ANNUAL REPORT - Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga

Supporting emerging scholarsNgā Pae o teMāramatanga isnurturing future scholars,and awarded three fulldoctoral scholarships in2011 to provide supportfor excellent doctoralstudy in the area ofindigenous developmentresearch, aligning to ourresearch priorities, and todevelop future researchcapabilities and capacity.Donna Ngaronoa Gardiner was born inTauranga Moana with tribal connectionsto Ngāiterangi, Ngāti Ranginui and NgātiPūkenga. She is a doctoral candidateat Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangiin Whakatāne. Donna’s research willinvestigate indigenous leadership andgovernance in Aotearoa, specificallywhānau, hapū and iwi governance.Of particular interest is the role of women inleadership and governance in Māori communities.She will examine how quality Māori leadershipmay influence the realisation of whānau,hapū and iwi potential and success, and whatmechanisms are employed to ensure thetransmission of leadership and governance acrossgenerations. Donna works part-time as theResearch and Community Coordinator forNgā Pae o te Māramatanga.Paora Mato is a doctoral candidate at theUniversity of Waikato and affiliated to TeWhānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Tūwharetoa.After many years in the workforce hereturned to the University of Waikato in2003 to continue his studies, includinglearning te reo Māori.A number of computer applicationinterfaces are available in te reo Māori,including Microsoft Office and the Google websearch interface. Paora’s doctoral research aimsto determine what role translated computerinterfaces and computer technology shouldperform in language revitalisation strategies.He also aims to quantify issues of awareness,engagement and perception, with regardto translated interfaces. Further analysis oflanguage strategies in New Zealand will discussthe linguistic landscape and determine whatis required to ensure the use of te reo Māori isconsidered normal. He will particularly focus onvarious social networking sites such as Facebook,Twitter, MySpace, blogs and email.