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Championing innovation in Māori economic development: Jacob (Hākopa) Ashdown named 2025 Harkness Fellow

The Harkness Fellowships Trust (NZ) is proud to announce the selection of Hākopa Ashdown as the 2025 New Zealand Harkness Fellow.  Hākopa Ashdown, (Te Aupōuri, Ngai Takoto, Ngāti Kahu), currently Private Secretary to the Minister for Māori Development at Te…

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Fellows in the spotlight: Aphra Green

In 2016, Aphra Green, then a senior manager at the Ministry of Justice, visited the US justice sector as a Harkness Fellow. Her research looked at how New Zealand could deliver better evidence and decision-making tools to criminal justice system…

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Harkness Fellow: upcoming public talk

Evidence to action in the US criminal justice system: reflections from the 2015 Harkness Fellow Across both the US and NZ governments, including in the criminal justice sector, there is a focus on investing in what works. Translating evidence to practice…

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