Good Kaupapa Māori-led research that is supported by and for Māori is transformative! I have developed and led qualitative and quantitative research that contributed to establishing kohanga reo, kura kaupapa Māori, and a Māori radio station in Wellington. I’ve worked as a researcher to understand the experiences of Māori young people removed from their families, to establish a Māori child, adolescent, and family mental health service, to strengthen early and culturally appropriate access to primary Māori mental health, sexual health, and maternal health services. I like Māori and Indigenous comparative policy research and my doctoral research examined Māori and Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa and Saskatchewan, Canada. Having strong research relationships with Māori and Indigenous researchers is beneficial for my students, my teaching, and my own research. I co-edited and contributed chapters to a book called ‘Honouring Our Ancestors: Takatāpui, Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI wellbeing’. The book was an outcome of the first nationwide mixed-methods study of Takatāpui and Māori LGBTQI wellbeing. Today, I’m a Principal Investigator on a 7-country Indigenous study funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research that examines the health and rights of Indigenous women living with HIV. I’m also on a team studying Māori access to abortion after legislative reform, and an advisor to a research stream for the Mana Wāhine Claim to the Waitangi Tribunal.