Programme Grant protocol paper published

Programme team members recently celebrated another publication of an article. This work explains the overall approach for the five-year programme of research. We have completed two years of the work.

A quick summary of the article from the team:

“Taunakitanga Takitini, reframing self-management support for all in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protocol for a participatory case study programme of research”

Together with Māori, Pacific Peoples and those with learning disability, we aim to challenge and reframe supported self-management in New Zealand to enable our underserved populations and their whānau to receive appropriate support to live well.

To do the above we would like to find out our community partners’ and their communities’ aspirations for living well and how best to support these desires.

Together with those communities develop innovative models of support that enable supported self-management within the communities’ own context.

Implement models and evaluate outcomes.

Ways of researching identified by each group underpin the work.

We emphasise promotion of well-being. This approach focuses on the inherent strengths and abilities of people, rather than the deficits or problems.

New knowledge generated across the program has the potential to inform New Zealand policy and practice about service delivery acceptable to the people to whom it matters (particularly Māori, Pacific Peoples, and people with a learning disability).

As a team of researchers from around NZ, we acknowledge the wealth of expertise and experience people living with long-term conditions or permanent impairments bring to the programme of research and its outcomes.  

Hale L, Jones BH, Dewes O, Keown S, Mirfin-Veitch B, Wilkinson A, Keen D, Norris P, McKinlay E, Perry M, Diesfeld K, Trip H, Ingham T, Longnecker N, Francis Watene R. (2026) Taunakitanga Takitini, Reframing Self-Management Support for All in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protocol for a Participatory Case Study Program of Research, JMIR Res Protoc 2026;15:e89658.

To access the full publication: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2026/1/e89658/