 te marae o te ra, norera, e te katoa, peki mae, kake mae, haere mae i ra. I extend a special welcome to our guest speaker, Dr Jenny Tee Pa Daniel, today. 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 6,673 qualifications on some 6,559 students in person and in absentia. At this ceremony, 540 students will graduate in person and 154 students will graduate in absentia. Graduation is a time for celebrating our success. Today you will experience the pomp and tradition and recognition befitting your success on your well-reserved day of celebration. Each year we award degrees and diplomas to some 10,000 graduands from all walks of life. Last year, for example, our spring graduands were unique in being capped in the same month as His Excellency Ben Ke Moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, on whom we bestowed an honorary doctorate of laws. Mr Ben encouraged us to think like global citizens and reminded us that the imagination of young people is the most powerful force in the world. Of course graduation represents more than just a day of celebration. Your qualification from this university will have a lifetime impact on you, your family and the community at large. We know that compared to those whose formal education ends in high school, graduates have lower unemployment rates, higher salaries, better career prospects and better health outcomes. Put another way, your university experience and the qualifications gained at university will add real value to your lives and to the lives of those around you. Many of you will graduate today with the first qualification of which you should be proud. However, I also want you to think about the opportunities for research and ongoing learning at the University of Auckland. Our academic staff and postgraduate students regularly make contributions to research, discovery and learning across a wide range of disciplines. Our research company, Auckland Uni Services Limited, the largest contract research enterprise in Australasia, has over the last decade filed more than 860 patents based on University of Auckland intellectual property and so has contributed to the growth of new and existing businesses in New Zealand. The fact that our university can add value in these ways reflects the abilities and achievements of our staff and students. In my annual report for 2014, I listed the top academic awards we won last year. I believe we were unique in New Zealand in receiving such a wide range of recognition and awards for teaching, research and communications across a range of disciplines including science, engineering, medicine and the arts. It is without doubt an impressive list of achievements. I invite you to read the annual report and witness for yourself the success that makes us the leading university in New Zealand. I like to think of our university as an innovation engine. The more we conduct world leading research, the more we recognise for success. The more we win recognition for success, the more research leaders we attend, we attract. And the more groundbreaking research we undertake and publish. Through this virtuous circle of reputation, our reputation and ranking is enhanced and we continue to grow. In time, this will become what is self-perpetuating. It will become part of our culture. It will have a huge impact on our economy and our society through the achievement of our students, graduates and researchers. You can be part of this. Our collective challenge is to do even more to serve New Zealand and the world. To me, the way forward is clear. First, we need to attract students of high academic potential and give them an outstanding academic and extracurricular experience. In this respect, we are doing very well. The proportion of domestic students entering the university with a high grade point average is growing each year. Second, we need to attract, develop and retain outstanding staff. This we are doing is illustrated by the achievements listed above and by our having successfully completed last year a major project to enhance specialisation and career opportunities among our professional staff. Third, we need to create the kind of academic environment and facilities that support and encourage excellence. 