PHANZA Secretary
c/o Manatū Taonga/MCH
PO Box 5364
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
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Posted on August 18 2024
Kia ora, I am a freelance researcher, historian and writer with a special interest in environmental history and Māori and Pākehā narratives of place. I received a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2016 and was subsequently contracted by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council to develop a heritage trail at Ōhiwa Harbour, working closely with tāngata whenua. Since
Posted on March 15 2024
I am the Director of Arque Research, a specialist research consulting company that helps businesses, institutions and cultural organisations use history to connect with staff, customers, stakeholders and communities. I have skills, knowledge and experience gained over a 30-year career spanning academic and applied research, journalism and marketing, and university teaching and postgraduate supervision. My expertise includes legal history, urban
Posted on October 26 2023
I am a researcher, writer and oral historian based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. I have a particular interest in gender, race, and environmental histories. I have a Master of Arts in History with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland. My thesis, ‘A world beyond the waters: Māori travel in the Tasman World, 1793-1839’, was shortlisted for the
Posted on September 21 2021
Dr Vaughan Wood is an environmental historian with a longstanding interest in the environmental history of New Zealand during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a postdoctoral fellow on the Marsden Fund project Empires of Grass, as well as the Canterbury History Foundation Community Historian for 2008. He is the author of Akaroa Cocksfoot: King of Grasses (2014), and has
Posted on September 21 2021
I am an independent historian based in Kāpiti in the Wellington region. I have broad-ranging interests in New Zealand social and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My research interests and specialty areas include the history of grief, the history of the family, women’s and gender history, the history of the First World War, and health and education
Posted on September 21 2021
I have more than 30 years’ experience as a professional historian and writer, including terms of employment with the Waitangi Tribunal and Te Ara – the online encyclopedia of NZ. Since 2014 I have been a freelance historical researcher, writing many reports for both public sector clients such as Te Arawhiti and the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, and others such
Posted on September 21 2021
Matt, president of PHANZA since January 2025, is a senior historian at Te Tari Whakatau – the Office of Treaty Settlements and Takutai Moana where his work focuses on developing redress for Māori groups settling historic Treaty of Waitangi claims against the Crown. Beginning in 2021, he designed and facilitated courses for public servants about the history of the Treaty
Posted on September 21 2021
Eileen worked for the Waitangi Tribunal for many years but has now retired. She still has a passion for historical research, however, and loves helping local family history enthusiasts give context to the lives of their forebears by doing social history research. Family history doesn’t always get a good rap, but it can throw up some really interesting stories and