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Te Au Rangahau - The Pathway to Māori Research in Business

Advancing knowledge for a prosperous and sustainable Māori economy. Te Au Rangahau connects the Māori world with the business world through innovative research and advice for Māori to thrive in entrepreneurship and enterprise.

Ko te rangi, ko te whenua, te hua tangata
The sky and land are the common bond for all people

Ko wai mātau – About us

A vibrant Māori economy is beneficial to Māori and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Te Au Rangahau is a specialist centre that works with organisations and leaders to connect te ao Māori – the Māori world – with te ao pakihi – the business world.

The research by our innovative team of Māori academics contributes to the aspirations and wellbeing of Māori people and their enterprises, empowering them to succeed – financially, culturally, environmentally, socially and spiritually – in accordance with tikanga.

We collaborate with New Zealand businesses and organisations that are looking to engage with Māori business and develop a deeper understanding of te ao Māori.

Ultimately, our mission is to be a catalyst for indigenous entrepreneurship, innovation and enterprise to advance in a variety of organisational settings and contexts.

Te Au Rangahau identity

We aim to advance business and leadership knowledge that benefits the Māori economy.

With this whakaaro (intention) in mind, the tohu (symbol) represents hinengaro (consciousness), much like neurons in the brain transmitting different pieces of information. 

The puhoro and koru patterns signify fast-transmitting neurons and cells zapping through the brain, while the koru signifies new learning.

Te Au Rangahau logo

Te Au Rangahau logo.

Hitoria – History

Hitoria – History

Te Au Rangahau (TAR) was born in 2003, when a collective of Māori staff in Massey’s College of Business (Te Rangiwhenua) united under 1 kaupapa.

The aim was to enhance the wairua and wawata of Māori across the 3 Massey campuses – Manawatū, Wellington and Albany – by combining their skills, knowledge and networks.

This small but passionate group strived to establish a centre to conduct, contribute to and disseminate knowledge relevant to Māori business and Māori in organisational settings.

Hence, the seed was sown. Te Au Rangahau, The Pathway to Māori Research in Business, was established and provided a base for staff, students and stakeholders in ‘Māori business’ to make a contribution, first and foremost to Māori society but also to Massey University and the business world.

Through TAR, new relationships were successfully established between Māori staff and other research centres, including those with the Federation of Māori Authorities, Poutama Trust and marae committees.

Before long, TAR expanded its role to support and mentor Māori staff in their career development, facilitate postgraduate research that impacted Māori, and hold te reo writing workshops for Massey staff and students.

In 2013, Massey University hosted Te Pae Roa 2040: Three Decades of Māori Development 1984-2013. This was a nationally-significant Māori conference aimed at considering pathways for Māori development into the future.

Summarising the conference, Sir Mason Durie suggested that the future success of Māori depends on developing alliances with like-minded people who share a sense of purpose while maintaining their identity and autonomy.

The conference spurred a profound shift in our vision. The decision was made to expand our focus beyond research to become a specialist centre that incorporates issues not only pertinent to Māori business but also to Māori leadership.

Today, as a specialist centre, TAR engages in teaching, learning and community engagement initiatives as well as research. This broader focus has created greater opportunities for us to contribute to Māori advancement through the Māori economy, Māori business in its broadest sense, and Māori leadership in various organisational settings and contexts.

The Māori Economy

The Māori Economy
People standing on a boat in the ocean watching whales and dolphins

Whai Rawa, Whai Mana, Whai Oranga – Creating a world leading indigenous blue economy. Image credit: Sara Orme

The Māori economy is a powerful player in the sustained economic growth of Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2023, it was estimated to have an asset base of around $126 billion and contribute $32 billion in value to Aotearoa New Zealand's GDP.

It encompasses small and medium enterprises, authorities, pan-tribal corporate entities, iwi that have settled their Treaty claims with the Crown and burgeoning social enterprises. 

Māori business is rising – 70% of the Māori asset base is in the hands of Māori employers and the self-employed. But the economy is an old one. 