2014 was notable for our progress on construction of the engineering research facility at our new market campus and a good start on construction of the new science tower on the city campus. In April, Council approved a major demolition and refurbishment of the engineering undergraduate buildings on Simon Street. Together, these three projects represent an investment of over $580 million in high quality facilities for our outstanding staff and students. So as you graduate today, please consider my earlier suggestion that you reflect on the ongoing learning opportunities and the wide range of postgraduate options available to you at this university. You must never rest on your laurels in a challenging and ever-changing world. To illustrate to you how important this is, I was reading a Microsoft report recently where one of their development staff was reported as saying around half of the day's occupations won't continue to exist in the future as the pace of change accelerates. So my message to you is to be prepared to embrace change and new technology and make the most of the opportunities presented to you. Whatever path you follow, I urge you as the alumni of New Zealand's leading university to never forget your alma mater, your university. 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 less and less each year. In fact, we should be spending more on universities to strengthen our national economy, 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 a 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 pleased to extend a warm welcome to our second speaker this morning, Dr Jenny Te Pa Daniel, who is a distinguished alumna of our university and an internationally accomplished public theologian and professional consultant in higher education. Of Te Rarawa descent, Jenny is a proud and pioneering indigenous woman who has achieved many firsts in her life. Among these, she was the first Māori in the world to gain an academic degree in theology and the first indigenous Anglican lay woman ever appointed to lead an Anglican theological college in the worldwide Anglican communion. She was globally recognised as alumna of the year by her PhD alma mater, Berkeley, California, in 2010. The same year, she became a distinguished alumna of our university and she holds four honorary doctorate degrees for her contributions towards peace and justice through theological education. Jenny served as Aharangi, or Dean, of Te Rākāhekatea at St John's Theological College in Auckland for 22 years, during which time she led the International Anglican Peace and Justice Network, heading delegations into parts of the world such as Palestine, Israel, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo. She has an unceasing commitment to advancing women's leadership generally and is globally acknowledged for her work in mentoring young women from the third world and indigenous communities. She is sought after as a guest speaker, lecturer, facilitator, media commentator, preacher and panellist around the world. We are fortunate to have you with us today. Welcome Jenny, I have great pleasure in inviting you to address us. Vice-Chancellor, members of council, university graduands, families and friends. I take this day as your ambassador. This is your day of celebration, your day of celebration, so to the family, congratulations, congratulations to all of us. So worthwhile. And for those of you who have supported children, mokopuna, spouses, friends, maybe even a grandparent about to graduate, I hope this very special moment provides you a well-deserved affirmation of all you have done by offering unconditional support, sacrifice, solace, security and maybe even just a little exasperation. To my academic colleagues, our shared pride in these ceremonies is just so compelling and deservedly so. For hours are both the privileged task and the challenge of forming and of shaping, of critiquing and affirming the infinitely precious life of the mind. I know first hand just how much of your professional commitment is above and beyond, and so it is with humility and admiration that I bow to you for your dedication and so much more. To all the graduands, I offer in advance my own very warm congratulations. As you doubtless nervously anticipate your own unforgettable walk across this stage to receive your tohu, the enduring symbol or official marker of your academic success. To Māori, the word tohu is derivative of the word tohunga. This is the word used to describe those select few set aside for their very specialised expertise, whether as healers, visionaries, wise leaders and inspired teachers or as guardians of the spiritual realm. Tohunga know they are commissioned or blessed into the service of the people because of their particular gifts, their charism for leadership and their humility. They are trusted, respected, sometimes even revered, and they act accordingly always with integrity and with considered wisdom. They are fearless and therefore unafraid of speaking truth to power. They exist to serve and thus to sustain the common good. Now I know you are sitting there thinking well that's a very lovely story but what is it actually to do with me? I want to tell you that relatively speaking it actually has everything to do with you. For irrespective of the nature of the tohu you are about to receive, you too are now being