Dr Billy van Uitregt
Ngā Rauru, Te Ātihaunui -a- Pāpārangi, Ngai Tuhoe, Dutch
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington
Billy’s research and teaching centres on the structures of power and privilege that exist when environmental science, policy and governance seeks to “integrate” Māori and other Indigenous voices, knowledges and worldviews in contemporary approaches to environmental management. This is not to diminish the hard fought approaches that have been negotiated by Indigenous peoples, but to continually think about what next steps are needed to embed a truly relational understanding of our connection to the natural world in our management systems.
Published papers:
• van Uitregt VO, Sullivan IF, Watene K, Wehi PM. 2022. Negotiating greater Māori participation in Antarctic and Southern Ocean research, policy and governance. The Polar Journal 12(1): 42-61. pdf
• van Uitregt VO, MacLeod CJ, Watene K, Wehi PM. 2021. Māori and Antarctica: Ka mua, ka muri Research Report – https://maoriantarctica.org/
• Wehi PM, Scott NJ, Beckwith J, Rodgers RP, Gillies T, van Uitregt VO and Watene K. 2021. Following the threads: a short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 52(5): 587-598.
• Wehi PM, van Uitregt VO, Scott NJ, Gillies T, Beckwith J, Rodgers RP and Watene K. 2021. Transforming Antarctic management and policy with an Indigenous Māori lens. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 1055-1059. https://rdcu.be/clcZJ
• van Uitregt VO, Alton LA, Heiniger J and Wilson RS. 2016. Warmer temperatures reduce the costs of inducible defences in the marine toad, Rhinella marinus. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 186: 123-130.
• van Uitregt VO, Hurst TP and Wilson RS. 2012. Greater costs of inducible behavioural defences at cooler temperatures in larvae of the mosquito, Aedes notoscriptus. Evolutionary Ecology 27: 13-26.
• van Uitregt VO, Hurst TP and Wilson RS. 2012. Reduced size and starvation resistance in adult mosquitoes, Aedes notoscriptus, exposed to predation cues as larvae. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 108-115. pdf
• Walter GW, van Uitregt VO and Wilson RS. 2011. Social control of unreliable signals of strength in male but not female crayfish, Cherax destructor. Journal of Experimental Biology 21: 3294-3299.
• van Uitregt VO, Wilson RS and Franklin CE. 2007. Cooler temperatures increase sensitivity to UVb in embryos and tadpoles of the frog Limnodynastes peronii. Global Change Biology 13: 1114-1121. pdf
