Naepi
Biographic Data
| ID | 39224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naepi |
| FAMILY NAME | Naepi |
| SIGNATURE | NAEPI |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6067-9014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The right to speak: Exploring academic freedom in turbulent times
The concept of academic freedom remains contested globally, with increasing threats to academic expression appearing across different national contexts. New Zealand offers a unique case study as one of the few countries with comprehensive legal protection of academic freedom enshrined in education legislation. This paper examines how legislative protection of academic freedom has functioned in practice by comparing academic freedom controversies …
From where we stand: Pacific oral research
It is a rare opportunity for three Pacific Indigenous scholars to gather and discuss Pacific Indigenous oral research methodologies at length. Often, we are weighed down by the bureaucracy of our institutions or working on projects to drive social change. The opportunity for the three of us to gather and engage in a talanoa about how it is that we as Pacific Indigenous academics create and participate in opportunities for oral Pacific Indigenous …
Needed But Not Alone: A navigation guide for Māori and Pacific postgraduates in STEM
Māori and Pacific researchers are working hard to transform our research system to enable Māori and Pacific postgraduate students to thrive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Yet barriers remain, and each new postgraduate generation inherits evolving challenges and opportunities to navigate. This paper is written for Māori and Pacific people who are about to enter the postgraduate STEM space, recognising that we need our …
Tracing the Pacific at UBC: Kinship, representation, and vakaturaga in public health research in Vancouver, Canada
Pacific Research Methodologies have been used to acknowledge relationality and responsibilities to research participants. In the context of the University of British Columbia where Pacific peoples are not represented, vakaturaga (a Fijian methodology about practicing chiefly obligations to others) can be applied to support the assertion of Fijian epistemology in diaspora, invite the tracing of kinship to place the researcher in a lineage of those…
Indigenous leadership in higher education: Baya, Eiseni, Rangatiratanga (voice, agency, sovereignty)
I turn to my closest friends for support’: Queer youth navigating mental health during Covid-19
The objectives of this in-depth qualitative study were to identify how COVID-19 impacted the mental health experiences of queer youth in Vancouver, Canada. Between November 2020 and June 2021, fifteen queer youth aged 15 to 25 were enrolled in the study. They participated in semi-weekly, solicited digital diary entries and semi-structured intake and follow-up interviews about COVID-19, social distancing protocols, and mental health. Using themati…
Finding the Words: Using Critical Theory to Speak Back to Our Institutions
Working as a Pacific critical university scholar in Aotearoa New Zealand necessitates the use of critical theory. Often our first encounter with critical theory involves furious nodding and highlighting as we find texts that speak to our own experiences of the world. We find ourselves revisiting these words as we would old friends, calling upon their support as we navigate the reality that is working within our neoliberal, white, masculine instit…
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison: The significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education
For Pacific early career academics (PECA) in Aotearoa, there is a tension between the Indigenous knowledges inherited from our Pacific ancestors and those we have been taught within the western education system. As Pacific educators teaching an increasingly Pacific student-body, we have sought to define our own spaces within the lecture theatre where we can prioritize our knowledges and counter standard didactic western pedagogical practices. Thi…
In our own words: Pacific Early Career Academics (Peca) and Pacific knowledges in higher education pedagogical praxis
Limited attention has been paid to the experiences of Pacific Early Career Academics (PECA) in utilising their culture-specific systems of knowledge in their pedagogical practice. As a cross-section of PECA employed in a variety of disciplines and faculties, we explore how our Pacific identities infuse our pedagogical approaches in a way that forefronts the significance and validity of Pacific knowledges. We argue that, despite academia perpetual…
Pacific women’s experiences working in universities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Pacific women’s narratives offer insight into how universities currently under-serve and exclude Pacific communities in their everyday practices. Utilising a women-centred Pacific research methodology (masi methodology) this article shares the results of talanoa with twenty-seven Pacific women who collectively represent 216 years of experience working in New Zealand universities. Pacific women’s stories indicate that we continue to experience the…
Where are we now? Patterns of Māori and Pasifika enrolment in the Natural and Physical Science and Society and Culture fields in Aotearoa New Zealand
The continued underserving of Māori and Pasifika communities by New Zealand universities has resulted in the need to hold universities and the wider tertiary education system to account through widespread data analysis. This paper analyses Māori and Pasifika enrolment in the Society and Culture and Natural and Physical Sciences fields of Aotearoa New Zealand. The data indicate further targeted investment is needed in both fields, however, areas o…
Ō tātou reo, Na domoda, Kuruwilang birad: Indigenous voices in higher education
As we write this editorial, COVID-19 is still spreading rapidly across the globe. The Black Lives Matter movement has also extended beyond the United States and is motivating people worldwide to ch
Covid-19 and Indigenous resilience
© 2020 HERDSA. As a collective, we reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted Indigenous students at a personal, institutional and national level in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific
Glass Ceilings in New Zealand Universities: Inequities in Māori and Pacific promotions and earnings
