RESEARCH AND WRITING

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Since 2021, I have worked with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, Te Kāhui Tika Tangata - Human Rights Commission, the Office of the Auditor General, the Indigenising Legal Education project at the University of Otago, Kumete Group, Marine and Coastal Area Act 2011 applicants, and Pou Tikanga - National Iwi Chairs Forum,  providing them with research and writing services.

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My strong research and writing skills include:

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• the publication of original academic research; 

• historical research and negotiation of historical accounts for settlements;

• production of policy advice, discussion documents, submissions, Waitangi Tribunal report chapters, and research reports; 

• design of course and training materials;  and

• reviewing and editing work.

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My own original research was published as Constitutions: Writing Nations, Reading Difference in 2007.  This work included consideration of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, in dialogue with other constitutional texts, both within Aotearoa and internationally. 

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I have worked as a historian for both the Waitangi Tribunal and the former Office of Treaty Settlements, researching the history of the Crown’s interactions with iwi, hapū and whānau, in particular areas of Aotearoa.

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I was contracted to co-write the Māori Land Court’s 150th anniversary publication, Te Pou Herenga Tangata, Te Pou Herenga Whenua, Te Pou Whare Kōrero and was on the editorial collective of Social Semiotics, a peer-reviewed academic journal, from 2004-11. I have blogged about Te Tiriti at tangatatiritiingoodfaith and about feminism and motherhood at smothered.com.

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I am currently working on a series of articles on responses to imperialism and colonialism in Aotearoa and the UK (from a Pākehā perspective). I presented my initial research at the New Zealand Historical Association (NZHA) conference in November 2021, with a further paper presented at the NZHA in 2023. The first of these articles was published in Textual Practice (2022) and the second is under consideration for publication.  I am currently working on an article on settler memorials in Aotearoa.

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Please refer to my profile on Academia.edu for a fuller list of, and access to, my publications.