Overview
Availability
- Associate Professor Hinekura Smith is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Education, Te Puna Wananga School of Maori and Indigenous Education
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Whatua te Muka Tāngata: Indigenous cloak-making as a site of healing and resistance
Penetito, Kim and Smith, Hinekura (2025). Whatua te Muka Tāngata: Indigenous cloak-making as a site of healing and resistance. Unitec ePress Occasional and Discussion Paper Series (1/2025), 1-21. doi: 10.34074/ocds.112
2025
Journal Article
Indigenous doctoral education policies in the global south: postcolonial policy borrowing in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa
Manathunga, Catherine, Raciti, Maria, Smith, Hinekura, Qi, Jing, Keane, Moyra, Motala, Shireen, Msimango, Sindi and van der Westhuizen, Gert (2025). Indigenous doctoral education policies in the global south: postcolonial policy borrowing in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Higher Education Policy, 1-21. doi: 10.1057/s41307-025-00422-2
2025
Book Chapter
He toka tū moana and navigating sanctuaries of scholarship
Smith, H. (2025). He toka tū moana and navigating sanctuaries of scholarship. Books of Mana: 180 Maori authored books of significance. (pp. 152-159) edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
2025
Journal Article
Toi Ora, Whatuora: exploring whatu pedagogy and wellbeing
Smith, Hinekura (2025). Toi Ora, Whatuora: exploring whatu pedagogy and wellbeing . MAI Journal, 14 (2), 141-151. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2025.14.2.1
2024
Journal Article
Toi Ako – developing Māori arts pedagogy: a Kaupapa Māori literature review
Goldsmith, Allana, Smith, Hinekura and Penetito, Kim (2024). Toi Ako – developing Māori arts pedagogy: a Kaupapa Māori literature review. Occasional and Discussion Paper Series. doi: 10.34074/ocds.111
2023
Journal Article
Whakarongo ki te Tangi! – Listen to our tears, listen to our call! Learnings from a summer research mentorship to grow Kaupapa Māori community health researchers
Smith, Hinekura, Sarich, Jenn, Eruera, Taoitekura, Campbell-Strickland, Ann-Margaret and Mato Bartlett, Lillian (2023). Whakarongo ki te Tangi! – Listen to our tears, listen to our call! Learnings from a summer research mentorship to grow Kaupapa Māori community health researchers. Unitec ePress Occasional and Discussion Paper Series. doi: 10.34074/ocds.105
2023
Book Chapter
Re-weaving thinking, re-thinking weaving: theorizing Indigenous arts practice as research methodology
Smith, Hinekura Lisa (2023). Re-weaving thinking, re-thinking weaving: theorizing Indigenous arts practice as research methodology. International Encyclopedia of Education. (pp. 181-188) edited by Robert J Tierney, Fazal Rizvi and Kadriye Ercikan. Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.06049-8
2023
Book Chapter
Theorizing Indigenous art practice, practicing Indigenous art theories: Māori weaving as research methodology
Smith, Hinekura (2023). Theorizing Indigenous art practice, practicing Indigenous art theories: Māori weaving as research methodology. Encountering craft: methodological approaches from anthropology, art history, and design. (pp. 114-131) edited by Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003026136-7
2022
Journal Article
Coloniality, institutional racism and white fragility: a wero to higher education
Smith, Hinekura, Le Grice, Jade, Fonua, Sonia and Mayeda, David Tokiharu (2022). Coloniality, institutional racism and white fragility: a wero to higher education. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 51 (2), 1-18. doi: 10.55146/ajie.v51i2.34
2022
Journal Article
Growing kaupapa Māori research capabilities and confidence through whanaungatanga as research mentorship
Smith, Hinekura, Frandi, Aotea, Squire, Danielle, Farnham, Irene, Morgan, Eruera, Keepa, Dan and Morunga, Piripi (2022). Growing kaupapa Māori research capabilities and confidence through whanaungatanga as research mentorship. Unitec ePress Occasional and Discussion Paper Series (1/2022). doi: 10.34074/ocds.098
2022
Journal Article
I wear my pride upon my skin: becoming more of who I am
Smith, H. (2022). I wear my pride upon my skin: becoming more of who I am. Te Ira Tāngata.
2021
Journal Article
‘We don’t talk enough’: voices from a Māori and Pasifika lead research fellowship in higher education
Smith, Hinekura and Wolfgramm-Foliaki, ‘Ema (2021). ‘We don’t talk enough’: voices from a Māori and Pasifika lead research fellowship in higher education. Higher Education Research & Development, 40 (1), 35-48. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1856791
2021
Journal Article
Whatuora: theorising a Kaupapa Māori arts-based methodology
Smith, Hinekura (2021). Whatuora: theorising a Kaupapa Māori arts-based methodology. MAI Journal, 10 (2), 191-201. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2021.10.2.12
2020
Journal Article
Igniting the vā – Vā-kā methodology in a Māori-Pasifika research fellowship
Smith, Hinekura and Wolfgramm-Foliaki, 'Ema (2020). Igniting the vā – Vā-kā methodology in a Māori-Pasifika research fellowship. MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, 9 (1), 15-25. doi: 10.20507/maijournal.2020.9.1.3
2020
Journal Article
He Vaka Moana – navigating Māori and Pasifika student success through a collaborative research fellowship
Wolfgramm-Foliaki, Ema and Smith, Hinekura (2020). He Vaka Moana – navigating Māori and Pasifika student success through a collaborative research fellowship. MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, 9 (1), 5-14. doi: 10.20507/maijournal.2020.9.1.2
2020
Journal Article
"Cloaked in our aspirations”: Māori mothers and grandmothers weaving stories from their past for the future
Smith, Hinekura (2020). "Cloaked in our aspirations”: Māori mothers and grandmothers weaving stories from their past for the future. Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing, 5, 79-89.
2019
Journal Article
Whatuora: theorizing "new" Indigenous research methodology from "old" Indigenous weaving practice
Smith, Hinekura (2019). Whatuora: theorizing "new" Indigenous research methodology from "old" Indigenous weaving practice. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 4 (1), 1-27. doi: 10.18432/ari29393
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