Alison is dedicated to transformative Kaupapa Māori research and has led qualitative and quantitative studies that have contributed to the establishment of kōhanga reo, kura kaupapa Māori, inpatient and community-based Māori mental health services, and a Māori radio station.  

Her research has explored the experiences of Māori young people removed from their families, as well as early access to culturally appropriate Māori mental health, sexual health, and maternal health services. 

Alison has a background in Māori and Indigenous comparative policy research, with a focus on Māori education and health. Her doctoral research examined Māori and Indigenous knowledge in health policy in Aotearoa and Saskatchewan, Canada.  

She values strong research relationships with Māori and Indigenous scholars, recognising their contributions to strengthening her research, teaching, and the experiences of her students. 

With Professor Pihama, Alison co-edited and contributed to Honouring Our Ancestors: Takatāpui, Two Spirit, and Indigenous LGBTQI Wellbeing, the first nationwide mixed-methods study on Takatāpui and Māori LGBTQI wellbeing. 

She is a member of the Public Health Assessing Committee for the Health Research Council and a Principal Investigator in a seven-country Indigenous study funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, which examines the rights of Indigenous women living with HIV. 

Alison is also a co-researcher on an AKO Aotearoa-funded project that investigates Kaupapa Māori doctoral examination processes and a technical advisor for the research project Gang Whānau Healing Their Intergenerational Trauma. 

Additionally, she is part of a research team examining equity and Māori access to abortion and serves as an advisor to a research stream for the Mana Wāhine Claim to the Waitangi Tribunal. 

Teaching/Research Topics:

• Professional Doctorate (Location - Waikato-Tainui) 
• Professional Doctorate (Location - Te Whanganui-a-Tara) 
• Doctor of Philosophy (Locations - Waikato-Tainui, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and Whakatāne) 
• Guest lecturer, IHI813 Contemporary Māori and Indigenous Policy Development (Location - Whakatāne) 
• Guest Lecturer, IHI805 Research as Resistance 

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Professor Alison Green

Professor, Doctoral Teaching and Supervision, National Programme Co-ordinator 

Qualifications: Doctor of Philosophy; Master of Māori and Pacific Development (First Class Honours); Postgraduate Diploma in Māori and Pacific Development (with Distinction)

Iwi: Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tamarāwaho