Richard Shaw

In his day job Richard Shaw is a professor of politics at Massey University, where he teaches New Zealand politics and researches the roles of political advisers in government Ministers’ offices. He is also the author of two books – The Forgotten Coast (2021) and The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation (2024), both published by Massey University Press – which address matters of memory and forgetting amongst settler families in Aotearoa New Zealand.