Māori and Pacific academics make up less than 4% and 1% respectively of New Zealand professors. We investigated ethnic inequities in promotions and earnings in New Zealand universities. Using New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) data (2003, 2012, 2018) we found that Māori and Pacific men and also women academics, compared with non-Māori non-Pacific men academics, had significantly lower odds of being an associate professor or prof…
Sociology in a crisis: Covid-19 and the colonial politics of knowledge production in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rather than being exceptional for Māori and Pacific Peoples, Covid-19 is the latest iteration of virulent disease that arrived with European colonisation. The various pandemics are connected; they exacerbate and intensify existing conditions of colonial inequality and injustice. The political and economic marginalisation of Māori and Pasifika within Aotearoa New Zealand ensures that Covid-19 will have disproportionate impacts upon them. Covid-19'…
Why isn’t my professor Pasifika? A snapshot of the academic workforce in New Zealand universities
This paper examines the ethnicity of academic scholars employed by New Zealand's eight universities, with a particular focus on Pasifika academics. The paper discusses how, despite national and university policies to see education serve Pasifika peoples better, there has been no change in the numbers of Pasifika academics employed by the universities between 2012 and 2017, and notes that Pasifika who are in the academy are continually employed in…
Masi methodology: Centring Pacific women’s voices in research
Masi methodology is a Pacific women centred research methodology. Using masi as an anchoring metaphor for research ensures that research centres Pacific women’s voices, understands that Pacific women’s voices are valuable and provides a way to acknowledge that the knowledge Pacific women hold is useful for generations to come. Building on previously articulated Pan-Pacific research methodologies and methods, masi as methodology specifies that the…
Decolonizing Community Psychology by Supporting Indigenous Knowledge, Projects, and Students: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada
Community psychology has long stood as a social justice agitator that encouraged reformation both within and outside of the academy, while keeping a firm goal of building greater well‐being for people in communities. However, community psychology's historically Euro‐centric orientation and applied, interventionist focus may inadvertently promote colonial agendas. In this paper, we focus on the example of Indigenous Pacific peoples, drawing upon e…
Decolonizing Community Psychology by Supporting Indigenous Knowledge, Projects, and Students: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada
Community psychology has long stood as a social justice agitator that encouraged reformation both within and outside of the academy, while keeping a firm goal of building greater well‐being for people in communities. However, community psychology's historically Euro‐centric orientation and applied, interventionist focus may inadvertently promote colonial agendas. In this paper, we focus on the example of Indigenous Pacific peoples, drawing upon e…
Sociology in a crisis: Covid-19 and the colonial politics of knowledge production in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rather than being exceptional for Māori and Pacific Peoples, Covid-19 is the latest iteration of virulent disease that arrived with European colonisation. The various pandemics are connected; they exacerbate and intensify existing conditions of colonial inequality and injustice. The political and economic marginalisation of Māori and Pasifika within Aotearoa New Zealand ensures that Covid-19 will have disproportionate impacts upon them. Covid-19'…
Decolonizing Community Psychology by Supporting Indigenous Knowledge, Projects, and Students: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada
Community psychology has long stood as a social justice agitator that encouraged reformation both within and outside of the academy, while keeping a firm goal of building greater well‐being for people in communities. However, community psychology's historically Euro‐centric orientation and applied, interventionist focus may inadvertently promote colonial agendas. In this paper, we focus on the example of Indigenous Pacific peoples, drawing upon e…
Why isn’t my professor Pasifika? A snapshot of the academic workforce in New Zealand universities
This paper examines the ethnicity of academic scholars employed by New Zealand's eight universities, with a particular focus on Pasifika academics. The paper discusses how, despite national and university policies to see education serve Pasifika peoples better, there has been no change in the numbers of Pasifika academics employed by the universities between 2012 and 2017, and notes that Pasifika who are in the academy are continually employed in…
Masi methodology: Centring Pacific women’s voices in research
Masi methodology is a Pacific women centred research methodology. Using masi as an anchoring metaphor for research ensures that research centres Pacific women’s voices, understands that Pacific women’s voices are valuable and provides a way to acknowledge that the knowledge Pacific women hold is useful for generations to come. Building on previously articulated Pan-Pacific research methodologies and methods, masi as methodology specifies that the…
Covid-19 and Indigenous resilience
© 2020 HERDSA. As a collective, we reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted Indigenous students at a personal, institutional and national level in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific
Glass Ceilings in New Zealand Universities: Inequities in Māori and Pacific promotions and earnings
Māori and Pacific academics make up less than 4% and 1% respectively of New Zealand professors. We investigated ethnic inequities in promotions and earnings in New Zealand universities. Using New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) data (2003, 2012, 2018) we found that Māori and Pacific men and also women academics, compared with non-Māori non-Pacific men academics, had significantly lower odds of being an associate professor or prof…
Sociology in a crisis: Covid-19 and the colonial politics of knowledge production in Aotearoa New Zealand
