A Waikato University researcher has been awarded $340,000 from the Health Research Council to talk to Maori about death and dying.
Tess Moeke-Maxwell intends to work alongside professors Linda Nikora and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, who were last year awarded $1.2 million by the Marsden Fund and Nga Pae o te Maramatanga to look into past and present tangihanga practices.
Dr Maxwell told Waatea News there are a lot of assumptions about what dying is like for Maori but little hard data.
She says she is interested in the stories of people who are dying, to build up a picture of what's going on for whanau.
