā harakeke (protocols for using and tending to flax). As such, they are ...