• UC Research Repository   Research from UC on a wide range of Pasifika topics.
• NZResearch.  Research from universities, polytechnics and research organisations around New Zealand.
• Annotated Bibliography of Pacific Knowledge (2018). A bibliography of government funded research relating to Pasifika in New Zealand.
• New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research 2016-2019 (MFAT).

• Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies

Books:

Battiste, M. A. (2000). Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision

Chilisa, B. (2012). Indigenous Research Methodologies

Denzin, N. K., Lincoln, Y., & Smith, L. T. (2008). Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies Also available online

Groh, A. (2018). Research Methods in Indigenous Contexts

Iosefa, F., Jones, S. H., & Harris, E. (Eds.). Wayfinding and critical autoethnography (2021). Access the electronic copy or borrow the paper copy.

Kovach, (2009). Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts

Smith, L. T. (2012). Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Windchief, S., San Pedro, T. (2019). Applying indigenous research methods: Storying with peoples and communities. 

Click on this subject heading for more books:  Indigenous Peoples Research Methodology

Journal Articles and Encyclopedias:

Sage Journals Online has articles on indigenous research methodology from a range of journals including AlterNative. Sage Research Methods links to e-books and encyclopedias. Start with the search "indigenous research" Pacific in both.

Journal of Global Indigeneity. "The journal publishes critical writing and research on topics that impact the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities around the world. We privilege Indigenous authorship and collaborations, and encourage submissions from early career researchers and graduate students."

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. "Aims to present indigenous worldviews and scholarly research from native indigenous  perspectives from around the world".

Reconsidering Citation

Burgess, H., Cormack, D., & Reid, P. (2021). Calling forth our pasts, citing our futures: an envisioning of a Kaupapa M?ori citational practice. MAI Journal, 10(1).

For an excellent, though now somewhat old overview and guide to getting started read Judy McFall's 2010 article Getting Started with Pacific Research: Finding Resources and Information on Pacific Research Models and Methodologies. MAI Reiew, 1.

Re-visioning Pacific research methodologies. Special Issue of Waka Kuaka | The Journal of the Polynesian Society (2023)

Key Insights from the Pacific Research Consultation for Te Ara Paerangi- Future Pathways. (2022). Perspectives from Pacific researchers on the future of New Zealand's research, science and innovation (RSI) system.

Latai-Niusulu, A., Nel, E., & Binns, T. (2020). Positionality and protocol in field research: Undertaking community-based investigations in Samoa. Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, 61(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/doi:10.1111/apv.12252 

Indigenous Pacific approaches and issues

• Anae, M. (2019). Pacific Research Methodologies and Relational Ethics. In Oxford Research Encycopedia of Education.
• Babu, Tupeni. Researching Pacific and Indigenous Peoples: Issues and Perspectives  2004 (book)
• Efi, Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Taisi. Clutter in Indigenous Knowledge, Research and History: A Samoan Perspective. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand 25 (2005)
• Meo‐Sewabu, Litea. "Cultural Discernment as an Ethics Framework: An Indigenous Fijian Approach." Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55, 3 (2014): 345-54.
• Naepi, Sereana. "Masi methodology: Centring Pacific women's voices in research". AlterNative 15,3 (2019).
• Naepi, S. Navigating the Currents of Kaupapa Māori and Pan-Pacific Research Methodologies in Aotearoa New Zealand. MAI Journal, 4, 1 (2015): 71-84
• Nero, Karen L. "Bringing Together Local and Metropolitan Approaches in Pacific Research." Pacific Accounting Review 21,3 (2009): 325-32.

• Oliveira, K. R. K. N., & Wright, E. K. (Eds.). (2016). Kanaka ʻōiwi methodologies: Moʻolelo and metaphor. University of Hawaiʻi Press.

• Ponton, V. (2018). Utilizing Pacific methodologies as inclusive practice. SAGE Open, 8 (3)

• Sione, D., (2024). Decolonizing research with the fala methodology. In Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. SAGE https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529685206
• Thaman, K. (2003). "Decolonizing Pacific Studies: Indigenous Perspectives, Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education."  The Contemporary Pacific 15(1): 1-17.
• Tualauleli, E. & McFall-McCaffery, J. (2019). The Pacific research paradigm: Opportunities and challenges. MAI Journal. DOI: 10.20507

Models

Fa'afaletui

• Goodyear-Smith, F. & 'Ofano, M. (2021). Fa'a faletui: A Pacific research framework. Journal of Mixed Methods Research. DOI: 10.1177/1558689820985948

Fijian Vanua Research Framework

• Nabono-Baba. U. (2008).  Decolonising framings in Pacific research: Indigenous Fijian Vanua research framework as an organic response.

Talanoa

• Fairbairn-Dunlop, Peggy. (2014). Talanoa: Building a Pasifika Research Culture (book)
• Mulitalo Ropinisone Silipa Seumanutafa, T. (2017). A research methodology for the Pacific. Chapter 3 in Law reform in plural societies. Springer.
• ‘Otunuku, Mo’ale. Talanoa: How Can it be Used Effectively as an Indigenous Research Methodology with Tongan People? Pacific-Asian Education. 23,2 (2011): 43-52
• Suaalii-Sauni, Tamasailau, & Saunimaa Ma Fulu‐Aiolupotea. "Decolonising Pacific Research, Building Pacific Research Communities and Developing Pacific Research Tools: The Case of the Talanoa and the Fa'afaletui in Samoa." Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55, 3 (2014): 331-44.
• Tunufa'i, L. Pacific research: Rethinking the Talanoa 'methodology'. New Zealand Sociology, 31(7) 2016. Suggests that talanoa is a research tool rather than a research methodology.
• Vaioleti, Timote M. Talanoa Research Methodology: A Developing Position on Pacific Research. Waikato Journal of Education 12 (2006)

For Research models in Education
Aua'i le Galuega, Kakala, Paepae, Popo, Pou Tu, Talaloto, Tautai, Teu le Va and Ula)
 -see the Pacific Education Research page.

Relationships between the Va and Kaupapa Māori research frameworks.

Suaalii-Sauni, T. (2017). The Va and Kaupapa Māori. In T. K. Hoskins & A. Jones (Eds.), Critical conversations in Kaupapa Māori (pp. 132-144). Huia.   (chapter 12)

Engaging with Pacific Peoples

Yavu- Foundations of Pacific Engagement Tool from the Ministry for Pacific Peoples

Pacific Community--Communaute du Pacifique. (2020). Cultural etiquette in the Pacific: Guidelines for staff working in Pacific communities.

Health Research Council of New Zealand. Pacific Health Research Guidelines. (2014).

Lovo, E., Woodward, L., Larkins, S., Preston, R., & Baba, U. N. (2021). Indigenous knowledge around the ethics of human research from the Oceania region: A scoping literature review. Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, 16(1), 12-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-021-00108-8

Massey University Pacific Research & Policy Centre and the Pasifika@Massey Directorate. Pacific Research Guidelines and Protocols.

Bennett, Judy, Mark Brunton, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau, Faafetai Sopoaga, Naomi Weaver, and Gary Witte. "Pacific Research Protocols from the University of Otago." The Contemporary Pacific 25,1 (2013): 95-124.

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