Rather than being exceptional for Māori and Pacific Peoples, Covid-19 is the latest iteration of virulent disease that arrived with European colonisation. The various pandemics are connected; they exacerbate and intensify existing conditions of colonial inequality and injustice. The political and economic marginalisation of Māori and Pasifika within Aotearoa New Zealand ensures that Covid-19 will have disproportionate impacts upon them. Covid-19'…
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison: The significance of decolonizing knowledge and pedagogical practice for Pacific early career academics in higher education
For Pacific early career academics (PECA) in Aotearoa, there is a tension between the Indigenous knowledges inherited from our Pacific ancestors and those we have been taught within the western education system. As Pacific educators teaching an increasingly Pacific student-body, we have sought to define our own spaces within the lecture theatre where we can prioritize our knowledges and counter standard didactic western pedagogical practices. Thi…
In our own words: Pacific Early Career Academics (Peca) and Pacific knowledges in higher education pedagogical praxis
Limited attention has been paid to the experiences of Pacific Early Career Academics (PECA) in utilising their culture-specific systems of knowledge in their pedagogical practice. As a cross-section of PECA employed in a variety of disciplines and faculties, we explore how our Pacific identities infuse our pedagogical approaches in a way that forefronts the significance and validity of Pacific knowledges. We argue that, despite academia perpetual…
Pacific women’s experiences working in universities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Pacific women’s narratives offer insight into how universities currently under-serve and exclude Pacific communities in their everyday practices. Utilising a women-centred Pacific research methodology (masi methodology) this article shares the results of talanoa with twenty-seven Pacific women who collectively represent 216 years of experience working in New Zealand universities. Pacific women’s stories indicate that we continue to experience the…
Where are we now? Patterns of Māori and Pasifika enrolment in the Natural and Physical Science and Society and Culture fields in Aotearoa New Zealand
The continued underserving of Māori and Pasifika communities by New Zealand universities has resulted in the need to hold universities and the wider tertiary education system to account through widespread data analysis. This paper analyses Māori and Pasifika enrolment in the Society and Culture and Natural and Physical Sciences fields of Aotearoa New Zealand. The data indicate further targeted investment is needed in both fields, however, areas o…
Ō tātou reo, Na domoda, Kuruwilang birad: Indigenous voices in higher education
As we write this editorial, COVID-19 is still spreading rapidly across the globe. The Black Lives Matter movement has also extended beyond the United States and is motivating people worldwide to ch
Finding the Words: Using Critical Theory to Speak Back to Our Institutions
Working as a Pacific critical university scholar in Aotearoa New Zealand necessitates the use of critical theory. Often our first encounter with critical theory involves furious nodding and highlighting as we find texts that speak to our own experiences of the world. We find ourselves revisiting these words as we would old friends, calling upon their support as we navigate the reality that is working within our neoliberal, white, masculine instit…
I turn to my closest friends for support’: Queer youth navigating mental health during Covid-19
The objectives of this in-depth qualitative study were to identify how COVID-19 impacted the mental health experiences of queer youth in Vancouver, Canada. Between November 2020 and June 2021, fifteen queer youth aged 15 to 25 were enrolled in the study. They participated in semi-weekly, solicited digital diary entries and semi-structured intake and follow-up interviews about COVID-19, social distancing protocols, and mental health. Using themati…
Needed But Not Alone: A navigation guide for Māori and Pacific postgraduates in STEM
Māori and Pacific researchers are working hard to transform our research system to enable Māori and Pacific postgraduate students to thrive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Yet barriers remain, and each new postgraduate generation inherits evolving challenges and opportunities to navigate. This paper is written for Māori and Pacific people who are about to enter the postgraduate STEM space, recognising that we need our …
Tracing the Pacific at UBC: Kinship, representation, and vakaturaga in public health research in Vancouver, Canada
Pacific Research Methodologies have been used to acknowledge relationality and responsibilities to research participants. In the context of the University of British Columbia where Pacific peoples are not represented, vakaturaga (a Fijian methodology about practicing chiefly obligations to others) can be applied to support the assertion of Fijian epistemology in diaspora, invite the tracing of kinship to place the researcher in a lineage of those…
Indigenous leadership in higher education: Baya, Eiseni, Rangatiratanga (voice, agency, sovereignty)
The right to speak: Exploring academic freedom in turbulent times
The concept of academic freedom remains contested globally, with increasing threats to academic expression appearing across different national contexts. New Zealand offers a unique case study as one of the few countries with comprehensive legal protection of academic freedom enshrined in education legislation. This paper examines how legislative protection of academic freedom has functioned in practice by comparing academic freedom controversies …
From where we stand: Pacific oral research
It is a rare opportunity for three Pacific Indigenous scholars to gather and discuss Pacific Indigenous oral research methodologies at length. Often, we are weighed down by the bureaucracy of our institutions or working on projects to drive social change. The opportunity for the three of us to gather and engage in a talanoa about how it is that we as Pacific Indigenous academics create and participate in opportunities for oral Pacific Indigenous …
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Aotearoa (5 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)