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 doctoral programme area that they are responsible for. Alternatively, you can explore the University's research areas on the Research hub site.

Go to the Research hub

Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation

Architecture

• nilesh.bakshi@vuw.ac.nz (PhD Director)
• wallace.enegbuma@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)

Design Innovation

• gillian.mccarthy@vuw.ac.nz

Faculty of Education

• joanna.higgins@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• robin.averill@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)
• carmen.dalli@vuw.ac.nz (Doctor of Education)

Faculty of Engineering

Robison Research Institue

• shen.chong@vuw.ac.nz
• zhenan.jiang@vuw.ac.nz

Engineering and Computer Science

• jennifer.ferreira@vuw.ac.nz (Computer Science, Computer Graphics)
• jim.hinkley@vuw.ac.nz (Engineering)

Mathematics and Statistics

• stephen.marsland@vuw.ac.nz (Mathematics)
• yuichi.hirose@vuw.ac.nz (Statistics, Data Science)

Faculty of Health

Health

• agnes.szabo@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• lesley.middleton@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Health Research)
• mary.breheny@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Health Psychology)

Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice

• brian.robinson@vuw.ac.nz (Nursing, Midwifery)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History

• geoff.miles@vuw.ac.nz (English)
• tim.groves@vuw.ac.nz (Film)
• james.wenley@vuw.ac.nz (Theatre)
• emma.tennent@vuw.ac.nz (Media Studies, Communication)
• peter.brunt@vuw.ac.nz (Art History)

History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations

• adrian.muckle@vuw.ac.nz (History)
• cei.maslen@vuw.ac.nz (Philosophy)
• kate.mcmillan@vuw.ac.nz (Political Science, International Relations)

Languages and Cultures

• yiyan.wang@vuw.ac.nz (Asian Studies, Chinese, Classics, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Pacific Studies, Samoan, Spanish)

Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

• peter.gu@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• jonathan.newton@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Applied Linguistics, TESOL)
• victoria.chen@vuw.ac.nz (Masters - Linguistics)

Social and Cultural Studies

• amir.sayadabdi@vuw.ac.nz (Anthropology)
• sarah.monoddefroideville@vuw.ac.nz (Criminology)
• sara.rahmani@vuw.ac.nz (Religious Studies)
• chamsy.el-ojelili@vuw.ac.nz (Sociology, Social Policy)

International Institute of Modern Letters

• damien.wilkins@vuw.ac.nz (Creative Writing)

Te Kawa a Māui / School of Māori Studies

• brian.tunui@vuw.ac.nz (Māori)

New Zealand School of Music / Te Kōkī

• david.lisik@vuw.ac.nz (PhD, Doctor of Musical Arts)

Stout Research Centre

• conal.mccarthy@vuw.ac.nz (Museum and Heritage Studies)

Faculty of Law

• nicole.moreham@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• alberto.costi@vuw.ac.nz (Master’s)

Wellington School of Business and Government

Accounting and Commercial Law

• andrew.smith@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• christopher.cripps@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)

Economics and Finance

• harold.cuffe@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• paul.calcott@vuw.ac.nz (Master's)

Government

• wonhyuk.cho@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• karl.lofgren@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)

Information Management

• anne.goulding@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• cathal.doyle@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)

Management

• rebecca.downes@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• ben.walker@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)

Marketing and International Business

• jayne.krisjanous@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• Janet.davey@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)

Faculty of Science

Antarctic Research Centre

• robert.mckay@vuw.ac.nz

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

• patricia.hunt@vuw.ac.nz (Chemistry)
• uli.zuelicke@vuw.ac.nz (Physics)

Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

• sara.kindon@vuw.ac.nz (Development Studies)
• colin.wilson@vuw.ac.nz (Earth Sciences)
• brendon.blue@vuw.ac.nz (Environmental Studies)
• andrew.rees@vuw.ac.nz (Environmental Sciences)
• martha.savage@vuw.ac.nz (Geophysics)
• sara.kindon@vuw.ac.nz (Human Geography)
• shaun.eaves@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)

Psychology

• lou.moses@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• anne.macaskill@vuww.ac.nz (Master's)

Ferrier Research Institute

• alison.daines@vuw.ac.nz

Science and Society

• rebecca.priestley@vuw.ac.nz (PhD)
• tim.corballis@vuw.ac.nz (Masters)