Professor Merata Kawharu, Our people, Te Tumu, University of Otago, New Zealand

BA, Grad Dip (Auckland), DPhil (Oxford)
Ngāti Whatua

Adjunct Research Associate Professor - Te Tumu (April 2014- June 2016)

Contact

Office: 4S3, Te Tumu (Richardson Building, South Tower)
Tel: +64 3 479 8364
Email: merata.kawharu@otago.ac.nz

Distinctions

2012 - MNZM (Services to Maori Education)
2011 - Appointed by U.N. to expert committee on indigenous affairs and forestry.
Paper and meeting New York, January 2011. Paper presented ‘Forestry and indigenous issues: New Zealand and the Pacific’. See http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/EGM_IPF.html
2010 - Marsden grant awarded for three years on: transformations of tribal entrepreneurial leadership.
2009 - Inaugral Maori Book Awards, Nga Kupu Ora: Winner, Te Reo Maori Award for Tahuhu Korero: The Sayings of Taitokerau.
2008 - FoRST grant awarded for research on regional Maori language, tribal marae and Youth. 2 years.
2003 - New Zealand book awards: Montana Book Awards Finalist for Whenua: Managing Our Resources.
2002 - Marsden Fund grant for research concerning Indigenous Knowledge and Museum Practice. Grant awarded to Professor Karen Nero, Professor Roger Neich, Dr Paul Tapsell and self.
1994 - Rhodes Scholarship.
1991-1993 - Annual and Senior Prizes in Maori Studies, Polynesian Society Award for best Stage II paper in Maori Studies, Ngarimu VC Scholarship (1991-1993).

Committees

2007-2011 - (National) Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee.
2001-Present - Member, New Zealand Maori Heritage Council, Historic Places Trust, October.
2001- Present - Member, New Zealand Historic Places Trust Board, October (including being a member of the Strategy and Finance Sub-committee of the Board, and member of the Registration Sub-committee).
2004-Present - Ngati Whatua o Orakei Treaty claims team member.
2008-Present- Alternative Journal of Indigenous Studies, Editorial Board member.
2008 - Ngati Rahiri/ Ngati Kawa treaty claim team member and claim manager
2004-2009 - Chairperson, Te Kawautikitiki Charitable Trust.
2007-2009 - Trustee, Michael King Writers Trust.
2001-2008 - Member, Te Kaunihera o Te Whare Wananga o Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa.
2001-2005 - Member, Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, University of Auckland.

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Publications

Stephenson, J., Kawharu, M., Bond, S., & Diprose, G. (2022). What does success look like? A flaxroots perspective of adaptation. In C. Hendtlass, T. FitzGerald, A. Serrano & D. Neale (Eds.), Coastal adaptation: Adapting to coastal change and hazard risk in Aotearoa New Zealand [Special publication 5]. (pp. 13-15). Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Coastal Society. Retrieved from https://www.coastalsociety.org.nz

Kawharu, M., on behalf of the Takarangi Research Group, including Tapsell, P., Watene, K., Tane, H., Hakopa, H., Irving, C., Matehaere, L., Papuni-Iles, M., Stephenson, J., & Metzger, J. (2021). Climate Change Commission 2021 Draft Advice for Consultation [Ināia tonu nei: A low emissions future for Aotearoa]. Submission to He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission, Wellington, New Zealand. [Government Submission].

Ruckstuhl, K., Amoamo, M., Kawharu, M., Ruwhiu, D., Hudson, M., Martin, W.-J., Waiti, J., & Haar, J. (2021). Māori interface research: Rewards and risks at the technology frontier. In M. Amoamo, M. Kawharu & K. Ruckstuhl (Eds.), He Pou Hiringa: Grounding science and technology in te ao Māori. (pp. 142-163). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.

