Recently Aneta Cram and two members of her supervision team, Drs Lynne Russell and Amohia Boulton were fortunate to participate in the 2024 Hawai’i-Pacific Evaluation Conference in Kāneʻohe, Hawai’i. The theme of the conference was “Breaking Boundaries: Charting Paths towards Aloha, Joy, and Justice in Evaluation”. In a presentation entitled Wānanga (knowledge sharing): An Indigenous mentoring approach to supporting Indigenous students and evaluators, the three-member team presented a frank reflection on the challenges and joys of supervising Māori students, as Māori, in a predominantly Western, mainstream institutional setting.
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Tēnā koe, ko Tomairangi tōku ingoa. He uri ahau nō Rotorua, i te taha o tōku Pāpā. I te taha o tōku Māmā, he uri ahau nō Kāwhia me Te Kopuru, and I am currently studying a Creative Writing major with a Te Reo Māori minor at Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau. As part of the AUT Work Integrated Learning programme I’ve had the privilege of interning with Whakauae Research Services, where I’ve worked alongside the TUI dissemination team.
We are consolidating our track record of producing high quality, timely, Kaupapa Māori research, working for whānau, hapū, iwi and hapori Māori. This Pou produces the rigorous evidence, research expertise and the thought leadership that has the potential to transform health services, health policy, and Māori health governance.
We are strengthening our capacity to conduct high quality research through investment in our infrastructure and our people. This Pou supports attracting and retaining high-performance Māori expertise and ongoing commitment to upskilling talented people within the Māori health research sector.
We are enhancing our TUI (Translation, Uptake & Impact) platform through investment in new people, new technologies and varied modes of dissemination. This Pou works to design and package new knowledge into media that are useful and meaningful to whānau, hapū, iwi and hapori Māori and other stakeholders, and which engage and create communities of interest.
We are enriching our alliances at the local, national and international level with groups and organisations who have an interest in advancing a Māori/Indigenous health equity agenda. This Pou works to establish partnerships and expertise across local and international Indigenous groups to develop effective new evidence, ideas, and knowledge exchange.
Creating a new team within our organisation who, drawing on their respective leadership roles in the sector, will translate research evidence into “actionable intelligence”. This Pou works to connect Māori research evidence directly to key areas of change-making to achieve the inclusion of Māori evidence in public health and public policy.
