Taumata 2024 - Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Linda Tuhiwai Smith
CNZM, FRSNZ BA 1975, DipTchg ATC 1975, MA (Hons) 1987, PhD Education 1996 (Education & Social Work)
Distinguished Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Tuhourangi) is one of the most influential researchers in Māori education and author of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
She co-founded Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, the Māori Centre of Research Excellence, and since 2021 has been a distinguished professor at the Indigenous tertiary institute Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi in Whakatāne. Linda’s preeminent contributions to Māori and Indigenous research and education led her to be made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2013 and to be awarded the Rutherford Medal in 2023.