Our People | Co-leads

Our Mobilising for Action Co-leads

Mobilising for Action is a transdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners, co-ordinated by two co-leads, Dr Marie McEntee, a social scientist from the School of Environment, and Dr Mark Harvey, a performance and live artist from the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries both at the University of Auckland.

Meet our Mobilising for Action co-leads below.

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2019 - Present


Dr Marie McEntee

School of Environment
University of Auckland

Kei raro ahau i te marumaru o Maunga Kiekie, e rere ana nga wai o te Manukau, hono atu ki nga moana o ta wahi, taku turanga o nga tupuna Scotland, Ireland me Italy,  engari te to to kaha I karanga mai kia hau no Aotearoa, e mai ki au, I tau mai ahau ki o Otautahi, engari  I tenei wa kei Tamaki Makaurau e noho ana.

Marie is a social scientist with research interests in:

  • science and society interactions particularly relating to environmental issues and

  • community & stakeholder engagement in biosecurity, pest management and agricultural sustainability.

Marie's research projects have also investigated principles that facilitate greater alignment and more effective communication between scientists and community practitioners to facilitate community science interactions, including citizen science projects, and dialogue around contested environmental issues.

Marie has worked in biosecurity research since 2009 across a diverse range of roles including:

  • Biosecurity Science Advisory Group

  • Kauri Dieback Technical Advisory Group

  • Accelerating Kauri Protection Independent Panel

  • Kauri Dieback Strategic Science Advisory Group

  • Knowledge Advisory Group (kauri dieback/myrtle rust)

 

2022 - Present


Dr Mark Harvey

Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries
University of Auckland

Ko te awa Ōtaki, me te maunga Tararua. He uri ahau nō ngā iwi Mātāwaka nō Ngāti Toa, me Clan Keith. Ko te whenua Te Wao Nui a Tiriwa. Ko Mark Harvey tōku ingoa.

Mark is a researcher in two primary threads:

  • Toi / The arts and how this can empower communities and society

  • Public attitudes, ecological threats and perspectives and mātauranga Māori

Mark is also a practicing artist, curator and conservationist. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts and Industries at The University of Auckland. His research has evolved into the spaces of arts and community advocacy in relation to ecological awareness and mātauranga Māori. 

Mark has a background in psychology, education, school teaching and has 29 years’ experience as an artist in public performance, live art and video. He has presented widely in international contexts such as the 2013 Venice Biennale for Visual Arts, The 2012 New Zealand Festival of Arts and many festivals and galleries in Europe and Aotearoa.  

He has published extensively in relation to the arts, public politics, and more recently mātauranga Māori, in a range of publications such as South (2012) and Convovarte (2018). 

 

 2020 - 2022
Assoc. Prof. Natasha Tassell-Matamua

Centre for Indigenous Psychologies
Massey University

He uri ahau nō ngā iwi o Te Ātiawa me Ngāti Makea kei Rarotonga. Ko Kathryn Love tōku māmā. Ko Douglas Tassell tōku pāpā. Ko Natasha Tassell-Matamua tōku ingoa.

Natasha’s research encompasses two primary threads:

  • Indigenous psychologies, with a focus on spirituality, well-being, and the environment

  • Exceptional human experiences, with a particular focus on near-death experiences.

Natasha is Director of the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies. Her research and teaching is in the area of Indigenous psychologies, and in particular the utilisation of Indigenous knowledges to effect meaningful change across a range of contexts. Her research typically focusses on the interplay between spirituality, well-being and the wider ecosystem.

Natasha has more than 12 year’s experience researching the phenomenology, after-effects and cultural specificity of near-death experiences and other extraordinary experiences of consciousness, and has published extensively in the area, as well as providing numerous presentations both nationally and internationally.