 Your students or graduands will be coming in very soon. I can see them lining up at the door. Please feel free to take photographs, but please be considerate of the other guests around you who might also be wanting to take photos. After the students process in, they'll be followed by our academics, then the official party. Please remain standing during this time, but feel free to join in lustily singing Gaudi Amas with us. Now would be a really good time to switch off your mobile phones. At the end of the ceremony, we will then all sing the national anthem together with your new graduates. When the official party leaves, the graduates will follow them out. Please wait until all the graduates have left the auditorium before then following them out. Right, I can see the students ready to come in now, so ladies and gentlemen, please stand. Inga mana, inga reo, inga ho e fa. Tenakoto, tenakoto, tenakoto kato. Vice Chancellor, Pro Chancellor, council members, special guests, staff, graduands, family and friends about graduands. As Chancellor of the University of Auckland, I extend a warm welcome to you all on behalf of the University Council members and staff of the university. In particular, I welcome our guest speaker, Ms. Carol Hirschfeld. This is a meeting of the Council of the University of Auckland for the purpose of conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. This week, we will be conferring and awarding more than 7,000 qualifications on 6,400 students in person and in absentia. At this ceremony, 535 students will graduate in person and 391 students will graduate in absentia. I will be assisted today by Mr. Peter Kiley, the Pro Chancellor, in awarding the diplomas and conferring the degrees. This is a happy and memorable occasion for you, the graduands, as well as your families and friends who have supported you during your studies. We congratulate you all. Equally, your achievement brings pleasure and satisfaction to the academic and professional staff of the university who have played their part in your success. The graduation procession today brought academic flavor and color to the streets of Auckland. And in this ceremony, you'll experience the pomp and tradition befitting your well-deserved day of celebration. Over a period of 130 years, the University of Auckland has become a comprehensive research-led university with a strong international reputation. Today, there are more than 40,000 students and 5,000 staff. Moreover, we are New Zealand's largest research organization with one third of the country's externally rated world-class academic researchers. Within New Zealand, only our university is ranked within the top 1% of the world's universities. We have a strong commitment to Maori education. Of all the Maori degree graduates in New Zealand each year, 25% come from just one institution, the University of Auckland. The figure for Pacific graduates is 40%. We jealously guard our position amongst our competitor universities and are always looking to create new opportunities for all our undergraduates and postgraduate students. Last month, we confirmed the purchase of the 5.2 hectare former Lion Brewery site on Khyber Pass. This purchase will provide the university with a site for expansion over the next 50 years. It is contiguous with the city and grafting campuses and with the major business area in Newmarket. We will occupy the first of the new facilities on that site in November 2014. So as you graduate, please reflect on the ongoing learning opportunities and consider the wide range of postgraduate options available to you at Auckland. I ask you to consider that because we can never rest on our laurels, especially in a challenging and ever-changing world. Whatever path you follow, I urge you as the alumni of New Zealand's leading university to never forget your alma mater. We rely on our graduates for support, moral, political, and financial. Funding constraints are a perennial problem for New Zealand universities who are being asked to do more and more