commissioned into the service of others. Because of the particular intellectual gifts and expertise you now have now provably demonstrated and because of the particular charism and demeanour of the educated person which you now possess, this university in this fabulous public ceremony now proudly confers upon you membership of the educated class in our society. Whether you are set to be a high level specialist tohunga or simply a hard working creditable professional, your graduation today therefore accords you both a reputation and a responsibility. A reputation that you can be trusted to think clearly, correctly and critically and a responsibility to act always with fairness, with dignity and with decency. You have become what John Henry Newman describes as the ideal graduate. You are now people with clear conscious views of your own opinions and judgements. You have an eloquence in expressing them and of force in urging them. You have been taught to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophisticated and to discard what is irrelevant. You are now therefore each in your own right, well on your way to becoming feisty and confident public intellectuals and in this moment I am so honoured to salute you for your academic success and to welcome you with open arms to the shared tasks ahead. You will know that from the earliest times it has always been graduates who are those deemed worthy of being the rulers or the leaders, those responsible for guiding and influencing the public square with creative and compassionate ideas. With courageous and concise analysis, with bold and innovative new imaginings. In Socratic terms you are now among those who, once they see the good itself, must be compelled each in their own turn to use it as a pattern for ordering the city, private individuals and themselves for the rest of their lives. They will serve the state because they are indebted for their own enlightenment and accept that the good of the city is more important than their own happiness. Philosophical grandeur and elitism aside in so many ways those of you graduating today have already indicated a clear apprehension of both the burden and the beauty inherent in your particular sphere of intellectual endeavour. Down through the ages those involved in the arts and social work and in education itself are traditionally also those seeking to use their knowledge for the betterment of the society in which they live in one way or another. Your decision to choose such a noble pathway in these globally tumultuous times is indeed commendable. Certainly as I attempt to place myself in your shoes I am filled foremost with anxiety. For as I said to a graduating class in Berkeley, California just a few months ago the 21st century has not gifted us a brave new world but rather an increasingly cowardly old world where greed trumps egalitarianism, where charity is contingent upon its tax advantages, where violence, public and private is endemic, where morality, let alone human decency, appears now as untranslatable into the discourses of the public square, where the milk of humankindness is daily sowed by the unbidden human additives of prejudice and bigotry, of race and religious hatred. And yet it wasn't meant to be this way. 15 years ago this 21st century began. Our collective hopes soared with particular pride as we bore witness to a globally unprecedented gathering of 189 of the world's political and faith leaders at the United Nations. Gathering across all the humanly created barriers of difference, politics, ethnicity, gender and economics, these leaders undertook to envision a boldly egalitarian new millennium. The resultant decree known as the Millennium Development Goals offered up the most extraordinarily ambitious set of targets. Among them universal primary education, disease and poverty eradication, environmental sustainability, gender equality and all of these desperately urgent indicators of human wellbeing were intended to be significantly achieved by 2015. And that would be this year. Sadly, depending upon which of the officially reported measures of progress you wish to consult, even a cursory read of the ongoing struggles of too many of the poorest of the world remains profoundly discomforting. And in case you hadn't already noticed, our own Aotearoa New Zealand backyard is now hardly pristine either. And certainly it wasn't meant to be this way. You see, while we boast a proud tradition of universal primary education, the quality of that educational experience for up to 250,000 Aotearoa New Zealand children is daily, severely curtailed by poverty and its attendant evils of poor health and domestic violence. Environmental sustainability is constantly threatened as much by public policy as by public negligence and the issue