Kawharu, M., Jones, L., & Tapsell, P. (2021). Where tikanga meets technology: Connecting Hau Kāinga to Whenua Ora. In M. Amoamo, M. Kawharu & K. Ruckstuhl (Eds.), He Pou Hiringa: Grounding science and technology in te ao Māori. (pp. 55-74). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.

Kawharu, M., & Tapsell, P. (2021). Expanding Takarangi: Applying a Māori values-led model of team leadership in science and technology. In M. Amoamo, M. Kawharu & K. Ruckstuhl (Eds.), He Pou Hiringa: Grounding science and technology in te ao Māori. (pp. 17-34). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.

Kawharu, M., & Tapsell, P. (2019). Whāriki: The growth of Māori community entrepreneurship. Auckland, New Zealand: Oratia Books, 200p.

Authored Book - Research

Tapsell, P., Pfeiffer, K. (photographer), & Kawharu, M. (2010). Te Ara: Māori pathways of leadership. Auckland, New Zealand: Libro International, 32p.

Authored Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (2008). Tāhuhu kōrero: The sayings of Tai Tokerau. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 228p.

Authored Book - Research

Amoamo, M., Kawharu, M., & Ruckstuhl, K. (Eds.). (2021). He Pou Hiringa: Grounding science and technology in te ao Māori. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.

Edited Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (Ed.). (2014). Maranga Mai! Te Reo and marae in crisis? Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 280p.

Edited Book - Research

Chapter in Book - Research

Ruckstuhl, K., Kawharu, M., & Amoamo, M. (2021). Introduction. In M. Amoamo, M. Kawharu & K. Ruckstuhl (Eds.), He Pou Hiringa: Grounding science and technology in te ao Māori. (pp. 9-16). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (2018). Kaitiakitanga: Land, people and resource management. 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. 86-101). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M., & Newman, E. (2018). Whakapaparanga: Social structure, leadership and Whāngai. 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. 48-64). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (2014). Introduction. In M. Kawharu (Ed.), Maranga Mai! Te Reo and marae in crisis? (pp. 7-15). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M., & Nero, K. L. (2014). World Heritage and Small Island Developing States: Land management and community involvement. In Safeguarding precious resources for island communities [World Heritage Papers No. 38]. (pp. 76-85). Paris: UNESCO.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M., & Tane, P. (2014). Casting a new net: Connecting marae and Te Reo in the information age. In M. Kawharu (Ed.), Maranga Mai! Te Reo and marae in crisis? (pp. 181-209). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (2010). Environment as marae locale. In R. Selby, P. Moore & M. Mulholland (Eds.), Māori and the environment: Kaitiaki. (pp. 221-239). Wellington, New Zealand: Huia Books.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (2006). Gilbert Mair and the Taumata-a-Iwi. In P. Tapsell (Ed.), Ko Tawa: Maori treasures of New Zealand: The Gilbert Mair Collection, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira. (pp. 154-174). Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman and the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (2006). Treaty values and the Resource Management Act 1991. In M. Thompson-Fawcett & C. Freeman (Eds.), Living together: Towards inclusive communities in New Zealand. (pp. 43-56). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Kawharu, M. (2019). Reinterpreting the value chain in an indigenous community enterprise context. Journal of Enterprising Communities, 13(3), 242-262. doi: 10.1108/jec-11-2018-0079

Journal - Research Article

Artelle, K. A., Stephenson, J., Bragg, C., Housty, W. G., Kawharu, M., & Turner, N. J. (2018). Values-led management: The guidance of place-based values in environmental relationships of the past, present, and future. Ecology & Society, 23(3), 35. doi: 10.5751/es-10357-230335

Journal - Research Article

Kawharu, M., Tapsell, P., & Woods, C. (2017). Indigenous entrepreneurship in Aotearoa New Zealand: The takarangi framework of resilience and innovation. Journal of Enterprising Communities, 11(1), 20-38. doi: 10.1108/JEC-01-2015-0010

