Our Tiriti journey
At the Centre for Person Centred Research, we recognise that our unique context in Aotearoa is critical to who we are and how we work. We are committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and growing and enacting responsive Tiriti partnerships.
To help us to embed this commitment in our everyday work we have developed a Tiriti framework which maps the four articles of Te Tiriti with our values. This guides our actions and interactions as Tiriti partners.
To help put the framework into context, we have prepared a series of presentations to share the whakapapa of our framework (how it began), the process of developing the framework (bringing it into being), and our approach to embedding it in our everyday work (living it).
How it began
Bringing our Tiriti framework into being
Living our Tiriti framework
Our Tiriti framework
| Always in Conversation Kōrerorero tonu | Connecting as People Whanaungatanga | Pushing the Boundaries Whakaaro Auaha |
Article 1: Kāwanatanga Good Governance | Inviting challenging conversations, embracing disruption, and fostering active engagement with mātauranga. Creating opportunities to reflect on and be responsive to these within the centre - in the broader strategic direction and operations of the centre as well as within research projects. | Enabling authentic processes that embed tikanga for connecting as people; and building reciprocal and enduring relationships with Māori communities and organisations (Marae, Iwi, Māori health providers). | Leading by example through embedding Tiriti-focused critical consciousness in our governance practices; and enabling and encouraging reflexive, mindful research and teaching practice which engages with diverse worldviews. |
Article 2: Rangatiratanga Autonomy | Engaging with and upholding the wisdom, mātauranga and mana of Māori scholars, whānau, communities and organisations, and creating the context for Māori aspirations to have ongoing presence and prominence within our mahi. | Coming together in ways that enable authentic connection, invites people to bring the whole of themselves into their work and encounters with the centre, and makes space for people to be self-determining. | Creating environments for individual and collective growth, development, and leadership through active engagement with mātauranga, te ao Māori, and Kaupapa Māori methodologies and scholarship, and challenging institutional practices so Māori can flourish and realise their aspirations. |
Article 3: Ōritetanga Equity | Actively seeking and promoting Māori perspectives, practices, methodologies, and scholarship within centre forums aiming for equity in our kaupapa and ongoing reflexivity regarding our contribution to equity. | Interacting in ways that enhance mana and create space for people to participate fully so they can experience equity in access, experience, and outcome. | Seeking new ways of working with and integrating Māori methodologies and mātauranga into research and teaching, including making space, promoting and advocating for methodological advance and structural change to support equity-oriented process and outcome. |
Article 4: Wairuatanga Cultural Freedom | Welcoming and embracing Māori ways of being and doing in our everyday activities and interactions; and pursuing opportunities to value and explore wairuatanga in its diversity and plurality | Normalising wairuatanga in the way we work and engage with people and communities, respecting and being responsive to where people are at in their personal journey of (re)engagement with te ao Māori and the vulnerabilities that may be inherent in that. | Encouraging individual and collective growth by creating a safe space to challenge our assumptions and advance how we conceptualise, inquire and act with respect to wairuatanga. |
Who we are
The Centre for Person-Centred Research (PCR) is a transdisciplinary research centre based in the Health and Rehabilitation Research Institute and School of Clinical Sciences at AUT.