Established by the founding ancestors who arrived here from Eastern Polynesia. The challenge for Māori enterprise today is in deciding how to retain elements of this ancient past while advancing in globalisation, digitisation and technological developments.

Projections estimate the Māori economy will create an additional $12 billion per annum by 2060. This creates an opportunity for 150,000 additional jobs and relies on the mutual development of both economies.

Furthermore, the Māori population is much younger than the New Zealand population (34% of Māori were aged under 15 at the last census), meaning there will be significant numbers of Māori joining the workforce over the coming years.

The Māori economy needs to be ready and capable of supporting this growth, and poised to encourage these young Māori onto enterprise and entrepreneurial pathways.

Through Te Au Rangahau, we hope to make Māori and indigenous business research meaningful and useful for the good of Aotearoa.

"Māori culture for a long time has been seen as a liability for many.  I feel that point of difference is one of our most untapped resources and assets ever."
Māori Entrepreneur Robett Hollis

Traditional Māori woven flax

Ngā rangahau – Our projects

The Te Au Rangahau research platform is based on 4 fundamental pillars that work in unison to support and develop a prosperous and sustainable Māori economy.

The wha whai

Whai Rawa – Economy

Whai Rawa – Economy Understanding the function and form of the Māori economy and researching strategies to support growth and development.

Indigenous economic development

Te Au Rangahau member: Dr Jason Paul Mika

Inequalities and intervention in Māori governance

Te Au Rangahau member: Dr Jason Paul Mika

PhD projects

Exploring the relationship between the economy and crown-Iwi patnership in Aotearoa

Doctoral student: Kowhai Dalton

Supervisors: Professor Matt Roskruge, Ms Jane Frances and Associate Professor Sam Richardson

Understanding Economic Resilience - The Case for Aotearoa New Zealand

Doctoral student: Rennae Cherry

Supervisors: Professor Matt Roskruge and Professor Jacques Poot

Whai Pakihi – Enterprise

Whai Pakihi – Enterprise Understanding the factors that foster an effective and enabling Māori enterprise ecosystem.

Te hononga: Modelling indigenous collaborative enterprise

What are the bases for Māori enterprise collaboration? How do Māori activate Indigenous entrepreneurial capabilities for collaboration and what forms do Māori enterprise collaborations take?

By exploring Māori enterprise collaboration as a fundamental but challenging strategy for Māori economic development, this project identifies principles and models which can inform Māori and non-Māori about enterprise collaboration. It does this by using mātauranga Māori, kaupapa Māori, tikanga Māori and te reo Māori, as well as considerations of non-Māori principles, practices and technologies for enterprise collaboration.

Te Au Rangahau member: Matt Roskruge

Tourism and sustainable development goals

Tourism is of great importance to economic wellbeing in Aotearoa, and in the Pacific Islands included in this study (Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu and the Cook Islands).

The impact of COVID-19 on the tourism sector provides a unique opportunity to rethink how tourism can more sustainably benefit Aotearoa and the Pacific.

Building on Indigenous knowledge and using a Vanua research framework, the project will conduct a stock-take of the impacts of COVID-19 on these tourist destinations, analyse the policies and strategies being developed in response to the crisis, hold widespread discussions/kōrero/talanoa with affected people and, on the basis of these, re-imagine tourism using Indigenous voices and concepts.

Te Au Rangahau members: Dr Jason Mika and Professor Regina Scheyvens

Whai Mana – Entrepreneurship

Whai Mana – Entrepreneurship Supporting successful Māori entrepreneurship and examining the personal and social identities of Māori entrepreneurs.

Engaging project management paradoxes in Māori projects

Whai Hua – Society

Whai Hua – Society Research linking Māori business and economic success to a thriving Māori society.

Rutherford Discovery Fellowship – Social Capital in Aotearoa

Te Au Rangahau member: Matt Roskruge

Ko wai mātau – Who we are

We are specialists who work with organisations and leaders to connect the Māori world (te ao Māori) with the business world (te ao pakihi).

