Sereana Naepi

Sereana Naepi
Sereana Naepi
	Naepi in November 2020
Alma mater	University of British Columbia
	Scientific career
Fields	Sociology,
Institutions	University of British Columbia, University of Auckland
Thesis	Beyond the Dusky Maiden : Pasifika women's experiences working in higher education (2018); ;
Doctoral advisor

Sereana Naepi is a New Zealand academic ^[1] and works at the University of Auckland.^[2] She is of Fijian and Pākehā descent.

Academic career[]

After an undergraduate in New Zealand, Naepi moved to Canada for a 2018 PhD titled 'Beyond the Dusky Maiden : Pasifika women's experiences working in higher education' at the University of British Columbia, before returning to the University of Auckland.^[1]^[2]

In 2021 Naepi received a Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Discovery Fellowship award for 'Planning for Change: An analysis of neoliberalism, equity and change in higher education'.^[3]

Naepi is currently co-chair of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's Early Career Researcher Forum^[4] and on the MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowship Panel.^[5]

Selected works[]

Naepi, Sereana (2019). "Why isn't my professor Pasifika". MAI Journal. 8 (2): 219–234.
Naepi, Sereana (2015). "Navigating the currents of kaupapa Māori and pan-Pacific research methodologies in Aotearoa New Zealand". MAI Journal. 4 (1): 71–84.
Ahenakew, Cash; Naepi, Sereana (2015). "The difficult task of turning walls into tables". In Macfarlane, Angus; Macfarlane, Sonja; Webber, Melinda (eds.). Sociocultural realities: Exploring new horizons. pp. 181–194.
Naepi, Sereana; McAllister, Tara G.; Thomsen, Patrick; Leenen-Young, Marcia; Walker, Leilani A.; McAllister, Anna L.; Theodore, Reremoana; Kidman, Joanna; Suaaliia, Tamasailau (2020). "The pakaru 'pipeline': Māori and Pasifika pathways within the academy". New Zealand Annual Review of Education. 24: 142–159.