Paul Tapsell

Paul Tapsell CRSNZ is a New Zealand academic, of Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Raukawa descent and as of 2020 is Professor of Indigenous Studies at Melbourne University.^[1] In 2024 Tapsell was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

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.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

In 2024 Tapsell was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, for "his far-reaching innovation, commitment, and leadership within Māori communities".^[10]

• 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 (2010): 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 (1997): 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 (2008): 25.

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