Abstract Climate change is a global issue affecting Aotearoa/New Zealand and the wider world. It is primarily driven by human activities, particularly the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, with its impacts widely felt (WWF, 2024). Indigenous groups around the world are severely affected by climate change. These impacts affect cultural practices, increase health risks within indigenous communities and exacerbate existing inequalities that

ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the generation and maintenance of mātauranga (ancestral Māori knowledge), food production and...

Te Weu Tairāwhiti is a collective of local researchers focused on the future risks and opportunities for Tairāwhiti. Te Weu joined PK for...

An unanticipated outcome of the Project Kāinga research alongside Te Rereatukāhia was the need for a new and forward-thinking Education...

Dr Rochelle Mackintosh, part of Project Kāinga team, recently published a new paper from her PhD research in Te Kaharoa. It serves as a great companion paper to Rochelle and Tepora’s paper Te Pūngāwerewere Pukumahi - A research paradigm for within Te Ao Māori . Rochelle graduated with her PhD in May 2025. Link to full article below: Abstract Central to Māori culture is whakapapa. Whakapapa can be defined in several ways, such as genealogy or taxonomic framework. A fundamental

Merata, Paora and Hirini co-authored a research article outlining the ethics and collaborative design principles employed in Project Kāinga. Full article download availble here. Abstract: Indigenous research methods centralises the importance of Indigenous ways of researching, validating and interpreting knowledge. In Māori kin-community (kāinga) contexts this methodology is called whakapapa. It is an ethical approach to research. Through three kāinga case studies, our articl

Rereata Makiha, renowned Māori astronomer, knowledge holder on maramataka and kōrero tuku iho spoke with Julian Wilcox on RNZ. On...

Project kāinga headed to Oromahoe, in Tai Tokerau, 'home' to two of the Project Kāinga members. This hui was lead by haukāinga and...