of gender equality was just last week framed within such an astonishingly pure old political response that it left most of us aging feminists just shaking our heads with incredulity. This then is the context globally and nationally within which you as graduates, confident, courageous and compassionate, are now set to make your mark to offer your contribution. Let me reiterate that I have every confidence in you to reframe the mantra from the passive it wasn't meant to be this way, to the proactive it does not have to be this way. For yours is the generation which for the first time in human history possesses the information, the knowledge, the technology and the resources to bring the worst of human suffering and injustice virtually to an end. Yours is the generation which must however also understand that the promises of the future cannot be fulfilled simply by the acquisition of more and more knowledge alone, but that what is also desperately needed is a commensurate increase in loving wisdom and of reverence for life, for the earth and for one another. It is in this way that I humbly encourage you to see yourselves therefore not just as purveyors of valuable knowledge, but concurrently as exemplars of the civic-minded virtues of compassion, kindness, respect and generosity. For it is surely only the combination of these treasured human qualities together with a strong confident intellectual capacity which can form model citizens for that most highly prized ideal of a nurturing and free society. A society within which all are enabled to participate to contribute and to flourish and within which none are ever enabled to unjustly dominate or oppress. There are only just two cautions. Globalisation has always been relentless in its press toward fulfilling its own ends and I think perhaps the greatest danger we currently face is our inability to apprehend the full extent of the danger which our largely uncritical acceptance of information technology now poses. Especially as it brings once distant cultural assumptions, technologies and determinations into much closer proximity. Who for example would in their wildest imaginings foresee young New Zealanders as radicalised acolytes of jihari militants. Paradoxically it is information technology which has also established the most disturbing levels of real-time physical distance between and among human beings. It is for this reason among others that I find the term social media curious and entirely misleading. That is because largely what it refers to isn't social at all. Rather it is solitary and thus largely antisocial. It lacks a credible ethical framework and it is impossible to secure any reasonable level of moral accountability. In my own sphere of academic discourse identity politics and tribalism, one of its most perverse manifestations also remain deeply troublesome post-colonial phenomena. And with respect I suggest that unless and until our deepest apprehensions of what it means to be truly members of a common humanity are unearthed and enlivened, then any vision of what the common good could yet be will remain just that. Merely a vision. We can and we must and we will do better. We can with the gift with our gift of abundant intelligence with our capacity for incisive and penetrating analysis and with compassion always for those without. We must because we are looked to similarly as with tohunga, as to selflessly confidently and courageously serve and sustain the common good and so we will. Wont we? Whether we act in small probably publicly unnoticed ways or whether we are destined to act in profoundly significant publicly recognised ways what matters ultimately is that above all else we do act. For all of this is the mandate, this tohu you are about to receive requires of you to fulfil. Now I know the matters I have raised may possibly be seen as too daunting may be even inappropriate for this moment but right now as one of you, as one with you as your immensely proud sister graduate and distinguished alum of this hour esteemed University of Auckland. I feel I would be utterly remiss if I didn't challenge you to consider your ongoing responsibility to both imagine and to innovate the most radical of future possibilities for yourselves and particularly for those whose futures lie quite literally in your hands. 11 of those of whom I speak are my beloved mokopuna. 