Journal - Research Article

Kawharu, M. (2016). Indigenous entrepreneurship: Cultural coding and the transformation of Ngāti Whātua in New Zealand. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 125(4), 359-382. doi: 10.15286/jps.125.4.359-382

Journal - Research Article

Kawharu, M. (2015). Aotearoa: Shine or shame? A critical examination of the Sustainable Development Goals and the question of poverty and young Māori in New Zealand. Journal of Global Ethics, 11(1), 43-50. doi: 10.1080/17449626.2015.1010098

Journal - Research Article

Kawharu, M., Tapsell, P., & Woods, C. (2012). Māori entrepreneurial behaviour: Lachmannian insights. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 15(4), 62-75.

Journal - Research Article

te Heuheu, T., Kawharu, M., & Tuheiava, A. R. (2012). World Heritage and indigeneity. World Heritage, 62, 8-17.

Journal - Research Article

Kawharu, M. (2009). Ancestral landscapes and world heritage from a Māori viewpoint. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 118(4), 317-388.

Journal - Research Article

Kawharu, M., Tapsell, P., & Woods, C. (2012). Maori entrepreneurial behaviour: Lachmannian insights. Proceedings of the 57th International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference: Leading from the Edge. Retrieved from http://www.icsb.org/conferences.asp

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Kawharu, M. (2011). Forestry and indigenous issues: New Zealand and the Pacific. Proceedings of the United Nations, Division for Social Policy and Development, Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, International Expert Group Meeting: Indigenous Peoples and Forests. Retrieved from http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples/MeetingsandWorkshops/2011.aspx

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Kawharu, M. (2011). Miejsce Maorysów w multimedialnie zintegrowanym świecie. In M. Jaworowskiej (Ed.), Zeszyt Naukowy. (pp. 13-27). Olsztyn, Poland: Katedry Socjologii, i Antropologii Wyższej Szkoly Informatyki i Ekonomii Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechnej w Olsztynie [Faculty of Sociology and Education, University of Computer Science and Economics]. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Kawharu, M., & Hennessey, M. (2009). Developing a web 2.0 resource for Māori youth: Bringing together two worlds in digital format. Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Annual Conference. Retrieved from http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pesaconf/Frid.html

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Wyeth, E. H., Lambert, M., Tapsell, M., Samaranayaka, A., Harwood, M., Anselm, D., Ellison, P., … Derrett, S. (2017). Long-term disability outcomes after hospitalisation for injury. Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference. (pp. 282). Retrieved from http://event.icebergevents.com.au/injuryprevention2017

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ruckstuhl, K., Kawharu, M., Jackson, A.-M., Keegan, T. T., Shadbolt, M., Hudson, M., … Hikuroa, D. (2016). National Science Challenges in Aotearoa-New Zealand: Opportunity or business as usual? Proceedings of the International Indigenous Research Conference. (pp. 82). Auckland, New Zealand: Ngä Pae o te Māramatanga. Retrieved from http://www.indigenousresearch2016.ac.nz/

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Hohepa, M., Kawharu, M., Ngaha, A., & Peri, V. (2010). Cultural knowledge and identity for wellbeing and success: Trying to make the connections in the north of New Zealand [Extended abstract]. Proceedings of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference. Retrieved from http://www.beraconference.co.uk/2010/downloads/abstracts/

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kawharu, M. (2009). Maori representation in governance: The new Auckland 'Super City'. Proceedings of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) National Indigenous Studies Conference: Perspectives on Urban Life: Connections and Reconnections. Retrieved from http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/conf2009/papers/U3.html

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kawharu, M. (2008). Cultural tourism: Challenges and opportunities, a Maori venture in New Zealand. Proceedings of the Sixth World Archaeological Congress (WAC). Retrieved from http://www.wac6.org/livesite/item.php?itemID=2168&itemType=PAPER

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kawharu, M. (2020, November). Kainga, kai and kōrero: Revitalising marae economics. Verbal presentation at the Biennial International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC): A Gathering of Indigenous Minds, [Online].