Dr. Melissa Derby is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Waikato, where she teaches at the Tauranga campus. We talked to her about why she prefers not to be introduced as a 'Māori academic'; whether the concept of 'inter-generational trauma' can bear the weight that's been placed on it; and what the future holds for the New Zealand Free Speech Union.
'Literacy is not a Maori Thing': https://openinquiry.nz/literacy-is-no...
Inter-generational trauma: https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/t...
New Zealand Free Speech Union: https://www.fsu.nz/