Postgraduate coordinators
Postgraduate coordinators are based in the University's schools and centres, and can help you explore options for projects and supervisors.
You'll be based in one (or more) of the University's schools, centres, or institutes during your doctoral studies. The postgraduate coordinator in each school supports students who are doing postgraduate study, such as for Master's by thesis and doctoral degrees.
Before you submit your application, you can contact postgraduate coordinators for advice and suggestions about researchers to talk to about supervising your project.
Advice about finding a supervisor
Finding a coordinator
On this page we have listed the postgraduate coordinators by the research programme area that they are responsible for. Alternatively, you can explore the University's research areas on the Research hub site.
Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation
Architecture
- michael.dudding@vuw.ac.nz (PhD Director)
- christine.mccarthy@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Design Innovation
Faculty of Education, Health, and Psychological Sciences
Education
- judith.loveridge@vuw.ac.nz (PhD, Doctor of Education)
- kabini.sanga@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Health
- melanie.gibson@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- danae.anderson@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Health Research)
- ally.gibson@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Health Psychology)
- kim.vanwissen@vuw.ac.nz (Nursing, Midwifery)
Psychological Sciences
- matt.hammond@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- anne.macaskill@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Arts and Media
- anna.jackson@vuw.ac.nz (English)
- fernanda.mino@vuw.ac.nz (Film)
- james.wenley@vuw.ac.nz (Theatre)
- lewis.rarm@vuw.ac.nz (Media Studies, Communication)
- peter.brunt@vuw.ac.nz (Art History)
History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations
- giacomo.lichtner@vuw.ac.nz (History)
- richard.joyce@vuw.ac.nz (Philosophy)
- ayca.arkilic@vuw.ac.nz (Political Science, International Relations)
International Institute of Modern Letters
- damien.wilkins@vuw.ac.nz (Creative Writing)
Languages and Cultures
- shin.takahashi@vuw.ac.nz (Asian Studies, Chinese, Classics, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Literary Translation Studies, Pacific Studies, Sāmoan, Spanish)
Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
- stephen.skalicky@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- jonathan.newton@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Applied Linguistics, TESOL)
- victoria.chen@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Linguistics)
New Zealand School of Music / Te Kōkī
- dugal.mckinnon@vuw.ac.nz (PhD, Doctor of Musical Arts)
Social and Cultural Studies
- amir.sayadabdi@vuw.ac.nz (Anthropology)
- russil.durrant@vuw.ac.nz (Criminology)
- geoff.troughton@vuw.ac.nz (Study of Religion)
- chamsy.el-ojelili@vuw.ac.nz (Sociology, Social Policy)
Stout Research Centre
- conal.mccarthy@vuw.ac.nz (Museum and Heritage Studies)
Iho Māori
Te Kawa a Māui / School of Māori Studies
Faculty of Law
- ruiping.ye@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- marnie.lloydd@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Wellington School of Business and Government
Accounting and Commercial Law
- andrew.smith@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- urs.daellenbach@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Economics and Finance
- harold.cuffe@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- vladimir.petkov@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Government
- wonhyuk.cho@vuw.ac.nz PhD)
- karl.lofgren@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Information Management
- alex.richter@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- tiong.goh@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Management
- rebecca.bednarek@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- ben.walker@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Marketing and International Business
- hongzhi.gao@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- fandy.tjiptono@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Antarctic Research Centre
Biological Sciences
- jeffrey.shima@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- janet.pitman@vuw.ac.nz (for enquiries from prospective PhD students only)
- david.ackerley@vuw.ac.nz (Biotechnology)
- peter.pfeffer@vuw.ac.nz (Cellular and Molecular Biology)
- elaine.dennison@vuw.ac.nz (Clinical Research)
- nicola.nelson@vuw.ac.nz (Conservation, Marine Biology, Marine Conservation)
- phil.lester@vuw.ac.nz (Ecology and Biodiversity)
- julie.deslippe@vuw.ac.nz (Ecological Restoration)
- joanna.mackichan@vuw.ac.nz (Microbiology)
Chemical and Physical Sciences
- martyn.coles@vuw.ac.nz (Chemistry)
- uli.zuelicke@vuw.ac.nz (Physics)
Engineering and Computer Science
- qi.chen@vuw.ac.nz (Computer Science, Computer Graphics)
- jennifer.ferreira@vuw.ac.nz (Engineering)
Ferrier Research Institute
Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences
- mirjam.schindler@vuw.ac.nz (Development Studies)
- colin.wilson@vuw.ac.nz (Earth Sciences)
- amanda.thomas@vuw.ac.nz (Environmental Studies)
- colin.wilson@vuw.ac.nz (Environmental Sciences)
- colin.wilson@vuw.ac.nz (Geophysics)
- mirjam.schindler@vuw.ac.nz (Human Geography)
- colin.wilson@vuw.ac.nz (Physical Geography)
- james.renwick@vuw.ac.nz (Meteorology)
- mairead.deroiste@vuw.ac.nz (Geographic Information Science)
- alex.lo@vuw.ac.nz (Climate Change Science & Policy)
Mathematics and Statistics
- stephen.marsland@vuw.ac.nz (Mathematics)
- peter.smith@vuw.ac.nz (Statistics, Data Science)
Robinson Research Institute
Science in Society
- tim.corballis@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
- nayantara.s.appleton@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)