Rangi Matamua

Rangiānehu 'Rangi' Matamua is a New Zealand indigenous studies and astronomy academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.[1] He is Māori, of Tūhoe descent.

Rangiānehu Matamua
Born
Palmerston North
Alma materMassey University
Scientific career
Fieldsindigenous studies, astronomy
InstitutionsUniversity of Waikato
Thesis

Academic career

After a 2006 PhD titled 'Te Reo Pāho : Māori radio and language revitalisation ' at the Massey University, Matamua moved to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.[1][2][3]

Matamua has written widely on Matariki.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Selected works
  • Hinze, Annika, Craig Taube-Schock, David Bainbridge, Rangi Matamua, and J. Stephen Downie. "Improving access to large-scale digital libraries throughsemantic-enhanced search and disambiguation." In Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint conference on digital libraries, pp. 147-156. ACM, 2015.
  • Harris, Pauline, Rangi Matamua, Takirirangi Smith, Hoturoa Kerr, and Toa Waaka. "A review of Māori astronomy in Aotearoa-New Zealand." Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 16, no. 3 (2013): 325-336.
  • Timoti, Puke, Philip Lyver, Rangi Matamua, Christopher Jones, and Brenda Tahi. "A representation of a Tuawhenua worldview guides environmental conservation." Ecology and Society 22, no. 4 (2017).
  • Matamua, Rangi. "Evaluation of Whakapiki i te Reo a professional development programme for kaiako in Level 1 and Level 2 Māori medium settings." New Zealand Ministry of Education (2012).

References
  1. "Rangi Matamua - Māori and Indigenous Studies: University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz.
  2. "Professor Rangi Matamua | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". www.maramatanga.co.nz.
  3. "Dr. Rangi Mātāmua hopes to revive Māori astronomy". Māori Television.
  4. "Deciphering Matariki: science lessons from star lore". Sciblogs.
  5. "The science of Matariki". RNZ. 2 July 2019.
  6. "Te Iwa o Matariki | Māori New Year". Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.
  7. Williams, Paul (24 June 2019). "Matariki 2019: Rangi Matamua's mission to keep Māori star knowledge alive" – via www.nzherald.co.nz.
  8. Merton, Eleanor. "Matariki and Māori astronomy with Dr Rangi Matamua | McGuinness Institute".
  9. "Ko Matariki e ārau ana | The gathering of Matariki series of talks". Royal Society Te Apārangi.


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