Paul Tapsell
Paul Tapsell is a New Zealand academic, of Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Raukawa descent and as of 2020 is Professor of Indigenous Studies at Melbourne University. In 2024 Tapsell was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Academic career
After working and studying at the University of Auckland and a 1998 PhD titled 'Taonga: a tribal response to museums' at the University of Oxford Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, Tapsell moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.In 2024 Tapsell was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, for "his far-reaching innovation, commitment, and leadership within Māori communities".
Selected works
- Abram, Ruth J., Joanne DiCosimo, Stephen H. Baumann, Michele Gallant, Emlyn H. Koster, Gillian Kydd, Susan Pointe et al. Looking reality in the eye: Museums and social responsibility. University of Calgary Press, 2005.
- Tapsell, Paul, and Christine Woods. "Social entrepreneurship and innovation: Self-organization in an indigenous context." Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 22, no. 6 : 535–556.
- Tapsell, Paul. "The flight of Pareraututu: An investigation of taonga from a tribal perspective." The Journal of the Polynesian Society 106, no. 4 : 323–374.
- Tapsell, Paul, and Christine Woods. "A spiral of innovation framework for social entrepreneurship: Social innovation at the generational divide in an indigenous context." Emergence: Complexity and Organization 10, no. 3 : 25.
- Tapsell, Paul. "Taonga: A tribal response to museums." University of Oxford, 1998.