Associate Professor Hinekura Smith
Principal Research Fellow
TC Beirne School of Law
Affiliate of ARC COE for Indigenous Futures
ARC COE for Indigenous Futures
Book Chapters
Smith, H. (2025). He toka tū moana and navigating sanctuaries of scholarship. Books of Mana: 180 Maori authored books of significance. (pp. 152-159) edited by Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Smith, Hinekura Lisa (2023). Re-weaving thinking, re-thinking weaving: theorizing Indigenous arts practice as research methodology. International Encyclopedia of Education. (pp. 181-188) edited by Robert J Tierney, Fazal Rizvi and Kadriye Ercikan. Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.06049-8
Smith, Hinekura (2023). Theorizing Indigenous art practice, practicing Indigenous art theories: Māori weaving as research methodology. Encountering craft: methodological approaches from anthropology, art history, and design. (pp. 114-131) edited by Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003026136-7
Journal Articles
Heke, Deborah, Bartlett, Lillian Mato, Staniland, Nimbus and Smith, Hinekura (2026). Mahi a Wananga—A Mana Wahine-Led Collaboration to Co-Construct Meaningful Research and Meaning from Research. Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 21 (1) e70004, 1-10. doi: 10.1002/kot2.70004
Penetito, Kim and Smith, Hinekura (2025). Whatua te Muka Tāngata: Indigenous cloak-making as a site of healing and resistance. Unitec ePress Occasional and Discussion Paper Series (1/2025), 1-21. doi: 10.34074/ocds.112
Manathunga, Catherine, Raciti, Maria, Smith, Hinekura, Qi, Jing, Keane, Moyra, Motala, Shireen, Msimango, Sindi and van der Westhuizen, Gert (2025). Indigenous doctoral education policies in the global south: postcolonial policy borrowing in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Higher Education Policy, 1-21. doi: 10.1057/s41307-025-00422-2
Smith, Hinekura (2025). Toi Ora, Whatuora: exploring whatu pedagogy and wellbeing . MAI Journal, 14 (2), 141-151. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2025.14.2.1
Goldsmith, Allana, Smith, Hinekura and Penetito, Kim (2024). Toi Ako – developing Māori arts pedagogy: a Kaupapa Māori literature review. Occasional and Discussion Paper Series. doi: 10.34074/ocds.111
Smith, Hinekura, Sarich, Jenn, Eruera, Taoitekura, Campbell-Strickland, Ann-Margaret and Mato Bartlett, Lillian (2023). Whakarongo ki te Tangi! – Listen to our tears, listen to our call! Learnings from a summer research mentorship to grow Kaupapa Māori community health researchers. Unitec ePress Occasional and Discussion Paper Series. doi: 10.34074/ocds.105
Smith, Hinekura, Le Grice, Jade, Fonua, Sonia and Mayeda, David Tokiharu (2022). Coloniality, institutional racism and white fragility: a wero to higher education. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 51 (2), 1-18. doi: 10.55146/ajie.v51i2.34
Smith, Hinekura, Frandi, Aotea, Squire, Danielle, Farnham, Irene, Morgan, Eruera, Keepa, Dan and Morunga, Piripi (2022). Growing kaupapa Māori research capabilities and confidence through whanaungatanga as research mentorship. Unitec ePress Occasional and Discussion Paper Series (1/2022). doi: 10.34074/ocds.098
Smith, H. (2022). I wear my pride upon my skin: becoming more of who I am. Te Ira Tāngata.
Smith, Hinekura and Wolfgramm-Foliaki, ‘Ema (2021). ‘We don’t talk enough’: voices from a Māori and Pasifika lead research fellowship in higher education. Higher Education Research & Development, 40 (1), 35-48. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1856791
Smith, Hinekura (2021). Whatuora: theorising a Kaupapa Māori arts-based methodology. MAI Journal, 10 (2), 191-201. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2021.10.2.12
Wolfgramm-Foliaki, Ema and Smith, Hinekura (2020). He Vaka Moana – navigating Māori and Pasifika student success through a collaborative research fellowship. MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, 9 (1), 5-14. doi: 10.20507/maijournal.2020.9.1.2
Smith, Hinekura and Wolfgramm-Foliaki, 'Ema (2020). Igniting the vā – Vā-kā methodology in a Māori-Pasifika research fellowship. MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship, 9 (1), 15-25. doi: 10.20507/maijournal.2020.9.1.3
Smith, Hinekura (2020). "Cloaked in our aspirations”: Māori mothers and grandmothers weaving stories from their past for the future. Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing, 5, 79-89.
Smith, Hinekura (2019). Whatuora: theorizing "new" Indigenous research methodology from "old" Indigenous weaving practice. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 4 (1), 1-27. doi: 10.18432/ari29393