 we seem to have a bit of a seating issue here. I would invite you to sit down until we can get it sorted, and then we'll ask you to stand again. Thank you for your patience. Can stand back up now, that would be great. Thank you very much for your patience. Inga mana, inga reo, inga ho e fa, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou koutou. Pro Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, University staff, special guests, graduands, whanau, and supporters. As Chancellor of the University of Auckland, I extend a warm welcome to you all on behalf of council members and staff of the university. This is a meeting of the Council of the University of Auckland at which the Pro Chancellor and I will confer diplomas and award degrees in the Faculty of Education and Social Work. Graduation is a time for celebrating success. Today, you will experience the pomp and tradition of this ancient ceremony and the recognition of fitting your success on your well-deserved day of celebration. Like your family and friends gathered here, we are very proud of all your achievements and look forward to your lifelong involvement as members of the University of Auckland family. 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. University of New Zealand has estimated that the lifetime benefits of earning a degree are valued at between $1 million and $4 million. Your university experience and the qualifications gained at university will thus add real value to your lives and to the lives of those around you. The fact that our university can add value in these ways reflects the abilities and achievements of our staff and students. In the Faculty of Education and Social Work, we have seen several notable achievements in the last year. Dr. Eleanor Haw, won a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Rae C. Allata was a recipient of the 2015 New Zealand Association for Research and Education Awards for Excellence in Educational Research. Associate Professor Bev France and Dr. Kerry Lee won Technology Education Research Awards for their contribution to technology, education, research, and teaching. And Professor Stephen May was elected a fellow of the prestigious American Educational Research Association. In order to ensure that we continue to achieve successes like these, and to enhance our contribution to future generations of graduates and to our nation, the university must do three things in my view. First, we need to attract students of high academic potential and give them an outstanding academic and extracurricular experience. In this respect, I believe we're doing very well. The proportion of domestic students entering the university with a high grade point average is growing each year and we produce outstanding graduates just like you. Second, we need to attract, develop, and retain outstanding staff. This we are doing is illustrated by the achievements I described earlier. Many of our staff are world leaders in their fields and you would have been privileged to learn from and work with them. It's no coincidence that in the QS World Rankings of University subjects, the University of Auckland came top in New Zealand in 35 of the 40 ranked and we don't even teach two of them. We just think about that for a moment of the 40 ranked subjects, we teach 38 and we're ranked top in 35. Sounds like an outstanding result to me. And third, we need to create the kind of academic environment and facilities that support and encourage excellence. To this end, the university has been investing heavily in its campus renewal program so as to ensure that we do provide facilities of genuine international quality. Many of you will graduate today with the first qualification and you will be rightly proud of this achievement. However, I also want you to 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. But rather, be prepared to embrace change and new technology and make the most of the opportunities presented to you. Although it may seem a daunting prospect right now, further study and learning is inevitable for all of us as the world changes around us at an ever-accelerating pace. Whatever path you follow, I urge you as the alumni of New Zealand's largest, sorry, of New Zealand's leading university, it's the largest too, to never forget your alma mater, your university. We rely on our graduates for support, moral, political and financial. But 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'm delighted to welcome our guest speaker, Aunt Backhouse, who's set up and runs the first New Zealand programme of the I Have a Dream, Charitable Trust. Mentoring and tutoring mainly young Pacifica people from Mount Roscoe. The goal is to help