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Karyn Paringatai imageBA(Hons)(Otago) RSA/Cambridge CELTA MA PhD(Otago), Te Aupikitanga ki te Reo Kairangi, Te Pīnakitanga ki te Reo Kairangi (Te Wānanga o Aotearoa)
Ngāti Porou

Contact

Office 3S6 Richardson Building, South Tower
Tel +64 3 479 8122
Email karyn.paringatai@otago.ac.nz

Currently on research study leave, returning 30 September 2022.

Research

My research interests are in a number of areas that intersect at various points. These include: sociological issues surrounding Māori urbanisation and Māori identity development and maintenance; Māori performing arts, particularly poi and the analysis of haka and waiata compositions; grammatical aspects of the Māori language and second language acquisition; Māori language and Māori performing arts teaching methodologies. My current research is in the area of whakapapa and genetic research.

Teaching

Supervision

Current

  • Komene Kururangi, PhD (Te Tumu), Haka: He Ara Whakapikiora (with Dr Wahineata Smith (Māori)
  • Frederic Dichtel (PhD, English & Linguistics) ‘He aha ai?’—‘Nā te mea!’ Ka taea e te mātai wetereo whakatairite me te mātai whakapapa reo te whakamārama ngā whakatakotoranga e kotiti ana i ngā ture wetereo? (with Dr Simon Overall and Dr Wahineata Smith) (Māori)
  • Gemella Harton-Reynolds (BSc Hons, Biochemistry), The management of breast cancer risk in HDGC whānui o Ngāi Tahu (with Professor Parry Guilford) (English)
  • Rushi Vyas (PhD, English), (with Professor Jacob Edmond and Dr Lynley Edmeades) (English)
  • Te Mihinga Komene (PhD, Te Tumu), Ka ora rānei te reo Māori i ngā hapori tuihono? (with Dr Wahineata Smith and Dr Katharina Ruckstuhl) (Māori)
  • Ella Cameron Smith (PhD, Te Tumu), Ngāti Koroki-Kahukura Food Identity (with Dr Jess Pasisi) (English)
  • Sarah Waterman (EdD, College of Education) Tūhura History (with Associate Professor Susan Sandretto) (English)
  • Brad Devery (PhD, Microbiology & Immunology) Investigating the role of myeloid cells in colorectal cancer, using mātauranga Māori (with Professor Ros Kemp and Dr Kirsten Hartstonge)
  • Komene Cassidy (MIndS) He Waka Kotuia (Māori)
  • Manu-aroha Walker (MIndS) Examples of Tokenism in Indigenous Policy (English)
  • Syleena Douglas (PhD, Management) Me pēhea te hanga whare hou? How shall we build this new dwelling? (with Associate Professor Diane Ruwhiu) (English)
  • Jordon Lima (PhD, Biomedical Sciences) Māu Tēnā Kīwai o te Kete, Māku Tēnei: Equitable Application of ctDNA to the New Zealand Māori Population (with Professor Parry Guilford) (English)
  • Kahurangi Tipene (PhD, Te Tumu) Aianei, ake nei, ae. (with Professor Parry Guilford and Dr Wahineata Smith) (Māori)
  • Paia Taani (PhD, Te Tumu) I ahatia tōku reo? (with Professor Tangwai Rewi (University of Waikato) (English)
  • Sofia Peters (PhD, Te Tumu) He oranga māmā, he oranga whānau – Māori experiences of whānautanga in Dunedin Hospital (with Dr Erica Newman) (English)
  • Tonga Karena (PhD, Peace & Conflict Studies) Te Kura Huna o Rongo (with Professor Richard Jackson) (Māori)
  • Roma Simmons-Gush (PhD, Te Tumu) Te Kura i Huna: Reestablishing Intergenerational Language Transmission (with Professor Michael Reilly) (English)
  • Jenni Tupu (PhD, Te Tumu) Being Adopted: The lifelong search for Self (with Professor Michael Reilly) (English)

