Author and academic Richard Shaw has written three books exploring historical amnesia and myth-making among Pākehā in Aotearoa New Zealand: 'The Forgotten Coast' (2021, Massey University Press), 'The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation' (2024, Massey University Press), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and 'The Good Settler: Essays from other people’s lands' (2026, Massey University Press). He is also a professor of politics at Massey University, where he teaches courses in politics in Aotearoa New Zealand and researches the roles of political advisers in government ministers’ offices. His academic work has been published in leading international journals, and his publications include the 'Historical Dictionary of New Zealand' (with Janine Hayward, Lara Greaves and Claire Timperley), 'The Edward Elgar Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers' (2023) and 'Core Executives in a Comparative Context' (2022).