Helen Moewaka Barnes

Helen Moewaka Barnes is a New Zealand academic. She is Māori, of Te Kapotai (Ngāpuhi) and Ngapuhi-nui-tonu descent, and is currently a full professor at Massey University. In 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Academic career

After a 2008 PhD thesis titled Arguing for the spirit in the language of the mind: a Māori practitioner's view of research and science, Moewaka Barnes joined Massey University staff, becoming a full professor in 2013.

In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, she received four separate grants from the Health Research Council, and a 2012 Marsden Fund award (funding for 2013–17).

Moewaka Barnes is part of the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring project, which surveys arrestees in the criminal justice system to compile statistics on drug use.

Moewaka Barnes' work looks at health from a kaupapa Māori perspective.

Awards In March 2021, Helen Moewaka Barnes was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, recognising her "significant international impact in the field of Indigenous peoples' health and wellbeing".

Selected works

Helen Moewaka Barnes (2000). "Collaboration in community action: a successful partnership between indigenous communities and researchers." Health Promotion International. 15 (1): 17–25. Tim McCreanor; Alison Greenaway; Helen Moewaka Barnes; Suaree Borell; Amanda Gregory (2005). "Youth identity formation and contemporary alcohol marketing." Critical Public Health. 15 (3): 251–262.