Dr Shirley Barnett

Dr Shirley Barnett

Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Lecturer
Dr Brendan Moyle

Dr Brendan Moyle

Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga
Senior Lecturer
 John Murrie

John Murrie

Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Apa
MBS, FHEA
Lecturer
Professor Dame Farah Palmer

Professor Dame Farah Palmer

Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato
DNZM, PhD
Pou Akonga Māori – Executive Director Māori Student Success
Dr Savern Reweti

Dr Savern Reweti

Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Senior Lecturer
Professor Matt Roskruge

Professor Matt Roskruge

Te Atiawa, Ngāti Tama
PhD, BSocSci (Hons)
Associate Dean – Māori

Ā mātau mahi – Our services

Our range of services include commission research, advice and training, event management, postgraduate mentorship and marae support.

Research collaboration

Research collaboration

We design, conduct and peer-review research related to Māori and Indigenous business and economy. We can also participate in existing research programmes that are underway and welcome Indigenous research opportunities with institutions in Aotearoa and abroad.

Advice and training

Advice and training

Practical advice and training for businesses interested in learning about Māori business and economy.

Speaking and events

Speaking and events

Hosting, facilitating and speaking at events and seminars to transfer knowledge of Māori business and economy.

Postgraduate mentorship

Postgraduate mentorship

Supervision and support for Māori and non-Māori postgraduate students interested in studying, researching and engaging with Māori and Indigenous businesses or the Māori economy.

Media commentary

Media commentary

We are available for an interview and written commentary on topics relating to Māori and Indigenous business, economics or economies. Our affiliates and staff are also subject experts able to provide insights across a range of business-related disciplines.

Marae and community support

Marae and community support

Practical support for marae, iwi, hapu and whānau to help resolve business, economic or data-related issues. We can also assist in running and reviewing annual census, business case submissions and data analysis. Low or no-fee support is available.

Te hononga – Partners and affiliates

Riddet Institute

Standford Woods Institute for the Environment logo

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM)

Central Economic Development Agency (CEDA) logo

Central Economic Dvelopment Agency (CEDA)

Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) logo

Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)

Tuhinga – Publications

Journals

Journals

2021

Kukutai, T., Clark, V., Mika, J. P., Muru-Lanning, M., Pouwhare, R., Sterling, R., Teague, V., Watts, D., & Cassim, S. (2021). The COVID-19 domestic vaccine pass: Implications for Māori.

Houkamau, C. A., Satherly, N., Stronge, S., Wolfgramm, R., Dell, K. M., Mika, J. P., Newth, J., & Sibley, C. G. (2021). Cyberbullying towards Māori is rife in New Zealand: Incidences and demographic differences in the experiences of cyberbullying among Māori. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Mika, J. P., & Scheyvens, R. (2021). Te Awa Tupua: Peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1-22.

Scheyvens, R., Carr, A., Movono, A., Hughes, E., Higgins-Desbiolles, F., & Mika, J. P. (2021). Indigenous tourism and the sustainable development goals. Annals of Tourism Research, 90(2021), 103260

2020

Barrett, M., Watene, K., & McNicholas, P. (2020) Legal personality in Aotearoa New Zealand: an example of integrated thinking on sustainable development. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, ahead of print(ahead-of-print)10.1108(AAAJ-01-2019-3819 Dutta, M. J., Elers, C., Jayan, P. (2020). Culture-centered processes of community organizing in COVID19 response: Notes from Kerala and Aotearoa New Zealand. Frontiers in Communication Dutta, M.J & Ngā Hau (in press) Voice infrastructures and alternative imaginaries: Indigenous social movements against neocolonial extraction In Crick, N (Ed.), The rhetoric of social movements: Networks, power, and new media. Routledge. Dutta, M. J., Elers, C., Jayan, P. (in press). CCA, voice and inequality. In. Handbook of communication and development. Edward Elgar Publishing. Elers, C., & Jayan, P. (forthcoming). This is Us: Free speech embedded in Whiteness, racism and coloniality in Aotearoa, New Zealand. First Amendment Studies Mika, J. (2020). Comment on Fiona McCormack’s “Precarity, indigeneity and the market in Māori fisheries”. Public Anthropologist, 2(1), 106-111. doi:10.1163/25891715-00201003 Rout, M., Reid, J., & Mika, J. (2020). Māori agribusinesses: The whakapapa network for success. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples Tretiakov, A., Felzensztein, C., Zwerg Anne, M., Mika Jason, P., & Macpherson Wayne, G. (2020). Family, community, and globalization: Wayuu indigenous entrepreneurs as n-Culturals. Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1108/CCSM-01-2019-0025 Scheyvens, R., Banks, G., Vunibola, S., Steven, H., & Meo-Sewabu, L. (2020). Business serves society: Successful locally-driven development on customary land in the South Pacific. Geoforum Scheyvens, R., Banks, G., Vunibola, S., Steven, H., & Meo-Sewabu, L. (2020). Business serves society: Successful locally-driven development on customary land in the South Pacific. Geoforum