them into university educational meaningful careers. Now, 12 years on, as dreamers have exceeded national NCEA benchmarks and university entrance results. Around 80% of them have entered post-secondary education compared with only 30% of their peers from the same primary school and many continue in diploma and degree level study. Aunt has a 25-year history working with and leading young people. He established his own urban hope, Charitable Trust, helping underprivileged young people in the late 90s. He was the founding trustee on the Aka Hiki Trust Board for digital enablement of low-desire students and has served on primary school boards of trustees. Among his awards and achievement, Aunt received the Mount Roscoe Pukitapapa Council Youth Award in 2010 and, two years later, was recognised with a Tour of Duty Award, by the I Have a Dream Foundation in New York for his total commitment to his dreamers. He received a Queen's Service Medal for his service to youth and education in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Aunt is pushing ahead to extend the work of I Have a Dream, so that more New Zealand children can benefit from his 12 years of research and groundbreaking work. Among his current activities, he's leading the Trust launch of a new initiative to inspire the dreams of around 1,500 children in low-desire school and communities in Whangarei. Ladies and gentlemen, please join with me in welcoming Aunt. Kia ora, Kia ora ana. Talofa lava. Malolale. Whakalofa lahiatu. Bola vanaka. Namaste and greetings to you all. As you've heard, my name's Aunt Backhouse and I'm the CEO for the I Have a Dream Charitable Trust. But before I jump into my speech, first of all, I want to acknowledge the tremendous effort you've all put in today to pursue a tertiary education. Congratulations. Secondly, what an honour and a bit of a surprise it was to be invited to speak to you all today. A surprise because most of you have all got one up on me. Level six on the NZQA framework was the highest level that my intelligence ever got to. So I had to wonder, did someone forget to do their research when inviting me to speak to you? Turning to the internet, I decided to do my own research. Typing in Antony, I came across a site called Urban Dictionary and, aha, therean lied the answers to why I appear before you today. Antony, super sexy and gorgeous with a smile that will melt your mouth and a body to die for. He is funny, charming and is absolutely amazing in bed. No lies, you can look it up if you like, 800 thumbs up. Probably all by people called Antony. Let's just say that given you teachers and social workers are the hope of educating and supporting our next generation of children and young people that I do hope you got your qualifications using better websites and Urban Dictionary. Despite what the internet says about me, I'm glad to report that I kind of do have a bit of a PhD in life but I'm always dreaming of the day that the University of Auckland decided just to give me an honorary degree and that dream is getting closer every day because as you can see, I'm literally now only about five steps away from it. Hint, hint, Graham. So today, as I'm speaking to you, I want you to hold two images in your mind. A microscope and a telescope. Oh, that's right, you guys are an education and social work student, say, do you guys know what those are? Oh, sorry, that was a bit mean. Good, okay, so now I want you to cast your minds back to the day that you took your first steps as a child and began to walk. Some of you may struggle to remember but I know many of your family up there today surrounding you here will. That was a microscope moment. The world was looking down on you and magnifying your achievement and celebrating your first steps. Now let's fast forward a little to the first day of starting school, another microscope moment, but also a telescope one because your parents and whanau looked up, looked out to the horizons and imagined that one day you might finish school, go to university and achieve the dream of a tertiary degree. Now here you are. As a result of your hard work, you've reached the end of the telescope moment and are graduating. But I'm sorry to say, your parents told you a little white lie because today isn't really the telescope moment, it's just another microscope moment. Now don't get me wrong, it's great that you're here and we're magnifying it and celebrating it but the true pinnacle of your success, the true telescope moment will be defined by you now looking up and looking out to the big wide world and applying your learning to the world. Yes the true measure of success is not in what we know but how we go about doing