{"id":1057,"date":"2020-04-29T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:01:16","slug":"te-tumu-research-under-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/te-tumu-research-under-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Tumu Research Under Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lockdown has proved hugely disruptive to all Te Tumu staff, impacting on all aspects of our academic lives, including research.\u00a0 We now move from Lockdown to Level 3 \u2013 which so far doesn\u2019t look too much different for us.\u00a0 Despite this, we have still been managing to keep our research productivity going, hopefully with some \u201coutputs\u201d in the offing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To find out a little bit more, I sent out a request to staff to send in a few details on the highs and lows of their research during lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, let\u2019s talk about some of the problems.\u00a0 Some staff talked of getting \u201czui\u2019d out\u201d, i.e. too many Zoom hui.\u00a0 There\u2019s been some research on how tiring Zoom meetings can be, and what with teaching online, staff and school meetings, supervision get-togethers, and other hui, it can seem like some days we are constantly on Zoom.\u00a0 Then there\u2019s the extra effort preparing for online teaching, especially in the reo classes where you need to convert the quick-flowing quick-changing interactive tasks into online teaching activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there are the events that have been cancelled or deferred, such as Poia Rewi\u2019s\u00a0 M\u0101ori language symposium that he had planned with the Government Department Collective, and Michelle Schaaf\u2019s planned delivery of\u00a0\u00a0Summary Report for \u2018Childhood in a Changing Pacific\u2019: Samoa and Dunedin <\/em>to Pacific communities in Samoa and Dunedin.\u00a0 Lachy Paterson had also been planning to kick off his upcoming research and Study Leave (RSL)with a couple of conferences in France, but these have both been cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gianna’s little distraction, Rangiaho.<\/p><\/div>\n

Then there\u2019s working from home.\u00a0 Three of our staff have young children also locked down with them, which creates its own complications. As Karyn says, she has also been \u201cresearching meal plans for a fussy eater and activities to keep a 13 month old entertained\u201d \u2013 hard work when \u201cfood still refuses to get eaten and suggested activities don\u2019t keep her attention for longer than 5 minutes!!\u201d And one person complained (was it a complaint?) that \u201cMy new office space is far too close to the pantry\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Karyn keeping Manuhou amused.<\/p><\/div>\n

So if those were the lows, what were the highs?<\/span><\/p>\n

Poia says he is pleased that Gianna Leoni and Tangiwai\u00a0Rewi have come on board\u00a0the\u00a0Te Reo Me Ng\u0101 Tikanga M\u0101ori Platform\u00a0for\u00a02020 research, looking at the impacts of research by researchers under Ng\u0101 Pae o te M\u0101ramatanga. Gianna is also feeling chuffed that she has finished a research proposal she had been needing to do for a few months \u2013 and having it accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tangiwai in her research nook.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tangiwai, as Chair of the Te Tumu Research Committee, also organised a \u201cHot Tips\u201d Zoom session with staff earlier this month, on how to enhance their applications for University of Otago Research Grants (UORGs).\u00a0 We were really pleased to have the ebullient Humanities Associate Dean (Research), James Maclaurin there to share his knowledge with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Lachy and Tangiwai are on RSL next semester, so have been revising their travel, and research and writing plans, which has been difficult given that no one knows how long we will be in Level 3, or when normality will return.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lachy’s man-cave<\/p><\/div>\n

Lachy has been organising getting the proofs and indexing for a new edited collection on Indigneous textual cultures, which will hopefully be out in September<\/span>. See here\u00a0for more info<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0He been working on the Te Hau K\u0101inga\/M\u0101ori Home Front project, including translating the blog posts.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t read the latest ones (in English or M\u0101ori) then<\/span> check them out<\/a> at the project website.\u00a0 You can also listen to him and Angela Wanhalla promoting the project<\/a> on Radio New Zealand\u2019s Saturday Morning<\/em> programme on Anzac Day: \u00a0Lachy has also been asked to submit an abstract for a chapter on M\u0101ori newspapers in\u00a0The\u00a0Edinburgh\u00a0Companion to British Colonial Periodicals<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michelle has been busy transcribing interviews,\u00a0 sorting participants\u2019 diaries and personal papers collected during her recent RSL, in preparation for UORG application. She is also part of a team who have just completed the Summary Report for Childhood in a Changing Pacific: Samoa and Dunedin<\/em>. She has also been chosen to write a chapter for an e-book for Bridget Williams Books on \u201c’Thesis Survivor Stories\u201d, to be published in June.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michelle in her home work space.<\/p><\/div>\n

