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![new-appointees-2024-eke-tangaroa.jpg Ten new kaihoe (appointees)](https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0005/902525/new-appointees-2024-eke-tangaroa.jpg)
Collective purpose motivates new cohort
Ten new kaihoe (appointees) have been inducted into AUT’s Eke Tangaroa Programme for early-career Māori and Pacific academics.
![Marco-de-jong-01.jpg Marco De Jong](https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0008/881405/Marco-de-jong-01.jpg)
Marco is one of our new cohort of kaihoe, recruited in 2023 by the Eke Tangaroa programme and appointed as a lecturer in the AUT Law School, starting in late November 2023.
![Eke Tangaroa Kaihoe 11 appointees to the Eke Tangaroa programme standing in front of AUT's wharenui.](https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0008/764990/Eke-Tangaroa-Kaihoe-850x567.jpg)
Eke Tangaroa delivers Marsden success
Two researchers from AUT’s Eke Tangaroa programme have achieved Marsden Fund success, receiving funding in the latest 2023 round.
Photo gallery: Eke Tangaroa pōwhiri and celebration
View photos from the Eke Tangaroa pōwhiri and celebration in February 2023 below.
Whakapā mai: Register your interest
Interested in being notified about future opportunities?
Watch panel discussion about Eke Tangaroa
As part of the Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB) Paving the Way video series, AUT academics discuss how Eke Tangaroa supports diversity in academia. (Video recorded 28 September 2022)