Rate My Professor Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips holds the position of Administrator at the WellSleep Centre, part of the University of Otago's Department of Medicine on the Wellington campus. In this role, she supports the centre's activities in sleep medicine, including clinical and laboratory services. The centre is led by Clinical Director Professor Alister Neill, Professor of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, and includes Senior Clinical Physiologist Helen Hills, clinical physiologists Andrea Wei, Jordan Joe, Lizzie Zheng, Michi Imazu, and Olivia Taylor, Specialist Consultants Dr Andrew Davies, Professor Dawn Elder, and Professor Alister Neill, as well as Sleep Technicians Royanna Aldridge and Piper Kennelly. Phillips works alongside Tejinder Kaur as administrator, facilitating contact via +64 4 920 8819 and wellsleep@otago.ac.nz.

Dr Hazel Phillips, of Ngāti Mutunga descent, is an indigenous researcher whose work centers on Māori education and kaupapa Māori research methodologies. She has served as Senior Lecturer at He Pārekereke, the Institute for Research and Development in Māori and Pacific Education at Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln University, and was associated with Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. Her research projects include Health Research Council-funded initiatives with Ngā Kapa O Aotearoa, Inc., investigating access to ophthalmological services for tamariki rangatahi who are blind or vision impaired Māori children and young people, and linkages between education and employment for taitamariki rangatahi Māori youth. Phillips has contributed to numerous publications, including the co-authored 'Kāpo (Blind) Māori in the Ancient World' in MAI Review (2009), 'A "Parallel process"? beginning a constructive conversation about a Māori methodology' (2004, with Fiona Cram, Bevan Tipene-Matua, Murray Parsons, Katrina Wilson), 'Ethics in Practice: Conversations about Biobanks' (2005, with Anne Scott, Andrew Moore, Rosemary Du Plessis), the open textbook 'Media Studies 101: A Creative Commons Textbook' (2014, Media Texthack Group), and chapters in 'Childhoods: Growing up in Aotearoa New Zealand' such as on growing up Māori and disabled and Rangatahi Māori experiences of transition to work. Her commitment to mana Māori motuhake, Māori self-determination, underscores her professional endeavors.