2019

Hapeta, J., Stewart-Withers, R., & Palmer, F. (2019). Sport for social change with Aotearoa New Zealand youth: Navigating the theory-practice nexus through Indigenous principles. Journal of Sport Management, 33(5), 481-492.

Hapeta, J., Palmer, F., & Kuroda, Y. (2019). Cultural identity, leadership and wellbeing: How indigenous storytelling contributed to well-being in a New Zealand provincial rugby team. Public Health. Doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2018.12.010 

Hapeta, J., Palmer, F., Kuroda, Y., & Hermansson, G. (2019). A Kaupapa Māori, culturally progressive, narrative review of literature on sport, ethnicity and inclusion. Kōtuitui: NZ Journal of Social Sciences Online, 14(2), 209-229. 

Mika, J., & Ross, B. M. (2019). International Indigenous business and trade and the role of culture: A comparison between Aotearoa Māori and Alaska Native enterprises. Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 11(2), 54-71.

Vunibola .S, Scheyvens R. S (2019). Revitalising rural development in the Pacific: An itaukei (indigenous Fijian) approach. Development Bulletin 81, 62-66.

Mika, J. P., Fahey, N., & Bensemann, J. (2019). What counts as an indigenous enterprise? Evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Enterprising Communities, 13(3), 372-390. doi:10.1108/JEC-12-2018-0102

Mika, J. P., Smith, G. H., Gillies, A., & Wiremu, F. (2019). Unfolding tensions within post-settlement governance and tribal economies in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Enterprising Communities, 13(3), 296-318. doi:10.1108/JEC-12-2018-0104

2018

Cameron, M. P., Roskruge, M. J., Droste, N., & Miller, P. G. (2018). Judgement of Breath Alcohol Concentration Levels Among Pedestrians in the Night-Time Economy—A Street-Intercept Field Study. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 53(3), 245-250

Cameron, M. P., Roskruge, M. J., Droste, N., & Miller, P. G. (2018). Pre-drinking and the temporal gradient of intoxication in a New Zealand nightlife environment. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. 79(1), 119-125.

Hapeta, J., Palmer, F., & Kuroda, Y. (2018). Ka Mate: A commodity to trade or taonga to treasure? MAI Journal: a New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, 7(2), 170-185. 

Miranda, J., Al Lawati, R., Khurana, A., Pasupati, S., El Gamel, A., Roskruge, M.J., & Nair, R. (2018). Clinical Outcomes of Tricuspid Valve Surgery for Tricuspid Regurgitation. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 27, S367.

