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<h3 style="text-align:center">Kia&nbsp;hiwa&nbsp;r&#257;!&nbsp; Kia&nbsp;hiwa&nbsp;r&#257;!</h3>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Whakauae is pleased to announce the results of the Pae Tawhiti Scholarship Awards for Masters and PhD students for the 2016 academic year.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Taking its name from Hauiti t&#363;puna, Whakaari Te Rangitakuku Mete-Kingi&rsquo;s well-known whakatau&#257;ki, the scholarship programme provides funding to M&#257;ori students at Masters or PhD level who have a proven record of academic excellence; demonstrated a commitment to te ao M&#257;ori; and are enrolled in a research degree with a focus on Hauora M&#257;ori.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The scholarship programme was developed with a view to:</p>

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	<li style="text-align: justify;">building M&#257;ori research capability and capacity in health research, specifically in the fields which align to Whakauae&rsquo;s research programme;</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;">supporting a M&#257;ori academic workforce able to produce knowledge that benefits wh&#257;nau, hap&#363; and iwi;</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;">providing opportunities for knowledge translation and exchange with M&#257;ori, iwi, community, and tertiary institutions; and</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;">contributing to the advancement of M&#257;ori health outcomes.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The scholarship assessing committee, comprising iwi members as well as health researchers, assessed all eleven applications that were received for the 2016 year. The committee noted the great diversity of topics which students of hauora M&#257;ori are researching, from the importance of wai, through to indicators of flourishing wh&#257;nau. Dr Amohia Boulton, the Chair of the committee, noted the calibre of the students who applied in 2016 and observed that interest shown in the scholarships indicates a growing recognition of the importance of M&#257;ori health research, M&#257;ori research methodologies and m&#257;tauranga M&#257;ori both to the academy and to M&#257;ori communities.</p>

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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14px">From left:&nbsp; Dr Amohia Boulton, Emma Rawson, Neville Lomax, Rata Cornell</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Masters student Emma Rawson has been awarded the inaugural Whakauae Pae Tawhiti Scholarship for M&#257;ori Health Research, to further her work investigating institutional racism in human resource practices in public health units.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Emma is of Ng&#257;i Te Rangi, Ng&#257;ti&nbsp;Ranginui&nbsp;and Raukawa iwi and has a passion for public health research; a kaupapa that aligns with the Whakauae work programme. Emma is completing her Masters at Auckland University of Technology through the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences. Emma&rsquo;s research will examine the experiences and observations of senior M&#257;ori staff within the public health workforce, to identify sites where institutional racism is a barrier to equitable outcomes in health.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Whakauae congratulates this year&rsquo;s scholarship recipient and looks forward to building a relationship that has the potential to improve M&#257;ori health outcomes and focuses on attaining equity in health outcomes for M&#257;ori.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">N&#333; reira, ng&#257; mihi n&#363;nui ki a koe e Emma, koutou t&#333; wh&#257;nau hoki.</p>

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<p style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Ko te pae tawhiti, wh&#257;ia kia tata, ko te pae tata, whakamaua kia t&#299;na!</strong></span></em></p>

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