the things with what we know and the values and motives that we carry with us in the doing. Now I can tell that you're already off to a bit of a wrong start with your motives here because you chose to line your pockets with the gold by choosing education and social work. Yeah right, that would make a good two easy, wouldn't it? But there is some good news here for education and social work students. My generation has come up with brilliant ideas, computers, the internet, social media to depersonalize human touch, new technologies that are taking over our lives, creating new social pressures, robots that are taking over people's jobs, a love for material junk that is placing huge pressures on our environment, processing plants which create food at the push of a button contributing to our health problems, buzzing cities that never sleep, the result, broken families, mental health issues, increased poverty and environmental challenges like never before. Yes, that's right, my generation has created some of the world's wicked problems and now we're reliant on you to fix them. There are two things that will see this world come to an end rather quickly and that is if we don't look after our people or our planet, education and social work consumes itself with taking care of both those things. So today I challenge you to lift up your head, to look through the telescope at the big wide world and ask yourself, what is it that I'm gonna do with all this learning and what is it that I want to be defined by? What really is my telescope moment? 25 years ago I did this, just that. Having left school to pursue a corporate career, I worked my way into management and was climbing the corporate ladder. I got married, bought my first house, was earning a decent pay, living the key we dream. I was important and successful in the eyes of the world, but was I happy? No. When I looked through the telescope, what did I see? Life was all about me, me, me and my empire. So in the late 90s I decided to shift my telescope to focus on a different horizon. I decided to make helping others my future. My wife and I gave up our corporate careers. We became posties on bikes, delivering mail, just to put food on the table. We could be finished by lunchtime and then we spent all afternoon in the low-decel community of Wesley Mount Roskill running programs that helped young people succeed in their education and life. Then in 2002, as though it was meant to be, I met Scott Gilmore, a philanthropist who was keen to start the Iver Dream program in New Zealand and he was keen to employ me to run it. So in 2003, I began with a group of 53 students as eight-year-olds in Dessau 1 Wesley Primary School and for the next 12 years, I grew up with them, helped them navigate the system, believed in them, advocated for them, ensured they had the networks, the resources, the people surrounding them to succeed and the rest is history. Those kids are all now 21 and 80% of them went on to tertiary education after high school compared to only 30% of the kids in the year level above from the same primary school. In 2014, the Queen and Governor-General decided I should get a Queen's Service Medal for my services to youth and education but for me, that wasn't the real pinnacle of success. The real pinnacle of success was that these kids now look at me as their white daddy, a significant adult in their lives and I look at them as my dreamers. Our journey together isn't twined. I helped change their life but in doing so, they changed mine. So today, you have an opportunity to look up from this microscope moment, set your telescope on your own horizon and go out and make a difference with every life you touch. But in closing, I encourage you to carry with you five values. Five values that every person I employ to work alongside the hundreds of kids our organization now is working with upholds. Values, our research show that every young person needs in order to succeed. Sumanako, meaning hope and aspiration. Young people need to be given something to hope for. Whanana tanga, meaning relationship. Young people need significant adults that come alongside them, truly believe in them and push them towards those dreams. Ako, meaning two-way learning. Young people need lifelong learners, adults that can teach them about this world but also adults that are willing to learn about and value their world. Rangatiratanga, meaning self-determination. Young people need adults that help grow their identity and develop their wings to fly. Aroha, meaning love. Young people need to be loved unconditionally. Before they read your whiteboard, they will read your heart. Go forth and prosper. Nore ra, tenakoto, tenakoto, tenakoto kato. Thank you, Anne, for an entertaining but challenging address. And you all join with me in showing your appreciation. 