Sandy Morrison

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rārua, Te Arawa



Sandy Morrison is a Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Academic) at Waikato University. Her research interests include Te Tiriti o Waitangi/ Treaty of Waitangi, Adult education, Participatory training processes and Indigenous development issues. In 2011 Morrison won the Award for Sustained Excellence Teaching in a Kaupapa Māori Context.

Biographical sources

  • http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fmis/about/staff/samorr 25 November 2016
  • https://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/community/ako-aotearoa-academy-tertiary-teaching-excellence/resources/pages/sandra-morrison-ttea-profile-2011 25 November 2016

    Non-fiction

  • "Capacity building for self-determined Maori economic development." Hamilton, N.Z.: Development Studies, University of Waikato, 1998.
  • Co-authors Terrence Loomis and Taari Nicholas
  • "Comments on Koia Koia Towards a Learning Society : The role of adult and community education. The report of the Adult education and Community Learning Working Party." New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning 30.1 (2002): 114-115.
  • "He Tipuna, He Mokopuna. He korero mo Rewi Maniapoto raua ko Temuera Morrison." Te Wharekura 68 (2002): 20-29.
  • "Whakamana to tuapapa o te tangata motuhake kia whai hua nga tangata katoa." New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning 31.1 (2003): 82-91.
  • Reading our land: Case study of Te Waka Pu Whenua, Maori Adult Education Centre in New Zealand. India: Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, 2003.
  • Co-author N. Tarawa.
  • "The concept of partnership and The Treaty of Waitangi: Three case studies." He Puna Kōrero - Journal of Maori & Pacific Development 6.1 (2005): 16-26.
  • The millenium development goals and indigenous people. Just change Me whakaputa kē i runga i te tika: Indigenous rights Ngā mōtika o ngā iwi tāngata whenua, 2006.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • "The millenium development goals and indigenous peoples." Just Change. Indigenous Rights 7.10 (2006).
  • Co-author T. Vaioleti.
  • "Indigenous Education and ASPBAE." Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education Indigenous Education Program Working Group Meeting, Lispher Inn, Davao City, Philippines, 2006.
  • Proposed model of the effects of liquor outlet density in Manukau City. University of Waikato: Population Studies Centre, 2009.
  • Co-authors M. P. Cameron, W. Cochrane, K. McNeill, P. Melbourne, S. L. Morrison and N. Robertson.
  • The spatial and other characteristics of liquor outlets in Manukau City: Population Studies Centre Report (No.3). University of Waikato, 2009.
  • Co-authors M. P. Cameron, W. Cochrane, K. McNeill, P. Melbourne, S. L. Morrison, and N. Robertson.
  • The impact of liquor outlets - a review of the international academic literature and New Zealand media reports. Population Studies Centre, 2009.
  • Co-authors M. P. Cameron, W. Cochrane, K. McNeill, P. Melbourne, and N. Robertson.
  • Community stakeholder views on the impacts of liquor outlets in Manukau City. Population Studies Centre, 2009.
  • Co-authors K. McNeill, M. P. Cameron, W. Cochrane, P. Melbourne and N. Robertson.
  • "Adult Learning - Culture, Context and Change." ASPBAE Regional Facilitators - NeXT Sharing & Learning, Solo City, Indonesia, 2010.
  • Impact of Liquor Outlets Research Report No. 5: A spatial econometric analysis of selected impacts of liquor outlet density in Manukau City. Population Studies Centre, 2010.
  • Co-authors W. Cochrane, M. P. Cameron, K. McNeill, P. Melbourne and N. Robertson.
  • "The power of lifelong learning for cultural revitalisation: A Maori experience." LLinE: Lifelong Learning in Europe, XVI.4 (2011): 250-257.
  • "Ako - A traditional learning concept for Maori and Pacific Youth, and its relationship to lifelong learning." Adult Education in Southeast Asia and the Pacific (2011): 31-52.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • "The impacts of liquor outlets in Manukau City: The spatial and other characteristics of liquor outlets in Manukau City." Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand, 2011.
  • Co-author M. P. Cameron, W. Cochrane, K. McNeill, P. Melbourne and Robertson, N.
  • "The Impacts of Liquor Outlets in Manukau City: Summary report revised." Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand, 2011.
  • Co-authors M. P. Cameron, W. Cochrane, K. McNeill, P. Melbourne and N. Robertson.
  • "Quality Adult Education Benchmarks for indigenous Education." Asia south Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education, 2011.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • "Ako - a traditional learning concept for Maori and Pacific youth, and its relationship to lifelong learning." Bildung und Erziehung 64 (2011): 395-408.
  • Co-authors T. Vaioleti.
  • "Inclusion of Indigenous peoples in CONFINTEA VI and follow-up processes." International Review of Education 57.1-2 (2011): 69-87.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • Framework for Key Educational Concepts/Learning Objectives on Climate Change for Curricula in the Kiribati. Hamilton, N.Z.: University of Waikato, 2011.
  • Co-authors T. M. Vaioleti, J. Corcoran and R. Edwards.
  • "AKO. A traditional learning concept for Maori and Pacific Youth, and its relationship to lifelong learning." Bildung und Erziehung 64 (2011): 395-408.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • "Inclusion of indigenous peoples in CONFINTEA VI and follow-up processes." International Review of Education (2011): 1-19.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • "Alcohol outlet density is related to police events and motor vehicle accidents in Manukau City, New Zealand." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 36.6 (2012): 537-542.
  • Co-authors M. P. Cameron, W. Cochrane, K. McNeill, P. Melbourne and N. Robertson.
  • "Climate Change the Last Wave: Radical H.O.P.E in a future of Uncertainty." Tales of Hope III. Tokyo, Japan: Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU), (2012): 132-146.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • "Transgressing boundaries of private and public: Auto-ethnography and intercultural funerals." Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Vol 40). 40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic Interaction. N. K. Denzin. Bingley, UK: Emerald books (2013): 95-126.
  • Co-authors J. Ritchie, T. M. Vaioleti, and T. W. Ritchie.
  • "Rethinking teaching and learning in the Pacific to address climate change as an urgent phenomenon - Kiribati." Proceedings of the Vaka Pasifiki Education Conference: Weaving Theory and Practice in Teacher Educaiton for Oceania. Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga: The Institute of Education, The University of the South Pasific (IOE-USP), (2014): 197-205.
  • Co-author T. Vaioleti.
  • "Traditional concepts for Māori and Pacific adult education and lifelong learning." International Perspectives in Adult Education n.71 (2015): 220-228.
  • Co-author T. M. Vaioleti.
  • "Redesigning the architecture of policy-making: Engaging with Māori on nanotechnology in New Zealand." Public Understanding of Science 25.3 (2016): 287-302.
  • Co-authors D. Munshi, P. A. Kurian and T. Morrison.