Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Medal
For excellent and innovative research by Māori that has been co-created in community contexts and made a distinctive contribution to community wellbeing and development in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Mō ngā rangahau kairangi, auaha nā te Māori, kua hangaia tahitia i roto i ngā horopaki hapori, kua tāpae āwhina ahurei hoki ki te toiora hapori me te whanaketanga i Aotearoa.
Award details
Discipline: Recognition of research co-created in community contexts conducted by Māori
Award offered: Every two years, alternatively with the Te Puāwaitanga Research Excellence Award
Eligibility: for researchers based in New Zealand
Prize: Award
Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Medal specifically acknowledges that in Te Ao Māori much excellent research is co-created in community contexts, requiring the generation and sharing of new knowledge beyond an academic setting with a view to providing the widest possible benefit for society. This award recognises excellent, innovative co-created research, conducted by Māori, that has made a distinctive contribution to community wellbeing and development in Aotearoa.
By definition, the award will be for one or more researchers and their community partners.
Please note that this medal is open to team nominations as well as individual nominations.
Ngā āhuatanga o te tohu
Te wehenga mātauranga: Te whakamihi ki te rangahau i hangaia tahitia i roto i ngā horopaki hapori, nā te Māori i kawe
Ka whakawhiwhia te tohu: Ia rua tau, e tauutuutu ana ki te Te Puāwaitanga Research Excellence Award
Te āheinga: mō ngā kairangahau kei Aotearoa e mahi ana
Te Paraihe: He Mētara
Ko tā Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori he āta waitohu, i te ao Maori kei te hangaia tahitia ētahi rangahau kairangi i roto i ngā horopaki hapori, e tika ai kia huaina kia tiria hoki ētahi mātauranga hou i tua atu i te ao mātanga wānanga, me te whai kia puta he hua tino whānui mō te pāpori. E whakamihi ana tēnei tohu ki ngā rangahau auaha kua hangaia tahitia, kua kawea e te Māori, i tāpae āwhina nui ki te toiora hapori me te whanaketanga i Aotearoa.
Nā reira, ka tukua tēnei whakawhiwhinga ki te kairangahau kotahi, neke atu rānei i te kotahi, me ōna hoa kōtui i te hapori.
Kia mārama hoki te tangata, e wātea ana tēnei mētara ki ngā whakarewanga ingoa tira, tae atu ki ngā whakarewanga ingoa takitahi.
Current status
The 2025 round is now closed. Nominations for 2027 will open in January 2027.