Fiona Te Momo

Oliver Helena Fiona Te Momo is a New Zealand social worker and academic, and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in Māori development.

Academic career

Te Momo is affiliated with Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakatere, and Ngāti Konohi. Her doctoral thesis was supervised by Barbara Harrison, Maria Humphries and Russell Bishop.

Te Momo is the Regional Director for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences on the Auckland campus of Massey University. Te Momo has researched the cultural competency of social workers, micro-financing for hapū initiatives, and leadership by indigenous women.

In 2011, Te Momo was awarded a Massey University Māori Award. The award enabled her to undertake a research project called 'Future Cultural Social Workers', where she investigated the cultural knowledge of social work students at Massey and at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Selected works