Helen Moewaka Barnes
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| Alma mater | Massey University |
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Helen Moewaka Barnes FRSNZ is a New Zealand academic. She is Māori, of Te Kapotai (Ngāpuhi) and Ngapuhi-nui-tonu descent, and is currently a full professor at Massey University. In 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
After a 2008 PhD thesis titled Arguing for the spirit in the language of the mind: a Māori practitioner's view of research and science, Moewaka Barnes joined Massey University staff, becoming a full professor in 2013.[1][2][3]
In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, she received four separate grants from the Health Research Council,[4][5] and a 2012 Marsden Fund award (funding for 2013–17).[6]
Moewaka Barnes is part of the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring project, which surveys arrestees in the criminal justice system to compile statistics on drug use.[7]
Moewaka Barnes' work looks at health from a kaupapa Māori perspective.
Awards
In March 2021, Helen Moewaka Barnes was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, recognising her "significant international impact in the field of Indigenous peoples' health and wellbeing".[8][9]
