{"id":1395,"date":"2022-11-11T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2022-11-11T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:43:48","slug":"fast-start-marsden-on-niuean-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/fast-start-marsden-on-niuean-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-Start Marsden on Niuean Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fakaalofa lahi atu!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Congratulations to Dr Jess Pasisi<\/span><\/strong> on being awarded a FastStart Marsden grant worth $360,000, entitled \u201cMapping Niue texts in and beyond Aotearoa: Expanding on New Zealand Realm connections to Niue through archival texts.\u201d\u00a0 Jess (Niuean (Mutalau, Hikutavake),\u00a0P\u0101keh\u0101, Ng\u0101ti Pikiao, and Tahitian) is Te Tumu\u2019s most recent academic hire<\/a>\u00a0and is based in our Pacific Islands Studies programme, and is already a promising researcher, having been awarded a \u00a0Pacific Health Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/a> by the Health Research Council to investigate Niuean happiness.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jess Pasisi (L) and Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss at the Auckland Museum exhibition launch of “Archives of Emotion” in 2021, with their piece ‘Ko e Higoa Haaku ko Hiapo’. Photo courtesy of Auckland Museum.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jess started putting the Mapping Niue texts project<\/span><\/strong> together while still based at the University of Waikato, with Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville as Associate Investigator.\u00a0 Professor Somerville has also moved, and is now at the University of British Columbia.\u00a0 She is well versed in literary projects, and Jess worked as a researcher with her in the \u201cWriting the New World<\/a>” project.<\/p>\n

Jess\u2019s Marsden project will be uncovering and analysing Niuean texts \u2013 with the meaning of \u201ctexts\u201d interpreted quite broadly, comprising publications, manuscripts and other t\u0101oga \u2013 with the aim of making these more available to Niuean people in Aotearoa New Zealand, Niue, and beyond.\u00a0 This also involves collaborating with Niuean communities, including cross-disciplinary work with tufuga (experts, practitioners), and encouraging Niuean people to engage with their local archives.<\/p>\n

Research outputs include a book based on the project\u2019s research, and the creation of a dataset of Niuean texts which will be invaluable to the wider Niuean community, as well as incoming researchers.\u00a0 Jess is planning three workshops as part of the project, one at Otago, one in Niue, and one at an international venue.\u00a0 Aligning with the aims of Marsden Fund to help develop future scholars, the project will also fund a Masters thesis scholarship, as well as some undergraduate summer scholarships.<\/p>\n

We wish Jess well with her exciting new research project, and for a long productive career in academia.<\/p>\n

Please also check out the Marsden Fund article<\/a> for more details on Jess\u2019s research.<\/p>\n

Image information<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 Jess Pasisi wrote the poem for ‘Ko e Higoa Haaku ko Hiapo’ and Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss<\/span><\/strong>, a tagata Niue artist and practitioner, made it into an art piece that was purchased by the Auckland Museum. To read the poem, see images of the artwork, and more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fakaalofa lahi atu! Congratulations to Dr Jess Pasisi on being awarded a FastStart Marsden grant worth $360,000, entitled \u201cMapping Niue texts in and beyond Aotearoa: Expanding on New Zealand Realm connections to Niue through archival texts.\u201d\u00a0 Jess (Niuean (Mutalau, Hikutavake),\u00a0P\u0101keh\u0101, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35262,35274,35249],"tags":[34039,85039,85047],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific-islands-studies","category-research-funding","category-success-story","tag-marsden-fund","tag-niue","tag-niuean-texts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}