Research team | Whānau rangahau
Our study supported Māori & allied postgraduate students in psychology to learn about Kaupapa Māori research, qualitative methods, and sensitive research. Our students contributed to the data collection, analysis and dissemination of the project findings.

Special thanks
Colleagues in support
Professor Linda Nikora
Professor Nicola Gavey
Elders
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Jude Hoani (year 1)
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Joy Te Wiata & Russell Smith (year 2 onwards)
Specialist contributors
Cheryl Turner -Pakanae marae
Graham Mita & Stacey Noel – Maranga Ake
Lorene Royal & Irene Hancy – Dynamics of Whanaungatanga
Sharon Armstrong & Liz Marsden – Ngāpuhi Social Services
Evan Hastings & Bea Gladding –THETA, Sexwise
All participants who were interviewed for this project!
Advisory group
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Tracy McIntosh
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Cheryl Turner
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Kiri Edge
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Helen Moewaka Barnes
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Joanna Kidman
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Terryann Clark
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Lorna Dyall
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Shiloh Groot
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Julie Wharewera MikaLeonie Pihama
Transcribers
Koriana Russell
Rhieve Sheriden
Rangatahi advisors
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Maia Pehi-Hannah
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Wairere Sarich
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Brooke Lisipeki

Dr. Jade Le Grice
Principal investigator

Phillipa Te Paea Pehi
Research fellow

Nicola Harrison
PhD student | (ongoing PhD, co-supervised with Vivienne Elizabeth) – Māori survivors of sexual violence & impacts on whānau relationships

Logan Hamley
Logan Hamley - PhD student | 2022 (co-supervised with Nicola Gavey)
–Whakapapa, "the box", and beyond: poems, (re)presentations and the potentiality of rangatahi tāne identities in Auckland

Ash Gillon
Ashlea Gillon - - PhD student | 2023 (co-supervised with Tracy McIntosh) -
Hinenuitepō, Nui Te Ao Mana Tinana, Mana Mōmona: A Fat Wāhine Māori Pūrākau of
Body Sovereignty

Morgan Tupaea
Masters student | 2020 – He Kaitiakitanga, He Māiatanga: Colonial Exclusion of Mātauranga Māori in the Care and Protection of Tamaiti Atawhai

Fern Smith
Masters student | 2020 - 'They Shouldn’t Assume Our Lives are Easy’: Rangatahi wāhine negotiating social tensions, pressures, and harm on their journey to becoming sexual beings

Larissa Renfrew
Masters student | 2022 - Whakaahua Taiao, Whakaahua Whānau:
Rangatahi relationalities with the(ir) environment

Ariana Hond
Honours student | 2022 - Butterflies & Goosebumps: Rangatahi Affect & Intimate Relationships

Grace Jessup
Honours student | 2019 - Māori men, sexual violence prevention & healing

Shauney Thomson
Honours student | 2017 - Cook Island understandings of gender and sexuality

Wern Tje Lim
Honours student | 2018 - Decolonising spirituality & sexual violence prevention

Aotea Frandi
Summer studentship | 2021 - Toi Ora & sexual violence prevention
Ehara taku toa I te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini
My success is not mine alone, it is the success of the collective