In this webinar, Associate Professor Lefāoalii Dion Enari shared his experiences as a Pacific academic, and a practical academic ("pracademic").

Enari identifies how we can champion Pacific learners to be free to be themselves by addressing their educational challenges. He shared stories about deconstructing and emancipating learners' experiences.

About the presenter:

Associate Professor Lefaoali'i Dion Enari is the first Pacific Associate Professor at Unitec. He is in the Ngā Wai a Te Tūī (Māori and Indigenous Research Centre) and School of Healthcare and Social Practice, Unitec.

He is an Indigenous Samoan academic who covers Indigenous, Sport and Pacific issues regularly as an author and interviewed on several International and National media platforms including World news, ABC News, ABC Radio, The Guardian, Thomson Reuters Foundation, New Zealand Herald, Radio New Zealand, Samoa Observer, and The Coconet. His PhD is on Fa'a Samoa (Samoan culture) in the Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Australia.

His research has been published in a range of academic outlets including the Australian Journal of Human Rights, Genealogy Journal, International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Journal of Social Inclusion, E tropics: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples and Oceania.

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