Tosswill, M., Roskruge, M.J., Smith, A. & Christey, G. (2018). Livestock Related Injuries in the Midland Region of New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal. 131(1483), 13-20

Warren, L., Mika, J. P., & Palmer, F. R. (2018). How does enterprise assistance support Maori entrepreneurs? An identity approach. Journal of Management and Organization, 23(6), 873-885. doi:10.1017/jmo.2017.73

2017

Awatere, S., Mika, J. P., Hudson, M., Pauling, C., Lambert, S., & Reid, J. (2017). Whakatipu rawa ma ngā uri whakatipu: Optimising the ‘Māori’ in Māori economic development. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 13(2). doi:10.1177/1177180117700816

Kuroda, Y., Palmer, F., & Nakazawa, M. (2017). Comparison of metamotivational dominance and cultural identity between Japanese National Team and Māori All Blacks rugby players. Heliyon, 3(11). doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00454 

Mika, J. P., Warren, L., Foley, D., & Palmer, F. R. (2017). Perspectives on indigenous entrepreneurship, innovation and enterprise. Journal of Management and Organization, 23(6), 767-773. doi:10.1017/jmo.2018.4

Reweti, S., & Davies, R. Y. G. (2017). Development of motion and force feedback for a low-cost PC based aviation based training device. In Engineers Australia (Ed.), Proceedings of AIAC 17 (pp. 171-176). Melbourne, Australia: Engineers Australia, Royal Aeronautical Society.

Reweti, S. L., Jeffrey, L., & Gilbey, A. (2017). Efficacy of low-cost PC-based aviation training devices. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 16, 127-142.

Whitehead, J. Roskruge, M.J., Tan, C., Brown, D. & Christey, G. (2017). Monitoring pre-hospital transport of severely injured patients in the Midlands Region of New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal. 131(1470), 71-78

2016

Palmer, F. (2016). Stories of haka and women’s rugby in Aotearoa New Zealand: Weaving identities and ideologies together. International Journal of the History of Sport, 33(17), 2169-2185. 

Forster, M.E., Palmer, F., & Barnett, S. (2016). Karanga mai ra: Stories of Māori women as leaders. Leadership, 12(3), 324-345. 

Books

Books

Mika, J. P. (2021). Tūhoe self-governance: Te mana motuhake o Tūhoe In R. Joseph & R. Benton (Eds.), Waking the taniwha: Māori governance in the 21st century (pp. 263-280). Thomson Reuters.

Poot, J. & Roskruge, M.J. (2020) (Eds.)
Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific. Springer, Singapore.

Mika, J., Colbourne, R., & Almeida, S. (2020). Responsible management: An Indigenous perspective. (First ed., pp. 260-276)

Mika, J. P. (2018). The role of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in building indigenous enterprises and economies

Reweti, S. L., Henderson, I.L, & Kamira, R. (2019). Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Deliver Medical and Emergency Supplies to Remote Areas. (pp. 137-168)

Palmer, F.R. (2017). The Māori All Blacks and Ethnicity in Aotearoa New Zealand in the Professional Era. In J. Nauright, & T. Collins (Eds.), The Rugby World in the professional era (75th ed.) (pp.62-77). New York: Routledge

Bhide, V., & Palmer, F. (2017). The virtual Māori mentoring programme, Massey Business School, New Zealand. In D.A. Clutterbuck, F.K. Kochan, L. Lunsford, N. Dominguez, & J. Haddock-Millar (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Mentoring (Chapter 37). London, NY: Sage Publication.

Mika, J. P. (2017). Indigeneity and management consulting in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 226-238)

Erueti, B. B., & Palmer, F. R. (2015). Chapter 6: Te Whariki Tuakiri (the identity mat): Māori elite athletes and the expression of ethno-cultural identity in global sport. In K. Liston, P. Dolan, & C. Jabbour (Eds.), Sport, Race and Ethnicity: The Scope of Belonging? (pp.1061-1075). UK: Taylor Francis; Routledge.

Mika, J. P. (2013). Tūtara Kauika: A brief history of the Tūhoe Fisheries Charitable Trust (First edition ed.). Tāneatua, New Zealand: Tūhoe Fisheries Charitable Trust

Watson, G.D., Palmer, F.R., & Ryan, G.J. (2017). Aotearoa/New Zealand. In J. Nauright, & D. Wiggins (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity (pp. 131-145) Oxon: Routledge.

