I am a founding member of the bi-cultural Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group at the School of Nursing, University of Auckland. I have been a principal or named investigator on grants totaling more than $7 million. These grants have focused on issues critical to older adults including palliative and end of life care, assisted dying, loneliness, dementia and Covid-19 lockdown experiences. In addition, since joining the School in 2012, I have been instrumental in building the group’s capacity in the use of creative arts methods and Arts Based Knowledge Translation (ABKT). I have accomplished this through leading the ABKT component of 11 research studies. ABKT seeks to address the gap between healthcare research and its implementation. It does so by providing a framework for collaborations between researchers and creative arts practitioners to produce unique and innovative means for disseminating research-based evidence. I have also served as an ethics advisor since 2013, advising staff and students on their ethics application to the UAHPEC, AHREC, and HDEC platforms. 

To learn more about our research group: https://tearairesearchgroup.wordpress.com/

To have a look at our latest ABKT project, a gaming technology-based online photography exhibition about Māori experiences of the death of a loved one during the Covid-19 pandemic, go to: https://www.teipuaronui.co.nz/virtual-exhibition