with less and less each year. In fact, in these hard times, we should be spending more on universities, not less. But that is enough of the substantial issues facing us all as members of a 21st century university with high aspirations because today is your day with the focus firmly on your achievement. At this ceremony, we honour your success along with the support of your family, whanau, and others who have sustained you through your studies. I congratulate you and trust that you will long cherish the memories of your graduation today. I am delighted to welcome as our guest speaker, Carol Hirschfeld, a university alumnus and currently general manager of production at Māori Television. She has been with the network for three and a half years, working also as head of programming and as an executive producer. Prior to joining Māori Television, Carol worked in journalism for over 27 years as an editor, producer, reporter, and presenter. She delivered New Zealand's Nightly News on TV3 with co-anchor John Campbell from 1998 to 2005 and later helped launch Campbell Live, a program she produced for five years. Before joining TV3, Carol spent 12 years with TVNZ, working as a producer for the home show and presenting shows such as Fairgo, Assignment, Frontline, and Crime Watch. Carol graduated from the University of Auckland in 1984 with a BA in English. She completed a diploma in journalism from Auckland Technical Institute the same year. Carol is currently a trustee with Teach First NZ and the LAM Foundation and works closely with New Zealand Breast Cancer Research Trust. Please welcome with me Carol Hirschfeld. In gamana, in ngā reo, in ngā hou, e whā, raurangatirama, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. A hakoa, he iti tako reo, kōtumia nui kia mihi mai, kia mihi atu kia tatu katoa. Nōreira, e kui ma, e koruma, raurangatirama, ngā toerama, haidamai, nōmai, whakatou mai, kiora hui hui mai nei, tatu katoa. Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, members of council, members of the university, families, and friends. To our graduands who we are here to acknowledge and celebrate today, I'd like to send a heartfelt congratulations to you all. You have reached that day, which marks an end and a beginning, the result of thousands of words, read and written, liters of sweat and tears spilt, and truckloads of caffeine haplessly consumed. And that's just your parent. It must have been hell for you guys actually sitting your degrees as well. For me, it is nearly 30 years since I sat where you are today. In actual fact, my Bachelor of Arts ceremony was in the town hall just across the square because not only were we a smaller fraternity back then, this building actually wasn't even built. Not quite Jurassic, more the Cretaceous period. Yes, we were pre-Google, pre-cell phone, pre-subway, absolutely unthinkable. Back in 1984, things were a lot simpler. Madonna's material girl was on high-rotated parties. Miami Vice was providing a disturbing tutorial template for some males aged under 30. White pants, pastel t-shirts, curly mullet, aviator sunglasses, you had to be there. And Rodgenomics was about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting electorate that thought it had voted for a Labour government. Yet despite the differences, some things remain depressingly the same, such as the way graduating with a Bachelor of Arts can inspire bemused stares and even pitying looks from some complete strangers. A case in point, when I was proudly relating to an acquaintance that my own son had embarked this year on a conjoined BAB com, he snorted and replied, BAB, that's exactly what the world needs, another hippie. Frankly, that was the straw that broke the mother camel's back. I have finally trained myself out of responding to a query about my own tertiary education with the usual degree, oh, I only did a BAB. The time has come, my fellow graduands, to snatch back the mana of our qualification. We need no longer put up with the taunts BA stands for bugger all. For me, that