Rebecca Kiddle

Iwi Affiliations

Ngāti Porou

Ngāpuhi

Relevant Qualifications

Certificate in Professional Studies in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: University of Liverpool, UK.

PhD : Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University, UK

MA : Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Honours : Māori and Women’s Studies, Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

BA : Politics,  Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Expertise

Rebecca has a background in urban design and urbanism. Her work focuses on Māori identity and placemaking/placekeeping in Aotearoa New Zealand urban settings and the nexus between community creation, social processes, and urban design. She holds a Marsden entitled Making Aotearoa Places: The Politics and Practice of Urban Māori Place-making and was an Associate Investigator (now Kāhui member) on another focused on Nature-based Urban design for Wellbeing and Adaptation in Oceania. She is the co-author of the award-winning, best seller – Imagining Decolonisation and co-editor of the Our Voices series with First Nations academics and architects -  Kevin O’Brien and Patrick Luugigyoo Stewart.

Key Contributions

  • Kiddle, R., Elkington, B., Ross, M., Mercier, O.R., Thomas, A., Gjerde, M., Smeaton, J., Arona, T., Mawer, C. (2023) Imagining a decolonised city in and from Aotearoa New Zealand, Indigenous Urbanisms in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

  • 2022 - New Zealand Geographical Society - Ngā Matai Matawhenua Māori Award in recognition of our influential publication Imagining Decolonisation (2020, BWB Texts).

  • Afsari Bajestani, S.; Stupples, P. & Kiddle, R. (2022) The relationship between creative developments and place: a position paper in Journal of Place Management and Development, Emerald Publishing.

  • Carpenter, B., Kiddle, R. & Southcombe, M. (2022) Overtourism and Colonisation in Tongariro National Park, Special Issue – Māori Landscapes in Landscape Review Journal.

  • Perkins, N., Luke, B., O’Sullivan, N., Rodgers, M., Kiddle, R., Anaru, K., O’Neill, C., Dey, L., and Fridman, D. (2022) A Recipe for Kai-dness in Issue 12: Activating Collectivity: Aroha and Power, Counterfutures.

  • Kiddle, G. L., Pedersen Zari, M., Blaschke, P., Chanse, V., & Kiddle, R. (2021). An oceania urban design agenda linking ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, traditional ecological knowledge and wellbeing. Sustainability, 13(22), 12660.

  • 2021 - Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award 2021 – Royal Society of New Zealand, Te Apārangi which recognises excellent, innovative co-created research conducted by Māori that has made a distinctive contribution to community wellbeing and development in Aotearoa. Awarded to the Imagining Decolonised Cities Team (IDC) who innovatively combine decolonial scholarship with urbanism practice and engages rangatahi as mātauranga co-producers.

  • 2021 - Booksellers’ Choice Award, Aotearoa Book Industry Awards, Joint Winner 2021, for Imagining Decolonisation.

  • Kiddle, G. L., Bakineti, T., Latai-Niusulu, A., Missack, W., Pedersen Zari, M., Kiddle, R., ... & Loubser, D. (2021). Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Wellbeing: Evidence and Opportunities From Kiribati, Samoa, and Vanuatu. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 442.

  • Kiddle, R., Elkington, B., Jackson, M., Mercier, O., Ross, M., Smeaton, J. and Thomas, A. (2020) Imagining Decolonisation, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington.

  • Kiddle, R., Stewart, P., O’Brien, K. (2020) Our Voices II: The Decolonial Project, ORO Editions, San Francisco.

  • Kiddle, R. (2020) Engaging communities in the design of homes and neighbourhoods in Aotearoa New Zealand, in Counterfutures Journal.

  • Mawer, C. & Kiddle, R. (2019) Suburban shopping malls as spaces for community health and human flourishing: An Aotearoa New Zealand case study in Journal of Urban Design, Taylor & Francis.

  • Thomas, A.; Stupples, P.; Kiddle, R.; Hall, M.; Palomina-Schalscha, M. (2019) Tensions in the tent: Civic engagement in Aotearoa New Zealand universities in Power and Education, Sage.

  • Kiddle, R., Mawer, C., Ryan, A., Siemonek, L. McAuliffe Bickerton, C. (2019) E hoa ma, ina te ora o te tangata (My friends, this is the essence of life): Meal-making as a pedagogical tool for learning about food politics in Policy Futures in Education, Sage.

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