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 the 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 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. 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 Education and Social Work. Graduate Diploma in Education, Eliza Joan Sagar. Graduate Diploma in Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Melanie Ray Anderson. Laura Elise Bennett. Tabitha Jane Kultus. Robin Lucille Cross. Kai Ding. Sujitha Dutta. Tania Rosanna Itseg. Devanya Rochelle Forbes. Talia Brown-Gudja. Ashley Storm Hewitt. Kahurangi Te Aukeg Ngamere-Mere-Hohepa. An Cheng Hu. Peter Bruges Jarvis. Bedrasue Jefferson Stewart-Jirai Raj. Danielle Louise Kennedy. Siruchi Kucha. Audrey Lee. Kelly Marie Lewis. Guangxing Liu. Zhu Liu. Kimberly Jane Laune. Michael Richard Loretts. Selina Lai. Hayley Jacqueline McDonald. Claire Louise McMeaking. Linda Gibson-McCayre. Sophie Fitzpatrick Moscovitz. Josephine Sojing Foon. Olivia Zoe Santo. Miriam Saeed Sheik. Crystal Maria Shields. Wen Song. Sonia Devi Steinmetz. Annalise Stuzna. Shodi Isabel Templeman. Dukalupi Dukalupi Vahi. Eva Marie Walker. Charlotte Victoria White. Mo Yang. Graduate Diploma in Teaching Primary. Ryan Wendon Abbott. Paige Renee Adams. Levina Loa Lentonia-Akoala. Amy Alexander. Christopher James Bailey. Lucy Elizabeth Barker. Lauren Nicole Bell. Paige Kirsten Blackett. Frances Jane Brits. Kate Louise Brown. Christopher Robert Patrick Buckin. Katherine Corning Butterfield. Candice Marie Cassie. Ching Yu Chan. Albertian Maria Chignall. Emma Violet Christensen. Nicola Jane Corsa. Sarah Robin Daniel. Bodica Priya Dashana De Silva. Burnette Chewing Devereaux. Tablina Day. Amanda Jane Dove. Melissa Jane Draphan. Perpetual Susanna De Silva. Victoria Susan Earle. Juliana Bing Wangu. Deborah Lee Farmer. Megan Laura Fisher. Donald Gordon Forbes. Jessica Trudy Greenlinton. Karen Kay Hammond. Adam Francis Graham Hand. Janelle Ruth Harris. Juliette Kate Hawksworth. Bradley Charles Healy. Carolyn Suzanne Heathorn. Gina Howe. Emily Rachel Houth. Paige Alexa Jackson Smith. Achanakave. Jin Young Kim. Min Song Kim. Rachel Catherine Lang. Heath Muir Nicole Lucy. Claire Chewen Lin. Zoe Marie Loretz. Revan Mayne Lundevich. Carl Douglas Maskell. Claire Marie McCarran. Elizabeth Ruth McLaughlin. Alayna Kim McMillan. Nathan Amos Metzger. Katie Louise Miller. Otali Gwendolyn Louise Morrison. Amwa Hussein Nadda. Narenda Naidu. Marjan Nelson. Hio Mung Park. Christina Hayam Park. Ashira Alia Pashotom. Luan Tigan Puehipi. Rebecca Margaret O'Hanlon. Molawea Pulupuna. Liam Peter Marshall Raven. Avril Elaine Reed. Disha Ukkash Sanjanwala. Benjamin Ivan Shrimpton. Natalie Sarchiku Snook. Shannon Barbara Swainston. Hannah Elizabeth Swan. Alayna Talema Hinna McDonald. Amy Lee Thompson. Melanie Jane Pongiavalu. Miliana Valu. Hannah Margaret West. Luke Thomas Whitley. Kaitlyn Elizabeth Williams. Natasha Louise Williams. Andrew John Wright. Monica Rose Yeoman. Bachelor of Education Teaching. Erika Louise Adkins. Lauren Ione Afua. Dominica Arlam. Rianne Louise Aitken. Leticia Avantaila Akulu. Julianne Carol Allen. Makarita Atonio. Danielle Terry Ann Atwood. Umundi Ko Ojila. Sadrak Daniel Babu. Lauren Karen Bailey. Brittany Mae Ba. Michael James Barry. Regan Elizabeth Baxter. Sefa Leo Bechgood. Diana Okihanga Katerina Beer. Susan Jane Bennett. Donna Marie Byrd. Rebecca Mae Bauman. Matthew Lawrence Bracky. Mackenzie Patricia Bramwell. Zana Monach Brissick. Kitty Lucy Broughton. Sarah Elizabeth Bush. Haiyung Kai. Tanya Ann Cartman. Atama Marua Toa Cassidy. Ashley Corrine Chalice. Giovanni Sweatva Chand. Inna Choi. Senior Scholar in Education. Catherine Sophia Chung. Anne-Marie Classon. Frances Janet Cornwall. Bridget Rose Darcy Crosshaw-Crosshaw-McLean. Evan James Creen. Rose Elizabeth Curran-Brown. Sumiya Ebrahim Dade Patel. Shaman Davids. William Levi Dean. Fiona Marie Dixon. Julie Christine Dauman. Katrina Nicky Earle. Samantha Louise Ethel. Christina Charris Fahato Ato Akihao. Crystal Lona Tina Fanger. Ailini Ngatokoroa Fepulei. Michelle Louise Fogart. Ella Sydney Fogart. Rebecca Helen Frost. Rita Susan Furivai. Doris Gea. Michael Llewellyn Glyn. Stiboniso Cynthia Gona. Divya Rani Ganda. Erika Blanche Gracia. Katie Grace Grant. Annette Carolyn Grayson. Cheryl Joyce Haines. Sapphire Maria Hall. Justine Nicole Hamilton. Dufosa Hanipale. Katelyn Hannah Harris. Vanessa Marie Harvey. Bay Senior Lohangale Fuluuhula Ibedeli Haunga. Gillian Marie Hayward. Stacey Erin Athena Henderson. Elizabeth Mary Hewlett. Tessa Morgan Hodder. Sazana Kate