Indigenous Innovation and Leadership - Community-led Adaptation Strategies
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Indigenous Innovation and Leadership
| Monday, October 13, 2025 |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
Speaker
Mrs Sylvia Tapuke
Scion Research Ltd
Conversations around hapū-developed climate adaptation frameworks – implications for tribal members, at home, and living away.
1:30 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Member of the Ngāti Haka and Patuheuheu tribe.
Ms Cushla Loomb
Business Director - Climate Resilience
BECA
Te Whare Tapa Whā, embedding a holistic view to adaptation actions through an indigenous lensk
2:15 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
John is a Principal Kaiwhakatere in the Beca Māori Advisory Business – Te Ahi Tūtata. Of Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and Pākeha descent and with over 20 years of experience in a range of leadership roles, John is passionate about weaving Te Ao Māori into the projects Beca helps deliver.
Dr Suzanne Phibbs
Senior Lecturer
Massey University
Kaupapa tuku iho: Papakāinga as a hapū adaptation framework
3:00 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Robbie Richardson is a hapū researcher from Ngāti Parewahawaha. Robbie is the lead researcher as the claimant for WAI113a Waitangi Claims for Ngāti Parewahawaha. She specialises in research concerning Rongoā Māori (Traditional Māori Healing systems), Papakāinga, Iindigenous disaster management and risk reduction. Robbie is in her final stages of her Professional Doctorate through Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Whakatāne, New Zealand.
Dr Suzanne Phibbs (Kāi Tahu) is a Māori health sociologist and senior lecturer in public health in the School of Health Sciences at Massey University. Suzanne has published extensively in the field of disasters and is an expert on Sociological and Kaupapa Māori research methodologies, Māori community resilience, disaster risk reduction, response and recovery
