Tikanga and Ethical Considerations for Visual Research with Rangatahi Māori

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Source
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Published
1 Feb 2026
Authors
Larissa Renfrew, Logan Hamley, Jade Le Grice, Maui Hudson, N. Kusabs, Daniel Wilson, et al.

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Visual research is a powerful tool to communicate lived experiences of marginalised communities (Hodgetts et al. 2022). However, there is still much ethical consideration to navigate in the space for researchers working with Māori engaging in visual research, particularly as it relates to Māori data sovereignty (MDS). Institutional ethics are not set up in ways that take account of tikanga in relation to visual research with Māori. Using Te Rōpū Hiko, Harnessing the Spark of Life, as a case study, we unpack how we navigated MDS in ethics when engaging with photo data. A values‐based framework grounded in kaupapa Māori principles (mātāpono) was developed to guide visual research through the…

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