Expertise:

• AJ (Amanda Jane) leads our Rangahau & Innovation Team whose role is to support kaimahi within Te Wānanga o Aotearoa to realise their rangahau aspirations.  This includes helping kaimahi strategically plan their Rangahau activities, identifying potential funding sources for their Rangahau, developing grant applications, facilitating new collaborations, and supporting contracting activities for external funding, among other activities.

   

  AJ has worked in research management, business development and leadership roles for many years.  Before joining Te Manawahoukura she was the Kaiurungi at Coastal People : Southern Skies national Centre of Research Excellence (CPSS) where she led the establishment of the tikanga of the Centre, and co-developed the strategy alongside of the Co-Directors.  Prior to this she managed a team in the Research and Enterprise Office at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago including time serving as a member of a Vice-Chancellor’s University Strategic Research Advisory Group. She has held a number of service roles in governance and within the research management community.  Alongside of her tertiary sector experience, she has worked in the private sector and held roles in local and central government.

   

  AJ has a wealth of experience developing and negotiating contracts for research in the tertiary sector; including working with communities (hapū, whānau, Trusts etc.) and providing support for community-based kairangahau through this process.  AJ is a passionate advocate for “fit for purpose” contracting and, with the support of the CPSS Board, in particular the Chair, Tā Mark Solomon, she was able to ensure that CPSS contracted with communities in a manner that upheld the mana of the community, employed appropriate tikanga, and was both tika and pono.