Research team | Whānau rangahau
Our study supported Māori & allied postgraduate students in psychology to learn about Kaupapa Māori research, qualitative methods, and sensitive research. Our students contributed to the data collection, analysis and dissemination of the project findings.
Dr. Jade Le Grice
Principal investigator
Phillipa Te Paea Pehi
Research fellow
Nicola Harrison
PhD student | (ongoing PhD, co-supervised with Vivienne Elizabeth) – Māori survivors of sexual violence & impacts on whānau relationships
Logan Hamley
PhD student
Ash Gillon
PhD student
Morgan Tupaea
Masters student | 2020 – He Kaitiakitanga, He Māiatanga: Colonial Exclusion of Mātauranga Māori in the Care and Protection of Tamaiti Atawhai
Fern Smith
Masters student | 2020 - 'They Shouldn’t Assume Our Lives are Easy’: Rangatahi wāhine negotiating social tensions, pressures, and harm on their journey to becoming sexual beings
Ariana Hond
Honours student | 2022 - Butterflies & Goosebumps: Rangatahi Affect & Intimate Relationships
Grace Jessup
Honours student | 2019 - Māori men, sexual violence prevention & healing
Shauney Thomson
Honours student | 2017 - Cook Island understandings of gender and sexuality
Wern Tje Lim
Honours student | 2018 - Decolonising spirituality & sexual violence prevention
Aotea Frandi
Summer studentship | 2021 - Toi Ora & sexual violence prevention
Special thanks
Colleagues in support
Professor Linda Nikora
Professor Nicola Gavey
Elders
Jude Hoani (year 1)
Joy Te Wiata & Russell Smith (year 2 onwards)
Specialist contributors
Cheryl Turner -Pakanae marae
Graham Mita & Stacey Noel – Maranga Ake
Lorene Royal & Irene Hancy – Dynamics of Whanaungatanga
Sharon Armstrong & Liz Marsden – Ngāpuhi Social Services
Evan Hastings & Bea Gladding –THETA, Sexwise
All participants who were interviewed for this project!
Advisory group
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Tracy McIntosh
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Cheryl Turner
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Kiri Edge
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Helen Moewaka Barnes
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Joanna Kidman
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Terryann Clark
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Lorna Dyall
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Shiloh Groot
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Julie Wharewera MikaLeonie Pihama
Transcribers
Koriana Russell
Rhieve Sheriden
Rangatahi advisors
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Maia Pehi-Hannah
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Wairere Sarich
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Brooke Lisipeki
Ehara taku toa I te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini
My success is not mine alone, it is the success of the collective