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Angus Hikairo Macfarlane (Ngāti Whakaue; Ngāti Rangiwewehi) is Professor (Pouhere) in the Child Well-being Research Institute at the University of Canterbury. In 2021 he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education, psychology and Māori. Melissa Derby (Ngāti Ranginui) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Waikato, and co-Director of the Early Years Research Centre. She has received several awards, most recently the Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award from the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2022. Sonja Macfarlane (Ngāi Tahu; Ngāti Waewae) is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Education at Massey University. In 2021 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Contributors include: Sue Bradford, Huhana Hickey, Callum Katene, Lisa Marriott, Tracey McIntosh, Hana O'Regan, Sarah-Jane Paine, Craig Renney, Bill Rosenberg, Max Rashbrooke, Jin Russell, Miriana Stephens, Nikki Turner. Rebecca Macfie is an acclaimed New Zealand journalist and awardwinning author. In 2024, she was the JD Stout Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Te Herenga Waka- Victoria University of Wellington. Graeme Whimp is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre and Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Social and Cultural Studies, both at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Brigitte Boenisch-Brednich is the is the Director of the Stout Research Centre and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.

Rebecca Macfie has been a senior writer for New Zealand Listener, senior writer and deputy editor for Canvas magazine, editor and deputy editor for Unlimited magazine, and has written extensively for Independent Business Weekly and National Business Review. She has nearly 30 years' experience in journalism and has won numerous awards. She is currently writing a biography of Helen Kelly, the first woman to head New Zealand's Council of Trade Unions.

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Lucy Mackintosh is Curator of History at Auckland War Memorial Museum/Tamaki Paenga Hira. She has a PhD in history from the University of Auckland. Previously, she worked as an historian for local and national government and heritage organisations, focusing on Auckland history and historic sites. She has also worked as a heritage consultant in the US and published research on American traders who visited Aotearoa New Zealand in the early nineteenth century.

Peter Macky was born in New Zealand and was educated in Auckland and New York. He is a retired lawyer with an enduring interest in urban design, European history and built heritage. His previous books include Wartime Correspondence and Coolangatta A Homage. Since retiring from legal practice, Macky established a second home in Berlin where he lives in the northern summer. In that city his company Easy Cycling Tours Limited offers tours of Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden. For the past ten years he has been restoring the Kaiserbahnhof in the Spreewald town of Halbe, south of Berlin. He lives with his partner in Auckland and Berlin.

Margaret Maclagan (PhD, Lond) has been a lecturer in child language development and language analysis for more than three decades. She taught speech-language therapists at the University of Canterbury, is an author and editor of academic books, and now writes for a general audience. She is a mother and grandmother. Anne Buckley (MSc, Human Communication, Lond) is a former speech-language therapist and lecturer at the University of Canterbury. She has worked in medical publishing for more than a decade as a medical writer and editor, writing for both health professionals and consumers. Anne has a son.

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