Holliday. Bonnie Patricia Holmes. Ruth Teresa Holt. Amy Hope Hopping. Hannah Mae Horro Gregory. Anita Joy Horsley. Carolyn Elizabeth Hoyles. Mr. E. Michelle Santina Flavalle Hunter. Anna Madeleine Hurst. Amy Faititi Hutchinson. Emily Veda Ingo. Megan Elizabeth Jackson. Taryn Ann Jago. Madison Elizabeth James. Danelle Jamison. Jasmine Tsu-Min Chi. Senior Scholar in Education. Nicola Michelle Johnson. Rita Mary Johnson. Morgan Laurel Johnston. Melissa Ann Jones. Melissa Margaret Jout. Bianca Alexandra Jukes. Estelle Ismay Julius. Karen Cam. Chelsea Ann Kane. Ruby Amelia Kay. Jessica Amy Kidd. Hyunji Kim. Nicole Catherine Knight. Katie Louise Kobilas. Sasha Rose Kulik. Na Yingkwang. Kate Louise Lawrence. Elizabeth Ballentine Lollpepe. Na Yun Li. Natalia Margarita Christine Lee. Mikaela James Lill. Alan Rob Lennox. Chaowen Lin. Anat Louie. Jia Yi Luo. Ma Tiantang. Sheryl Angela McDonald. Kimberly Emma Macon. Wikitoria Patty McGuire. Leah Edelie Mahi. Anna Marie Major. Kanisha Lisa Mallon. Leah Marie Elizabeth Mayo. Carol McDonald. Jessica Henirangi Mae McGuire. Elizabeth Marian McMurdo. Tessa Louise McNichol. Mozima Meha. Victoria Kelly Alice Miller. Elizabeth Ann Millett. John Charles Morrell. Brogan Louise Morrison. Antonia Caitlin Moyle. Alicia Rose Much. Sierra Ling Ashwani Mutia. Simone Eden Mayberg. Arishma Anita Narayan. Priyanka Pooja Narayan. Senior Scholar in Education. Thomas Gary Norton. Gemma Louise O'Loughlin. Claire Elizabeth Owen. Beryl Ann Oxspring. Alice Park. Hyang Park. Georgia Chloe Pascoe. Janie Louise Patroni. Chelsea Elizabeth Patton. Laura Grace Pearton. Romeo Roymata Paddenara. 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. Jane Son, on piano, will now perform a two to name minor by Frederick Chopin. If you would like to hear more from our wonderful young musicians, I invite you to attend the graduation to Concerto Gala Competition to be held in the Town Hall on Thursday, 12 May at 7.30 p.m. Admission is free. 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, then the faculty of education and social work, have satisfied the requirements of this university. I now call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work, Professor Aitken, to present for the graduands in that faculty. To the degree of Bachelor of Education Teaching, Christine Adelha-Peters, Emma Lyne Robin-Pickering-Martin, Haley Louise Pipes, Julie Ruth Prendergast, Martha Joy Te Adel-Priest, Senior Scholar Education, Waena Matama Jane Prime, Olivia Isme Akakura Pras, Alison Catherine Redfin Daily, Emma Thiemungadu Rekareka, Kimberly Mae Rivett, Stephen Richard Douglas Ross, Joel Radden, Shafiya Aisha Saheed, Juliana Kaitinka Saini, Makayla Jean Samaele, Shanae Angela Sharnick, Ashley Louise Skell-Hingelout, Natalia Dorotaia Senesic, Mina Sharifi, Yangse Xin, Ndisef Moka Sefehione, Brosnan Kane Anthony Dennis Bingai Siloonga, Natalie Simi, Abbey Jane Schene, Brooke Leslie Rita Smith, Kelly Ngairi Smith, Lauren Louise Spencer, Adelyn Michelle Vicky Staunton, Senior Scholar in Education, Danielle Lucy Stone, Jing Sun, Chyna Yvonne Swan, Kayla Swift, Naomi Kathleen Tutini Tamangaro, Talalele Tanealu, Sharisi Ta'aroha Waherere Te Ua, Alison Geraldine Teesdale, Rosalina Faye Tenari, Annabelle Alicia Thorn, Katia Rose Michelle Timu, Sophia Nuno Alofa, Laata Ata Tipi, Moira Atepera Tupou Manu Tafia Malili, Natasha Christina Unkevich, Manuel Margaret Vajakola, Talimalama Marina Tofa Vaisal Halasin, Angel May Virco, Shalom Vili, Elise Hannah Voskizang, Megan Ann Walker, Sarah Marie Ward, Steven Philip Matthew Warden, Panther Paris Weir, Jenna Jean West, James Michael Wheaton, Dylan Brian Weigel, Yvette Huili-Wong, Gabrielle Barbara Wooderson, to the degree of Bachelor of Social Work, Asia Howard Birmingham, Asta Leigh Crawford, Allison Edmonds, Lisa Joy Farafor, Claire Arima Flula, Jessica Palle Parfanotti, Josephine Ada Husband, Whamatangi Eosefa, Senior Scholar in Education, Bromyn Ann Lewis, Melissa Sarah Magalong, Rachelle Venesha Malatino, Keri Louise McVicar, Brenna Patricia Jane Melhush, Riala Paraiti Newman, Colleen Joy O'Brien, Heather Carmen Ogle, Rupal Hashadri Patel, Joanne Cialepha Pati, Nicole Renate Brunata, Agnes Grace Simpson, Shaysa Lilo Talamaivao, Paakea Lille Telefone, Felicity Elizabeth Tennant, Rachel Bianca Tongatama, Bala Murugan Venkata Chalam, Jiaji Conny Yu, Postgraduate Diploma in Education with Distinction, Antonia Jane Beckett in Literacy Education, Julia Amy Brackie in Literacy Education, Bromyn Ann Fennesey in Literacy Education, Margarita Theresa Gray, Keshne Lata Kumar, Sarah Jane Martin in Literacy Education, Shelley Patricia Mustin, Christopher John Niles, Ru-Wen Jun, Postgraduate Diploma in Education with