Aspin was ‘born in Waiuku and brought up in his tribal area of Hauraki. He was a teacher for twentu years, working in Sydney, London, Paris and Algeria, as well as New Zealand. He returned to university in his forties and completed postgraduate studies in Applied Linguistics. After working as a Māori policy analyst for two years, he moved to the Wellington School of Medicine and took up a lectureship in Māori Health. He is currently living in Nice with his partner and son where he is completing his PhDin Public Health.’
Biographical sources
- Growing Up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1998. 221.
Biography
- "Finding A Place In The World." Growing Up Māori. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Tandem Press, 1998. 231-235.
Non-fiction
- Have Your Say: A Survey By The New Zealand AIDS Foundation Prevention Programme. [Auckland, N.Z.]: The Foundation, [1994].
- Co-authors Clive Aspin, Heather Worth and Paul Kinder.
- "Learning Mathematics in Māori." SET: Research Information for Teachers 1 (1995): item 5.
- "Te Whanaketanga o Te Iwi Whanui Takatapui ki Aotearoa Me Te Hauora O Nga Takatapui Tane I Tenei Wa: Gay Community Development in New Zealand in the 1970s, and Implications for the Health of Gay Māori Men in the 1990s." Social Policy Journal of New Zealand/ Te Puna Whakaaro 7 (Dec. 1996): 42-51.
- Promotion of Sexual And Reproductive Health: A Report for Midland Regional Health. Hamilton, N.Z.: The Authority, [1997].
- "AIDS Impact: Biophysical Aspects of HIV Infection, 3rd International Conference, 22-25 June, 1997, Melbourne." Social Policy Journal of New Zealand/ Te Puna Whakaaro 9 (Nov. 1997): 203-205.
- "Matauranga Tuku Iho Tikanga Rangahau: Traditional Knowledge and Research Ethics Conference." Social Policy Journal of New Zealand/ Te Puna Whakaaro 23 (Dec. 2004): 207-209.
- Sexuality and The Stories Of Indigenous People. Ed. Jessica Hutchings and Clive Aspin. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2007.
- "Reclaiming the past to inform the future: contemporary views of Maori sexuality." Culture, Health and Sexuality 9.4 (July 2007): 415-427.
- Co-author Jessica Hutchings.
- Sexuality and the stories of indigenous people. Ed. Jessica Hutchings and Clive Aspin. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2007.
- "An investigation of the phenomenon of non-consensual sex among Maori men who have sex with men." Culture, Health and Sexuality 11.1 (2009): 35-49.
- Co-authors P. Reynolds, K Lehavot and J. Taiapa.
- "Hokakatanga - Maori sexualities." Te Ara: the encyclopedia of New Zealand, 2011.
- "Human rights and sexual minorities." Law into action: economic, social and cultural rights in Aotearoa New Zealand. Wellington, N.Z.: Thomson Reuters (2011): 314-328.
- Co-authors Terry Armstrong, Margaret Bedggood and Kris, Gledhill.
- "Exploring Takatapui identity within the Maori community: implications for health and well-being." Queer indigenous studies : critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature. Ed. Qwo-Li Driskill [et al.]. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
- "HIV diagnoses in indigenous peoples: comparison of Australia, Canada and New Zealand." International Health 3.3 (2011): 193-198.
- Co-authors Beverley Shea, Nigel P Dickson and Mera Penehira.
- "Exploring Takatāpui identity within the Māori community : implications for health and well-being." Queer indigenous studies : critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
- Co-authors Qwo-Li Driskill.
- "Resilient communities : community-based responses to high rates of HIV among indigenous peoples." MAI journal 3.2 (2014): 153-164.
- "Crafting the normative subject: queerying the politics of race in the New Zealand health education classroom." Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 35. 3 3 (2014): 93-404
- Co-authors Kathleen Quinlivan, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Louisa Allen and Fida Sanjakdar.
Other
- Welham, Keri. "Māori, Gay and Proud." Dominion Post 2 June 2007: E.3.
- Tremaine, M. G. "Book Review." Kōtuitui 3.1 (May 2008): 81-83.
Other
- "Māori Trans-Tasman Migration And AIDS." Tu Mai: Offering an Indigenous New Zealand Perspective 26 (Sept. 2001): 8, 10.
- Kinita, Tohetaua. "Survey Proves Kura Kaupapa Māori Doing More For Their Students." Te Māori News 3.20 (Oct. 1994): 6.