John Renata Broughton (born 1947) is a New Zealand academic. He is

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, of Ngāi Tahu and

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descent, and since 2012 has been a full professor at the University of Otago.

Early life and family

Broughton was born in

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in 1947, the son of Leonard Broughton, from

who graduated from the University of Otago in medicine in 1944, and Margaret Evans, who was the granddaughter of

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. He was educated at

Hastings Boys' High School Hastings Boys' High School is a boys' secondary school in Hastings, New Zealand. The school is part of the Super 8. The school was founded in 1904 as Hastings High School. In 1922, it became Hastings Technical School under the leadership of Wi ...

, and went on to study microbiology at

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, graduating

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in 1971. Between 1972 and 1973, Broughton worked on haka boogie at the Polynesian Cultural Center on

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, and then returned to New Zealand, studying dentistry at the University of Otago. He graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 1977, and worked as a dental house surgeon at Dunedin Hospital. He joined the

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, and was commissioned as an officer in 1977; in 1992 he was awarded the

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Academic career

Appointed as a lecturer in Māori health at the University of Otago in 1989, Broughton did ground-breaking research on dental health in indigenous children in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. He competed a 2006

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titled ''Oranga niho: a review of Māori oral health service provision utilising a kaupapa Māori methodology'' at the University of Otago. In 2012, he was appointed as a full professor at Otago, jointly in preventive and social medicine and Māori health, within the Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences. He is the associate dean (Māori) of the School of Dentistry at Otago. Broughton was appointed a

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, for services to Māori health, theatre and the community, in the

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, and is a

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. Broughton has many governance roles.

Playwright career

While John Broughton was studying in 1988 at the University of Otago he joined a playwright course run by one of New Zealand best known playwrights Roger Hall , and subsequently Broughton wrote several plays. Broughton's best known play ''Michael James Manaia'' (1991) was a one-person play about a New Zealand Vietnam veteran first performed by actor

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and included an international presentation at the

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. Significant in part because it was a central Māori character, this paved the way for other Māori playwrights. Twenty years after first being performed it toured New Zealand and Australia in 2012 starring Te Kohe Tuwhaka, produced by

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Productions and was critically acclaimed. Broughton received the New Zealand

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in 1990.

Plays written

Entries show: ''Title'' ear written/ ynopsis/ ear first produced/ enue of premier *''Te Hara (The Sin),'' 1988 *''Te Hokina Mai (The Return Home),'' 1988 *''Marae,'' 1992 *''Ka Awatea (The New Dawn),'' 1994. A libretto for an opera for the National Māori Choir, commissioned by the Aoraki Festival. 1994. A gambling, drinking Buddah who affects his wife and family. *''The Story of Aoraki,'' 'The Story of Aoraki' was originally a scene within 'Summer Starlight Winter Moon', a multimedia presentation written for shadow puppets. First performed 1997. Aoraki festival, Timaru. *''Michael James Manaia,'' Downstage Theatre. Trauma caused by a mans upbringing and service during the war in Vietnam. 1991. *''1981,'' About the protests of the Springbok rugby tour to New Zealand in 1981. *''ANZAC,'' Concerning a soldier's return to Dunedin from WWI to New Zealand. *''Frankie and Hone'' *''Mana is My Name,'' Musical about unemployment, disability, adoption and drink driving centred around a freezing works closure in New Zealand. *''The Private War of Corporal Cooper''

References

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