<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size:12px">Dr Lynne Russell; Dr Amohia Boulton; Dr Tanya Allport; Anna Adcock; Dr Adreanne Ormond; Natasha Perkins; Dr Donna Cormack; Dr Lis Elison-Loschman Absent: Dr Bridget Robson</span></em></p>

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<p>Whakauae Director Dr Amohia Boulton and Senior Researcher Dr Tanya Allport recently attended a five-day academic writing retreat, hosted by Dr Lynne Russell from Victoria University, and funded by Ng&#257; Pae o te M&#257;ramatanga.</p>

<p>The retreat was organised to support wahine M&#257;ori academics by providing a space for dedicated writing time and a conducive environment for furthering work on research projects. Amohia and Tanya attended the retreat alongside seven other wahine kairangahau from fields as diverse as community and public health, epidemiology, architecture, suicide pre/postvention, and education.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The writing retreat provided a chance for researchers to generate solutions to writing problems, progress draft articles and chapters, and develop ideas for new writing. Importantly, the time together as M&#257;ori women allowed for cross-disciplinary research conversations around tools, techniques and issues in M&#257;ori research, as well as a chance to develop new alliances through common interests.</p>

<p>Whakauae are extremely grateful to Dr Russell and Ng&#257; Pae o te M&#257;ramatanga for the opportunity to have been part of this intiative.</p>
