Pae Tawhiti scholarship 2017 recipient, Robyn Richardson (Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Whanaunga ki Hauraki) recently presented on her research progress to Whakauae staff. Robyn was awarded the Whakauae Pae Tawhiti scholarship to support her doctoral study in Māori Development and Advancement at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. She has a long history of engagement in the health sector as a rongoā practitioner as well as in Māori health workforce development, health promotion and mental health. Robyn is a member of both the Mana Whenua Hauora Iwi Relationship Board at MidCentral District Health Board and of the Central PHO Board. She has been the co-ordinator of Te Rau Puawai Māori Mental Health Workforce Development programme in the College of Health at Massey University since 2010.
Robyn's presentation to Whakauae included her development of her PhD research focus. The creation of a Richardson whānau papakainga, on ancestral whenua in the RangitῙkei near the Ōhakea Airforce Base, is at the heart of her study, Te Rongo ā Mangamāhoe: Whānau Succeeding as whānau. Robyn's overarching research question asks: “In what ways has papakainga facilitated the expression of rongo ā at Mangamāhoe”? The impact of the papakainga developmental journey on whānau wellbeing will be tracked throughout her study.
Robyn explains that her whānau once lived on many papakainga from the river mouth of RangitῙkei awa all the way up to Ohinepuhiawe. However, with most of the ancestral whenua having been lost through colonisation and the ‘land grab', the only remaining occupation is at Mangamāhoe. Here, Robyn's whānau are multi-owners of a few blocks around where her father is ahi kā. Robyn's father has lived at ōhakea for 83 years, and his koroua and his tūpuna, Te Keremihana Wairaka were also resident there. He is now the only ahi kā living along the banks of the RangitῙkei from Tangimoana to Ohinepuhiawe. The Richardson whānau papakainga is being established alongside Robyn's father's whare, following three intensive years of feasibility assessment and planning by the whānau
Pae Tawhiti scholarship 2017 recipient, Robyn Richardson (Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Whanaunga ki Hauraki) recently presented on her research progress to Whakauae staff. Robyn was awarded the Whakauae Pae Tawhiti scholarship to support her doctoral study in Māori Development and Advancement at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. She has a long history of engagement in the health sector as a rongoā practitioner as well as in Māori health workforce development, health promotion and mental health. Robyn is a member of both the Mana Whenua Hauora Iwi Relationship Board at MidCentral District Health Board and of the Central PHO Board. She has been the co-ordinator of Te Rau Puawai Māori Mental Health Workforce Development programme in the College of Health at Massey University since 2010.
Robyn's presentation to Whakauae included her development of her PhD research focus. The creation of a Richardson whānau papakainga, on ancestral whenua in the RangitῙkei near the Ōhakea Airforce Base, is at the heart of her study, Te Rongo ā Mangamāhoe: Whānau Succeeding as whānau. Robyn's overarching research question asks: “In what ways has papakainga facilitated the expression of rongo ā at Mangamāhoe”? The impact of the papakainga developmental journey on whānau wellbeing will be tracked throughout her study.
Robyn explains that her whānau once lived on many papakainga from the river mouth of RangitῙkei awa all the way up to Ohinepuhiawe. However, with most of the ancestral whenua having been lost through colonisation and the ‘land grab', the only remaining occupation is at Mangamāhoe. Here, Robyn's whānau are multi-owners of a few blocks around where her father is ahi kā. Robyn's father has lived at ōhakea for 83 years, and his koroua and his tūpuna, Te Keremihana Wairaka were also resident there. He is now the only ahi kā living along the banks of the RangitῙkei from Tangimoana to Ohinepuhiawe. The Richardson whānau papakainga is being established alongside Robyn's father's whare, following three intensive years of feasibility assessment and planning by the whānau
