Annemarie Gillies is a New Zealand

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academic, and is Professor of Māori Research at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke's Bay. She was formerly a professor at Massey University.

Academic career

Gillies is Māori, and affiliates to

Ngāti Kahungunu Ngāti Kahungunu is a Māori iwi located along the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The iwi is traditionally centred in the Hawke's Bay and Wairārapa regions. The tribe is organised into six geographical and administrative di ...

Ngāti Awa Ngāti Awa is a Māori iwi (tribe) centred in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. It is made of 22 hapū (subtribes), with 15,258 people claiming affiliation to the iwi in 2006. The Ngāti Awa people are primarily located in towns ...

, Te Whanau-a-Apanui and Te Arawa iwi. She worked in the

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at Whakatu until they were closed in 1986, and then studied business administration at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT). She worked first in accounts, and later completed a National Certificate of Business Studies. Gillies went on to gain a Bachelor of Business Studies majoring in Accountancy from Massey University. She then managed the Te Pūmanawa Hauora Māori Health Research Programme at Massey. In 2006, Gillies completed a

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titled ''Kia taupunga te ngā kau Māori: anchoring Māori health workforce potential'' at Massey University, supervised by Mason Durie. Gillies was Director of Te Au Rangahau, the Māori Business Research Centre at Massey, and lectured in the School of Management. Gillies was appointed Professor of Māori and Indigenous Research at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiārangi in Whakatāne. She then worked as the research director at health provider Te Puna Ora o Mataatua. In 2020 Gillies took a role as Pouarahi Rārangi Kōrero (Māori Heritage Listing Advisor) at Heritage New Zealand, where she helped whānau,

hapū In Māori and New Zealand English, a ' ("subtribe", or "clan") functions as "the basic political unit within Māori society". A Māori person can belong to or have links to many hapū. Historically, each hapū had its own chief and normally opera ...

and

iwi Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...

to research and write up their histories. She retained this role on a part time basis when appointed as Professor of Rangahau Māori (Māori Research) at EIT. With David Tipene-Leach, she is co-director of the Māori research centre Te Kura i Awarua, at the Hawke’s Bay Campus of EIT. Gillies is part of the

Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) is New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE). It was established in 2002 and is hosted by the University of Auckland with 21 research partners and is funded, like other CoRE's, by the Tertiary E ...

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where she is researching Māori governance structures, and part of the ''Indigenising the blue economy'' project in the Sustainable Seas

National Science Challenge The National Science Challenges (NSC) are 11 ten-year collaborative science programmes in New Zealand, established in 2014. They are "cross-disciplinary, mission-led programmes designed to tackle New Zealand’s biggest science-based challenges ...

. She is a member of the Aotearoa Research Ethics Committee, a national independent ethics committee for community-based research.

Selected works

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