catch cry now is, BA means best all rounder. And yes, I have the t-shirt to prove it. Like many of you, I shoot the vocational degrees, law, engineering, and the like, and pursued the path less clearly signposted. When I emerged after three years at Auckland University with a BA in English, Indonesian, including a third year paper in Javanese, History and Art History, I'll admit my employment opportunities weren't immediately obvious. But I strongly believe one of the key reasons I've been asked to speak to you today is to provide clear testimony that even the most obscurely qualified can remain in continuous employment for quite a long period of time. More importantly though, let's not get too preoccupied with employment as the logical end product of an education. It may seem quaint in this era of inputs and outcomes, pathways and mission statements, but let us never forget that education is still and always will be an end into itself. You are simply a more complete, a more rounded person by being educated. More specifically, think of the problems facing the world and its societies. How can we even begin to solve those problems without an understanding of their origins? Well, that would be history. Of how governments work. Well that would be political studies. Of other cultures. Well that would be languages, anthropology and sociology. And even of what we might aspire to as members of the human race, ethically, morally and artistically. Well that would be literature, art history and philosophy. You see what I'm getting at. What I see before me today are the inheritors of the greatest traditions of thought and learning and scholarship without which we would not even qualify as a civilization. If your degrees stand for anything, it is the ability to critically examine the world you live in, to ask the right questions and to be open to answers and information and possibilities that will, in whatever small way, move us further towards the light and away from the darkness of ignorance and blind faith. Yes, they are lofty ideals. So you may ask, how did it all work out for me? Well after I took my BA and added a journalism diploma to it, I launched myself into the strange, unpredictable and exciting world of news media. I did eventually land in the TV business where I have stayed for most of the last three decades and I will be staying for a wee bit longer. But whatever the next few decades may hold for you all, I know that you face the future enriched by the experience you have had in gaining your hard earned degree. You are a success already from attaining that qualification. May that success be multiplied many times over and may your drive and desire to learn be the legacy that you pass on to those who follow. Thank you so much for allowing me to share this very special occasion with you all and above, good luck. Kamutu, oh, in INA, tenakoutou, tenakoutou, tenakoutou katoa. Thank you Carol for most insightful and challenging yet entertaining speech. Can I ask you all to join with me again in thanking Carol for her address. This is a meeting of council in convocation of the university at which the pro-chancellor, Peter Kiley and I will be conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. I invite the pro-chancellor to award the diplomas and confer the degrees in the first half of this ceremony. By the authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Peter Kiley, pro-chancellor, confer the degrees and award the diplomas stated upon those who, within the faculty, have satisfied the requirements of this university. I call upon the head of the School of Asian Studies, Dr. Chung, to present graduands in the Faculty of Arts. Pro-chancellor, as head of the School of Asian Studies, I have the honour of presenting to you the students qualified for the award of a diploma or conferment of a degree in the Faculty of Arts. Graduate Diploma in Theology. Nicholas Nigel Darun Barclay. Patricia Marianne Harvey. Jillian Margaret Pua. To the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Sahar Abbas. Megan Elise Adams. Nadine Beth Addison. Daniel William Adolf. Joanne Dupolesava Ahing. Nellie Ayen. Briarney Aston Ross. Meliane Lupe Acaoloa. Natasha Margaret Alexander. Rachel Lee Allen. Oh, sorry, sorry. Samuel Alipia. Rachel Lee Allen. Ryan Gareth Armand. Puloto Alofa McCarthy. Rebecca Marie Anderson. David James Michael Anstis. Camilla Andrea Arao Celevancini. Sara Rose Armstrong. Mavis Lea Eva Asafo. Chiquera Holly Atkins. Thomas Hugh Augusten. Nyusha Zimin Neshaburi. Xue Bai. Jennifer Seyong Begg. Gemma Lee Mary Baker. Michael Edward Baker. Chitra Maulidia Bhaktiar. Courtney Elizabeth Barnett. Sarah Margaret Barnett. Hannah Marie Bartley. Lydia Marguerite Bathford. David Mark Nolan Batchelor. Amy Marie Batty. Whitney Wainee Bow. Elizabeth Frances Byrne. Pierce Jack Badoni. Lucinda Jane Alexandra Bennett. Lico Benetto. Alapati Bentley. Timothy Edward Berry. Roma Cushill Bola. Bola Leanne Bickers. Lily Dawn Birchmore. Ilaria Lucy Armonio Biuso. Margo Sophia Yagiciewicz-Black. Timothy James Benbow Blackwell. Catherine Aline Blandin Dechalane. Shinji Buu. John Baumeister. Kim Patricia Boyce. Catherine Lindley Bradburn. Natalie Linda Braid. Jade Shannon Brocas. Teagan Lee Bromhead. Kirstie Elizabeth Brough. Dylan Jared Brown. James Lloyd Brown. Anne Marie Brown. Katarina Katane Mariana Bruce. Vanessa Joy Bruning. Sophie Catrine Buchanan. Claire Jane Buchs. Joanne Margaret Buckton. Jessica Bunn. Irene Claudie Lillian Burke. Ross Calvin Burden. E. Nicole Burgess. Jessica April Burton. Rachel Louise Bush. Ankyung Byun. Gayoung Byun. Zaryn Alicia Khaliff. Sophie Elizabeth Cameron. Katherine Jane Carey. Aldrianne Bayette Carrion. Alexandra Claire Carter. Senior Scholar Arts. Alexandra Maria Casey. Nicolo Andrew Pardo Catapang. Riannan Jessica Cowie. Juliana Vera Chagas. Ruth Chamberlain. Andan Keith Chan Choi. Angela Na Ying Chan. Wing Lam Chan. Zanwei Zhang. Senior Scholar Arts. Bronwyn Carol Chapman. Jody Marama Chapman. Rose Amelia Chatterley. Krishnil Chauhan. Aten Lee Chen. Ian Chen. Jia Yang Chen. Teng Chen. Linnet Chong Seok Kim. Christine Chilcott. Nikita Marilyn Chin. Ah Feng Chiu. Su Jin Choi. Kimberley Xiao Min Chong. Na Jia An Chui. Victoria Linda Clack. Dominic James Grant Clapham. Stacey K. Clark. Tessa Caroline Clark. Rebecca Yesson Cleaver. Joby Michael Cobb. Whitney Jean Cochran. Vanessa Day Cole. Tess Elizabeth Connell. Eilind Lee Cooper. Nicholas Andrew Cornwell. Cheryl Marie Courtney. Emma Ann Cowey. Sophia Vivian Crune. Kaelin Jade Cross. Christian Horatio Kuchacan. Trina Shirley Cullum. Amanda Roseanne Cunningham. Patrick Curtis. Hannah Rose Kaye Daley. Grace Elizabeth Daniels. Seth Alexander Davis. Stuart Leslie Dawson. Donella Maria Pratizia De Silva. Pascal Geraldine Sidney Zoe DeSully. Claire Aurea Wood Dobson. Logan Dudley Andrew Turidobson. Amy Frances Dodds. Yenny Docko. Charles Philip Michael Dawn. Spencer Ellery Dawson. Benjamin Cody Doyle. Lydia Dragunov. John Jack Dreckie. Phoebe Frances Diver. Driver. Adrian Francois Duplecy. Francois René Dutrois. Paul Kenneth Donazement. Hannah Jane Duncan. Senidamano Meresene Durethalo. Margarita Dimnova. Andrew Richard David Elcoat. Stanley Arthur Ellis. Danielle Victoria Elston. Senior Scholar Arts. Elizabeth Andrea Elzer. Sophie Ann Estrin. George Rutledge Everts. Robert Rex Lee Faata. Tofa Rachel Faitotoa. Trish Fatu. Joshua Michael Fielding. Ippo Jasmine Filippo. Lee Lauren Fisher. Stephanie Joy Fong. Elaine Fono. Victoria Holly Forster. Crystal Candace Franz. Imogen Ella Fraser-Baxter. Destiny Epiroza Fabule I. Fruan. Jane Alexandra Fullerton. Nelson Charles Funari-Rosh. Sarah Jane Furley. Catherine Jamie Fanel. Alice Olivia Galloway. Tessa Ray Garten-Voyce. Joseph Nassau George George. Jessica Mary Gerbitch. Jennifer German. Anna Louise Gilderdale. Kerry Louise Gilmore. Dean Savio Gomez. Matthew Joseph Massey Goodwin. Renee Catherine Gordon. Alexander James Reese Grant. Vanessa Louise Gray. Philip Marks Graytricks. David James Gregg. Kuljit Kaur Grevo. Morgan Mae Gray. Emma Jane