Ngā pukenga

Research Fellows

Ngā Pukenga

Research Fellows

Te Toi Whakaruruhau o Aotearoa supports a number of Ākonga students and emerging researchers whose studies focus on Māori disaster risk reduction. The Centre is committed to using a Tuakana-Teina mentorship model to manaaki students, to foster whakawhanaungatanga and to provide academic and cultural support.

Sally Owen

Te Rarawa
PhD Student

Lucy Kaiser

Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe
Waitaha: PhD Student

Sonny Vercoe

Te Arawa, Ngāti Tahu
Honours student

Haukapuanui Vercoe

Te Arawa, Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Haunui-ā-Pāpārangi Ngāti Pāhauwera & Ngāi Tahu, Honours student

Kristie-Lee Thomas

Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri
PhD Student

Current Pukenga:

  1. Rebecca Fitzgerald (Ngāi Tahu, Postdoctoral Researcher, GNS Science) 
  2. Moka Apiti (Te Runanganui of Ngāti Hikairo, PhD Student) 
  3. Lucy Kaiser (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, PhD Student) 
  4. Sally Owen (Te Rarawa, Emerging Researcher) 
  5. Te Kerekere Roycroft (Ngāti Korokoro, Te Pouka, Ngāti Wharara; PhD student) 
  6. Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha, PhD Student) 
  7. Nona Taute (Te Arawa, Tainui, PhD Student)
  8. Kristie-Lee Thomas (Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri, PhD Student) 
  9. Christian Webber (Te Āti Awa ki Whakarongotai, PhD Student) 
  10. Kākati Royal (Ngāti Raukawa, Te Āti Awa, Ngāi Tahu, Masters Student)
  11. Haukapuanui Vercoe (Te Arawa, Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Haunui-ā-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Pāhauwea & Ngāi Tahu, PhD Student)
  12. Sonny Vercoe (Te Arawa, Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Haunui-ā-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Pāhauwea & Ngāi Tahu, PhD Student)
  13. Annemarie Midwood Murray (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Hikairo ki Tongariro, Te Arawa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi & Ngāti Hāuaroa)
  14. Benoir Midwood Murray (Ngāti Kuri, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Ngāpuhi, Waikato, Hauraki, Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Maniapoto, Rereahau, Ngāti Awa, Tuhoe, Te Arawa, Porourangi, Ngāti Koata & Waitaha)
  15. Keiha Nichols (PhD Student)
  16. Lara Taylor (Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāi Tāhu ki Murihiku, PhD Student)
  17. Melissa Savage (Masters Student)
  18. Akuhata Bailey-Winiata (Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūtetawha, PhD Student)
  19. Abby Hamilton (Ngāi Tahu, PhD Student)
  20. Nari Fairs (PhD Student)
  21. Robyn Richardson (PhD Student)
  22. Winifred Geddes (Masters Student)
  23. Helena Sadler (Ngāpuhi , Ngāti Maru )
  24. Portia Sharp (Ngati Porou, Ngati Kahungunu, Masters Student)
  25. Marcelle Scadden (Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngāti Rakaipaaka, and Ngāti Porou, PhD Student)

If you are an emerging Māori researcher or student who would like to get in contact with us, please get in touch via link or by my email C.Kenney@massey.ac.nz