2023 Annual Report
Download: CPSS-Annual Report 2023
Coastal People : Southern Skies Annual Report submitted to TEC for the reporting period 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023
We are pleased to present our Annual Report for 2023, covering the last 12 months. We are beginning to see the aspirations of CPSS come alive and we are looking forward to taking our kaupapa into its next phase of growth. In this report we are proud to highlight three projects which engage and connect teams located across Aotearoa in alignment with the CPSS vision and mission.
We showcase our inaugural Postdoctoral Fellows, Dr Terina Raureti and Dr Jane Taafaki who share with us the amazing research they are doing in their communities. We also hear from some of our CPSS scholarship tauira to share their story. We hope you take to opportunity to read this report, learning more about our kaupapa and what we’ve been doing over the last year.
2022 Annual Report
Download: 2022 CPSS Annual Report
Coastal People : Southern Skies Annual Report submitted to TEC for the reporting period 1 July 2021 to 31 December 2022 (18 months).
This is our first Annual Report, covering the eighteen months since the establishment of Coastal People : Southern Skies. Establishing a new national Centre of Research Excellence within a global pandemic has presented us with significant challenges and opportunities. Our primary kaupapa during the establishment of CPSS has been preparing the gardens.
In this report, we share the stories of some of our firsts. Our research programme includes five projects that are community-led, and you can read about the first of these to begin, Bringing to life a waka: A vehicle for connection. We showcase our first Marine and Wellbeing projects, Pāua: Restoring a cultural icon and Falafolaloa: Pacific voices. We share an example of a foundational project, the Munida Transect, which has produced an internationally recognised dataset. We also invited some of our CPSS scholarship tauira to share their stories.