HISTORIC GRADUATION FOR MĀORI RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY O

[Kiwi Frontline]

HISTORIC GRADUATION FOR MĀORI RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO

Chanel Phillips (Ngāti Hine) has become the first doctoral graduand of Te Koronga, the Māori postgraduate research excellence group at The University of Otago.

Te Koronga co-director Dr Anne-Marie Jackson says, “Chanel exemplifies Māori research excellence in her level of scholarship and in who she is as a person.  She puts the aspirations of her communities at the centre of her research and is a seen face in the work she undertakes.

A total of five Māori postgraduate students graduated today.  All researchers have undertaken Māori research topics utilising Māori research approaches.

Chanel Phillips (Ngāti Hine), Doctor of Philosophy, A Journey to Belonging: Explorations of Māori Perspectives of Water Safety. Funded by Health Research Council.

Terina Raureti (Ngāti Raukawa), Master of Physical Education, Kia mārama ai te ihi, te wehi o Mukukai: The influence of swimming on whānau engagement with water.

Nikki Timu (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Kahungunu), Master of Physical Education, Māori perspectives on the use of haka within New Zealand sport.

Ben Hanara (Ngāti Kahungunu), Postgraduate Diploma of Physical Education, Mā te tai o Tangaroa, Mā te mauri o te wai. Tangaroa: Atua of human movement

Shane Witehira (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu), Bachelor of Physical Education (Hons), Mā te Whakapapa ka ora ngā Tauira Māori.....

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[second-class-citizen]

More garbage from the inappropriately named "University". Can anyone define "maori research approaches"? I would call it cultural appropriation as maori had nothing back in the 1700-1800's. This is so fraudulent, yet the media fall over themselves lapping up this nonsense. Here is what maori were doing prior to signing the treaty;
 -murdering each other in never ending inter tribal warfare
 - eating each other
 - enslaving each other
 -they were so primitive they had no alphabet, no numerical system...and hadn't even thought of the wheel!!
 -they were wiping out species of birds into extinction....as well as the Moriori
 -they treated women as baby machines...they had no rights
 - they did not have any education system, no health system, no democracy, no justice (other than a stoneage revenge system), no idea that Australia was so close, 
So to even pretend to have a "research approach" is not only a blatant lie and cultural appropriation, but an insult to our history.