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PhD Candidate: Ashlea Gillon (Ngāti Awa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāiterangi)

Primary Supervisor(s): Professor Tracey McIntosh

This project has two artistic outcomes, Aniwaniwa and UFOB. Both of these artworks were exhibited and generated ongoing public exhibition opportunities and interest. The themes addressed were rising sea levels in the Pacific caused by global warming and flooding of landscapes to generate hydroelectric power.

Despite the proliferation of equity and diversity plans and policies that have been established in universities across New Zealand over the past 25 years, Māori academic staff make up only a very small proportion of the nation’s academic workforce (6%) and the proportion of Pacific academic staff is even smaller (2%).

This study investigates how Māori and other indigenous scholars make a distinctive contribution to the disciplinary knowledge bases that drive national development in Aotearoa.