Growing the fleet–A Māori re-search-teina’s perspective on Māori and Pasifika re-search relationality

Gillon, Ashlea

doi:10.20507/maijournal.2020.9.1.9

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“…The uncomfortable labels of 'intern' and 'supervisor' were also scrutinised. Instead, we tested ideas of interns as tēina rangahau (Gillon, 2020) and supervisors as tuākana rangahau.…”

Section: This Is Not An Internship and We Are Not Internsmentioning

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Growing Kaupapa Māori Research Capabilities and Confidence Through Whanaungatanga as Research Mentorship

Smith¹,

Frandi²,

Squire³

et al. 2022

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The Ngā Wai a Te Tūī – Hiringa Hauora Summer Research Mentorship is a kaupapa Māori collaboration to increase hauora Māori (Māori wellbeing) research capacity. The idea of research internships is not new, nor is a focus on hauora Māori. What is distinctive about this summer mentorship is its kaupapa Māori approach to support a diverse range of Māori into research that is by Māori, for Māori, and holds Māori values, beliefs and aspirations at its centre. Holding fast to our ways of being throughout the programme has produced a set of learnings and experiences amongst six ‘interns’ that we suggest offers a useful example of how to grow kaupapa Māori research in the hauora space, and beyond. Like many great Māori ideas, this mentorship programme was enabled through whanaungatanga (relationships) – in this case an email from one colleague to another that went something like, “Hey mete I have an idea I want to run past you.” A senior researcher at Te Hiringa Hauora, an evidence-based health-promotions organisation, approached her colleague, co-author Hinekura Smith, a senior lecturer and researcher at Unitec’s Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori and Indigenous Research Centre, with a funding opportunity to develop and facilitate a summer internship programme.

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“…The uncomfortable labels of 'intern' and 'supervisor' were also scrutinised. Instead, we tested ideas of interns as tēina rangahau (Gillon, 2020) and supervisors as tuākana rangahau.…”

Section: This Is Not An Internship and We Are Not Internsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Growing Kaupapa Māori Research Capabilities and Confidence Through Whanaungatanga as Research Mentorship

Smith¹,

Frandi²,

Squire³

et al. 2022

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“…In an Aotearoa context, Māori academics influence Māori student success through mentoring and culturally appropriate supervision (Airini et al, 2009;Curtis et al, 2012;Gillon 2020;Mayeda et al, 2014). In this thesis, I refer to these mentors as pou -the pillars of support for Māori doctoral students.…”

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Ngā Manu ā Tāne – the stories of Māori doctoral students in Aotearoa: An ethnographic study

Funaki¹

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ABSTRACTKo te manu e kai ana i te miro, nōna te ngahere; Ko te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga, nōna te aoKo te manu e whakatinana ana i ērā mātauranga, nōna te whenua taurikura (Ratana, 2022). The bird that feeds on the miro berry can rule the forest The bird who feeds on knowledge can rule the worldThe bird who embodies that knowledge can be responsible for thriving homelandsPrevious studies show that Māori PhD students in Aotearoa face significant structural and systemic barriers during their doctoral studies, but little is known about how they meet and surmount those daily challenges. Through a Kaupapa Māori lens, which places Indigenous storytelling at the centre of inquiry, this study frames an explanation to the complex, relational spaces that Māori doctoral students grapple with in academia. Further, it provides insight into their everyday worlds as Indigenous scholars who are pioneering new forms of intellectual engagement inside the settler-colonial complex of the Aotearoa university system. This is a cross-sectional, ethnographic ‘day-in-the-life’ approach which captures not only the intellectual and cultural life-worlds, but the often silenced stories of a nationwide cohort of Māori doctoral students. Their micro-level experiences of entry into academic environments that marginalise Indigenous knowledges and realities are set against larger institutional, structural, and political factors. These influences have exerted a powerful impact on the degree of cultural and intellectual belonging that these Māori scholars have been able to establish within their academic departments. Kanohi-ki-te-kanohi (face-to-face/in-person), online, walk-along, and drive-along interviews were conducted with 30 Māori doctoral students and recent PhD graduates across Aotearoa. Observations were also carried out in their work and study locations, which included their homes, workplaces, university offices, and tribal communities. The participants’ accounts focused heavily on the lack of Māori representation at all levels of academia and the subsequent impact on their scholarly lives. For many students, limited access to Māori expertise, mentoring, supervision, and cultural validation heightened a profound sense of cultural dislocation and intellectual isolation. During these times, Ngā Manu (the collective name for participants in this study) also sharpened their determination to establish safe academic environments for the next generation of Māori scholars. Despite significant challenges, the participants also spoke of the everyday triumphs, the moments of recognition and shared purpose in the company of Māori PhD colleagues. In these cultural safe spaces, they shared moments of creativity, pleasure, and joy, as they established their own unique academic selfhoods, which they saw both as a legacy for Māori who would follow after them into the academic world, and a means of ‘speaking back’ to the racialised silences of the ivory tower. Keywords: Māori, Indigenous, doctoral/PhD students, storytelling, whakapapa, university, higher education, Kaupapa Māori, identity, belonging

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Seen but unheard: navigating turbulent waters as Māori and Pacific postgraduate students in STEM

McAllister

Naepi

Walker

et al. 2022

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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Growing the fleet–A Māori re-search-teina’s perspective on Māori and Pasifika re-search relationality

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Growing Kaupapa Māori Research Capabilities and Confidence Through Whanaungatanga as Research Mentorship

Growing Kaupapa Māori Research Capabilities and Confidence Through Whanaungatanga as Research Mentorship

Ngā Manu ā Tāne – the stories of Māori doctoral students in Aotearoa: An ethnographic study

Seen but unheard: navigating turbulent waters as Māori and Pacific postgraduate students in STEM

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