Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga research symposium presentations available online

The fifth annual Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga research symposium was hosted in collaboration with Tauranga Moana Iwi on 25-26 November 2013.

The symposium theme was Fostering Te Pā Harakeke: Healthy and Prosperous Families of Mana. Topics covered included the relationship between education and te pā harakeke; barriers to te pā harakeke such as family violence, deprivation and poverty; and the positive role te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori have in sustaining te pā harakeke.

Presentations included:

• Associate Professor Leonie Pihama (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga, Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi) speaking about her current research project Tiakina Te Pā Harakeke: Māori childrearing within a context of whānau ora
• Mereana Pitman (Ngāti Kahungunu) speaking about her work on violence within whānau
• Associate Professor Tracey McIntosh (Tūhoe) speaking about her work with young Māori women in prison
• Dr Ngāhuia Dixon (Tauranga Moana) speaking about her PhD research on the role of Māori women
• Dr Te Kani Kingi (Ngāti Pukeko) speaking about his current research project Te Puawaitanga o te Whānau: Markers of Flourishing Whānau

Resources from the symposium are available online to view and share. These include videos of symposium keynote talks; Whānau Ora Minister Tariana Turia's dinner speech (video to be published shortly); and a selection of symposium photos.

Image: Sunlit Flax by Brenda Anderson. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)