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