Towards a More Equitable Aotearoa: Utilising Critical Tiriti Analysis as a tool for honouring Te Tiriti

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Join us on 2 May 2023 for an unmissable webinar Towards a More Equitable Aotearoa: Utilising Critical Tiriti Analysis as a tool for honouring Te Tiriti,  and the launch of our new special collection of research - Critical Tiriti Analysis.

Why action CTA in your organisation? The CTA is an important anti-racism tool providing a methodology for identifying areas where you can improve policies and practice to better meet Tiriti principles. Recent research has highlighted the significant disparities in our system are a result of a range of factors, including historical injustices, systemic discrimination, and ongoing inequalities. The CTA is a framework which has been used to evaluate government policies, it offers safeguards against the misuse of policy to harm others. 

“The CTA can be used in a wide variety of applications, making it a truly versatile tool for organisations seeking to improve how they enact and make visible their commitment to Te Tiriti.” Prof. Dominic O'Sullivan

Presented by the four authors of the Critical Tiriti Analysis framework; Dr Heather Came, Professor Dominic O’Sullivan, Dr Jaquie Kidd, Professor Tim McCreanor.

Presenters:

Professor Dominic O’Sullivan  (Te Rarawa) is a Professor of Political Science. His work encompasses the disciplines of political science, education and public theology with indigeneity providing a unifying scholarly theme. His work examines relationships among liberal democracy, citizenship, public sovereignty, and indigenous self-determination in New Zealand and internationally. His original application of a liberal theory of indigeneity to policy questions of health, education, local government, and economic growth is the first systematic attempt to explain liberal democracy’s potential for culturally framed indigenous democratic citizenship – an innovative and profoundly important blending of Western and indigenous political theories. Professor O’Sullivan’s work on differentiated liberal citizenship focuses on how indigenous peoples exercise political authority in relation to their own communities and according to their own means, while also participating in the public life of the state with meaningful influence. He contributes to broader debates and public awareness of political affairs as an expert commentator for news media in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.

Professor Tim McCreanor (Pākehā) is a senior social scientist at Whāriki Research Centre, within the College of Health at Massey University in Auckland. His broad public health orientation and interest in the social  determinants of health and wellbeing, provide a platform for social science projects that support and stimulate social change. In particular his research seeks to foreground, critique and redress the mechanisms of talk, text and other forms of communication that operate to produce, maintain and naturalise the disparities, exclusions and inequities so evident in our society. Discourse analysis and other qualitative methods have been a central theme in Tim's approach to research domains around ethnicity and culture, inclusion and exclusion and health inequalities. Key topics include racial discrimination, youth wellbeing, alcohol marketing, media representations and social cohesion. 

Professor Jacquie Kidd (Ngāpuhi) based at Auckland University of Technology. Her academic practice is focused on social justice, anti-racism and equity in health for Māori. Generally, she utilises a kaupapa Māori approach to her research, meaning that her projects are based on whānau strengths, community needs and local solutions to complex issues. She has a particular interest in the use of creative methodologies of research dissemination and has had her poetry published in several academic journals and books.

Associate Professor Heather Came is a seventh generation Pākehā New Zealander based at Auckland University of Technology. Her background is in public health and social justice activism. Her research focuses on critical policy analysis, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, anti-racism and institutional racism in the health sector. Came is a founding member and co-chair of STIR: Stop Institutional Racism has prepared expert evidence for Waitangi Tribunal, and to United Nations human rights committees. In 2020 she founded Te Tiriti based futures + Anti racism (Decol) series of virtual anti-racism gatherings. She was a joint winner of 2021 Kāhui Hauora Tūmatanui Public Health Champion Award and in 2022 Heather was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to Māori, education and health. She also leads a racial justice consultancy - Heather Came & Associates.

Hosted by Kaye Maree Dunn who specialises in relationship building, strategy, facilitation and human centred design. Kaye-Maree wants to ensure individuals have the right tools and support to govern their organisations with confidence and competence.  She has been working with a range of rangatahi and iwi groups with Te Whare Hukahuka for the past 6 years in the Ka Eke Poutama programme, and loves being involved in lifting the transformative capability of whānau, hapū, and iwi to actively contribute to the growth of New Zealand’s economic potential.

Extra Resources

To accompany this webinar, we are launching a special collection of resources relating to the Critical Tiriti Analysis. At the beginning of the webinar we will put a link in the chat. And we will send you a link to this collection with the recording of the webinar.

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