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6. Lonely in academia. Limits opportunities for educated and nuanced conversations and effects workload. Intentionally create tenured academic positions for Māori centred researchers

7. We can reimagine our disciplines.

8. We are excited about the next generation.

4. Noticing Māori absence. In lecturers, curriculum, authored works and more.

5. The disciplines are not very welcoming. Finding a home not within own disciplines but within Māori studies. All disciplines need to transform to be responsive to Māori as students and faculty.

1. Mātauranga can transform contemporary realities. Retain and maintain intellectual and philosophical and traditional knowledge systems. Knowledge and expertise can sit outside of the University systems.

2. Our whanau matter. Wisdom of our elders (ancestors and grandparents) and mātauranga exists wherever whanau exist.

3. Present day echos of a colonial past. Racial inequities. Reclaiming central conversations.

Titi harvest

Interface Māori knowledge and Astronomy

“Knowledge that is not shared is not knowledge.”

Holistic Māori knowledge not meant to be explored in isolated smaller parts to maintain meaning.

The value of storytelling.

Leadership approach and strengths. Mātauranga Māori at the interface in business. Servicing something bigger than themselves.

1. Maori ora - creating wellbeing
2. Whanaungatanga - A family-based approach to work
3. Tangata Whakapapa - Embracing the wholeness of people
4. Hūmārie - Practicing humility
5. Tuākana-Teina - Creating effective succession through mentoring

Māori law - a dictionary of Māori legal terms. Learning tikanga Māori as a kid growing up.

Historical mātauranga enables a culturally grounded understanding of what it means to belong here based in local iwi narratives.

The truth of NZ history is first and foremost a story of Māori and iwi experiences and can only get to that when we allow our historical mātauranga to thrive.

Geology

Decolonisation in the geography discipline. Ancestral geography.

Māori film studies and incorporation of mātauranga Māori and research and teach film history.

Social enterprise and social transformation. Interesting take on COI.

How entangled our communities are with colonialism. The danger of a single story. How to revitalise the Māori language when one does not speak it? Also plenty of work to do in English. Sometimes too keen to keep a continuity with the past. English doesn’t need to be seen as a form of contamination. Studying Māori literature doesn’t need to be restricted to Aotearoa. Something happens when Māori engage English.

Sociology in education. Battlefields are noisy places. It is important to retain historical records even and especially when they are difficult to work through.

Need to consider a value based system and be careful about striving for efficiency in an economic based system. Need to be careful about reducing moral and cultural values to a quantitative number that can be misleading in economic models

Research at the interface of ecological science and indigenous knowledge. Discussed innovations in the scampi fishery.

Professor of demography. Māori population change. Wahine more likely to report their iwi hapu affiliation than tane. Names and regions can be a way of finding common ground but under western lens can be used to pick apart.

5 - social anthropology and the trajectory for the discipline