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Adelaide Collins
(Ngati Mahanga, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki)
Director
Phone 07 858 2047
Email collins@mdrc.co.nz
Adelaide is a Social Science Researcher in Maori Development and NZ Cultural History.
Her research interests are disability issues for Maori, research...
Collins, A. & Hickey, H. (2006). The Role of Whanau in the Lives of Maori with Physical Disabilities. Wellington: Families Commission. Retrieved from http://www.familiescommission.govt.nz/research/blueskies-2005.php
Recently published research concluded that the whanau is a secondary social...
Collins, A., Paenga, J. & Gray, A. (2006, June). Whanau Development Action Research. A Report Prepared for Te Puni Kokiri. Hamilton: Maori Development Research Centre.
The project involved working alongside an iwi service provider that was implementing a project to develop te reo...
