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Mark Beehre trained as a specialist physician (MB, ChB, FRACP), and has continued to work part-time in medicine while studying and practising photography. He completed an MFA with first-class honours at Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 2014. His work sits at the intersection of documentary, portraiture and social history and is concerned with questions of identity, belonging and the lifelong quest for intimacy. Mark is the author of Men Alone - Men Together, and the artist's book Returning Home - A Place to Stand. His work has been exhibited at Photospace Gallery in Wellington, the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, and Black Asterisk Gallery in Auckland.

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Angie Belcher is both writer and teacher. Creating a collaboration between the two is what gives greater depth to both her writing and her teaching. Predominantly known for her travel writing and non-fiction texts, her writing is varied and includes both Young Adult and Junior Fiction novels, commissioned and freelance articles and educational text many of them written to entice reluctant readers into the world of the written word. Commissioned travel writing has taken Angie to Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, much of the Pacific and many parts of Europe. She has had more than 200 travel articles published in national and international magazines including prestigious in-flight magazines such as Silver Kri, Pacific Wave and Sawadee. Angie has also contributed to various coffee table books such as Guide to the World's Best Wreck Dives (New Holland) and The World's Best Dive Sites. She was also commissioned to write the Berlitz Pocket Guide to Fiji 2009. Other works for children include: The Girls in the Kapahaka" To Our Shores-a collection of immigrant tales" and "The Woven Flax Kete".

Michael Belgrave joined Massey University in 1993 on the opening of the university's Albany campus. A historian and previously a research manager at the Waitangi Tribunal, he taught in the social policy and social work programme until 2014, as well as Maori studies and history. In 1995 he began a long involvement with social workers and schools, managing and evaluating Massey University's pilot of the programme, and becoming the leading advisor and evaluator in the development of a government pilot and in the generalisation of the programme throughout New Zealand. The programme is now provided to all decile 1-3 schools. He continued to maintain a strong interest in Treaty of Waitangi research and settlements, providing substantial research reports into a wide number of the Waitangi Tribunal's district inquiries. More recently, he has been heavily involved in assisting iwi in negotiating the historical aspects of Treaty settlements. He has published widely on Treaty and Māori history, including being lead editor of Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Oxford University Press). He received a Marsden Fund award in 2015 for study into the re-examination of the causes of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s.

David Belgrave is a lecturer in citizenship and politics in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University. His research interests are New Zealand foreign policy, East Asian security, the Cold War, and environmental politics. He is a former history researcher for Waitangi Tribunal claimants where he focused on environmental history and land law. Giles Dodson is a lecturer and course coordinator for Tutira Mai at Massey University. His research and teaching interests are public participation in social change and civic engagement, and science and environmental communication, decision-making and policy. He is also involved in te reo Maori revitalisation initiatives.

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