Researcher and academic, Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora was formerly the Director of the Māori & Psychology Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.  In 2017, she became a Professor Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland where she is also Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Maori Centre of Research Excellence.

Her specialty interests are in the development of indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of indigenous peoples. She has been involved in research about Maori flourishing; Tangi : Māori ways of mourning; traditional body modification; ethnic and Māori identity; cultural safety and competence; Māori mental health and recovery; social and economic determinants of health; homelessness; relational health; and social connectedness.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand – Te Apaarangi and an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society.

She belongs to Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Tūhoe, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngāti Pahauwera.

I love the privilege of seeing and being in the world in many different ways

Ka whakaaweawe katoa taku aroha e waimaria ai au ki ngā whanaketanga o tēnei ao