Jenny Lee-Morgan

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Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan (also Jennifer Joy Lee) is a New Zealand academic and sociologist. She is Professor of Māori Research, and was founding director of Unitec's Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre.

Early life and education

Lee-Morgan is Māori, and affiliates to Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Mahuta, and Ngāti Te Ahiwaru. Her father is Māori–Chinese and her mother is Chinese, and both were teachers.{{Cite web |last=Husband |first=Dale |date=1 June 2024 |title=Jenny Lee-Morgan: Diversity is a slippery word |url=https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/jenny-lee-morgan-diversity-is-a-slippery-word/ |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=E-Tangata |language=en-NZ}} Lee-Morgan trained as a Māori teacher, and started the Māori unit at Northcote College, before leading the Kahurangi unit at Auckland Girls' Grammar School. She completed a Master of Arts in 1996,{{Cite thesis|title=He Hainamana toku mama, he Māori toku papa, ko wai ahau?: Maori-Chinese tell their stories: an exploration of identity |last=Lee-Morgan|first=Jenny|type=MA thesis|publisher=University of Auckland|url=https://auckland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64UAUCK_INST/13vfdcn/alma9961745814002091|date=1996}} followed by a PhD titled Ako: Pūrākau of Māori teachers' work in secondary schools both at the University of Auckland.{{Cite thesis|title= Ako: Pūrākau of Māori teachers' work in secondary schools|last=Lee-Morgan|first=Jenny|type=Doctor of Education thesis|publisher=University of Auckland|url=https://auckland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/64UAUCK_INST/13vfdcn/alma99183418314002091|date=2008}}

Career

Lee-Morgan then joined the faculty at Auckland, before moving to the University of Waikato, and rising to full professor. Lee-Morgan was the inaugural director of the Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre at Unitec Institute of Technology, which was established in 2021.{{Cite web |date=8 November 2021 |title=Protect Ihumātao Research Project awarded Royal Society Marsden Standard Grant |url=https://www.unitec.ac.nz/about-us/protect-ihum-tao-research-project-awarded-royal-society-marsden-standard-grant |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=Unitec |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=New Kaupapa Māori research centre at Unitec ‹ Unitec Research Blog |url=https://www.unitec.ac.nz/UnitecResearchBlog/new-kaupapa-maori-research-centre-at-unitec/ |access-date=15 June 2024 |language=en-US}}

Lee-Morgan's research focuses on Māori pedagogy. As part of the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge, Lee-Morgan and her research team ran the Te Manaaki o te Mārae project, which looked at how Te Puea Memorial Marae in Māngere was working with homeless people. In 2021 Lee-Morgan was awarded a Marsden grant with Dr Frances Hancock from The University of Auckland and Pūkenga Matua Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) of Te Wānanga o Raukawa, for a research project on protecting Ihumātao from commercial development. The research also involved Pania Newton, Moana Waa and Qiane Matata-Sipu. Lee-Morgan is also a researcher in the Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Centre of Research Excellence.{{Cite web |title=Professor Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan {{!}} Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga |url=https://www.maramatanga.ac.nz/person/professor-jenny-bol-jun-lee-morgan-0 |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=www.maramatanga.ac.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Pūrangakura |url=https://purangakura.co.nz/ |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=Pūrangakura |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=080 Dr Jenny Lee-Morgan, author + researcher – Welcome to NUKU |url=https://nukuwomen.co.nz/080-jenny-lee-morgan/ |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=nukuwomen.co.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Jenny Lee-Morgan |url=https://huia.co.nz/blogs/author/jenny-lee-morgan |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=HUIA |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=16 September 2021 |title=Te Riponga: Puni Reo Poitarawhiti |url=https://www.unitec.ac.nz/about-us/te-riponga-puni-reo-poitarawhiti |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=Unitec |language=en}}

Lee-Morgan has written several books, including a book about the history of Māori–Chinese people in New Zealand, Jade Taniwha: Maori-Chinese Identity and Schooling in Aotearoa.{{Cite web |date=14 June 2007 |title="Jade Taniwha" book on Maori-Chinese in NZ {{!}} Scoop News |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0706/S00141.htm |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=www.scoop.co.nz}} Her 2016 book with Jessica Hutchings, Decolonisation in Aotearoa: education, research and practice, was awarded the prize in the non-fiction category of the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards 2017.

Honours and awards

In 2016, the New Zealand Association for Research in Education awarded Lee-Morgan the Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award for "her significant and high-quality research contribution to Māori education".