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Dr Lefaoali’i Dion Enari (Author & academic)
Dr Lefaoali’i Dion Enari is an Indigenous Samoan author and academic currently holding the position of Senior Lecturer at the School of Sport and Recreation, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology. His Lefaoali’i Matai title is from his fathers village in Lepa, of Upolu Samoa. His extensive research interests include Sport Management, Sport Leadership, Mental Health, Qualitative methodology, Pacific studies, Decolonization, Pacific language, Indigenous Studies, and Trans-nationalism bringing his strong sense of the Samoan culture into all of these fields.

Dion Enari was born in New Zealand after his parents moved to Aoteroa from Sāmoa. At the age of 10, Enari migrated alongside his family to Australia where he spent the majority of his upbringing. Initially based in Perth, Western Australia where his family spent two years before settling in Brisbane, Queensland.

Education
Dr Lefaoali’i Dion Enari studied in Australia completing his PhD thesis at Bond University in the Gold Coast in which he dissected the perceptions of Fa’a-Samoa (Samoan way). As well as this Dion Enari gained a Master of International Relations from Griffith University. Enari has asserted his experiences in these Western education institutions contributed to his desire to enrich his own cultural knowledge to create a change in the colonial narratives imposed on the Pacific region.

Career
The research and work of Dr Lefaoali’i Dion Enari has been published nationally and internationally across the range of academic outlets outlets including the Australian Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Social Inclusion, E tropics: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics,  Journal of Global Indigeneity and Oceania. Enari is also regularly featured across several media platforms including World news, ABC News, ABC Radio, The Guardian, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Radio New Zealand, Samoa Observer, and The Coconet as both an author and interviewee.

Dion has also featured as the keynote speaker at a variety of events including the Headspace National conference in 2020, Australian Association of Pacific Studies Conference in 2021, Advance Pacific Research Australia conference 2023 and Pacific Island Leaders of Tomorrow 2023. He also earned the title of 3-Minute Thesis Winner at Bond University in 2018.

Selected Works

 * Chao, S & Enari, D. (2021) Decolonizing Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation. eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics. Available at https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3796.
 * Enari, D. (2021). Methodology marriage: Merging Western and Pacific research design. https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/101590/5%20Methodology.pdf?sequence=5
 * Enari, D., & Fa'aea, A. M. (2020). E tumau le fa'avae ae fesuia'i faiga: Pasifika Resilience During COVID‐19. Oceania, 90, 75-80. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ocea.5269
 * Enari, D. & Faleolo, R. (2020) Pasifika well-being during the COVID-19 crisis: Samoans and Tongans in Brisbane. Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 110-127. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jisd/article/view/70734/54415
 * Enari, D. & Matapo, J. (2021) Negotiating the relational vā in the University: A transnational Pasifika standpoint during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Global Indigeneity.https://www.journalofglobalindigeneity.com/article/19436-navigating-the-digital-va-va-centring-moana-pacific-values-in-online-tertiary-settings-during-covid-19
 * Enari, D. & Matapo, J. (2020) The Digital Vā: Pasifika education innovation during the Covid-19 pandemic. MAI Journal, 9(4), 7-11 http://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/sites/default/files/MAI_Jrnl_2020_V9_4_Enari_02.pdf
 * Fa'aea, A. M. & Enari, D (2021). The pathway to leadership is through service: Exploring the Samoan tautua lifecycle. In Pacific Dynamics: Journal of interdisciplinary research. https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/101592/7%20Tautua-final.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y
 * Lemusuifeauaali’i, E & Enari, D. (2021). DUA TANI: (Re)evolving Identities of Pacific Islanders. Te Kaharoa, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.24135/tekaharoa.v17i1.342