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Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce 

Name - Dr Janette Hamilton-Pearce
Iwi - Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāti Kahungunu, Tūwharetoa
Qualification(s) -

DipBusStud, BInSc [Hons 1st class], PhD AUT University

Role / Position –
  • Deputy Director, Tokorau Indigenous Innovation Institute
  • Senior Lecturer, Tokorau Indigenous Innovation Institute
  • Bachelor of Humanities Programme Co-ordinator, School of Undergraduate Studies
Phone – 07 3071467 Ext 7605
Email – janette.hamilton-pearce@wananga.ac.nz

About Me

Tēnā koutou katoa,
I te taha o tōku whaea, ko Ngāti Kahungunu me Tūwharetoa ngā iwi.
I te taha o tōku matua, ko Te Whānau-ā-Apanui te iwi.
Ko June (nee Hamilton) rāua ko Niao Tangira ōku mātua.
Ko Te Pirihi Wirihana taku tama.  Ko Atareta Wirihana taku tamāhine.
Ko Grant Pearce taku whaiaipo.
Ko Janette Hamilton-Pearce ahau.

Teaching Responsibilities:

Dr Hamilton-Pearce teaches on concepts of colonising, decolonising and indigenising ICT and media through undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

  • MAO 130 – Whare Wānanga Development (Semester 1, 2010) - This course looks at the critical history and development of the Whare Wānanga and its contribution to tertiary education in New Zealands society.
  • MAO 417/IND 401 – Iwi Research: Theory and Practice (Semester 1 and Semester 2, 2010) - This course develops a proposal for the Masters of Māori Studies and the Masters of Indigenous Studies.
  • RAU 203 Culture and the Media: A Critical Study (Semester 1, 2011) - This course investigates culture’s effects on media and media’s effects on culture.  Through representation developments there is awareness of colonising, decolonising and indigenising media theories.

Publications:

Thesis - Hamilton-Pearce, J. ‘Mana Wāhine in Information Technology: Ngā Kaiwhatu Kākahu Me Te Kākahu’, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, AUT University, 2009.

Conference Papers:

  • HAMILTON-PEARCE, J. ‘Herstories of colonising IT’. National Māori Doctoral Student Conference, Ōtākou, Dunedin, Aotearoa, New Zealand, 9-11 October, 2009.
  • LAWS, M., HAMILTON-PEARCE, J., WERAHIKO, H., WETINI, T. ‘The new role of the Wānanga educator. Ngā kanohi hou o Techno-Pouako’. eFest Conference 2009, UCOL Palmerston North, Aotearoa, New Zealand,  29 Sept – 2 Oct, 2009.
  • LAWS, M., HAMILTON-PEARCE, J., WERAHIKO, H., WETINI, T. Ngā kanohi hou o Techno-Pouako’. Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi Staff Research Conference 2009, Rotorua, Aotearoa, New Zealand,  16-18 Nov, 2009.
  • MORGAN, T.K.K.B., HAMILTON-PEARCE, J., MITCHELL, S.A., MURRAY, M.R. ‘Native Engineering and Technology (NET) Research Cluster Development, University of Auckland’. Te Toi Tauira mo te Matariki Conference 2008, Manukau Institute of Technology, Waipuna Lodge, Auckland, 7-10 October, 2008.
  • MURRAY, M.R., MITCHELL., S.A., MORGAN, T.K.K.B., HAMILTON-PEARCE, J. ‘Transforming Institutional Perspective by Rediscovering Māori and Pacific Ingenuity’, Te Toi Tauira mo te Matariki Conference 2008, Manukau Institute of Technology, Waipuna Lodge, Auckland, 7-10 October, 2008.
  • HAMILTON-PEARCE, J. ‘Transforming Information Technology (IT) for Indigenous Women: Workshop findings on the IT issues and strategies for Māori women at the Flaxroots Technology Conference 2002’. Flaxroots Technology Conference 2002, Unitec, Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand, 11-12 April, 2002.

Journals:

MORGAN, T.K.K.B., HAMILTON-PEARCE, J., MITCHELL, S.A., MURRAY, M.R. ‘Native Engineering and Technology (NET): An Emerging Research Opportunity’. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, 2008.