Griffiths. Jessica Claire Gross. Van Guo. Solene Haak. Emma Kate Halford. Charlotte Gay Moffatt-Hulkyard. Grace Mills Hamilton Murray. Michael Gray Hamilton. Chaewon Han. Maria Lubnitz Haniff. Devon Monique Hanna. Ehanam. Reina Anima Hazakastrani Harach. Lemao Harre. Here. Alicia Sheila Hargist. Andrew William Harland Smith. Benjamin Roland Harper. Aaron Michelle Hart. Michael Ronald Howarth. Sarah Frances Haxel. Emily Alice Haywood. Amy Laura Hemmington. Tina Louise Henare. Zachary Mark Henry. Senior Scholar Arts. Annalise Rose Higgins. Yen Lam Hall. Adrian Fiona Hodson. Sam Michael Holloway. Talita Nuseta Hoppe. Tyler Olivia Horton. Ida Huang. Yen Shu Huang. Jennifer Hu. Bim Ibrahim. Susanna Francesca Lornaikah Yifo. Yei An-In. Catherine Ioane. Helen Valene Yopu. Labna Iqbal. Eva Lee Puraituiro. Karen Antoinette Jackson. Alma Yakupovic. Kendra Nicole James. Olivia Emily James. Senior Scholar Arts. Emma Elizabeth Jameson. Yunhua Dang. Natalie June Jacks. Adele Elizabeth Jeffries. Ye Wei Ji. Jin Yu Ha. On Yu Du. Gabrielle Lynn Johnson. Paul George Johnston. Isabella Lily Mary Johnston. Alice Hazel Jones. Annie Selina Koslovsky-Jones. Sang-Jae Zhu. Benita Joseph Fernandez. Than Julian Conagland. Jaekwan Jun. Guru Suraj Kai. Ji-Yan Kang. Meliah Langekovi Jessica Angelina Kanongataa. Thank you, Pro-Chancellor, for conferring the degrees and awarding the diplomas in the first half of this ceremony. One of the great pleasures of graduation is the opportunity to hear performances by students from our acclaimed School of Music. Leigh-Anne Wooding will now perform Embraceable You, number four, from Seven Virtue, so Etude, by George Gershwin. Thank you, Leigh-Anne, for that most accomplished performance. Can I ask you all to join with me and thank you, Leigh-Anne, once again? By the authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Ian Parton, Chancellor, award the diplomas and confer the degrees stated, upon those who, within the Faculty of Arts, have satisfied the requirements of this university. I now call upon the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Associate Professor Luciano, to present further graduands in that faculty. To the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Grace Rose Keller, Alexandra Kelly, Saletaolua Utufua Keresoma, Shama Zeva Khan, Sharifa Sinyi Khan, Ju Mei Ku, Belinda Kun, Alva Lisa Marie Kiel, Hailey Frances Kilgore, Jihyun Kim, Heejin Kim, Ji Min Kim, Russell Aaron King, Senior Scholar Arts, Lynette Wendy Kingsbury, Roxanne Jade Kirkpatrick, Karen Kitshaw, Heiyun Ku, Adi Ulamila Wati Kaboabula, Lynette Vandana Kumar, Shalini Kumar, Andrew Patrick Lamont, Jun Lan, Madeline Jane Langley, Diane Perfume Christian, Lavalua Amu, Sally Allison Law, Angeline Huimei Li, Chanhee Li, Anyi Cheryl Li, Vivian Yehwan Li, Yivern Li, Senior Scholar Arts, Hannah Jean Lees, Ratchada Rekplatum, Wenquan Li, Maria Li Yalin, Rongyanglin, Yashoda Kali Daniel Lingam Dalzel, Zoe Elizabeth Lin, Natalie Mary Joana Lissner, Amy Lloyd, Yacinda Alexandra Lloyd, Grace Bettina Logan, Adrien Yuichitlon, Takoy Lopati, Julia Therese Lo, Nadia Anne Lo, Samantha Jade Lownds, Erin Jean Lowry, Cela Fangu-Fangu Maasi, Hitler Ogilvy McGregor, Senior Scholar Arts, Kurt James McIntosh, Tamra Adeen McKinnon, Rowini Mafuao, Sahar Mahmoudi, Pelite Josephine Mayava, Georgina Lovelace Francis-Maine, Renissa Viraj Maki, Rachel Phillips Ann Maylens, Corey K. Salataimi-Masina, Siosaya Mataele, Josie Mate, Selina Rene Mateje, Jennifer Rose Matthews, Lisa Cary Matthews, Lauren Kate McCready, David Michael McDonald, Anna Maria McElroy, Karina Anne McElbride, Isaac Henry MacGyver, Hayden John McLeod, Jadine Louise McLeod, Rose Tearoha McLeaver, Kelly Ann McMillan, Jesse Mary Cecilia McKee, Charmine Vispe-Mirjora, Sarah Elliot Mee, Anna Rose Heery-Meslant, Matthias Metzler, Nicholas John Giuseppe Mignacca, Alan David Henry Miles, Natalie Esther Miles, Fire Kezia Milford, Philippa Elizabeth Mill, Sophie Ann Miller, Joseph Daniel Mills, Elsa Mary Jane Mitchell, Nada Monash, Kaitlyn Brooke Morby, Kiri