Links and Resources
This is an edited version of the website that the citizens’ assembly used during the process. All the videos that contain identifiable information has been removed, in accordance to the requirements of the UAHPEC.Lara is currently co-leading a long-term project in the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge with Dr Dan Hikuroa, and another in the Resilience National Science Challenge regarding the resource management reforms, and enabling Māori, hapū, whānau resilience. Also co-researching and developing eco-papakāinga with her whanau on her whenua along the Waikato Awa.
More generally, Lara’s mahi concerns working with Māori, for Māori to deliver professional and influential research that is significant for whānau and Māori organisations as well as wider communities and organisations including government agencies and private industries. In particular, supporting Māori aspirations for their land, taonga or ‘resources’, and their future.