Research guides

These guides connect datasets that are often documented separately. Each starts with a real research question, moves through stronger evidence and records what each source can and cannot establish.

• Investigating whenua
• Investigating an awa
• Investigating a historic kāinga
• Investigating a pā landscape
• Investigating land-use change
• Investigating an old Māori land block name

A research guide is not a recipe that proves the answer. It is a route through evidence.

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026