Ruth Moriotti, Florence Mary Rose Morphy, Emma Lee Morris, to the degree of Bachelor of Theology, Vaisima Evangelio Langhi, Clemente Cristina Petelo, Tomanonni Sapatti, Siutaisa Tukutau, to the degree of Bachelor of Arts Conjoint, Anthony Sinjibarton and a Bachelor of Commerce, Victoria June Belcher and a Bachelor of Commerce, Kahukuro Yangetea Claire Mary Bennett and a Bachelor of Science, Ran Bhatti and a Bachelor of Commerce, Laura Ruth Bujut and a Bachelor of Commerce, Alexandria Gabrielle Bradley and a Bachelor of Science, Thomas Richard George Carver and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jennifer Lee Castle and a Bachelor of Science, Brydie Davina Elizabeth Joy Climo and a Bachelor of Commerce, Apiña Dechalert and a Bachelor of Commerce, Angela Edward and a Bachelor of Commerce, Megan Elizabeth Herron Callagher and a Bachelor of Commerce, Catherine Cyan Hoare and a Bachelor of Science, Munho Jung and a Bachelor of Commerce, Alisa Jade Kelly and a Bachelor of Commerce, Rachel Laura Carter Kendall and a Bachelor of Commerce, Sidra Kram Khan and a Bachelor of Laws, Kao Wing Lau and a Bachelor of Science, Benjamin James Leonard and a Bachelor of Laws, Hala Abda La Nasser and a Bachelor of Health Sciences, Daria Oglesneva and a Bachelor of Commerce, Catherine Louise Ovenden and a Bachelor of Science, Kimberly Lillian Porter and a Bachelor of Commerce, Lydia Lee Scott and a Bachelor of Commerce, Clark John Truscott and a Bachelor of Commerce, Richard Ung and a Bachelor of Commerce, Ria Watter and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jessica Jane Catherine Wynkwist and a Bachelor of Commerce, Julie Louise Sanji Wong and a Bachelor of Commerce, Manu Zhu and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, to the degree of Bachelor of Theology Conjoint, Dennis Brown Tutaka and a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma in Language Teaching with Merit, Ning Ding Luqia Sangyong Zhu, Tanomon Lak City Wat, Postgraduate Diploma in Language Teaching, Yidan Feng, Postgraduate Diploma in Theology with Distinction, Lynette Edith Tanner in Christian Thought and History, Postgraduate Diploma in Theology with Merit, Ethel Collahan in Biblical Studies, Postgraduate Diploma in Theology, Regina Anthony in Practical Theology, Postgraduate Diploma in Translation Studies with Distinction, Sophie Francesca Moore, Postgraduate Diploma in Translation Studies, Tsuyoshi Eda, to the degree of Bachelor of Arts Honours with First Class Honours, David Grant Abbott in Art History, Courtney Page Addison in Anthropology, Matthew Christopher Barrett in Anthropology, Laura Audrey Ellen Bell in Film, Television and Media Studies, Kelsey Lucy Bergen in Geography, Rebecca Ann Burrell in Sociology, Clayton Thomas Blackwood in Ancient History, Helen Catherine Brown in History, Laura Burton in Geography, Sarah Jean Caldwell Watson in Development Studies, Judy Cor Lynn Sylvia Callenham in Political Studies, Anita Elizabeth Adrian Calverly in Statistics, Jennifer Tracy Copido in Ancient History, University Graduate Scholar, James Andrew Crooks in Ancient History, Laura Rose Dawson in Anthropology, Tamsen Therese Dunn in Art History, Emily Rachel Durham in Psychology, Anna Emily Farquasen in Political Studies and a Bachelor of Arts, John Charles Francis in Sociology, Faculty Graduate Scholar, Fu Mengzu in Anthropology, Daxi Nayantara Gamage in Psychology, April Rose Olivia Gears in English and a Bachelor of Arts, Lauren Anne Gent in Political Studies and a Bachelor of Arts, Julia Claire Francis Hamilton in Ancient History, Jacqueline Andrea Harris in Sociology, Christopher James Hayward in Ancient History, Eloise Joyce Hoffman in Anthropology, Benjamin David Jones in Anthropology, Rachel Anne Jordan in Political Studies, Dai Yong Kim in Sociology, Jennifer Anne Kirby in Film, Television and Media Studies, Samantha Jane Lagos in Anthropology, Bernie Paul Larson in Anthropology, Sarah Elizabeth Lovett in History, Fontaine Chelsea Makaskill in Sociology, Oscar Lawrence Mardell