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Professor Moana Theodore (Image: Supplied)

A new face and a new phase for the Dunedin Study

Meet the third director of the world-renowned study that’s helped shape public policy and opinion across the globe over the last 52 years.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 26th March, 2024
Contributing writer
Jacinta Ruru (Image: Sharron Bennett; additional design: Tina Tiller)

Aotearoa’s first ever Māori law professor is making history once again

Professor Jacinta Ruru is set to become Otago University's inaugural deputy vice chancellor Māori. What does she hope to achieve in the position?
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By Tommy de Silva | 11th March, 2024
Guest writer
Thompson-Fawcett’s work is helping to indigenise urban planning (Image: Getty; additional design: Archi Banal)

Meet the woman putting culture at the heart of urban planning

The built environment is not just about physical spaces – it’s also about cultural spaces.
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By Liam Rātana | 22nd June, 2023
Ātea editor
The University of Otago’s proposed new ingoa Māori and logo (Image: Supplied)

The process to rebrand our oldest university

The University of Otago has been on a years-long journey to find a new Māori identity.
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By Tommy de Silva | 15th March, 2023
Guest writer
Te Ara o Rehua, the dark sky experience in Takapō is a classic example of a regenerating Astro tourism experience (Image: Getty)

How Māori tourism is sharing our land and stories with manuhiri

After the last two years, our tourism industry has changed – and indigenous tourism has a big role to play in the sector's future.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 3rd December, 2022
Contributing writer
Tamariki at Te Kōpae Piripono (Photo: Supplied / Design: Archi Banal)

Measuring Māori early childhood development requires Māori tools

New research by a Taranaki puna reo has identified a way to measure the impact of Māori immersion ECE on tamariki for the first time.
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By Simon Day | 2nd September, 2022
Contributing Writer
A Kaikoura tītī (Image: DOC)

A different way of seeing: Decolonising science through mātauranga Māori

Two University of Otago scientists on how Māori scientific knowledge has informed and expanded their work.
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By Meriana Johnsen | 24th December, 2021
Guest writer
Elisepa Taukolo and Gemella Reynolds-Hatem (Images: Supplied; additional design: Tina Tiller)

Finding home at Otago University

For many students, the university's Māori and Pacific centres provide a home away from home.
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By Teuila Fuatai | 8th December, 2021
Contributing writer
Marama Lyall Barraball receives her vaccine from Dr Maia Melbourne-Wilcox (Photo: Supplied)

Protecting the pā: Vaccinating against Covid-19 on the marae

At marae all around Canterbury, Māori are getting vaccinated against Covid-19.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 10th August, 2021
Contributing writer
Dr Chanel Phillips with her nephews and niece at Pataua Beach (Image: Supplied)

The connections with wai that can keep us safer in the water

Despite Māori over-representation in the death statistics, drowning prevention strategies have largely neglected Māori perspectives on water safety.
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 6th July, 2021
Contributing writer

Finding whakapapa: The generational trauma of closed Māori adoptions

Dr Erica Newman has been awarded $300,000 to study the generational effects of closed adoptions of Māori children to Pākehā families. 
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 18th March, 2021
Contributing writer
The beautiful Ōtākou Marae and some of the first year Māori students (Photo: Brian Treanor)

Welcome home: How first year Māori students find a place at the University of Otago

To open the year at the University of Otago, hundreds of first year Māori students and their families gathered at Ōtākou marae to be welcomed onto the whenua of Ngāi Tahu.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 11th March, 2021
Contributing writer
Dr Will Flavell, centre, with some of his students at Rutherford College (Photo: Supplied/Tina Tiller)

How non-Māori students play a part in te reo revitalisation

If we want to meet the goal of one million speakers by 2040, it’s going to take a team effort.
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 23rd February, 2021
Contributing writer
A crowd on the bridge outside the Treaty grounds on Waitangi Day 2018 (Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Why te Tiriti should place a limit on the supremacy of parliament

An alternative to NZ’s constitutional framework would give Te Tiriti o Waitangi the mana it deserves and Māori a meaningful seat at the table. 
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By Jacinta Ruru and Jacobi Kohu-Morris | 2nd February, 2021
Guest writer
The history of the n-word in New Zealand

The history of the n-word in New Zealand

Continuing to display memorabilia emblazoned with the racial slur is choosing to ignore the history of the word, its racialised meanings and connection to slavery and white supremacy.
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By Lachy Paterson | 16th January, 2021
Guest writer
Raiha Cook is studying students like herself, who struggled at university after a life of kura Māori learning (Photo: Supplied)

Language, and more: The challenges for kura Māori students arriving at university

Raiha Cook had visited the University of Otago before she left home to study there, but she wasn't ready for the culture shock of her first year.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 25th November, 2020
Contributing writer
Bicultural, bilingual, bijural: A plan for a new model of legal education in Aotearoa
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Bicultural, bilingual, bijural: A plan for a new model of legal education in Aotearoa

It is time to integrate tikanga Māori into law school's to create a bijural, bicultural, bilingual legal system, writes University of Otago's Professor Jacinta Ruru.
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By Jacinta Ruru | 21st October, 2020
Guest writer
Photo: Getty Images

Systemic barriers are keeping Māori with eating disorders from treatment

Systemic gaps in the health system mean it’s much harder for Māori with eating disorders to access support.
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 15th October, 2020
Contributing writer
Over 30 years, the French detonated nearly 200 nuclear tests in the Pacific 
(Photo: Michel Baret/Gamma-Rapho via Getty and Gregory Boissy/Getty Images)

For 40 years, Oscar Temaru has protested the French presence in the Pacific

The Tahitian leader has refused to stop fighting against nuclear testing and its effects on his people. New Zealanders must continue to do the same writes Jenny Te Paa-Daniels.
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By Jenny Te Paa-Daniel | 1st September, 2020
Guest writer
(Photo: Getty)

Covid-19 exposed equity issues for Māori, and now is the perfect time to fix them

Do people of different socio-economic backgrounds have the same ability to respond to pandemics like Covid-19?
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By Alice Webb-Liddall | 12th June, 2020
Contributing writer

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