Merit, Lee-Yan He, Dawn Kathleen Taffard, Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Lawrence Ellen Aqoi, Luvis Hanadijay Shandane Jaylani Vedando, Aruna Krishna, Hateronga Pao Te Haheratana Murahu, Michelle Shweta Prasad in Literacy Education, Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Supervision with Distinction, Antoinette Luckston, Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Supervision with Merit, Jane Greaves Kay, Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Supervision, Junapa Watafehe Ongalupa V, Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Secondary Field-Based, Susan Berry, Christiane Horatiu Kuturizan, Carla Fiona Dunn, Helen Frances Emberton, Jane Louise Ferguson, Rikihana Rose Gurnick, Lauren Rose Jessup, Louisa Jackie Te Afina Ken, Jason Sharma, William James Lasala Watling, Sarah Jane Watt, Jonathan David Wheland, to the degree of Bachelor of Education Teaching Honours with First Class Honours, Caleb Joel Allison, Karen Marie Belt, Dawn Chi Chen, Alexandra Louise Chester, Matthew Joseph Massey Goodwin, Sang Hee Han, Amy Jane Harris, Briah Choo Lay Lister, Narsasha Mohon, Gina Mae Young, to the degree of Bachelor of Education Teaching Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Rowan Brendan King, Lucanne Lowe, Sasha Emily Moore, Stephanie Ann Parker, Nicole Joanna Thuy Nhu Co-affair, to the degree of Bachelor of Education Teaching Honours with Second Class Honours, Second Division, Cheryl Ann Snellat, to the degree of Bachelor of Social Work Honours with First Class Honours, Jessica Susanna Booth, Jade Lee George, Zoe Zane Hicks, Christy Louise Middleton, Haley Michelle Thomas, to the degree of Bachelor of Social Work Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Rosanna Marie Hamilton, Hio Zhong Li, Mandale Smuts, to the degree of Master of Education with First Class Honours, Jean Maria Allen, Vanita Mae Easton, Sharon Donella Foymana, Devika Nilam Tag, Ji Hong Zhong, to the degree of Master of Education with Second Class Honours First Division, Angela Dawn Cave, Hosei Boone, Sandra K. Joseph, Justine Lomata Irena Kingi, Paula Jane Miller, Lucinda Mary Merch, Diyong Chow, to the degree of Master of Education with Second Class Honours Second Division, Jillian Ruth Lilesi, Chanel Terereko Huskar, to the degree of Master of Education, Ruth Louise Round, to the degree of Master of Social Work with First Class Honours, Paula Ann Mary Neth, to the degree of Master of Social Work Professional with First Class Honours, Alexandria Gabrielle Bradley, Julie Elizabeth Carter, Megan Catherine Ellen Clark, Jasdeep Kaur, Hayden John McClure, Jaystree Anita Mora, Nathan Robert Knee, Ellie Joseph Parker, Anna Beatrice Tizard, to the degree of Master of Social Work Professional with Second Class Honours First Division, Julia Moyer-Burden, Jie Chen, Ning Ding, Olivia Emily James, Laura Kate Roberts, to the degree of Master of Social Work Professional with Second Class Honours Second Division, Benny Jacob, Jules-Art Maria LaSerta-Owabukiti, Mira James Vais, to the degree of Master of Teaching Primary with Second Class Honours First Division, Miriam Ruth Giles, Leanne Faye Lecky, to the degree of Master of Teaching Primary with Second Class Honours Second Division, Tua Kofiu. 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 Education, Francine Yvonne Bennett. Francine investigated the succession planning practices that faith-based integrated schools in New Zealand used to build leadership capacity and ensure continuity of vision, culture, and special character. A purposefully designed framework highlighted which practices enabled these schools to be well-prepared for principal succession. The findings show the importance of schools implementing succession planning practices in preparation for principal change whenever that may occur in the future. Congratulations Francine. Diana Marie Johnston. Diana's research contributed to a critical understanding of the place and purpose of key competencies in the New Zealand curriculum with the voices of primary school children central to the work. The findings highlight issues such as extreme individualism and competition and their impact on social collective education ideals such as community and cooperation in curriculum and education. Diana. Mary Ann McCullum in Education. Sorry, to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, my apologies. Mary Ann McCullum in Education. Mary Ann's study examined the experiences of young bisexual women as they negotiated their bisexual identities at secondary schools in New Zealand. The research reveals participants' experiences of bi-misogyny and ways their bisexuality was misrecognised and