Roger Maaka

Dr Roger C A Maaka PhD, Ngati Kahungunu, is Professor of Maori and Indigenous Studies and Director of at Te Manga Maori, Taradale, New Zealand at the Eastern Institute of Technology.

He was formerly the head of the departments of Maori and Native Studies at the Universities of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Saskatchewan, Canada, respectively and a member of the Waitangi Tribunal enquiry into the claim to Indigenous Flora and Fauna and Intellectual Property.

Research interests include urbanisation and indigenous peoples, Maori/Native Studies as an academic discipline, post-treaty settlement governance and development, the construction of contemporary indigenous identities, and Indigeneity as a global social movement.

Roger is co-investigator of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC) grants investigating First Nations and Metis identities in cities, and the establishment of an international network of scholars who study indigenous people in cities. He is also one of the regional representatives for the SSHRC funded project National Network for Urban Indigenous Economic Development. He has sat on several research advisory bodies including the Technical Advisory Committee on Aboriginal Research to the Interagency, the Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE), the Relevance Committee for SSHRC Aboriginal Research programme, and has chaired a University of Saskatchewan sub-committee that developed the Guiding Principles for Research with Indigenous Peoples.

 As an indigenous scholar he is committed to the advancement of indigenous peoples worldwide.

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