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February 24, 2025 | News
Research cuts threaten future of Māori academia
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga says research funding cuts put future generations of Māori academic researchers at risk.
March 14, 2026
December 10, 2024 | News
Māori research funding cuts don’t surprise experts
A co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, Aotearoa’s only Māori Centre of Research Excellence says changes to research funding weren't a surprise but weren't planned either.
December 10, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Professor Tahu Kukutai | Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
The Pou Matarua Co-directors of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, Aotearoa’s only Māori Centre of Research Excellence (NPM) strongly condemn the Government’s decision to defund social science and humanities research within the Marsden Fund. They say Māori researchers, communities, and knowledge systems stand to suffer the most.
December 10, 2024 | News
Government scraps humanities funding, faces backlash
A kaupapa-Māori researcher says the government's plan to scrap humanities and social sciences research funding from the $75 million-a-year Marsden Fund is a backward step.
December 5, 2024 | News
Marsden Fund changes spark researcher backlash
Co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Nicola Gaston, says the reallocation of Marsden research funding is a slight to researchers.
December 5, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Prof Nicola Gaston | Co-Director at The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Humanities and social science funding has been cut from the Marsden Fund, the main fund for 'blue-skies' research in Aotearoa New Zealand. The areas that have been cut include subjects like nursing, law, and archaeology.
November 14, 2023 | News
Burial customs to be disinterred and decolonised
A Māori academic is questioning whether modern funeral practices adopted by Māori are tika or correct.
November 8, 2023 | News
Vaping harm research wins funding
University of Auckland researchers are looking for vaping health markers which can help to identify and prevent long term health problems, especially for young vapers.
November 11, 2022 | News
Taniwha topic for deep study
Two Māori scholars want to take taniwha out of the realm of fairy tales.
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