{"id":1135,"date":"2020-09-25T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T00:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2020-09-25T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T00:27:24","slug":"te-tumus-new-lecturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/te-tumus-new-lecturer\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Tumu’s “new” lecturer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Te Tumu is excited to announce the appointment of a \u201cnew\u201d lecturer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> Of course, many will already know Dr Erica Newman<\/span><\/strong>, as she has studied and worked in Te Tumu in various roles over many years. Moving into a confirmation-path lecturer\u2019s role in the Indigenous Development programme is the culmination of all her hard work.<\/p>\n

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Dr Erica Newman<\/p><\/div>\n

Erica\u2019s research has focused on children and adoption.\u00a0 She undertook her BA (Hons)<\/a> in Te Tumu, completing a dissertation on M\u0101ori, European and \u201chalf-caste\u201d children in New Zealand from 1840-1852, with a specific focus on the care of children.\u00a0\u00a0 She followed this with her MA<\/a>, a history of adoption\/wh\u0101ngai within Aotearoa New Zealand, including the concept of \u201cwh\u0101ngai\u201d. This research contains a special emphasis on transracially adopted M\u0101ori children and its effects on future generations, something pertinent to Erica\u2019s own whakapapa.\u00a0 Her PhD<\/a>, completed in 2018, looked at the adoption of children in Fiji during British colonial rule of 1874- 1970, including both indigenous and colonial practices and institutions.\u00a0 Erica has also attended various conferences, and published on her research, including an article on transracial adoption<\/a> in the prestigious American Indian Quarterly<\/em> in 2013.<\/p>\n

More recently Erica has managed to get through to the second stage of a Fast Start Marsden application on the historical effect of adoptions for descendants of M\u0101ori adoptees, how adoption not only affects the adoptee, adoptive parents and biological parents but the ripple effect carried down to following generations. This includes the importance of whakapapa <\/em>in how M\u0101ori adoptees are able to, or not able to, identify themselves as M\u0101ori.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have our fingers crossed that Erica\u2019s Marsden bid is successful, as this will be exciting and useful research.<\/p>\n

Erica has managed a strong research trajectory despite a heavy teaching load. She has long been responsible for Te Tumu\u2019s giant MAOR102 M\u0101ori Society paper, managing hundreds of students each year and a troupe of tutors.\u00a0 Last year she was part of team organising Te Tumu\u2019s modules in the (even larger) POPH192 Population Health paper.\u00a0 But since 2008 Erica has also taught in a variety of other papers in all of Te Tumu\u2019s programmes over the years, as well have undertaken supervision duties in the Master of Indigenous Studies programme.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen a number of innovations, such as an in-house journal for the MAOR202 Tikanga and M\u0101ori paper<\/a>, to give undergraduate students an idea of what it is like to publish an article, and developing special tutorials for MAOR102 students who come to university already very knowledgeable on tikanga M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

So in many ways, not too much is going to change for Erica\u2014she will still be working flat-tack on her research and teaching.\u00a0 It\u2019s just wonderful that we can all celebrate in her success.<\/p>\n

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