Associate Professor Hinekura Smith
Dr Hinekura Smith is a Māori woman, educator, weaver, researcher, mother and daughter who descends from the Te Rarawa and Ngā Puhi people of Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a Kaupapa Māori researcher with 27 years' experience as a Māori educator, beginning her career as a Māori language secondary school teacher, before moving into tertiary education, lecturing, research and academic leadership. Hinekura’s research interests weave together Māori women and identity politics, decolonizing education, arts-based research methodologies and pedagogies, and growing Indigenous research capability, capacity and confidence. She is an Associate Professor and Principal Researcher at the ARC Indigenous Futures Centre, University of Queensland.
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures is supported by its partners and funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.
Acknowledgement
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures acknowledges and honours the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our Centre operates. We acknowledge Elders past, present, and emerging and recognise this was always a place of learning, teaching, and research, and that Sovereignty was never ceded.
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