Jenny Lee-Morgan

Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan (also Jennifer Joy Lee) is a New Zealand academic, who has worked at the universities of Auckland, Waikato and at Unitec Institute of Technology. She is Professor of Māori Research, and was founding director of Unitec's Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre.

Academic career
Lee-Morgan is Māori, and affiliates to Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Mahuta, and Ngāti Te Ahiwaru. Her father is Māori–Chinese and her mother is Chinese, and both were teachers. Lee-Morgan trained as a Māori teacher, and started the Māori unit at Northcote College, before leading the Kahurangi unit at Auckland Girls' Grammar School. She completed a Master of Arts in 1996, followed by a PhD titled Ako: Pūrākau of Māori teachers' work in secondary schools both at the University of Auckland. Lee-Morgan then joined the faculty at Auckland, before moving to the University of Waikato, and rising to full professor. Lee-Morgan was the inaugural director of the Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre at Unitec Institute of Technology, which was established in 2021.

Lee-Morgan's research focuses on Māori pedagogy. As part of the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge, Lee-Morgan and her research team ran the Te Manaaki o te Mārae project, which looked at how Te Puea Memorial Marae in Māngere was working with homeless people. In 2021 Lee-Morgan was awarded a Marsden grant with Dr Frances Hancock from The University of Auckland and Pūkenga Matua Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu) of Te Wānanga o Raukawa, for a research project on protecting Ihumātao from commercial development. The research also involved Pania Newton, Moana Waa and Qiane Matata-Sipu. Lee-Morgan is also a researcher in the Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Centre of Research Excellence.

Lee-Morgan has written several books, including a book about the history of Māori–Chinese people in New Zealand, Jade Taniwha: Maori-Chinese Identity and Schooling in Aotearoa. Her 2016 book with Jessica Hutchings, Decolonisation in Aotearoa: education, research and practice, was awarded the prize in the non-fiction category of the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards 2017.

Honours and awards
In 2016 the New Zealand Association for Research in Education awarded Lee-Morgan the Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award for "her significant and high-quality research contribution to Māori education".