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MORE MAORI WIN MARSDEN GRANTS
The proposals involving Maori researchers have been judged by top international referees as highly novel. In many cases, the proposals are multidisciplinary, use Matauranga Maori, and confidently incorporate scientific and other disciplinary knowledge.
Dr Helen Potter from Te Wananga-o-Raukawa was granted $845,000 to research whangai and the adoption of Maori.
Dr Gerard O'Regan from the University of Auckland has $300,000 to develop Maori archaeology of threatened North Island rock art.
Dr Hirini Kaa, also from Auckland, gets $300,000 for his study of the Young Maori Party which he describes as Leading Iwi into Modernity.
The grants are distributed over three years and are fully costed, paying for salaries, students and postdoctoral positions, institutional overheads and research consumables......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MTc2OTg/National/More%20Maori%20win%20Marsden%20grants
ACHIEVING EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOR MĀORI
Recent Rutherford Discovery Fellowship recipient Dr Melinda Webber will present a talk on raising the success of Māori students in Whangarei on Wednesday as part of the University of Auckland’s International Speaker Series.
Last month Dr Webber received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship worth $800,000 for a five-year research project entitled: Kia tu rangatira ai nga iwi Māori: living, succeeding, and thriving as iwi Māori. In 2016, Dr Webber received a Marsden Fast-start Grant worth $300,000 for another project entitled: A fire in the belly of Hineāmaru.......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1711/S00019/achieving-equity-and-excellence-in-education-for-maori.htm
HRC FUNDING AWARDED FOR STUDIES FOCUSING ON MAORI AND PASIFIKA
A Massey University academic and two students have been awarded funding from the Health Research Council of New Zealand, for three separate projects.
Belinda Borell of NgÄti Ranginui, NgÄi Te Rangi and WhakatÅhea, has been awarded more than $350,000 for her study entitled Privilege and health inequity: the role for MÄtauranga MÄori.
Master of Arts student Nari Hann, who is majoring in Psychology, has received the MÄori Health Research Masters Scholarship of $25,000 for her project entitled Foster caregiving relationship with newborns who have feeding difficulties.
The HRC granted $125,000 to Master of Science student Veisinia Pulu-Lakai, who is majoring in Health Psychology. Her grant, from the Pacific Health Research PhD Scholarship fund, is for her project entitled Co-designing a community-based intervention programme for prediabetes. Mrs Pulu-Lakai’s grant is one of 26 Pacific health research career development awards for 2018......
www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/296596
The proposals involving Maori researchers have been judged by top international referees as highly novel. In many cases, the proposals are multidisciplinary, use Matauranga Maori, and confidently incorporate scientific and other disciplinary knowledge.
Dr Helen Potter from Te Wananga-o-Raukawa was granted $845,000 to research whangai and the adoption of Maori.
Dr Gerard O'Regan from the University of Auckland has $300,000 to develop Maori archaeology of threatened North Island rock art.
Dr Hirini Kaa, also from Auckland, gets $300,000 for his study of the Young Maori Party which he describes as Leading Iwi into Modernity.
The grants are distributed over three years and are fully costed, paying for salaries, students and postdoctoral positions, institutional overheads and research consumables......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MTc2OTg/National/More%20Maori%20win%20Marsden%20grants
ACHIEVING EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOR MĀORI
Recent Rutherford Discovery Fellowship recipient Dr Melinda Webber will present a talk on raising the success of Māori students in Whangarei on Wednesday as part of the University of Auckland’s International Speaker Series.
Last month Dr Webber received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship worth $800,000 for a five-year research project entitled: Kia tu rangatira ai nga iwi Māori: living, succeeding, and thriving as iwi Māori. In 2016, Dr Webber received a Marsden Fast-start Grant worth $300,000 for another project entitled: A fire in the belly of Hineāmaru.......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1711/S00019/achieving-equity-and-excellence-in-education-for-maori.htm
HRC FUNDING AWARDED FOR STUDIES FOCUSING ON MAORI AND PASIFIKA
A Massey University academic and two students have been awarded funding from the Health Research Council of New Zealand, for three separate projects.
Belinda Borell of NgÄti Ranginui, NgÄi Te Rangi and WhakatÅhea, has been awarded more than $350,000 for her study entitled Privilege and health inequity: the role for MÄtauranga MÄori.
Master of Arts student Nari Hann, who is majoring in Psychology, has received the MÄori Health Research Masters Scholarship of $25,000 for her project entitled Foster caregiving relationship with newborns who have feeding difficulties.
The HRC granted $125,000 to Master of Science student Veisinia Pulu-Lakai, who is majoring in Health Psychology. Her grant, from the Pacific Health Research PhD Scholarship fund, is for her project entitled Co-designing a community-based intervention programme for prediabetes. Mrs Pulu-Lakai’s grant is one of 26 Pacific health research career development awards for 2018......
www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/296596
