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21 questions for Pākehā leading “Vision Mātauranga” projects you ask themselves: a thread (1/8)
1) Am a really the right person to led this project?
2) Should a Māori researcher be leading this or at the very least co-leading?
3) What are my motivations for doing this project? (2/8)
2) Should a Māori researcher be leading this or at the very least co-leading?
3) What are my motivations for doing this project? (2/8)
4) Do I understand how matauranga and Māori culture was systematically taken away from Māori like their land through colonisation?
5) Am I taking up spaces of Māori researchers or am I creating them? (3/8)
5) Am I taking up spaces of Māori researchers or am I creating them? (3/8)
6) How many Māori are in my research team?
7) Are any of them better placed to led the project than I am?
8) How many Māori are in my department/school?
9) What have I personally done to ensure that they are better represented? (4/8)
7) Are any of them better placed to led the project than I am?
8) How many Māori are in my department/school?
9) What have I personally done to ensure that they are better represented? (4/8)
10) How aware am I of the barriers that prevent Māori from existing in the sciences let alone gaininh funding?
11) What am I doing to help reduce these barriers?
12) How will I ensure Māori retain sovereignty in this project? (5/8)
11) What am I doing to help reduce these barriers?
12) How will I ensure Māori retain sovereignty in this project? (5/8)
13) How am I using my white privilege to amplify Māori voices?
14) How am I using my white privilege to improve things for Māori?
15) How will this project uphold the promises in te Tiriti? (6/8)
14) How am I using my white privilege to improve things for Māori?
15) How will this project uphold the promises in te Tiriti? (6/8)
16) How do I personally uphold the promises in te Tiriti?
17) Have I read “Decolonising methodologies”?
18) Do my intentions for carrying out this research move beyond box ticking and white savourism? (7/8)
17) Have I read “Decolonising methodologies”?
18) Do my intentions for carrying out this research move beyond box ticking and white savourism? (7/8)
19) How am I helping to build the next generation of Māori research leaders?
20) Do I support any Māori students?
21) Am I actively advocating for more Māori in sciences and that mātauranga Māori is an equally valuable knowledge system as science is? (8/8)
20) Do I support any Māori students?
21) Am I actively advocating for more Māori in sciences and that mātauranga Māori is an equally valuable knowledge system as science is? (8/8)
I know I said 21 but another really important question is are the Māori people on the research team adequately paid (i.e: fte by out for researchers and community members properly remunerated for their time) and are they getting appropriate recognition
I could literally go on forever but i will stop
