March 21, 2023
Kupe voyage demanding highest scholarship
Broadcaster turned scholar Julian Wilcox has picked up a $40,000 Ngarimu VC and 28 Māori Battalion doctoral scholarship.
He’s one of 10 students this year selected by the prestigious progamme, which has been funding Māori education since it was set up after World War II to honour the memory of the first Māori Victoria Cross winner.
He’s pursuing the PhD in Indigenous studies at Te Wānanga o Awanuiārangi after his elders suggested it was a way to develop the discipline and academic rigour needed to write a book about the explorer Kupe.
“I actually really love the process of reteaching yourself the disciplines required to be able to undertake something like a doctorate and it’s fun, going away researching and trying to know as much as you can about a subject and then having a disciplined approach to be able to write out everything and sourcing and re-sourcing and setting aside time every day to do stuff like this,” Wilcox says.
He says it was humbling to receive the same scholarship his mentor and uncle Tā Patu Hohepa received in 1957.
Ngarimu VC and 28th Māori Battalion Scholarship Fund Recipients 2023
Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients:
Brigham Riwai-Couch (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne ki Wairau, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō)
Varron Armstrong (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara, Ngāti Pōrou)
Maia Aroha Clark (Ngāti Hāua ki Taumarunui, Ngāti Maniapoto)
Masters Scholarship Recipients:
Anaru Palmer (Ngāi Te Rangi ki Tauranga Moana, Ngāti Tamaterā ki Pare Hauraki, Ngāti Mahuta ki Waikato, Ngāti Porou, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Maniapoto)
Victoria Carran (Ngāti Awa (Ngāti Pūkeko), Waikato Tainui (Ngāti Mahuta)
Tenaya Brow (Te Aitanga a Hauiti ki Uawa)
Doctoral Scholarship Recipient:
Julian Wilcox (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa)
VET Scholarship Recipients:
Logan Speight (Ngāti Porou)
Renay Jones (Te Whakatōhea)
Stuart Savage (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga)
Ngarimu Video Competition Winners:
Kura | School: Te Wharekura o Ruatoki
Te Reo Māori Stream
Video title: George Takurua
Bilingual Stream
Video title: Anituatua Black