Ideally relationships with Māori and other communities involved in ‘benefit return’ need to be held by supervisors rather than students or fixed-term workers (to whom these relationships can then be extended). This is because if the supervisors have not cultivated these relationships – the students/fixed-term workers are left in the position of developing these relationships instead of doing their science, which then comes at a professional cost to them (in terms of fewer publications). Because publications are what are rewarded in the current system, this rewards bad behaviour (from a Te Tiriti standpoint), in that the science is prioritized over relationship building.
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