Helen Moewaka Barnes is a New Zealand academic. She is

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, of Te Kapotai (Ngāpuhi) and Ngapuhi-nui-tonu descent and is currently a full professor at

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. In 2021 Barnes was made a Fellow of the

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Academic career

After a 2008

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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. In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, she received four separate grants from the Health Research Council, alongside a

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in 2015 and a 2013

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award. 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. Barnes' work looks at health from a kaupapa

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".

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

External links

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