Meet our research students
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A place to belong
Hine Funaki explored views of the future for young Māori and Pacific people for her Master of Arts in Education thesis.
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Climate change and Pacific nationhood
International Law PhD candidate Nathan Ross is exploring what cultural rights Pacific ‘climate change migrants’ will have in a new country.
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Salvation in the soil
Biotechnology PhD candidate Luke Stevenson is digging to discover new antibiotics from the bacteria in New Zealand soil.
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Better supporting victims
Phone calls to Victim Support are analysed by Psychology PhD candidate Emma Tennent to identify patterns that could help it improve its service.
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Safeguarding wildlife through landscape design
Landscape Architecture PhD candidate Amin Rastandeh looks at whether urban green spaces can help safeguard indigenous wildlife against climate change.
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Improving web service composition
Alexandre Sawczuk da Silva is an Engineering PhD candidate using evolutionary computation to find better ways to build programs.
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Examining public sector resilience
The often-changing public service can be a challenging place for workers—Human Resources PhD candidate Esme Franken looks at how to create resilience.
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Dream of the dragon
Master of Arts in Political Science student Adam Osborne-Smith is sifting the truth from the spin in Chinese state media.
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Better health for Pacific kids
Nursing PhD candidate Ellaine Ete-Rasch is looking to find out what’s going wrong in health services for Pacific children.
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Examining Roman elections
Tim Smith’s Master of Arts research confirms our modern political systems owe a lot to events that occurred in Roman times.