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Fiona Te Momo
Born1966
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Waikato
Thesis
Doctoral advisorBarbara G Harrison, Maria Humphries, Russell Bishop
Academic work
InstitutionsMassey University

Oliver Helena Fiona Te Momo is a New Zealand social worker and academic, and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in Māori development.

Academic career

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Te Momo is affiliated with Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakatere, and Ngāti Konohi.[1] She is a registered social worker, and completed a Master in Māori and Pacific Development with Honours, and then a PhD titled Demystifying a relationship between voluntary work and Māori at the University of Waikato.[2][1][3] Her doctoral thesis was supervised by Barbara Harrison, Maria Humphries and Russell Bishop.[2] Te Momo then joined the faculty of Massey University, rising to full professor in 2024.[1]

Te Momo is the Regional Director for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences on the Auckland campus of Massey University.[1] Te Momo's research focuses on indigenous knowledge development, which encompasses social, economic and political development at the whanau, hapu and iwi levels.[4] Te Momo has researched the cultural competency of social workers, micro-financing for hapū initiatives, and leadership by indigenous women.[1][4]

In 2018 she was asked to comment on whether fragrances being sold by an Italian creator in Russia, using Māori branding and Pasifika imagery, represented a case of cultural appropriation.[5]

In 2011, Te Momo was awarded a Massey University Māori Award. The award enabled her to undertake a research project called 'Future Cultural Social Workers', where she investigated the cultural knowledge of social work students at Massey and at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.[4]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Massey News (30 November 2023). "2023 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b Te Momo, O. H. F. Demystifying a relationship between voluntary work and Māori (PhD thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/13973.
  3. ^ "Fiona Te Momo (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa)". www.komako.org.nz. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Zealand, Massey University, New. "Prof Fiona Te Momo - Professor - Massey University". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 2 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Chelsea Boyle (4 February 2024). "'Maori Collection' fragrances stuns Kiwi shopper in Moscow". NZ Herald. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
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