KO WAI TĒNEI / ABOUT ME

E mihi ana ki a koutou 

He mokopuna tēnei nō Raukawa ki wharepuuhunga,

nō Waikato, nō Ngāpuhi

Ko Fiona Johnson-Bell tōku ingoa

 

After completing my studies (BCA, MBA, PG DiP Soc Eva), I started my career in Māori Mental Health Workforce supporting Community Support Workers and the development of Māori Nurses before moving into the Education Sector.

 

This is where I have been for the last 15 years developing and implementing education policy, national strategies and designing programmes and initiatives for supporting Māori to be successful in higher education institutions in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 

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I'm currently working towards my PhD which explores human developmental and cognitive processes from a mātauranga Māori perspective focussing on how we look to design effective development programmes. 

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My personal philosophy

"Nā wai koe?" not "Ko wai koe?"

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Whatever we do as Māori isn't for the betterment of just ourselves, we are grounded in doing what's best for our tamariki/mokopuna

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