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January 22, 2015
Shared leadership for Maori research centre
Waatea Team
Posted On January 22, 2015
The director of Maori research coalition Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga, Tracey McIntosh, says its confirmation as sole contender to be the Maori centre of research excellence is an opportunity to consolidate what has been done so far and build Maori research capability for the future.
Nga Pae, which includes all universities as well as wananga, museums and private research institutions, will now prepare a more comprehensive proposal for the Tertiary Education Commission.
Associate Professor McIntosh says the threat of losing funding brought Maori academics together, and they have come up with a new distributed leadership proposal making the centre more national.
"We’ll have a co-director model with Jacinta Ruru from the University of Otago as the co-director alongside myself. We will have deputy directors Emma Wyatt from Otago, Jamie Ataria from Lincoln. We have got the theme leaders, Linda Nikora from Waikato, Helen Moewaka Barnes from Massey so it is that breadth and that strength. And of course when we drill down well over 100 researchers committed to the programme. We will expect that to extend now as we go through into full proposal," she says.
Tracey McIntosh says the controversy over Nga Pae losing its previous CORE funding is that there is now dedicated funding for a Maori research centre.
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