Tia Neha

Tia Neha is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, a position held since 2016. Neha completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Otago in 2015. Research interests include acculturation, Indigenous psychology, and the decolonisation of psychological science, with particular attention to Māori communities and multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Neha's published work covers topics ranging from how Māori families contribute to children's early learning and narrative identity development in adolescents across cultures, to the ways European colour concepts have shaped Polynesian languages.