Megan P\u014dtiki is busy on finishing her thesis.\u00a0 She recently published \u201cTe h\u016b o Moho: The call of the extinct Moho: The death of the M\u0101ori language at \u014ct\u0101kou\u201d which appeared in the latest issue of\u00a0Te Pouhere K\u014drero<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lyn Carter has completed a journal article during the Lockdown, which she has sent off to a Sami journal. Otherwise, she says, she has been having lots of Zoom meetings with various research clusters around climate change and health\/climate change and environment, including on her National Science Challenge projects, Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities, and BioHeritage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Building on her publishing success from last year, Telesia Kalavite, is currently writing a journal article for the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies.\u00a0 She is also one of the principal applicants for a successful grant application for Humanities Research Network with an amount of $10,000 for 2 years. The name of the project is: \u201cPacific Thought Network (PacTNetwork)\u201d. Telesia is now developing an application for UORG grant to further her research.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our newest staff member, Vaivaimalemalo Michael Ligaliga, has been very busy.\u00a0 He has been developing a book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan based on his PhD thesis, as well as a UORG application.\u00a0 Michael has also been working on a chapter on the Samoan perspective on addressing domestic or family violence for the Handbook of Positive Peace<\/em>\u00a0, and another for Decolonizing Indigenous Research Methodologies in Peace and Conflict Research<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Reilly has been continuing his work, writing chapters about M\u0101ui P\u014dtiki, one on a Ruapuke Island narrative, and another looking at two stories by Mohi Ruatapu. \u00a0His aim is to incorporate these chapters into a book about Maori tribal traditions, perhaps with Auckland University Press, building on the kind of topics he has taught in his MAOR207 and INDV307. \u00a0Michael has also been asked to contribute a chapter on emotions in the Pacific and Australia for an edited book, The Routledge Modern History of Emotions<\/em>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Perpetual hui on Zoom! Here Karyn and Manuhou are attending a board meeting for Te R\u016bnanga M\u0101ori of Ako Aotearoa.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Lockdown has disrupted Karyn\u2019s Marsden research, so she\u2019s been busy working on a new plan, and catching up on some of her reading. \u00a0She has recently been published by Lancet Oncology<\/em>. This came from an invitation to her and her collaborators to the International Gastric Cancer Linkage Consortium in W\u0101naka last year to share their research on updating the international practice\u00a0guidelines for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer. Karyn is currently working on the final draft of a book chapter she is co-writing with Marcelle Wharerau (ex-Te Tumu student, now teaching at Waikato University) on subversive pedagogies entitled, \u201cT\u016bngia ki te marae, tau ana \u2013 culturally transformative learning in universities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Paerau Warbrick was enjoying his RSL when the Lockdown was imposed, focusing his research on historic M\u0101ori elections, and the lawsuits that often went with them.\u00a0 He has just finished a draft article on the 1876 Eastern Maori election petition involving H\u0113nare P\u014dtae, R\u014dpata Wahawaha and Karaitaina Takamoana and the 1887 Northern Maori election petition involving Hirini Taiwhanga and W\u012b K\u0101tene. Paerau is also working on an article on the monumental election battles between W\u012b Pere and James Carroll in the 1884, 1887 and 1890 elections, and making the finishing touches to another article regarding the UK Supreme Court and how it should take lessons from the NZ Court of Appeal Maori Council case of 1987 and the Foreshore and Seabed case of 2003.<\/p>\n

Wherever you are, I hope you are all staying safe and keeping well, and being productive with your research (if that’s your thing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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