Lay summary
This proposed PhD research aims to explore how the concept of ‘time’ may be related to racism as a determinant of health and how this can be placed within a life course approach. Racism has been firmly established as an important determinant of health and an underlying cause of ethnic health inequities in New Zealand. There also may be critical life stages where timing of exposure to racism has a greater ‘toxicity’ and it is crucial to investigate what this may mean in relation to consequences for health. This proposed study centres Māori health and the impacts of colonisation, and will build on previous experience gained in racism and health research, to research how time is conceptualised as a construct within a Māori worldview and investigate the measurement of the relationship between racism and time.