Abstract
Māori communities have in the past had a strained relationship with many researchers who found New Zealand Māori communities to be fruitful sites for research. Māori researchers have developed over time and joined the research community often with some reluctance and with pressures from those communities to make positive contributions to the preservation of their own family history. The development of Māori tertiary institutions such as Te Wānanga o Raukawa now have the potential to make a significant contribution to research and knowledge as every student undertakes research projects within their own communities, building research capacity. Tensions and opportunities are created together for these new and emerging researchers who build on the idea of historical research being a “spiritual journey” yet are challenged by research directions and teams which build their research on different foundations. New opportunities are presented to be involved in large multidisciplinary research teams, yet tensions also arise with ethical issues, supervision, research partnerships, differing priorities and identifying who the recipients of the research will be. The priorities and challenges which face community-based researchers are explored in this paper particularly those who are new and emerging as researchers from Māori based educational institutions.
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