11 beautiful, innocent, mischievous, intelligent, precious young people who along with all the children of this nation and of the world simply yearn for and so deserve the world of opportunity. On their behalf then I ask you to consider whether or not you feel ready to hold their future in your hands. Are you ready to lead with fearlessness and be unafraid of speaking truth to power? Does integrity and wisdom resonate with you? You see I believe that the least among us, especially the children surely deserve honest answers to these questions. Let me remind you that I have already expressed my vote of confidence in you but just in case any of you are still wondering I have a very simple suggestion to make and it is that you undertake on this your graduation day 4th of May 2015 to hold up a metaphoric mirror for I guarantee you will catch a glimpse of the tohunga within. Remember you can you must and you will of that I have no doubt. Let me say again congratulations to you all. Thank you for your forbearance. I wish you all every possible blessing of happiness and fulfillment as now you turn so deservedly to more formally participate in this your very special day of graduation. Thank you Jenny for a most interesting and insightful speech and for the wisdom and guidance you have shared with us all today. Could you please join with me in thanking Jenny once again. This is a meeting of council in Convocation of the University at which the Pro-Chancellor, Scott St John 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, Scott St John, Pro-Chancellor award the diplomas and confer the degrees stated upon those who within the Faculty of Education have satisfied the requirements of this university. Upon the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Greenberg to present graduands in that faculty. Pro-Chancellor, as Dean 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. Diploma in Languages Matthew Michael Carney OK, to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Mujane Ma, Sandy Danny McQuann, Nicholas Manoring, Reuben Joshua Lucas Manamanatua Makani, Tessa Justine Maker, Louise Christina Maligan Alicia Eve Mark, Matthew Lynn Markby, Gaurian Markowski Stephanie Francis Ann Mondangas-Marsen Adele Joan Masters, Catherine Iris Mathis Lauren Sara Mathis Helen Irene Terito Nakura Otanaroa Matunga Rory Donald May Matthew Logan MacLennan Colton McDowell Andrew Scott Gillard McEwen Kristi Nolene McFadgin Erin McGaw Sarah Ann McClain Kirstie McPherson Carl Brewster McWilliams Anthony Ashley Metcalf Wendy Amelia Middlemis Matthew Gerard Miles Watson Christian Milicevic Lily Miura, Ashley Kate Merman Nicholas John Moll, Erin James Monast Kristina Monroy Bowden Charles Moorhead Tessa Lorna Morgan Taylor Marie Morris Titi Wiliamu Motusanga Martira Muccova Rhianne Alice Muir Therese Roshin Murdoch Alamoni Grace Nafe Sunjali Nagpal John Edward Nash Camille Natan Bethan Ann Needs Cecilia Mary Nata Nathan James Natai Kendra Marie Nielsen Shannon Margaret Norgrove Michael Martin Nutt Mallory Heather Rose O'Brien Josephie Rosa Olson Beth Jean Hawkins O'Reilly Eden Lillian Antonia Ott George Rex Otto Margaret Jane Palmer Tessa Broadbent Palmer Denise Carmela de los Santos Palomares Heian Park, Jongchan Park, Sangwook Park Jeffrey Sinclair Parks Ashik Darmendra Patel Louisa Peterson Chantelle Cherie Perrow Queenie Peitalie Laupepa Natasha Miriam Ponaya Daniel Martin Poole Jamie Karen Alexandra Poole Kimberly Lara Potten Tema Shendran Tiopua Rebecca Mariah Purvis Pro-Chancellor, I now call upon senior lecturer in Asian studies Dr Chung to present further graduates. To the degree of Bachelor of Arts Robin Kwan, Eleanor Rose Quirk Georgia Margaret Quirk Luping Annabelle Elaine Reddy Nathan Robert Ryu Katie Helena Margaret Rickson Emily Rose Ridgeway Shelly Ann Robertson Senior Scholar Arts Thomas Duncan Robertson Larissa Marie Robison Carly Jean Robinson Winter Faye Rowlands Isabel Fane Rogers Brita Dagmar Shirley Rowlandson Mahalia Michelle Rolston Ying Rong, Leonie Rose Ropiha Nicola Jane Russell Diploma in Teaching Secondary Ania Domino Maria Samarasinha Abigail Samuel, Kaitlyn Lara Shalfa-Berger Benjamin Henry Schlatt Mihir Sengupta Leanna Grace Te Afina Senior Anna Maria Francesca Navarro Serrano Rehana Shirley Jessica Louise Silby Natasha Bekita Silva Katrina Josette Simpson Alexander Kenneth Sinclair Michelle Siew Alexandra Margaret Tobin Sleibos Daniel George Smith Felicity Lana Smith Jana Ehypera Smoeve Yison Evie Southwell Cameron James Stavely Luke Francis Steiner Charlotte Mary Stevens Karen Joy Stevens Abigail Elizabeth Strang Millie Mingleson Laura Marie Switzer Matafanua Tamatoa Chris Winghey Tang and a Diploma in Languages Tabitha Beating Tang Laura Ashley Taylor Luke Carson Taylor Tita Putomas Adam Charles Thirigud David Alan Junrongting Natalie Letulangi Toevae Alexandra Kate Truscott Victoria Elinganoa Tuala Jamaliet Suilolo Tuiletufunga Teresa Dupofiana Sholi Waiata Duli Jacob William Twidle Melissa Jane Underwood Jerson Jesus Valuensa Cisternas Tessa Jane Van Zolen Kourtney Ann Varko Jack Leon Venter Kate Margaret Villars James William Wallan Samuel Mark Walls Emma Mae Walsh Hany Wang Wang Yi Jun Delaney Makareta Malatasi-Serra Watanitai