Linda Waimarie Nikora | |
|---|---|
.jpg) At 2019 Research Honours Aotearoa | |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Waikato |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Indigenous, Community and Social psychology; Kaupapa Maori Psychology |
| Institutions | University of Waikato, University of Auckland |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral students | Kiri Edge, Byron Seiuli, Saburo Omura |
Linda Waimarie Nikora FRSNZ is a New Zealand psychology academic. She is Māori, of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngāi Tūhoe descent.[1] She is currently professor of Indigenous Studies and co-director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga at the University of Auckland, having moved in 2017 from the University of Waikato where she had been a professor of psychology and the founding Director of the Maori & Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology.[1]
Nikora attended Hukarere Girls College in Napier, New Zealand before moving to the University of Waikato for both her undergraduate and PhD work.[1] Her 2007 PhD thesis was entitled "Māori social identities in New Zealand and Hawai'i."[2]
In 2018, Nikora was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,[3] while in 2021 she was awarded their Te Rangi Hiroa Medal.[4]
Notable students of Nikora include Bridgette Masters-Awatere.[5]
- ^ a b c "Large pōwhiri expected for new professor - The University of Auckland". University of Auckland. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ Nikora, Linda (2007). Māori social identities in New Zealand and Hawai'i (Doctoral thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/2574.
- ^ "Centenary cohort of Fellows announced". Royal Society of New Zealand. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "Influential healthy homes research recognised with top honour". NZ Herald. 18 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Masters-Awatere, Bridgette (2015). "That's the price we pay": Kaupapa Māori Programme stakeholder experiences of external evaluation (PhD thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato.