Past students

Nikki Wright

The Art of Pollinator Paths: A suburban journey of wayfinding with pollinator insects

Supervisor: Tim Corballis

Secondary supervisor: Susan Ballard

Nikki Wright is a journalist and community engagement professional with a focus on collaborative art-nature initiatives. Her thesis uses a practice-based art approach to explore our relationships with insect pollinators in suburban life. Nikki is director of Nature Through Arts Collective and recipient of the Lydia Wevers Scholarship in New Zealand Studies, supported by The Stout Trust.

LinkedIn:  Nikki Wright

Daniel Chia Matallana

Science Fiction as Jurisprudence: Jurisprudential Thought-Experiment Readings of AI and Legal Paradigms

Supervisor: Tim Corballis

Secondary supervisor: Grant Morris

Daniel is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with an LLM in International Law and Politics from the University of Canterbury. His PhD investigated the jurisprudential imaginaries of Science Fiction to interrogate the juridical paradigms that inform the Western legal tradition.

LinkedIn: Daniel Chia

Zoë Heine

Stories from the Shoreline: An Exploration of Sea Level Rise and Storytelling Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand

Supervisor: Rebecca Priestley

Secondary supervisor: Tim Corballis, Richard Levy

Zoë is an interdisciplinary researcher. Her thesis explored different approaches to storytelling about sea-level rise in Aotearoa. Her PhD was funded through the NZ SeaRise project.

Kristin Wilson

The Complexity of Balance in Antarctica: Science and Nature in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, 1903 to 2022

Supervisor: Rebecca Priestley

Secondary supervisor: Fraser Morgan

Kristin's research interests include understanding and modelling complex and social-ecological systems. Her thesis, which investigated the complexity of balance in Antarctica, was supported by Te Pūnaha Matatini, the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems.

LinkedIn: Kristin Wilson