Research cuts threaten future of Māori academia – waateanews.com

February 24, 2025
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga says research funding cuts put future generations of Māori academic researchers at risk.
The government has changed the Marsden Fund’s priorities, requiring applications to show economic, environmental, or health benefits for New Zealand while defunding panels that assess social science and humanities proposals.
Co-director Tahu Kukutai says Māori previously made up 13% of Marsden-funded research, but the changes dropped that to 5%, as the social science and humanities fund provided a key funding pathway for Māori scholars across disciplines.
With a third of young New Zealanders having whakapapa Māori, these cuts will stunt the development of young Māori research assistants.
“So it’s really important that we proactively equip our population to be the research science and innovation leaders of the future. Really hard to do that when you take away the funding that enables early career researchers to really grow their research leadership and their expertise,” says Kukutai.
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