APSAD 2025

Tracey McIntosh, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, Wānanga o Waipapa (School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies)

Tracey McIntosh, MNZM, is Ngāi Tūhoe and is Professor of Indigenous Studies in Te Wānanga o Waipapa at the University of Auckland. She is a Commissioner of Te Kāhui Tātari Ture: Criminal Cases Review Commission. Tracey is a prison abolitionist scholar.Her recent research focused on incarceration (particularly of Māori and Indigenous peoples) and issues pertaining to state care, state harm, community response to harm, poverty, inequality and social justice. She recognises the significance of working with those that have lived experience and expertise of processes of marginalisation and acknowledges them as experts of their own condition. She has a strong interest in the interface between research and policy.

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APSAD acknowledges that the conference is being held on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. APSAD acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.