New Zealand; Pacific
Researchers are calling for universities to move beyond "superficial and unethical" attempts at inclusion of Māori and Pacific people. Through qualitative surveying, a group of 43 current or past postgraduate students shared their experiences at NZ universities. Some students said they were used in unethical, ‘box-ticking’ ways on funding applications, such as having their name used to secure funding for a project they had refused to be part of, or named as Māori investigators on funding applications when they were Pacific people. The authors say these and other stories from the research show that under-representation of Māori and Pacific in STEM will not be addressed by simply plugging in more students, and true changes are required in the university environment.
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Dr Leilani Walker, Lecturer, Faculty of Heath and Environmental Science, AUT, is available for comment
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