With your registration, you will be added to the self-guided online module within two weeks. You will receive a confirmation email with login details from the course facilitator, dean@awea.org. 

The module takes 3.5 - 4 hours to complete. Participants are expected to complete the module within one month. 

After completing the module, you will receive a downloadable digital badge and certificate!  You will also be prepared for the webinars in our Tiriti-led Research series. 

Full course description: 

This foundational course helps participants build a coherent understanding of why te Tiriti o Waitangi was entered into, what Māori and the Crown were seeking to achieve, what was agreed, and how the relationship subsequently unfolded.

Rather than beginning with contemporary principles or organisational obligations, the course returns to the circumstances surrounding 1840. Participants explore the pressures facing rangatira and the Crown, the different texts and understandings of the agreement, and the processes through which Crown authority expanded while Māori authority, land, and resources were progressively undermined.

The course then connects this history to the present, helping participants consider why te Tiriti remains relevant to research institutions, research relationships, and responsibilities toward Māori.

The course is particularly suitable for people who:

• are encountering the relationship between te Tiriti and research for the first time;
• have previously learned about the Treaty but would value a clearer or more connected account;
• want to strengthen the foundations beneath their work in responsiveness to Māori; or
• want to understand contemporary Treaty questions within their historical and structural context.

Please note this session time has changed from the original schedule due to facilitator availability. If you are unable to attend this session, please check the other listings for alternate dates and times. 

A practice-focused course that builds on the foundations established in Part 1. It explores what researchers and institutions need to change in their practices, systems, and decision-making to act in ways that align with Te Tiriti. The course examines power, governance, ethics, and the organisational shifts required for Treaty-referenced research, with an emphasis on readiness and understanding so researchers can approach Māori engagement appropriately, with clarity about their roles and responsibilities.

Pre-requisite: 

Treaty in Research Part 1: Understanding the Treaty in a Research Context 

Please note this session time has changed from the original schedule due to facilitator availability. If you are unable to attend this session, please check the other listings for alternate dates and times. 

A workshop that builds on core Treaty understandings to explore how relationships, culture, power, and history shape engagement with Māori. Participants examine what strengthens or strains relationships in a Te Tiriti context and learn practical strategies for building safer, more equitable, and meaningful Treaty-referenced relationships in their work.  

Pre-requisites:

Treaty in Research: Understanding the Treaty in a Research Context 

Treaty in Research: Putting Te Tiriti into Practice in Research Environments

Please note this session time has changed from the original schedule due to facilitator availability. If you are unable to attend this session, please check the other listings for alternate dates and times. 

A practice-focused course that builds on the foundations established in Part 1. It explores what researchers and institutions need to change in their practices, systems, and decision-making to act in ways that align with Te Tiriti. The course examines power, governance, ethics, and the organisational shifts required for Treaty-referenced research, with an emphasis on readiness and understanding so researchers can approach Māori engagement appropriately, with clarity about their roles and responsibilities.

Pre-requisite: 

Treaty in Research Part 1: Understanding the Treaty in a Research Context (self-paced online module or in-person session) 

Please note this session time has changed from the original schedule due to facilitator availability. If you are unable to attend this session, please check the other listings for alternate dates and times. 

A workshop that builds on core Treaty understandings to explore how relationships, culture, power, and history shape engagement with Māori. Participants examine what strengthens or strains relationships in a Te Tiriti context and learn practical strategies for building safer, more equitable, and meaningful Treaty-referenced relationships in their work.  

Pre-requisites:

Treaty in Research Part 1: Understanding the Treaty in a Research Context (online self-paced module) 

Treaty in Research Part 2: Putting Te Tiriti into Practice in Research Environments

This workshop builds on foundational Treaty knowledge and turns toward the challenges of applying that learning within research environments.

Participants examine what Treaty responsibility can mean in their own roles and consider how research questions, priorities, relationships, funding, methods, governance, interpretation, and institutional systems can either support or constrain Hāpu authority and aspirations.

The workshop does not offer a universal formula for Treaty-compliant research. Instead, it supports participants to develop stronger practical judgement: recognising where power sits, identifying whose knowledge and priorities are shaping the work, asking better questions, and understanding when partnership, Māori leadership, consultation, accountability, or changes to institutional practice may be required.

Through discussion, reflection, and applied examples, participants consider how to move from general commitment toward more thoughtful and accountable practice.

This workshop is best suited to participants who have completed Making Sense of the Treaty in a Research Context, or who already have confidence in their foundational Treaty knowledge.

This workshop builds on some of the ideas introduced in Putting the Treaty into Practice in Research, including relationships, positionality, power, racism, and cultural safety, and explores them in greater depth.

It begins by recognising that participants already bring considerable knowledge and experience of relationships: how trust develops, what commitment looks like, what supports good communication, and what causes relationships to strain. The workshop draws on that existing understanding and considers how it can be applied within Treaty-referenced research and professional relationships.

Participants explore how relationships are shaped by culture, positionality, institutional power, colonisation, and histories of harm. The workshop considers culture as dynamic and layered, including how Pākehā culture and research culture can become treated as neutral or normal within institutions. It also introduces ideas about structural racism and cultural safety, and considers how these can help us reflect on the experience of a relationship from the other side.

Using practical tools, discussion, and reflection, participants consider what supports safer, more equitable, and more accountable Treaty-referenced relationships, and identify meaningful next steps within their own mahi.

This workshop builds on foundational Treaty knowledge and turns toward the challenges of applying that learning within research environments.

Participants examine what Treaty responsibility can mean in their own roles and consider how research questions, priorities, relationships, funding, methods, governance, interpretation, and institutional systems can either support or constrain Hāpu authority and aspirations.

The workshop does not offer a universal formula for Treaty-compliant research. Instead, it supports participants to develop stronger practical judgement: recognising where power sits, identifying whose knowledge and priorities are shaping the work, asking better questions, and understanding when partnership, Māori leadership, consultation, accountability, or changes to institutional practice may be required.

Through discussion, reflection, and applied examples, participants consider how to move from general commitment toward more thoughtful and accountable practice.

This workshop is best suited to participants who have completed Making Sense of the Treaty in a Research Context, or who already have confidence in their foundational Treaty knowledge.

This workshop builds on some of the ideas introduced in Putting the Treaty into Practice in Research, including relationships, positionality, power, racism, and cultural safety, and explores them in greater depth.

It begins by recognising that participants already bring considerable knowledge and experience of relationships: how trust develops, what commitment looks like, what supports good communication, and what causes relationships to strain. The workshop draws on that existing understanding and considers how it can be applied within Treaty-referenced research and professional relationships.

Participants explore how relationships are shaped by culture, positionality, institutional power, colonisation, and histories of harm. The workshop considers culture as dynamic and layered, including how Pākehā culture and research culture can become treated as neutral or normal within institutions. It also introduces ideas about structural racism and cultural safety, and considers how these can help us reflect on the experience of a relationship from the other side.

Using practical tools, discussion, and reflection, participants consider what supports safer, more equitable, and more accountable Treaty-referenced relationships, and identify meaningful next steps within their own mahi.