New Director to Lead Ngā Pae O Te Māramatanga
A new Director has been appointed to lead Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM), New Zealand’s Indigenous Centre of Research
Excellence. Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga and the University of Auckland are thrilled and excited by the prospects of the
appointment of Associate Professor Tracey McIntosh as Director of NPM. Associate Professor McIntosh is not new to NPM or
the Directorship, previously being a Joint Director, but now she takes on the directorship as a sole lead Director. With
the welcomed recent announcement of specific funding available for a Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) this
role is crucial and Associate Professor McIntosh is well placed to offer leadership in this area.
Associate Professor Tracey McIntosh is of Tūhoe decent. She teaches into the sociology and criminology programme at the
University of Auckland. Tracey has been involved in Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga as a foundation member of the Research
Committee and then took up the Joint Director role in 2007 - 2009 alongside Professor Michael Walker. In 2010 she took
up the role of Head of Department of Sociology.
Associate Professor McIntosh brings a wide level of experience to her role at NPM in international work, community
development, student equity and in her wider contributions to the academic community. Prior to returning to the
University of Auckland in 1999 Tracey lectured at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and previous to that lived
in France, Burundi and Tonga. In 2002 she was awarded a University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Award and in 2004
was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and since then she
has served on Fulbright selection panels and as a Fulbright student advisor. She was also the Associate Dean (Equity) in
the Faculty of Arts in 2003-2007 and was Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Equal Opportunities) for the University of Auckland
from 2005- 2008. She has wide experience of being on external research assessment panels including the Marsden Fund
Social Science Panel, the Rutherford Discovery Humanities and Social Science Panel and on the FoRST Te Tipu o te Wānanga
Māori Research Investment Panel.
In 2012 she was the co-chair of the Children’s Commissioner’s Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty and
she sits on a number of governance boards particularly in the area of social harm reduction including the Robson Hanan
Trust: Rethinking Crime and Punishment and Te Waka Moemoea: Being the Change Trust. Tracey also offers education support
and teaches a creative writing course in Auckland Women’s Prison. Tracey is the current joint editor of AlterNative: An
International Journal of Indigenous Peoples alongside Professor Michael Walker. Tracey’s recent research focuses on
incarceration (particularly of indigenous peoples), inequality, poverty and justice, where she has published extensively
and is frequently called upon to present her work internationally and nationally.
Having taken on the Acting Director role in April, Associate Professor McIntosh formally commences the role as Director
1st of July for a period of 18 months, to 31st of December 2015 when the current CoRE funding and contract for NPM ends.
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