Yvonne Rose Webster Imogen Lucy Weir Xuenwen Kourtney Joan Wentz Saoyun Annabelle Wan Abigail Grace Wheaton Maria Adrianna Wheeler John James Wibbley Evelyn Mae Weil Forest Witchman Paige Helen Wilburn Alice Grace Mahoney Wilkins Deborah Ruth Williams Anna Catherine Rose Williams Gabriella Maria Williams Frances Jane Wilson Senior Scholar Arts Prudence Sophie Marie Wilson Stephanie Chloe Winchester O'Sullivan Chanel Anne Wishheart Hannah Freya Wolfries Eden Oliver Wong Wong Gajun Su Chen Wong Emma Grace Ray Jeng Wu Yuen Zhen Wu Harrison James B. Wynn Norshu Yebin Yang Scott Yap Sora You Rachel Jane Young Rose Ann Yumel Jasmin Jaisan Paul Postgraduate Diploma in Arts with Distinction Cassandra Claire Dickinson in Development Studies Emory Manalo Francisco in Media, Film and Television Postgraduate Diploma in Arts with Merit Andrea Lorraine-Dorba in Art History and a Bachelor of Arts Air Grace Farelli in Psychology Aqata A'la Elua in Criminology and a Bachelor of Arts Marissa Antoinette Bennett in Criminology Safira Hardani in Development Studies Ann Siata Maan in History Adam Charles Brooke Parmenter in Media, Film and Television and a Bachelor of Arts Fungalua Smith in Geography Elizabeth Wilson in Geography Postgraduate Diploma in Language Teaching with Merit Lu Ming Lin Ying Fei Xue Postgraduate Diploma in Language Teaching Jinmin Li Piao Li Ying Liu Eunice Althea McIver Yiyang to the degree of Master of Creative Writing with First Class Honours Erin Ellison and a Bachelor of Arts Honours with First Class Honours in History and a Bachelor of Arts Ella Jane Elizabeth Selwyn to the degree of Master of Creative Writing with Second Class Honours First Division Mike Iver Galvin to the degree of Master of Public Policy with First Class Honours Lauren Ann Gent to the degree of Master of Public Policy with Second Class Honours First Division Lea Estelle Beaumont to the degree of Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with First Class Honours Karen Frances Hollis Jose Antonio Porra Simba Keipa to the degree of Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with Second Class Honours First Division Sean Eris Redwood to the degree of Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Evie Joy Aitchison Hannah Chen in absentia, those other persons named in the official record qualified for the conferment of a degree or the award of a diploma from the Faculty of Arts 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 Bernice Austin, accompanied by Juan Kim will now perform Lucky Child at the Statue of Venus by Jake Hegey Would you please join with me in thanking them once again for the degree 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 Education and Social Work have satisfied the requirements of this University I call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work, Professor Aitken to present graduands in that faculty 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 Education and Social Work I call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work, Professor Aitken to present the degrees stated upon those who have already passed the bachelor's degree. Chad Paul Carpenter Davis Tania Pauline Dawson Alisha Denison Priscilla Niha Denika Sally Ann Edgell Shadell Joy Acklin-Fial Elepeta Lulama Fafita Karen Aiden Ledger Finiti Michelle Christine Foley Crystal Candace Franz Alice Mary Gallagher Rong Bangong Craig Allen Grant Morgan Mae Gray Rachel Ann Hamilton Vicky Philippa Harris Kylie Marilyn Helston Cameron Francis Huberts Jennifer Hutch Rebecca Elizabeth Hudson Malia Ann Ikinaseo Lubna Ekpao Michelle C. Jax Daisy Luisa Jackson Callan Alisa Jaffa Elise James Sayang Francis Jayathulurka Rowan Aubrey Johansson Isabel Francis Wilson-Kemba Meryl Mahilda Krunin-Bue Nigel Ng Tatlim Chibnita Shamal Lingham Shalane Margaret Lomas Erin Jean Lowry Rony Muffoile Candace Mary June Marsh Chloe Elise Marsh Simon Robert McGinley Christine Alice Middendorf-Carter Gina Nicole Minahan Basha Ursula Mystery Debra Isabella Mount Bohenia Falamasame Mealu Elisa Joan Mulcahy Lauren Charlotte Muldrew Cecilia Nayata Shivanjali Sateli Nandini Mitchell Tefeira Nganeko Jessica Ann Noble Luke John Oliver Karen Ruth Olson Jessica Ann Noble Luke John Oliver Karen Ruth Olson Jessica Kate Palmer Tonita Sara Pao Demukisa Shantel Pasese Samuel John Peters Catherine Jean Louise Filsen Lyle William Crouch Renil Rama Roslyn Roshney Rau Ranginui Uitonga Rikirangi-Thomas Yuyao Rosetto Sarah Ann Rogers Renita Dynette Roy Swahela Rizwantham Alster John Salaval Stella Siol Renita Prasad Sharma Regina Siono Alana Judith Smide Melaton Soryano Sarah Ann Standring Anastan Kovic Amy Carolyn Stevens Sarah Alan Taylor Dylan Jean Thompson Janai Louise Thompson Sarah Ellen Taylor Sarah Ellen Taylor Janai Louise Thompson Sean QI Tong Xiong Ashley