 My name is Teepora. On my campus, I found a small tree languishing in the shadow of some well-established trees and I replanted it, and called it my PhD tree and the tree is me and I am the tree and together we will flourish in my studies. I am dreaming of Māori students like myself being unstoppable in their quest for academic qualification. Maori participatio in the tertiary sector is growing in the last 10 years postgraduate numbers have gone up. Last year there were 500 plus Maori doctoral enrolments and I was one of them. The numbers are great but if they were trees it would be a very small Maori growth. And I wanted to think about what are the ways that tertiary staff like academics, councillors, librarians, administrators, how do they imbue in us a sense of being unstoppable. Now they might not use those words but I wanted to get together with a group of Maori students and a group of these tertiary staff along with me where we could share our experiences, what we know, what we've done. And then there will be the next moment. In exhilarating time we make meaning of everything and then come out with some best exemplars of how to move on in Maori supports. What I've liked about this idea of the study is that further on I want to run a symposium where Maori students come and they hear their own voice and they're in preparation for going on to their doctorate. Prepare them in the early entry stages. So as students you're all aware of the sense of languishing in your studies where you are in a state of procrastination and despair and hope leads away. What is important for doctoral students who are Maori is that qualifications create wealth which then creates outcomes important to Maori like health, wealth, education opportunities and sustainable whānau, family environments and conditions. And what I like is the idea and what I dream of, my unstoppable vision is that my PhD will be put alongside other Maori PhD trees and it will be a forest that is so vast that it stretches to the horizon and beyond. Imagine that. I do. Kia ora.