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This article focuses on Pacific research being developed in New Zealand for several rea sons: the first published Pacific research guidelines were developed in the early 2000s in New Zealand, spearheaded by the call for “research for the Pacific by the Pacific” in the trailblazing work by Tuhiwai-Smith (1999) in decolonizing Eurocentric research method ologies for Māori people and communities and Helu-Thaman’s Kakala (1992) research framework; political responses and critiques of colonizing research agendas in 1,200 Pa cific education MA/PhD theses across the period 1944 to 2008 deposited in New Zealand University Libraries (of which the largest proportion—35%—were completed at Universi ty of Auckland, followed by 20% at Victoria University), despite the plethora of Pacific re search methodologies (PRM) available, overwhelmingly posit teu le va (preservation of a respectful social space between researcher and researched) and talanoa (data collection reflecting dialogue within Pacific communities) as their preferred methodological ap proaches (Burnett, 2012); for me, Pacific research developments in New Zealand have provided a genealogical and generative space for new understandings of Pacific relational ethics (PRE); and it is in New Zealand that Pacific research is being defined and interro gated through inter-Pacific and intra-Pacific lenses by Pacific scholars such as Sanga and Reynolds (2017) in their call for placing new work within existing patterns and models of research and Suaalii-Sauni (2017) and Suaalii-Sauni and Fulu-Aioluputea (2014). The lat ter works specifically are critical commentaries on key Pacific and …