Paul Tapsell

Paul Tapsell is a New Zealand academic, are Māori, of Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Raukawa descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago.

After working and studyingat the University of Auckland and a 1998 PhD titled 'Taonga : a tribal response to museums' at the University of Oxford Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, Tapsell moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

• Abram, Ruth J., Joanne DiCosimo, Stephen H. Baumann, Michele Gallant, Emlyn H. Koster, Gillian Kydd, Susan Pointe et al. Looking reality in the eye: Museums and social responsibility. University of Calgary Press, 2005.
• Tapsell, Paul, and Christine Woods. "Social entrepreneurship and innovation: Self-organization in an indigenous context." Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 22, no. 6 (2010): 535-556.
• Tapsell, Paul. "The flight of Pareraututu: An investigation of taonga from a tribal perspective." The Journal of the Polynesian Society 106, no. 4 (1997): 323-374.
• Tapsell, Paul, and Christine Woods. "A spiral of innovation framework for social entrepreneurship: Social innovation at the generational divide in an indigenous context." Emergence: Complexity and Organization 10, no. 3 (2008): 25.