November 02, 2014
Waikato PhDs
Waikato University’s School of Maori and Pacific Development has celebrated having five PhD candidates graduate on the same day.
The university’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Postgraduate), Professor Kay Weaver, says it’s testament to the hard work, commitment, and passion for their subject on the part of the graduands and their supervisors.
She says it is an important contribution in furthering Maori and indigenous knowledge and research capability.
The five include Roger Lewis and Murray Peters, who produced thesis on Maori language revival, Vincent Malcolm-Buchanan, who wrote on Tangi and Taonga in a Contemporary Maori Whanau, Jillian Tipene O’Brien, who looked at indigenous perspectives on translating sacred and sensitive texts, and Saburo Omura, who reflected on the Treaty of Waitangi and Asian immigrants in Aotearoa.
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