Finley Ngarangi Johnson

Developing a scale for Understanding Māori Wellbeing (‘Ngaruroro’) - Finley Johnson Episode 41 is out on Youtube and all major podcast platforms. smoothbrainsociety.com #maori #wellbeing #identity #mentalhealth #smoothbrain #maoriculture @FinleyNJohnson @VicUniWgtn

@gendertraita Ngā mihi nunui ki a koe e hoa 😊🙏🏽

The manual has been published on my website and can be found on the research page linked below 💥 finleyngarangijohnson.com/rangahau-resea…

The instruction manual contains details related to: • Disclaimers & Tikanga • Whakapapa | Genealogy • Development • Response Scale • Using and scoring the WeHI • Example use • List of long-form items • List of short-form items

Whiua ki te ao, whiua ki te rangi, whiua ki ngā iwi katoa 🌐 Introducing the Wellbeing Hononga Index (WeHI) - a self-report measure of Māori wellbeing grounded in the Ngaruroro model of Māori wellbeing, and validated using a comprehensive 11-step R-based Psychometric protocol.

✨ Mānawatia a Matariki ✨ Humbled to kick off the Māori new year by sharing a kōrero I had with Dr. Sahir Hussain and Prateek S. on the Smooth Brain Society podcast 🧠 Tune in if you’re interested in issues and developments related to measuring Māori wellbeing 🌀

Newsflash! We've announced the recipients of the 2024 Fulbright NZ Graduate Awards! Find out more here: fulbright.org.nz/.../stage-dire… What would you do with a Fulbright?

Fantastic News! @FinleyNJohnson, our CACR PhD candidate, has won the Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga 2024 Graduate Award @FulbrightNZ. He will work with indigenous scholars and communities at @uhmanoa and @JohnsHopkins. Congratulations! fulbright.org.nz/news/fulbright…

Our new cultural adaptation framework & systematic review of the effectiveness of cultural adaption is now online authors.elsevier.com/a/1ivo3%7E0r1w… with our awesome team @DonnaZulman @J_A_Karl @nadiabsaf @AdamDaly56 @FinleyNJohnson @Institutodor and many others! Some key points:

Kia ora e hoa mā, It brings me great excitement to introduce the new ‘Ngaruroro’ model of Māori wellbeing 🌊 This is first article from my PhD thesis and has just been published by International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 🍃 mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/4…

@CillaWehi Thanks for the love and share Cilla! This post was actually about Ririwai’s article 😄

@TaylorJWinter @FoxC101 @CillaWehi

Read about Te Kupenga o MAI and the enormous success it has had in supporting Māori postgraduate scholars. thespinoff.co.nz/atea/04-12-202…

@prof_suyeongkim @APA_Journals Kia ora @prof_suyeongkim! Thank you so much for sharing this article 😊 This research was part of @FoxC101’s PhD thesis! I would highly recommend you check out the other awesome work being done by @FoxC101 and @TaylorJWinter. Wishing you happy holidays from Aotearoa NZ 🇳🇿

@FinleyNJohnson and others validated their own self-report measure for the cultural embeddedness of Māori individuals and found its potential for informing future enculturation research for Māori and other Indigenous groups @APA_Journals psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-73…

@CillaWehi @The_robins_hood @royalsocietynz Ngā mihi ki a koe e te kākā kura

Congratulations @FinleyNJohnson. A fantastic talk on our kākā work with @The_robins_hood & funding support from @royalsocietynz.

2nd best talk was awarded to Finley Johnson for their talk on biocultural approaches in conservation translocations. Finley is a PhD Student at Te Herenga Waka/University of Wellington