{"id":1089,"date":"2020-06-22T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:22:03","slug":"poias-last-seminar-as-dean-of-te-tumu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/poias-last-seminar-as-dean-of-te-tumu\/","title":{"rendered":"Poia\u2019s last seminar as Dean of Te Tumu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Poia Rewi<\/strong> <\/span>will be giving his last ever seminar to Te Tumu as Dean of our School.\u00a0 Poia has been an inspiring leader of Te Tumu and, as most of you know, we are very sad that he will soon be leaving the university for greener pastures elsewhere.<\/p>\n

It would be wonderful if you are able to come along to the seminar; if not, then his talk will also be live-streamed on Te Tumu\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Seminar details: click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Poia Rewi (Ng\u0101ti Manawa, T\u016bhoe, Te Arawa, Ng\u0101ti Whare and T\u016bwharetoa) hails from Murupara in the Bay of Plenty.\u00a0 He migrated south from Waikato University to Te Tumu, the University of Otago\u2019s School of M\u0101ori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies in 2003 to help boost our M\u0101ori-language teaching programme. He is an acknowledged master of te reo M\u0101ori, always teaching the advanced-level language classes.\u00a0 A noted composer in his own right, he also taught Te Tumu\u2019s advanced kapa haka classes.\u00a0 Poia completed his PhD in 2005, written completely in te reo M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

He has always been popular with students as a teacher and supervisor, as willing to feed their bellies with his soups as their minds with his knowledge.\u00a0 He became the Dean of Te Tumu and full professor in 2016.<\/p>\n

Poia is also a serious and respected researcher, with publications on te reo M\u0101ori, language revitalisation, tikanga M\u0101ori, M\u0101ori oratory and M\u0101ori history.\u00a0 Indeed his thesis, published in 2010 as Whaik\u014drero: The World of M\u0101ori Oratory<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 by Auckland University Press,\u00a0went on to win the Best First Book Non-Fiction Award in the 2011 New Zealand Book Awards.<\/p>\n

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Professor Poia Rewi with DVC (Research and Enterprise) Professor Richard Blaikie at the launch of AKI.<\/p><\/div>\n

Poia has always been a great innovator and collaborator.\u00a0 He helped develop AKI, an app to help learn M\u0101ori vocabulary<\/a> with other Otago academics.\u00a0 He is also part of the team that came up with ZePA (Zero Passive Active), a model to advance the public\u2019s attitudes and engagement with te reo M\u0101ori, and to promote M\u0101ori-language revitalisation, that is now used by a number of government agencies.<\/a>\u00a0 Recently, Poia has worked with academics at Victoria and Auckland as a Co-Principal Investigator of Te Pae Tawhiti: Te Reo M\u0101ori,<\/a> funded by Ng\u0101 Pae o te M\u0101ramatanga, looking at the value of te reo M\u0101ori in terms of the economy, cultural identity and social cohesion. This led to The Value of the M\u0101ori language: Te Hua o te Reo M\u0101ori<\/em>,<\/a> published by Huia in 2014, that won the Te Reo M\u0101ori category of Ng\u0101 Kupu Ora Aotearoa M\u0101ori Book Awards in 2015. \u00a0Poia is currently Deputy Director of Ng\u0101 Pae o te M\u0101ramatanga, a position he will reluctantly have to leave behind for his new role in Wellington.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The revitalisation and advancement of te reo M\u0101ori<\/a> have always been Poia\u2019s passions. He was appointed to the board of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo M\u0101ori<\/a> (M\u0101ori Language Commission) in 2012, and in 2014 was seconded from the university to be their acting Chief Executive.\u00a0 Poia\u2019s new role, starting next month, is also in a similar field, as Tumu Whakarae (Chief Executive) of Te M\u0101t\u0101wai<\/a>, a government agency created to assist hap\u016b, iwi and communities in the important task of M\u0101ori-language revitalisation.<\/p>\n

Our loss will be the community\u2019s gain.\u00a0 Poia has been an amazing example for us in Te Tumu<\/a> and the University of Otago, as a person who lives and breathes tikanga M\u0101ori, as an inspirational teacher, a leader in research<\/a>, as well as a colleague and friend in the academy.\u00a0 We will surely miss him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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