Event Timeline

11.00am - Guests arrive, networking.
11.30am -  A light brunch, tea and coffee will be served 
12.00pm - MIhi whakatau & speakers
1.00pm -  Speakers wrap up, questions & comments from the floor
1.15pm - event ends

Speakers

Alan Johnson 

 

Alan was the social policy analyst for The Salvation Army's Social Policy & Parliamentary Unit for over 12 years up until April 2019. He has an academic background in town planning and economics and has been involved in Auckland local government for over 20 years both as a politician and bureaucrat.  In his spare time he is a community activist in South Auckland where he is active as an administrator in local sports clubs and as a school trustee. He has also held positions as a trustee of the Auckland Community Housing Trust and as the Chair of Community Housing Aotearoa. He is also CPAG's spokesperson for housing.   

Professor Peter O'Connor

 

Professor O’Connor is an internationally recognised expert in applied theatre and drama education. His research focuses on applied theatre in marginalised and vulnerable communities. It has led to developing cutting-edge models of interdisciplinary praxis that explore the nexus of critical and creative pedagogies, aesthetics and social justice. He was the founding director of Everyday Theatre, a national theatre in education programme on preventing family violence and child abuse. His work in Christchurch schools following the series of earthquakes  lead to UNESCO funded research and programme development and the development of the Teaspoon of Light Theatre Company.  Peter's most recent research includes multi and interdisciplinary studies on the creative pedagogies and the arts, the nature of embodied learning and the pedagogy of surprise.Peter supervises Doctoral and Masters students using arts based methodologies with a social justice focus.

Dr Sarah-Jane Paine

Dr Sarah-Jane Paine (Tuhoe) is a Senior Lecturer at Te Kupenga Hauora Maori and Co-Director of the Tamaiora Research Group. She holds science degrees from the University of Otago and a PhD in Public Health from Massey University. Her area of research expertise is in the quantitative investigation of ethnic inequities in health and the determinants of health across the life-course.

MC - Dr Hinemoa Elder

Dr Hinemoa Elder is a Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and has been a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist for more than 10 years. She also has a PhD (Massey University, 2012) and is former HRC Eru Pomare Post-Doctoral Fellow in which she developed a novel recovery approach grounded in Te Ao Maori (Maori world view), for Maori with traumatic brain injury, their whanau (extended families) and professionals which is now being used in community rehabilitation services.  She continues to work clinically as a neuropsychiatrist and youth forensic psychiatrist writing reports for the courts. She also currently works at the Child and Family Unit at Starship Hospital.