Megan hails from Ōtākou and is of Kāi Tahu and Te Ātiawa descent. She lives at Ōtākou with her husband and three children.
Megan is working towards completing her PhD on the contributing factors to the death of the Māori language at Ōtākou. Her research interests are focused on the loss of te reo Māori at Ōtākou, traditional mōteatea and new waiata composition, takiaue (death and māori customs pertaining to the dead), and the written Māori archives of the past that have a particular geographical focus on her tribal region of Kāi Tahu.
Kelly-Ann Tahitahi, MA, He Tohu Whakamaumahara – Māori memorialisation in cemeteries
Completed
Stefan Jordan, PGDip, Newsprint, Te Reo and Hegemony in New Zealand: Responses to the Wai 262 Report for the Waitangi Tribunal 2010
Distinctions
Te Huanui: Distinction (Te Mātauranga Māori, Christchurch Polytechnic)
Kā Moteatea: Distinction (Te Mātauranga Māori, Christchurch Polytechnic)
Finalist in Huia Publishers Short Story awards (te reo Māori)
Publications
Pōtiki, M. K. (2023). Te Hū o Moho. The contributing factors to the death of the Māori language at Ōtākou (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/16424
Awarded Doctoral Degree
Pōtiki, M. (2020). Te hū o Moho: The call of the extinct Moho: The death of the Māori language at Ōtākou. Te Pouhere Kōrero, 9, 27-49.
Journal - Research Article
Leoni, G., & Pōtiki, M. (2019). Academic writing and translation in Te Reo Māori. Scope: Kaupapa Kai Tahu, 5, 29-35. doi: 10.34074/scop.2005004
Journal - Research Article
Pōtiki, M. (2019, September). The beginning of an end: The demise of Te Reo Māori at Ōtākou. Keynote presentation at the 1869 Conference and Heritage Festival: Ka mua, ka muri, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Potiki, M. (2019). [Review of the book The face of nature: An environmental history of the Otago Peninsula]. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 28, 135-136. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS28.5428
Journal - Research Other
Pōtiki, M. K. (2018, November). Moemoeā. Verbal presentation at the He Tuhinga nō Neherā Symposium: Texts, Contexts, Resonances, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Potiki, M. (2018, October). Gold, the great leveller. Verbal presentation at the 24th Australasian Mining History Association (AMHA) Annual Conference, Cromwell, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Paringatai, K., Potiki, M., & Hall, C. (2018, October). Kāinga waewae: Know your own backyard. Workshop presentation at the Teaching and Learning Symposium: Rebuilding Your Ship at Sea: Cultivating Identity, Integrity, Community and Collegiality in Times of Change, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Leoni, G., & Pōtiki, M. (2018, November). Ngā piki me ngā heke. Verbal presentation at the Māori Research Symposium: Mauri Ora: Human Flourishing, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pōtiki, M. (2018). Takiauē (Tangihanga): Death and mourning. In M. Reilly, S. Duncan, G. Leoni, L. Paterson, L. Carter, M. Rātima & P. Rewi (Eds.), Te Kōparapara: An introduction to the Māori world. (pp. 137-154). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Pōtiki, M. (2017). Ko hurumutu te reo: Ko te matenga o te reo ki Ōtākou. MAI Journal, 6(3), 334-343. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2017.6.3.8
Journal - Research Article
Pōtiki, M. (2016). Te Haka Nā Ngā Herehere. Te Pouhere Kōrero, 8, 6-25.
Journal - Research Article
Potiki, M. (2016). The Otago Peninsula: A unique identity. Shima, 10(1), 67-84. doi: 10.21463/shima.10.1.08
Journal - Research Article
Potiki, M. (2015, Jun). Nōku te korikori, kia kori mai hoki koe. Follow lest your fate: Revitalise a Southern Māori dialect or not? Verbal presentation at the 4th Language, Literature & Linguistics (L3) International Conference, Singapore.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pōtiki, M. (2015). Me Tā Tāua Mokopuna: The Te Reo Māori writings of H. K. Taiaroa and Tame Parata. New Zealand Journal of History, 49(1), 31-53.
Journal - Research Article
Potiki, M. (2015). Te Tokotoko. In A. Cooper, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), The lives of colonial objects. (pp. 170-175). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Potiki, M. (2014, July). Killing demons and cultural collisions. School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies: Te Tumu, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
Other Research Output
Ellison, M. (2013, February). Te tokotoko. Verbal presentation at the Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ellison, M. (2011, August). Te Hū o Moho: Factors contributing to the death of Te Reo Māori in one village in Te Waipounamu. Verbal presentation at the Hui Poutama: Māori Research Symposium: Past Present Future: Ka Haere Whakamua, Ka Titiro Whakamuri, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Ellison, M. (2011). Te Takiauē o Tiramorehu: Tiramorehu's grief: A study on the writings of Tiramorehu about the suicide of his wife. Proceedings of the New Zealand Historical Association Conference: Past Tensions: Reflections on Making History. Retrieved from http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/NZHA2011/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Dip Tch Primary (Otago) BEd (Otago) MEd (Canterbury)