CoRE Selection Panels...

As far as I can tell, this is the panel that would have deselected Nga Pae:

Social Sciences, Economics and Policy (SEP)

Including education; sociology; demography; Māori studies and New Zealand society; economics; policy development; and international relations.

Name	Institution
Professor Jon Altman	The Australian National University
Professor Manying Ip	The University of Auckland
Professor Karen Nero	University of Otago
Professor Jason Potts	RMIT University
Professor Lydia Wevers	Victoria University of Wellington

The assessment guidelines for the Selection Panels can be found here.

Full panel memberships here.

Again, as I've said on FB, this is not the final decision. If another proposal is still in play for Maori then what this would amount to is another institution to support Maori research and researchers. As I've said, this is not necessarily bad.

Of course there may be no new Maori CoRE. Which would be very bad...