Helen Moewaka Barnes

Helen Moewaka Barnes is a New Zealand academic. She is Māori, of Te Kapotai (Ngāpuhi) and Ngapuhi-nui-tonu descent and is currently a full professor at Massey University. In 2021 Barnes was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.[1]

Helen Moewaka Barnes
Alma materMassey University
Scientific career
InstitutionsMassey University
Thesis

Academic career

After a 2008 PhD thesis titled Arguing for the spirit in the language of the mind: a Māori practitioner's view of research and science, Barnes joined the staff, rising to full professor in 2013.[2][3]

In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, she received four separate grants from the Health Research Council,[4][5] alongside a Fulbright award in 2015[6] and a 2013 Marsden Fund award.[7]

Barnes is part of the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring project, which surveys arrestees in the criminal justice system to compile statistics on drug use.[8]

Barnes' work looks at health from a kaupapa Māori perspective.

Awards

In March 2021, Barnes was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, recognising her "significant international impact in the field of Indigenous peoples' health and wellbeing".[9]

Selected works
  • Barnes, Helen Moewaka. "Kaupapa maori: explaining the ordinary." Pacific Health Dialog 7, no. 1 (2000): 13–16.
  • McCreanor, Tim, Antonia Lyons, Christine Griffin, Ian Goodwin, Helen Moewaka Barnes, and Fiona Hutton. "Youth drinking cultures, social networking and alcohol marketing: Implications for public health." Critical Public Health 23, no. 1 (2013): 110–120.
  • Barnes, Helen Moewaka. "Collaboration in community action: a successful partnership between indigenous communities and researchers." Health Promotion International 15, no. 1 (2000): 17–25.
  • McCreanor, Timothy, Alison Greenaway, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Suaree Borell, and Amanda Gregory. "Youth identity formation and contemporary alcohol marketing." Critical Public Health 15, no. 3 (2005): 251–262.
  • McCreanor, Tim, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Mandi Gregory, Hector Kaiwai, and Suaree Borell. "Consuming identities: Alcohol marketing and the commodification of youth experience." Addiction Research & Theory 13, no. 6 (2005): 579–590.

References
  1. "Prof Helen Moewaka Barnes - Director Whariki & Co-Director SHORE Research Centre - Massey University". Massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  2. "Promotions for 33 Massey academics - Massey University". Massey.ac.nz. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  3. Barnes, Helen (2008). Arguing for the spirit in the language of the mind: a Maori practitioner's view of research and science (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/1008.
  4. "Helen Moewaka Barnes • Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre". Hiirc.org.nz. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  5. "Pesticide studies lead awards of research grants - Massey University". Massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  6. "Maths and mortality research by Fulbright scholars - Massey University". Massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  7. "Royal Society Te Apārangi - Marsden awards 2013". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  8. "Helen Moewaka Barnes | Superu's research Hub". Thehub.superu.govt.nz. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  9. "Researchers and scholars elected to Academy". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 11 March 2021.


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