The Society is committed to morph itself so that over time participation within its membership and activities is broadly reflective of the composition of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand. There is serious work still to do, not the least because the participation of Māori and people of Pacific ethnicity in the research community is still very low, but also because the Society has historically appealed more to people from universities than from other types of research organisations. The early career cohort entering the research community these days is female-dominant, and in some fields, Māori and Pacific participation has improved but there is still much to do for the research community as a whole.