erased within the context of school culture and curriculum-based sexuality education. It also offers strategies and recommendations made by participants for meeting the schooling needs of young bisexual women. Mary Ann, congratulations. Adrian Owens' Schoon in Education. Adrian's research explored how alternative education tutors re-engage some of New Zealand's most disenfranchised students in learning. Using poetic inquiry, he created 200 poems from tutors' words and experiences which he synthesised and visually represented as 21 constellations of tutor essences. His work navigates our return to ancient notions of holistic teaching while also offering us an artful research methodology. Adrian, congratulations. Rachel Allison-Williams in Education, University doctoral scholar. In her thesis, Rachel drew on positive youth development and health promotion theory to explore mechanisms for improving the social competence of students attending low-DSR schools in New Zealand. Rachel's findings contribute importantly to our understanding of the mechanisms associated with programme effectiveness and, in particular, the impact school transience has on the social competence of children attending high-transient schools in low-DSR communities. Rachel. And in absentia, all those other persons named in the official record qualified for the conferment of a degree or the award of a diploma in the Faculty of Education and Social Work. Teaching Excellence Awards. The university places considerable significance on excellence in teaching. It recognises this by making awards each year to teachers who have demonstrated excellence in aspects of teaching. These awards are contestable across the university and signify a truly superior achievement. An award for excellence in postgraduate research supervision has been made to Professor Judy Parr in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy within the Faculty of Education and Social Work. I call upon a student of that faculty, Kath Glasswell, to read this citation for Professor Parr. She'll just note that Kath Glasswell's come all the way from California to make this citation. I'm so proud to be here today because the university is honouring an outstanding teacher and scholar. Professor Judy Parr has been my teacher and mentor for nearly 25 years. That's a long time. A few years ago, I asked her why she'd agreed to supervise my PhD when it seemed to me, looking back now, that I had such a lot to learn and I was going to be a fairly intensive teaching job for her. Judy replied, I could see a spark in you. The seeing of sparks, the lighting of fires and the fanning of the flames of learning and intellectual independence are themes common to the ways in which Judy's past and present students talk about their experiences with her. In a teaching career that has lasted four decades, I did say that, four decades, Professor Judy Parr has systematically supported generations of students to achieve their personal bests. Here at the University of Auckland, she has walked the long and arduous path to achieving greatness with dozens of PhD and master's students, many of whom have received awards for research excellence. Judy's teaching isn't just about the getting of degrees or awards, though. Her work is central to the development of new generations of educational researchers and scholars. Her impact extends across the educational systems of New Zealand and reaches out across the globe to other countries, including developing nations. The most inspiring aspect of Judy's work, well, of the work of any great teacher, is that it's driven by a passion, a passion for the learning of others and for the improvement of the self. It is this aspect of academic life that Judy finds most rewarding. It's a way she can pass on the fire of learning to others and a vital way in which she can contribute to our understandings of how education systems work, how our teachers and children learn and how we might make the very best of any opportunities to achieve justice in the world through quality education. Congratulations, Professor Parr, on a well-deserved award. 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. Please. And while you are standing, it's also a great time for the graduates to show their appreciation of their families and supporters and the staff of the university who have helped them as they achieved their qualifications. Thank you. This concludes this meeting of council in convocation of the university for the conferment of degrees and the award of diplomas. I now invite you to sing the first verse of God to fend New Zealand in Māori, then in English. The words are printed on the reverse of your program.