About Jeremy Hapeta
Associate Professor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Jeremy Hapeta is Associate Professor of Māori Sport, Physical Education, health and wellbeing at Te Kaupeka Oranga, the Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago. Before academia, Dr Hapeta was a fully registered Primary, Intermediate and Secondary school teacher in New Zealand as well as overseas. His research interests include kaupapa Māori methods and methodology, Indigenous perspectives of Sport for Development (SFD) and sport pedagogy. He participates in academic groups working with Sport New Zealand and was also a part of New Zealand Rugby’s Training, Education and Development (TED) framework working group (FWG). In governance, he is into his second term as a Sport Manawatū Board member and has previously served on two of his daughter’s School Boards of trustees.