Mika, J. P. (2014). The role of elders in indigenous economic development: The case of kaumātua in Māori enterprises of Aotearoa New Zealand. (First edition ed., pp. 151-176)

Palmer, F. R. (2014). Winning Black Ferns. In T. Johnson, A. J. Martin, & G. Watson (Eds.), Legends in Black: New Zealand Rugby Greats on Why We Win (pp. 260- 283). Auckland: Penguin

Mika, J. P. (2020). Indigenous entrepreneurship: How Indigenous knowing, being and doing shapes entrepreneurial practice. In D. Deakins & J. M. Scott (Eds.), Entrepreneurship: A contemporary approach in theory and practice. Sage.

Hapeta, J. & Palmer F.R. (2014). Māori Culture Counts: A case study of the Waikato Chiefs. In T. Black (Ed.), Enhancing Mātauranga Māori and Global Indigenous Knowledge (pp. 101-116). Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

Palmer, F.R., & Adair, D. (2012). Indigeneity, race relations and sport management. In S. Leberman, C. Collins, & L. Trenberth (Eds.), Sport Business Management in New Zealand and Australia (3rd ed.) (pp. 54-80). Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.

Roskruge, M.J, Poot, J., & King, L. (2016) Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards: differences between migrants and the native born. (pp 221-256)

Reports

Reports

Wiremu, F., Mika, J. P., Gillies, A., Smith, G. H., & Ngawati, M. (2021). Persisting inequalities and the potential for intervention through ‘new’ governance models: An independent research report. Te Puna Ora o Mataatua.

Dell, K. M., Newth, J., Mika, J. P., & Houkamau, C. A. (2021). Developing a Māori theory of value: Report prepared for Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.

Mika, J. P., Crawford, P., Potaka, H., Vunibola, S., & Roskruge, M. (2021). Māori business in Manawatū-Whanganui: A brief update

Mika, J. P., Crawford, P., Potaka, H., Vunibola, S., & Roskruge, M. (2021). Pakihi Māori ManawatūWhanganui: He whakarāpopoto i ngā kōrero o te wā.

Hudson, M., Thompson, A., Wilcox, P., Mika, J. P., Battershill, C., Stott, M., Brooks, R. T., & Warbrick, L. (2021). Te nohonga kaitiaki: Guidelines for genomic research on taonga species. University of Waikato.

Whenua, life, values programme:

Te Manu Ka Rere: Fostering Māori Enterprise Financial Capability

Te Hononga: Modelling indigenous collaborative enterprise

He Whenua Tipu – Transformation Of Māori Agribusiness and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)

Expressions of Whānau. In Superu (2016). Families and Whānau report 2016.

KAITIAKI-CENTRED BUSINESS MODELS: Case Studies of Māori Marine-Based Enterprises
in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mapping the Māori marine economy: Whai rawa, whai mana, whai oranga—Creating a world-leading Indigenous blue marine economy

Using Poutama Trust’s data to evaluate the success of Poutama’s assistance to Māori businesses

Vunibola, S. (2018). Cooperatives: Background, Principles and Potential as a form of Indigenous Enterprise for Pacific Peoples (PDF, 867 KB). CIDAnz (Cook Island Development Agency New Zealand), Auckland, New Zealand.

MAORI BUSINESS IN MANAWATU: An environmental scan of Maori business in Manawatu

Te Pai Tawhiti: Exploring the Horizons of Māori Economic Performance Through Effective Collaboration

New Zealand firms: Reaching for the frontier

Measuring the value of the contribution of Māori language and culture to the New Zealand economy

Manawatū-Whanganui Māori Economic Development Strategy 2016 – 2040

The Productivity and Innovation of Māori Frontier Firms

Tokelau's Clinical Health Services and Patient Referrals Scheme

Tairāwhiti Māori Economic Development Report – Te Puni Kōkiri

Māori Marine Economy: A literature review

Working papers

Working papers

Hutchings, J., Smith, J., Roskruge, N., Severne, C., Mika, J. P., & Panoho, J. (2017). Enhancing Māori agribusiness through kaitiakitanga tools. (First ed., No. Of Pieces: 1, pp. 1-20). Wellington, New Zealand: Our Land and Water National Science Challenge.

