Te Pū Wānanga o Anamata ranks 11th of 31 Tertiary Institutes for Research

Te Pū Wānanga o Anamata ranks 11^th of 31 Tertiary Institutes for Research

Te Pū Wānanga oAnamata has yet again, had its research programme recognised by the Tertiary Education Commission in the 2007 PBRF assessment of New Zealand tertiary institutes. Of 31 institutes submitting profiles in 2006 to be assessed on research performance, Anamata gained 11^th place.  The first eight were the universities closely followed by one Institute of Technology and another fellow PTE.

As a Māori tertiary institute, this was indeed an endorsement of the quality of research in Iwi and Maori issues undertaken by Anamata who is funded on the basis of their performance.

The Performance Based Research Fund has three elements of judgement:

* reward and encourage the quality of researchers—60 percent of the fund
* reflect research degree completions—25 percent of the fund
* reflect external research income—15 percent of fund

Researcher at Te Pū Wānanga o Anamata have been engaged in research since 2004 in a variety of domains:

• Māori traditional knowledge and social development
• Tūhoe language, education and social history
• Reo Māori and Tikanga
• Tūhoe traditions and history
• Raupatu claims for Waitangi Tribunal
• Whanau Violence: A Maori conceptual framework