Fiona Te Momo

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

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

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

Scholia has a profile for Fiona Te Momo (Q116686372).
  • O H Fiona Te Momo (1 September 2007). "Biotechnology: the language of multiple views in Māori communities". Biotechnology Journal. 2 (9): 1179–1183. doi:10.1002/BIOT.200700123. ISSN 1860-7314. PMID 17703491. Wikidata Q50933481.
  • Fiona Te Momo (13 December 2022). "Māori Academic Challenges: Delivering Mātauranga Māori During COVID-19". Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education. 17 (2): 67–78. doi:10.20355/JCIE29511. ISSN 1718-4770. Wikidata Q124414047.
  • O H Fiona Te Momo (1 September 2007). "Biotechnology: the language of multiple views in Māori communities". Biotechnology Journal. 2 (9): 1179–1183. doi:10.1002/BIOT.200700123. ISSN 1860-7314. PMID 17703491. Wikidata Q50933481.
  • Shelly Johnson; Fiona Te Momo; Natalie Clark; Corrina Sparrow; Reina Hapi (10 December 2021). "Contested Context: Welcoming Diverse International Indigenous Colleagues to Unceded Musqueam Territory". Canadian Journal of Native Education. 37 (1). doi:10.14288/CJNE.V37I1.196566. ISSN 0710-1481. Wikidata Q124414027.
  • Fiona Te Momo (10 December 2021). "Turangawaewae: Retaining Tino Rangatiranga in the Academy". Canadian Journal of Native Education. 37 (1). doi:10.14288/CJNE.V37I1.196568. ISSN 0710-1481. Wikidata Q124414042.


References

  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.