ANNUAL REPORT - Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga

International Collaborations in ExcellenceNetworking and supporting researchcollaborations, including internationally, remainsan important focus of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.This was the second year of our partnershipwith Fulbright, enabling New Zealand scholarsto further their research careers in the USA.Natalie Coates joined some ofthe best minds in the world whenshe started at Harvard Universityin August. Natalie (Ngāti Awa, TeArawa, Tuhoe, Ngāti Hine) wasthe 2011 Fulbright-Ngā Pae o teMāramatanga Graduate Awardrecipient, enabling her to studya Master of Laws in human rightsand indigenous law at the prestigious university.Only one such award is given each year to agraduate student whose area of study fits withinone of our research themes. The successfulapplicant must show academic excellence,leadership potential and the ability to be acultural ambassador for New Zealand.Natalie chose Harvard because of its reputationas one of the best universities in the world. Theyhave amazing resources and professors, and shewill be alongside some of the brightest andmost accomplished students in the world.Pefi Kingi presented her decadesof work on developing a qualityassurance framework for Pacificcultural practices in healthcareat the Cross-Cultural HealthCare Conference in Honolulu,Hawai‘i in October. Pefi’s trip wassupported by a Fulbright-Ngā Paeo te Māramatanga Travel Awardin Indigenous Development, designed for NewZealand academics, artists or professionalsto present their work in areas of indigenousdevelopment to audiences in the USA. Pefi isof Niuean heritage and from Auckland.Others awarded a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o teMāramatanga award during 2011 and dueto travel in 2012 are:University of Otago law academicJacinta Ruru (Ngāti Raukawa,Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto)was awarded the Fulbright-NgāPae o te Māramatanga SeniorScholar Award. She will undertakeresearch into indigenous challengesto western property law at Lewis &Clark College in Portland, Oregonand the Sandra Day O’Connor College ofLaw at Arizona State University in Tempe.Spencer Charles Lilley from Massey Universityand Tia Neha from the University of Otago bothreceived Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te MāramatangaTravel Awards in Indigenous Development.Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga supported 14 furtherscholars to present their research and meet,collaborate and network with internationalresearchers during 2011:• Paul Whitinui, University of Canterbury,9th Hawai‘i International Conference onEducation, 4–7 January 2011, Honolulu,Hawai‘i• Dr Ocean Mercier, Victoria University ofWellington, World Indigenous PeoplesConference on Education, 14–18 August 2011,Cusco, Peru• Vincent Malcolm-Buchanan, University ofWaikato, Death Down Under Conference,27–28 June 2011 Sydney and IUAES/AAS/ASAANZ Conference 2011, 5–8 July 2011,Perth, Australia• Dr Mere Kepa, The University of Auckland,9th Asia/Oceania Congress of Geriatrics andGerontology, 23–27 October 2011, Melbourne,Australia• Lorraine Dixon, Maanaki Whenua, The 14thInternational River Symposium: The Valueof Rivers, 26–29 September 2011, Brisbane,Australia26Ngā Pae o te māramatanga