Recipients

2021

Linda Nikora (Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti) for her work transforming Psychology for Māori and Aotearoa by indigenising the discipline, and for enduring contributions to shaping the foundations for promising and flourishing futures for all New Zealanders.

2019

Edwina Pio for her pioneering research that has had a significant impact on how ethnic minority migrants are (de)constructed in organisations and how religion and ethnicity are powerful entwined forces in the business and social arenas in New Zealand and internationally.

2017

Tracey McIntosh for advancing our understanding of enduring social injustices that undermine Māori wellbeing and inhibit social cohesion and meaningful cultural diversity in Aotearoa.  Her research focuses on how to correct the intergenerational transmission of social inequalities, how they pertain to Māori, and influence new indigenous knowledge and policies that work for Māori and the nation.

2017

Murray Cox for his anthropological work to reconstruct processes of transformation and change in past societies using genetic data. His research has revealed a number of social features from the past such as marriage rules and farming expansion in South East Asia.

2015

Ruth Fitzgerald for her significant contribution to medical anthropology in areas of social and political importance in New Zealand.

2013

Not awarded

2011

Colleen Ward for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of the psychological study of immigration, acculturation, intercultural relations and cultural diversity.

2009

Ian Pool for his demographic research on Māori fertility and family formation, the theory of age-structural transition, the measurement of mortality and morbidity, and the relationship between population and development.

2007

Not awarded

2005

Alistair John Cluny Macpherson

2003

Greta Regina Aroha Yates-Smith

2001

Erik Newland Olssen

1999

Jack Vowles

1997

Joan Metge