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Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Māori Indigenous Health Innovation (Christchurch)
Research summary
Hauora Māori and mental health

Research

Dr Jenni Manuel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Māori Indigenous Health Innovation and the Department of Psychological Medicine. She has postgraduate teaching responsibilities in both departments, with subject areas including Hauora Māori, nature and extent of mental disorders, and mental health nursing. She has active supervisory roles with masters' and PhD students.

Her research interests include Māori mental health inequity, improving service delivery for people experiencing severe mental illness, and early psychosis. She is the principle investigator on a study evaluating a peer-led acute service for severe mental illness and also takes a lead role in a major HRC grant-funded project that is investigating pathways to first episode psychosis and outcomes for Māori rangatahi. Other research projects include Māori experiences of eating disorders and physical health of Māori with psychosis. She is also a trained IPSRT therapist on clinical trials for mood disorders.

Publications

Manuel, J., Monk, N., Kake, T., Luckman, A., Lockett, H., Porter, R., … Grattan, R., & Summers, N. (2025). Addressing exclusionary epidemiology in psychosis population prevalence studies. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00048674251394886 Journal - Research Other

Manuel, J., Thwaites, B., Monk, N., Porter, R., Southern, A., & Crowe, M. (2025). Evaluating access, service delivery, and experiences of a peer-led acute alternative mental health service. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 34, e70149. doi: 10.1111/inm.70149 Journal - Research Article

Manuel, J. (2025, October). Te Uemairangi: Early psychosis and institutional contact: A qualitative study of Indigenous Māori experiences. Invited presentation at the New Zealand Early Intervention Psychosis Society (NZEIPS) Conference, Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Beaglehole, B., & Manuel, J. (2025). Reappraisal of the hype and hope offered by psilocybin treatment of depression. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1622), 94-97. doi: 10.26635/6965.7138 Journal - Research Other

Beaglehole, B., Manuel, J., & Glue, P. (2025, September). From tripping to sipping: Recent, current, and future ketamine research undertaken in Christchurch and Dunedin. Verbal presentation at the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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