Completed

  • Te Hira Paenga (PhD, Theology) Ngā Ihoatua o Te Ao Kapahaka (with Professor Murray Rae and Dr Wayne Te Kaawa) (Māori) (currently under examination)
  • Rikki Gooch (DMA, Music) Rangatuone: An Indigenous Embodiment of Conduction (with Associate Professor Jennifer Cattermole and Professor Peter Adams) (English) (currently under examination)
  • Maioha Watson (BA Hons, Te Tumu) Tōku Ao Haka: Ngā Matatini o te Āpōpō (Māori)
  • Manutangirua Papuni-Iles (MIndS, Te Tumu) He kōrero Hītori/Whakapapa o te rohe whānui o Waiapu me Hikurangi Enterprises Ltd (with Professor Merata Kawharu) (Māori)
  • Louise Kewene-Doig (PhD, Te Tumu) He Kohinga Kōrero: A selected group of Māori musicians and performers’ experiences of the 1960s through the Māori Showband movement (with Professpr Michael Reilly) (English)
  • Hiko Sam-Turner (PGDip, Te Tumu) Waikato: He Wai Oranga (Māori)
  • Will Flavell (EdD, College of Education) He waka reo Māori, he waka eke noa: The motivations, attitudes, and learning experiences of non-Māori secondary school students learning te reo Māori (with Dr Susan Sandretto) (English)
  • Roma Simmons-Donaldson, BA(Hons), Walking in two worlds: Te reo Maori in urban New Zealand (English)
  • Kahurangi Salu, BA(Hons) Tuu Tonu Whakatika (2016) (Māori)
  • Tawini White, MA, He Waka Huia, He Waka Reo-ā-Iwi: The importance of reo-ā-iwi in identity formation (2016)
  • Tyson Tautari, BA(Hons), Au Au: A 'tail' of the kurī (2014)
  • Matt Gillies, BA(Hons), Whakatau Hinengaro: Rongoā mō te Arero Tauhou (2014) (Māori)
  • Gianna Leoni, MA, He manu hou ahau, he pī ka rere: The transition of Māori language immersion students to the University of Otago (2011)
  • Gianna Leoni, BA(Hons), Ko tōku Māoritanga: The Formation of Māori Identity in Dunedin (2009)
  • Courtney Sullivan, BA(Hons), Mai i Aotearoa – From New Zealand: The effects of living in Australia on Māori identity (2008)

Distinctions

  • 2023Te Puiaki Pūtaiao Matua a te Pirimia Science Prize (Prime Minister’s Science Prize), Aotearoa New Zealand (alongside Professor Parry Guilford, Mrs Maybelle McLeod, Mrs Pauline Harawira, Mrs Eryn Gardiner and Dr Jeremy Rossaak)
  • 2014:Prime Minister's Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence
  • 2014:National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence in a Kaupapa Māori Context
  • 2014:Otago University Teaching Excellence Award in a Kaupapa Māori Context
  • 2013:Most Engaging Presentation Award, Spotlight on Teaching and Learning Symposium (Dunedin, New Zealand, 26-27 Aug).
  • 2000: Te Tumu Prize (Outstanding achievement in MAOR 490 – He Raukura)
  • 2000: Tongarerewa Prize (Academic excellence in Māori Studies)
  • 2000: Te Ihorei Prize (Contribution to tikanga Māori)

Publications

Jefferies, R., Wilcox, P., Paringatai, K., Stubbe, M., Grainger, R., Dowell, A., & Filoche, S. K. (2024). 'I think we just do it once and leave it ...': The collection and utility of family health history in general practice in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative study. Journal of Primary Health Care, 16(1), 33-40. doi: 10.1071/HC23055 Journal - Research Article

Paringatai, K. (2023). He ira atua, he ira taiao, he ira tangata [Keynote]. Proceedings of the Genetics Otago (GO) Annual Symposium & Workshops. Retrieved from https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/go Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Paringatai, K. (2021, June). Kua ora au i a koe. Verbal presentation at the Second Ira Rangahau Māori Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Filoche, S., Stubbe, M. H., Grainger, R., Robson, B., Paringatai, K., Wilcox, P., Jefferies, R., & Dowell, A. (2021). How is family health history discussed in routine primary healthcare? A qualitative study of archived family doctor consultations. BMJ Open, 11(10), e049058. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049058 Journal - Research Article

Blair, V. R., McLeod, M., Carneiro, F., Coit, D. G., D'Addario, J. L., van Dieren, J. M., … Paringatai, K., Bougen-Zhukov, N., Brew, T., … Godwin, T. D., … Nouri, Y., … Reeve, A. E., & Guilford, P. (2020). Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: Updated clinical practice guidelines. Lancet Oncology, 21(8), e386-e397. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30219-9 Journal - Research Other

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