Māori bone carving on a woven flax mat.

Ao pāpāho – Media coverage

2020 to 2024

2020 to 2024

Newshub Nation: Budget Panel Discussion

Associate Professor of Economics Dr Matt Roskruge, Newshub’s Business Reporter Madison Reidy and Brigitte Morten from Franks Ogilvie Law dissect the news of the week with Tova O’Brien.

2020

Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: How our business reporting served and protected European settler interests, 2 December 2020, Stuff

Covid-19: Jobless and tempted to get into a franchise, what are the pitfalls? 15 November 2020, Stuff

Covid-19 has changed New Zealand forever. The experts explain how, 20 October 2020, The Spinoff

DHBs still operating under strain and in deficit under Labour, 12 October 2020, RNZ

Election 2020: DHB deficits still out of control, 12 October 2020, RNZ

Te Reo Maori app could influence standard rate for translations, 16 September 2020, Stuff

$64.2 million in WINZ food grants during lockdown quarter, 7 September 2020, Te Ao Māori News

Auckland Action Against Poverty calls for end to benefit sanctions, 3 September 2020, Te Ao Māori News

Coalition should have reformed welfare before Covid-19 outbreak – economist, 2 September 2020, Te Ao Māori News

It could be 2024 before some parts of the economy fully recover – economist, 28 August 2020, Te Ao Māori News

Economics lecturer says lack of people movement will hurt economy, 6 August 2020, Te Ao Māori News

Economists on unemployment number predictions, 5 August 2020, RNZ

The biggest spend up since Think Big is coming to Taranaki, 18 July 2020, Stuff

Māori tourism critical to country's economic rebuild, 1 July 2020, Te Ao Māori Nes

Māori economy critical to Covid-19 economic recovery, 30 June 2020, Stuff

Maori economy holds the key to helping Aotearoa recover, 30 June 2020, RNZ The Panel

Deep Trouble, 23 June 2020, Stuff investigation, Matt Roskruge features in:

Budget 2020: Māori to get $900m to deal with Covid-19 fallout, 14 May 2020, RNZ

Budget: Funding welcomed, but Māori business miss out, 14 May 2020, RNZ

Covid-19 impact on nurse wellbeing: Identification, sustainability and mitigation, 4 May 2020, AMRF

Could the economic recovery cause another Māori migration? 29 April 2020, Te Ao Māori News

Coronavirus: What the pandemic is costing small business, 25 April 2020, Stuff

Coronavirus: Māori economist says Māori workers will be hit hard, 23 March 2020, Stuff

Fears Covid-19 could cost Māori economy $500 million, 6 March 2020, RNZ

Māori @ Massey news

Celebrating 30 years of Toioho ki Āpiti: An exhibition that honours the legacy of Māori visual arts

Thursday 28 May 2026

An exhibition celebrating three decades of Māori artistic excellence, creativity and legacy will open on Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University’s Manawatū campus next week, marking 30 years of the iconic Toioho ki Āpiti: Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts programme.

Your Family, your history: New book challenges kiwi narratives

Tuesday 12 May 2026

Professor Richard Shaw is urging New Zealanders to reflect more deeply on their own family histories and their connection to colonisation, with the release of his latest book, 'The Good Settler – Essays from other people’s lands', recently published by Massey University Press.

Weaving knowledge across generations: Manu Kawana awarded Honorary Doctorate

Tuesday 5 May 2026

The Honorary Doctorate of Education awarded to Manu Kawana recognises his exceptional contribution to Māori education, cultural development and community wellbeing. The award honours a lifetime of service freely given in the pursuit of equity, understanding and transformative education for all.

A lifetime of influence in Māori education: Rāwiri Wright honoured with Doctorate

Wednesday 15 April 2026

After decades shaping kaupapa Māori education nationwide, Rāwiri Wright has been recognised with an Honorary Doctorate of Education from Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University.

Tono Mai – Contact

Contact Professor Matt Roskruge for all general and media enquiries.

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