Jenna Twist Alo Molotowuwhi Anna Louise Lea Upton Teneke Louise Van Halten Nicola Marie Weston Sarah Bridget Whitehead Lauren Joan Whitton Andrew Jerry Wilson Harriet Rachel Alexander Wilson Jordan Breann Wilson Tanya Kirsten Jane Wilson Leah Jane Withers Ashley Nicole Young Rebecca Sarah Young Riam Zaya Graduate Diploma in Teaching English in Schools to Speakers of Other Languages Teresa Marie Maradahatea Afu Amir Ali Deepa Chattiveri Alexandra Cornia Raymond Edward Kelly Kyung Dok Kaila Lee Michelle Evelyn Lennon Ingrid Celeste Mackenzie Halee Ann Mudford Lilian Nanai Zidah Patterson Veronica Godsell-Ralmakers Lynn Heather Road Jillian Ann Shears Radhika Singh to the degree of Bachelor of Education Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Iqmal Nuhakam Bin Mohammad Padil Siti Nasiha Nasserou Siti Nasiha Nasiha Siti Nasiha Nasiha Siti Nasiha Nasiha Yasmin Binti-Safroudan Norfaza Yoto Azealia Binti Zainoudan Norfaza Yoto Azealia Binti Zainoudan to the degree of Bachelor of Human Services to the degree of Bachelor of Human Services Stephanie Rachel Beattie Joanna Rachel Brown Rosemary Amy Cook Hamish James Cosford Kerry Christine Cross Natalie Leela Illia Theresa Yvila Emarina Fenao Joanna Ruth Fullerton Mariko Ewasaki-May Kellyanne Cheryl Joseph Matthew Alexander Saunders Albert William Scott Elizabeth Seill Matalita Liliuakalani Tofa Michael Samuel Simio Toala Jeremiah Otto Tamanu Katie Louise Williams to the degree of Bachelor of Physical Education Joseph Owen Crox Sione Lisiati Fenao Elizabeth Seill Sione Lisiati Fenao Manon Antonette Elizabeth Fleming Joshua James Ferguson-Forman Jessica Mary French Kathleen Rose Godba Brittany Jade Graham Rodney Alan Jackson Matthew David Jackham Adam Arthur Kemp Vanessa Angela Akata-Langi Melissa Jane Lee Connor Jewel Gerardus-Landis Eva Lily McCauley Nadine Sky McKinnon Joshua Henry Drummond-Macy Stephen John Money Thomas Henry Gifford Moore Senior Scholar Education Justine O'Dwyer Sagell Prakash Premar Annalise Marie Renton Elizabeth Roosevelt Francis Samuel Olivia Grace Sheffard Saunders Anthony Kevin Xavier Anthony Henry Anthony Henry Anthony Henry Anthony Kevin Xavier Shishkar Bologna Junior Tua Fafo Hannah Jean Winter Olivia Clea Young Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Theory with Distinction Stephen Alex Brown Melanie Lendrum Barbara Ruth Mackay Marni Jane Halton Sutherland Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Theory with Merit Jane Susan Sewall Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership with Distinction Jennifer Jane Triggs Michael David Wilkinson Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership with Merit Deborah Fife Ellery Jui Hu Liu Marlene Van der Moe Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership from Esh-Chand to the degree of Master of Counselling with First Class Honours Nisak Anna Day Paula Jane Yateman to the degree of Master of Counselling Paul Donald Campbell to the degree of Master of Educational Leadership with First Class Honours Jocelyn Patricia Hare Tamara Catherine Jones David Edward Gordon Taylor to the degree of Master of Educational Leadership with Second Class Honours First Division Craig Jeffrey Holt David Wilcox to the degree of Master of Professional Studies with First Class Honours Tia Chi-Liang in Education Maria Frances Prado in Education Demelza Round in Education Fiona Oula Talua in Education to the degree of Master of Professional Studies with Second Class Honours First Division Margaret Elizabeth Barton-Horst in Education Sharizad Binti-Yusof in Education to the degree of Master of Professional Studies with Second Class Honours First Division Rebecca Janice Elias in Education Lillian Scutter in Education Rashai Moana Tairua in Education Indan Absentia those other persons named in the official record qualified for the Confirmative Degree or the Award of a Diploma from the Faculty of Education and Social Work I now call upon the Vice-Chancellor to present the doctoral graduands Chancellor to the degree of Master of Professional Studies with Second Class Honours Second Division Chancellor I have the honour of presenting to you the doctoral graduands to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Susan Jean Bedford in Education University Doctoral Scholar so researched what teachers need to know in order to support the multimodal authoring of their students as a result of her work a body of content knowledge and corresponding model of instruction are proposed in order to broaden the understandings of the fundamentals of teaching and learning in this domain So Moana Ting-Wai-Tiu in Education University Doctoral Scholar Moana investigated the efficacy and social validity of a group parenting program designed specifically for parents of adolescents to justify the need for