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Senior Lecturer - Health Promotion/Associate Dean - Maori, Massey University

Dr Bevan Erueti is currently the Asociate Dean Māori for the College of Health and a senior lecturer in the School of Health Sciences. He teaches in courses and degree programmes to prioritise Māori perspectives and approaches to health, health promotion, sport, physical activity and nutrition. His academic position also contains a major responsibility to develop, build and grow the School of Health Science's Māori knowledge capacity in teaching, learning and research. His Associate Dean role contains a major responsibility to assist, guide and encourage Massey University’s Te Tiriti led strategy in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Māori, Prof. Meihana Durie previously operated by Dist. Prof. Graham Hingangaroa Smith. The role involves not only mobilizing Te Tiriti o Waitangi-led initiatives, but to develop Māori cultural safety and change among academic staff, promote the universities Māori academic and research agenda and most pertinently to improve Māori student support structures from entry to completion. His research is grounded in Kaupapa Māori methodologies, complimented by international perspectives of Indigenous theory to augment narrative approaches, specifically pūrākau to explore the lived realties and experiences of Māori (and non-Māori) in the areas of human and environmental health sociology, sport, exercise, physical activity and nutrition, interweaved with the importance of place identity, geographical connection and belonging.

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    Senior Lecturer - Health Promotion/Associate Dean - Maori, Massey University