Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
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Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) is New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE). It was established in 2002 and is hosted by the University of Auckland with 21 research partners and is funded, like other CoRE's, by the Tertiary Education Commission. The mission was to conduct research for, with and by Māori communities which leads to transformation and positive change.
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga was established in 2002 to conducting research of relevance to Māori. It is funded by the Tertiary Education Commission and hosted by the University of Auckland.[1][2] It came about in 2000, when the establishment of Centres of Research Excellence (CoRE) was announced by the New Zealand Government because Graham Smith was pro vice-chancellor at the University of Auckland.[3] CoRE's are 'inter-organisational research networks'.[4] For Smith, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga was an extension of the Māori and Indigenous Graduate Enhancement programme (MAI) that he and Linda Tuhiwai Smith had established in 1988 as a mentoring programme for Māori students at Auckland University. MAI is now a national programme for Māori and indigenous post-graduate students and was part of the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga bid. Graham Smith describes MAI coming from the kōhanga reo and kura kaupapa Māori language schooling movements from the early 1980s that created a body of Māori more conscious and critical of politics and education. The goal of MAI was to have 500 Māori PhDs in 5 years.[2][5]
Smith and staff member Te Tuhi Robust prepared a bid to CoRE with the themes of bringing the knowledge systems of Western science and mātauranga Māori together, and focusing on improving socio-economic conditions of Māori through social sciences study.[3] Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga was one of five awarded funding in 2002, chosen from a shortlist of 11. The selection panel was run by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.[3][5]