So you wanna be a critical Indigenous researcher? A lecture by Hemopereki Simon, Māori scholar from the University of Waikato

Please join us for a lecture by Hemopereki Simon, Māori scholar, from the University of Waikato. 

Monday 5th May at the Wollotuka Institute (University of Newcastle Callaghan campus 9.30am.

Following the lecture we will have morning tea and an opportunity to yarn with Hemopereki about his research. Please email Elissa.Elvidge@newcastle.edu.au if you have any dietary or accessibility requirements. 

Hemopereki (Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Tainui, Hauraki, Mataatua) is a Kaupapa Māori scholar who is a Research Fellow on the Working to End Racial Oppression (WERO) project. He is also the Honorary Indigenous Research Fellow at The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent. His academic background is very diverse and he self-identifies as an interdisciplinary and critical researcher who specialises in Indigenous politics, settler colonial studies, cultural studies, critical religious studies. Hemopereki also has a significant environmental and Indigenous policy and Māori governance background.

Hemopereki was the first Māori scholar to be awarded a Research Justice at The Intersection Research Fellow at Mills College in California. He is also a former Pūrehuroa Scholar at Massey University. Hemopereki should graduate with a PhD in Indigenous Politics in 2024. His doctoral research deals with the intersection of mana motuhake (Indigenous sovereignty), settler colonialism, the white possessive, The Treaty of Waitangi and the collective future of Aotearoa New Zealand.