Melinda Webber

Melinda Webber is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in Māori identity and ways in which race, ethnicity, identity and culture impact on young people and their success. She is of Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Whakaue descent. Her doctoral advisors were Elizabeth McKinley and John Hattie. She has also received a Marsden Fast Start grant, and in 2013 was a Fulbright Scholar. For her Fulbright award, Webber travelled to University of Wisconsin–Green Bay to share knowledge with their First Nations Studies programme. Webber then joined the faculty at the university, rising to full professor in 2022.

Webber is part of the Ngā Pae o te Maramatanga Centre of Research Excellence, and associate director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre. Webber is on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the Australian Journal of Gifted Education, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship. The books contain 24 biographies of Māori tūpuna.

Selected works