Aneta Cram (Ngāti Kahungunu) is the recipient of the Whakauae Research Services Ltd Scholarship for 2021. Aneta, a Victoria University PhD student, has been awarded the scholarship on the basis of merit, academic quality, and research interest.
The $6,000 scholarship will contribute to building Māori health research capability by helping Aneta both to continue with her study and to get the necessary research experience. Through the award of the scholarship, Whakauae will provide research support for Aneta as well as opportunities to disseminate her research findings, in a variety of ways, and across a range of audiences.
Aneta's doctoral study is being supervised by Dr Lynne Russell of Victoria University and Whakauae Director, Dr Amohia Boulton. Her research is exploring Indigenous evaluation frameworks. Aneta explains that such frameworks have much to contribute to the work of those who are developing their own community-specific evaluation approaches. She is ‘inspired by the amazing thinking coming out of Indigenous communities'. Aneta is taking an international approach to her doctoral study because she sees ‘the potential ...to influence how we understand evaluation as a discipline globally. Specifically, the systems of knowledge and what is considered valid'.
Aneta has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Victoria University of Wellington and a Masters in Evaluation from the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