in English, Glenn Maxwell Martin in Ancient History, Mirofora Fiaalofa Mateafa in Pacific Studies, Stephanie Jane Martin in Ancient History, James Luke Mather in Pacific Studies, Kelsey Eris McIntyre in Criminology, Alice Grace McSherry in Geography, Charlotte Ellen Moore in Sociology, Alyssa Joan Mulcahy in Film, Television and Media Studies, Antoinette Kerry Dahlman Murray in Psychology, Carolyn Emma Murray in Film, Television and Media Studies, to the degree of Bachelor of Arts Honours with Second Class Honours, First Division, Benjamin Samuel Methman Allen in English, Jana Miki Allen in Art History and a Bachelor of Arts, Zarfia Lucy Taniya Amoa in History and a Bachelor of Arts, Hugh Alexander Neil Benson in Screen Production, Reese Walter Boyd in Political Studies, Marisa Breitenbach in Drama, Nikolas Logan Carter in Political Studies, Elise Elizabeth Denier in Art History, Katya Maria Duff in English, Ava Natasha Eilts in Film, Television and Media Studies, Richard Hudson in Political Studies, Natalie Clare Inslee in Art History, Erica Jane Lawn in Psychology, Joseph Paul Main in Ancient History, Mary Nafamolea Toa Zapati Moeono Collio in Criminology, to the degree of Bachelor of Arts Honours with Second Class Honours, Second Division, Natalie Clare Ford in Asian Studies, Drolit Edgar Mareta Joseph in Pacific Studies, Blessin Eoli Leulua in Pacific Studies, Janelle Amber Longstaff in English, Charlene Finone Malemei in Pacific Studies, Karen Faavevella Mangia in Political Studies, Hannah Minak in Political Studies, to the degree of Master of Arts with First Class Honours, Mohammed Reddra Yusuf Mahmoud Almsari in Education, Borajin in Education, Jonathan Thurston King in Political Studies, Alicia Ann Maseman in Art History, Mayasina Ramona Meredith in Development Studies, Sophie Louise Guy Milne in Philosophy, Bryony Alicia Muir in English, Alia Anam Parwin in Film, Television and Media Studies, Seryana Elina Patterson in Education, Jacqueline Robertson Reed in Art History, Ritu Parna Roy in Sociology, Christine Schlappa in Sociology, Chen Jin in English, Peter James Simpson in Screen Production, Daniel Jason Taylor in Development Studies, Faculty Graduate Scholar, Sarah Jane Thompson in Sociology, Alice Phoebe Tyler in Art History, Juanita Joy Watts in Language, Teaching and Learning, John Webber in Philosophy, Frederick John Richard Woodhouse in Philosophy, to the degree of Master of Arts with Second Class Honours, First Division, Sophia Louisa Blair in Political Studies, Melissa Noelle Bryanes in Development Studies, Christopher Edward Akeli Chan Si in Sociology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts in Political Studies, Julie Marion Harvey in Language, Teaching and Learning, Brigid Loper Tish in Screen Production, Deborah Karen McClurg in English, Jake Keishanana in Latin, Ian David Smith in Sociology, Alice Tapao in Sociology, to the degree of Master of Arts with Second Class Honours, Second Division, Charnel Caris Peario Amua in Art History, Nandan Bhatt in Film, Television and Media Studies, Richard Edwin Edmonds in Political Studies and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts with Merit in Political Studies, Stephanie Leah Glenn in Political Studies, Doreen Anama Inga in Development Studies, Ji Yun Kim in Language, Teaching and Learning, Samantha Jane Wells in Art History, Wayu Wijayantul in Development Studies, Iran Jo in Language, Teaching and Learning, to the degree of Master of Arts, Faiti Efetu'u in Sociology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts in Sociology, to the degree of Masters of Creative Writing with First Class Honours, Zoe Frances Miga, Samantha Gale Peckham-Tonyatama, Margaret Arita Endora-Thompson, to the degree of Master of Creative Writing, Sara Italia Imovoi-Talitu, to the degree of Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Languages with First Class Honours, Susan Margaret Bremner, to the degree of Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Languages with Second Class Honours, First