a public health approach to supporting such a demographic Moana Matthew Gordon Ray Courtney in Education University Doctoral Scholar Matthew developed a statistical model to predict international university student retention based on processes of pastoral care and student interactional strategies on social media Gail Elizabeth Ayers in Education University Doctoral Scholar Gail investigated influences that helped or hindered pre-service teachers assessment education and identified ways these influences fostered adaptive expertise in using assessment to improve teaching and learning Murray Olson Gadd in Education Murray investigated what effective teachers do in the classroom to raise writing achievement levels amongst upper primary age students His study was designed to help all teachers make a difference for their students as developing writers Haian Kim in Education Haian investigated 1.5 generation Haian Kiwi's experiences as parents and the influences on their parenting His study demonstrated how complex and unique sociocultural environments have a profound effect on their parenting practices and how these environments can enhance or limit the effectiveness of parenting Simon John McNamara in Art History Simon posited through a hermeneutic analysis of Rembrandt's early passion series that a devotional meditation sequence found in the work of metaphysical poets was a unifying concept in the five paintings of the series Stephen Michael McTaggart in Sociology Stephen examined the statistical differences between heterosexual partnerships within marriage and cohabitation from 1981 to 2006 His results show that gendered differences remain within both partnership types and heteronormative cultural values and the impact of motherhood on women's employment and earnings Media, film and television Paula observed the use of social networking sites by women for political purposes to investigate whether this form of cyber activism can have social impact She focused on urban Indian women users of Facebook for her case study and discovered a highly active political landscape that was called Te Plviz, Reynolds, and French University Doctoral Scholar Bright Future Top Achiever Doctoral Scholar Emma used literary cartography to explore interactions between oral and written traditions of the Kanaki people of New Caledonia demonstrating how Kanak oral traditions can influence identity construction processes as these islands move towards greater autonomy and potentially independence Mark Williams Stewart in media film and television. Mark examined the shifting state of television since the mid-1990s, looking at how different forms of television programmes were made, how they were watched and engaged with and how they were funded. He used case studies of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, lost, American Idol and survivor. Mark. Jenny Stumer in media film and television. She investigated the function of political wars and securing a narrative of separation between peoples. She also examined these wars as forms of media screens, whose political and psychological effectiveness can be challenged by the means of art and film. Jenny. Anthony Hugh Serman in theology, university doctoral scholar. Anthony investigated continuity and change in the purpose and place of ordained ministers and conducted parts of the Anglican Church from the 17th century through to the present. The study was conducted with a view to providing candidates for ordained ministry with a resource to understand the tradition in which they stand. Faluniku Tomuniku in Pacific Studies, university doctoral scholar. Faluniku studied what roles present-day Polynesian power-mount chiefs play in their respective society. The work looked into the lives of the traditional power-mount chiefs of Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Cook Islands and Aotearoa, New Zealand and how these individuals balance their lives as traditional leaders and as political leaders in positions such as heads of state, presidents and prime ministers. And in absentia, all those other persons named in the official record qualified for the conferment of a doctoral degree in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education and Social Work. We are now nearing the end of this graduation ceremony. On behalf of the university, I invite all today's graduates to stand and receive the congratulations of us all. And while you are standing, this would be a great opportunity for you, the graduates, to show your appreciation of your families and supporters and the staff of the university who have helped you as you achieved your qualifications. 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 to Fair New Zealand and Māori in English. The words are printed on the reverse of your program.