Kawea Ake

Students protesting outside the building housing University leadership. Foreground a male student in full tā moko with a staff, wearing korowai and piupiu. Middle ground rows of students singing, female students in front, some holding flowers. Trees lining Symonds Street in the background.

Aligned with the strategic refresh of Taumata Teitei, Kawea Ake sets out the inidgenising initiatives of the University led by the Office PVC Māori.

Three kuia stand in the foreground facing to the right at the dawn ceremony. The roof of the whare kai of Waipapa marae is visible in the background, those gathered standing between the kuia and the whare kai.

We activate te ao Māori principles and practices across our people and culture work and foster a thriving Māori workforce.

Staff of Education and Social Work and others in front of the Waipapa Marae wharenui. Front row are seated, and include Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori Te Kawehau Hoskins, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Operations Adrienne Cleland, Provost Valerie Linton, Dean of EDSW Mark Barrow. The seven or eight rows behind are standing.

The university values genuine and enduring relationships guided by a unique narrative identity shaped by our relationships with iwi, hapū and hapori Māori.

The green cone of Maungārei, Mount Wellington bottom left hand corner, fanning out to industrial buildings, then Rangitoto is in the top right hand corner.

We value and facilitate Indigenous research, are cognisant of Te Tiriti, and promote mātauranga Māori as a way of analysing and understanding our world.

We provide a distinctive learner experience, highly connected to knowledges of place, to mātauranga Māori and to Te Tiriti.

Stanley is an older man with a whitening moustache and goatee beard and smiling eyes. He wears a cap, plaid shirt and leather jacket, standing in our rose gardens, surrounded by roses – red/pink in front, white behind. His body emerges from the roses from just above his waist.

We deliver responsive, accessible social, physical, digital, services and facilities. We enhance mana, well-being and sustainability of communities and planet.

Everyone is seated, and the photo is taken at an angle, rather than directly in front of people. Dawn wears a striped scarf and dark clothing, her arms around her knees. She is smiling slightly, head turned towards Jemaima who sits next to her. Jemaima’s head is turned also, grinning at someone we cannot see. She is wearing a brightly coloured Pacific print dress, and an ula made of various flowers, her hands with traditional tattoos on her knees. Siaosi Gavet sits one level down in front of her, wearing a white shirt and an ulafala. He faces ahead, head tilted down as he smiles. Others sit behind them in the background.

We acknowledge whanaungatanga through whakapapa to the Pacific. We seek to connect through our traditions, shared aspirations and actions to uplift one another.