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Jenny Lee-Morgan

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Jenny Lee-Morgan
Other namesJennifer Bol June Lee
Jennifer Joy Lee
AwardsTe Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award
Academic background
Theses
  • He Hainamana toku mama, he Māori toku papa, ko wai ahau? : Maori-Chinese tell their stories : an exploration of identity (1996)
  • Ako: Pūrākau of Māori teachers' work in secondary schools (2008)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland, Unitec Institute of Technology

Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan (also Jennifer Joy Lee) is a New Zealand academic and sociologist. She is Professor of Māori Research, and was founding director of Unitec's Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre.

Early life and education

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Lee-Morgan is Māori, and affiliates to Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Mahuta, and Ngāti Te Ahiwaru. Her father is Māori–Chinese and her mother is Chinese, and both were teachers.[1][2] Lee-Morgan trained as a Māori teacher, and started the Māori unit at Northcote College, before leading the Kahurangi unit at Auckland Girls' Grammar School. She completed a Master of Arts in 1996,[3][2] followed by a PhD titled Ako: Pūrākau of Māori teachers' work in secondary schools both at the University of Auckland.[4]

Career

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Lee-Morgan then joined the faculty at Auckland, before moving to the University of Waikato, and rising to full professor. Lee-Morgan was the inaugural director of the Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre at Unitec Institute of Technology, which was established in 2021.[5][6]

Lee-Morgan's research focuses on Māori pedagogy. As part of the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge, Lee-Morgan and her research team ran the Te Manaaki o te Mārae project, which looked at how Te Puea Memorial Marae in Māngere was working with homeless people.[6] In 2021 Lee-Morgan was awarded a Marsden grant with Dr Frances Hancock from The University of Auckland and Pūkenga Matua Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) of Te Wānanga o Raukawa, for a research project on protecting Ihumātao from commercial development.[5] The research also involved Pania Newton, Moana Waa and Qiane Matata-Sipu.[5] Lee-Morgan is also a researcher in the Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Centre of Research Excellence.[7][8][9][1][10]

Lee-Morgan has written several books, including a book about the history of Māori–Chinese people in New Zealand, Jade Taniwha: Maori-Chinese Identity and Schooling in Aotearoa.[9][11] Her 2016 book with Jessica Hutchings, Decolonisation in Aotearoa: education, research and practice, was awarded the prize in the non-fiction category of the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards 2017.[7]

Honours and awards

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In 2016, the New Zealand Association for Research in Education awarded Lee-Morgan the Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award for "her significant and high-quality research contribution to Māori education".[1]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Jenny Lee-Morgan". HUIA. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b Husband, Dale (1 June 2024). "Jenny Lee-Morgan: Diversity is a slippery word". E-Tangata. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  3. ^ Lee-Morgan, Jenny (1996). He Hainamana toku mama, he Māori toku papa, ko wai ahau?: Maori-Chinese tell their stories: an exploration of identity (MA thesis). University of Auckland.
  4. ^ Lee-Morgan, Jenny (2008). Ako: Pūrākau of Māori teachers' work in secondary schools (Doctor of Education thesis). University of Auckland.
  5. ^ a b c "Protect Ihumātao Research Project awarded Royal Society Marsden Standard Grant". Unitec. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  6. ^ a b "New Kaupapa Māori research centre at Unitec ‹ Unitec Research Blog". Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Professor Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". www.maramatanga.ac.nz. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Pūrangakura". Pūrangakura. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  9. ^ a b "//080 Dr Jenny Lee-Morgan, author + researcher – Welcome to NUKU". nukuwomen.co.nz. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Te Riponga: Puni Reo Poitarawhiti". Unitec. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  11. ^ ""Jade Taniwha" book on Maori-Chinese in NZ | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. 14 June 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
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