Division, Lucy Allen Edmonds, to the degree of Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Languages with Second Class Honours, Second Division, Luisa Helena Tuitupol, to the degree of Master of Theology with First Class Honours, Martin Wilson Mariotta in Biblical Studies. I now call upon the Vice-Chancellor to present the doctoral graduands. Chancellor, I have the honour of presenting to you the doctoral graduands. To the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Peter Malcolm Boyd in Māori Studies. Peter investigated the nature of the relationship between whakapapa and the Māori art practice of tukitū, with a view to exploring the relevance of whakapapa frameworks to other Māori art practices and to dimensions of Māori life. Colleen Margaret Stewart Wright in Language, Teaching and Learning at University Doctoral Scholar. Colleen's research analysed the writings of students in a university business programme and explored their experiences in mastering and academic style. She looked both at students' exam writing in their first semester and at their progression to the completion of their three-year programme. Carla Marcella Grossman-Maranda in Spanish, University Doctoral Scholar. Carla's thesis advances the performative role of the Latin American cinema of the neoliberal era to act both as an agent that represents and one that aims to transform current social and knowledge contracts. Anne Henley in Film, Television and Media Studies. Margaret investigated through the use of rarely seen archival material and extensive personal interviews, the forces which determine Netball as an exclusively women's sport achieving quality representation on New Zealand prime-time television. Hee Siung Lee in Film, Television and Media Studies, University Doctoral Scholar. Hee Siung investigated screen adaptation as a prime media practice in the history of cinema from a psycho-analytic perspective. She critically analysed the operation of psychical forces such as fantasy, desire and drive which have been studied less significantly than the textual, aesthetic and industrial dimensions of screen adaptation. Rachel Nye Fern Lee in Language, Teaching and Learning. Rachel's thesis examined the teaching of writing in English to low achieving students in one Singapore secondary school from the socio-cultural perspective of literacy. Heidi Elise Logan in English, University Doctoral Scholar. She's very enthusiastic. Heidi investigated the depiction of physical and mental disabilities in sensation fiction, a novel genre that was popular during the mid-Victorian period. She discovered ways in which depictions of disability in sensation fiction comprised in advance on previous literary representations of disability and prefigured modern-day disability theory. Michelle Dawn McCarthy in Anthropology. Michelle's research examined tourism as a site of intercultural encounter. Based on 18 months of ethnographic field work in the trio of Breand Islands of Papua New Guinea, she examined the multiple ways in which value was created and given meaning in the context of tourism from the perspectives of both tourists and local residents. And in absentia, all those other persons named in the Book of Convocation qualified for the conferment of a degree or the award of a diploma in the Faculty of Arts. That concludes the formal part of this ceremony. So on behalf of the university, I invite all today's graduates to stand and receive the congratulations of us all. And while you're standing, this would be a good opportunity for you to show your appreciation of your families and supporters and all the staff of the university who have helped you as you've achieved your qualifications. Could you please remain standing. This concludes this meeting of Council and Convocation of the university for the conferment of degrees and the award of diplomas. I now invite you all to sing the first verse of God Defend New Zealand in Māori, then in English. The words are printed on the reverse of your programme. Thank you.