Bob Edlin: How Maori have thrived in the Royal Society environment

The champions of diversity policies for long have been bothered that Māori students and academics are under-represented in science courses and science departments in the country’s universities.

Overall Māori participation in higher education has increased over the years, but Māori make up less than 5% of total academic staff in science faculties.

Google steered us to papers published in 2020 and 2021 to support those figures.

One of the papers (pictured below)