Māori CoRE appoints new Joint Director

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Māori Centre of Research Excellence appoints new Joint Director

Auckland, New Zealand
4 September 2007

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, the Māori Centre of Research Excellence, has appointed Dr Tracey McIntosh, a University of Auckland researcher with leading international and New Zealand experience, as its new Joint Director.

“Tracey brings outstanding credentials from within New Zealand and across several countries and we are delighted to welcome her to this role,” her fellow Director, Professor Michael Walker, said.

“She joins us at a time of strong growth. Both her expertise and her commitment to expanding the Māori contribution to research will be real assets as we expand our programme and develop closer links with the communities with which we work.”

Of Tūhoe descent, Dr McIntosh is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in sociology at The University of Auckland. She has been a researcher in France and Burundi, and a lecturer in sociology at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.

Completing her doctorate in sociology in 2002, she has lectured at the University since 1999, and in 2004-2005 was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in New Zealand Studies at Georgetown, Washington D.C. From 2004-2006 she was the Associate Dean (Equity) in the Faculty of Arts and she has been Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (EO) since 2005.

Dr McIntosh is active in numerous roles promoting and supporting Māori research and educational achievement, and in 2003 she was awarded a National Māori Academic Excellence Award. Specialising in the sociology of death, criminology and incarceration, Dr McIntosh is also leading a research project in France.

“I’m honoured to be joining Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga at this time,” Dr McIntosh said. ”The Centre has a genuinely unique role and vision, and my aim will be to contribute to building on the impressive gains it has made in recent years. Already Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has established a reputation as a leader internationally in indigenous studies.”

Founded in 2002, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga has contributed to achieving a target of 500 new Māori PhDs. It has supported research used in Government policy advice and published in refereed academic journals in New Zealand and overseas. An exhibition based on one of its Fine Arts research projects is currently being exhibited at the world’s most prestigious art festival, the Venice Arts Biennale.

Dr McIntosh takes over from the Centre’s founding Joint Director, Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, who has taken up a new role as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Māori) at the University of Waikato.

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Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence and supports Māori scholars, community members and international academics engage in research and its applications. It accelerates the growth in numbers of Māori researchers conducting research in ways that genuinely engage with diverse Māori communities to benefit Māori and all New Zealanders. It has recently met a target of helping support 500 new Māori PhDs within five years.
www.maramatanga.co.nz

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