Professor Michael Belgrave joined North Shore Community & Social Services in July 2009. Michael is a Professor in History in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Massey University in Albany. He has expertise in history, social policy and social service research and publishing. He has published in a range of different areas, including: social service and health delivery, social policy, the history of health and medicine and race relations history using methods that range from quantitative to oral.

Michael has also been the research manager for the Waitangi Treaty Tribunal and was responsible for all the research, hearing and reporting of all claims from 1987 to 1993. Some other of his key appointments include: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge; Member of the Centres of Research Excellence (CORE) panel considering applications in the humanities, social sciences, education and public policy fields; Consultant to the New Zealand Law Commission on the legal recognition of Maori customary rights; Appointed to a group to advise the Secretary of Justice on constitutional reform and the Treaty of Waitangi.