Michael Walker (biologist) explained

Michael Mathew Walker is a biologist at University of Auckland[1] notable for his work engaging with Māori students. He established a mentoring program called Tuākana in 1991,[2] which pairs first year Māori students with more experienced students in an effort to reduce the previously-high drop-out rate. He is of Te Whakatōhea descent.

Walker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi in 2003.[3] In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.[4]

In 2011, he won the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award, and a sustained excellence in teaching in a kaupapa Māori context award.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Michael Walker. bioscienceresearch.co.nz. 2011. 21 September 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110819000254/http://www.bioscienceresearch.co.nz/staff/michael-walker/. 19 August 2011.
  2. Web site: Hargreaves . Lynley . 122 Alpha Series Science and the Sea . Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi . 25 October 2023 . March 2004.
  3. Web site: View our current Fellows . 2022-11-21 . Royal Society Te Apārangi.
  4. Web site: Queen's Birthday honours list 2009 . 1 June 2009 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 10 July 2024.
  5. Web site: PM's award for work with Maori and Pacific students . nzherald.co.nz . 2011 . Professor Walker, a leading biological scientist of Te Whakatohea descent, established the Tuakana Programme more than 20 years ago to improve retention rates for Maori and Pacific science students, particularly in their first academic year. . 21 September 2011.

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