 I'm Surfer Henderson and I'm a PhD candidate at Auckland Law School. I arrived in 2016 and I'm currently in my second year of a PhD. I'm originally from a city called Leeds in the UK. My PhD is on international law and concerns the legal protection of female migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Sri Lanka. I decided to do a PhD at Auckland Law School because the faculty has an excellent reputation and a fantastic doctoral programme. It also has a lot of highly regarded and well respected staff specialising in a range of subject areas. It also has excellent facilities such as the Davis Law and General Library with a great deal of international sources and I was also offered a international doctoral scholarship to study here which pays for my tuition fees and also provides me with an income. New Zealand is a beautiful country and a wonderful place to live. There's so much nature and so much done in scenery. It also provides the opportunity for you to travel around New Zealand and visit the South Island which I've done on a couple of occasions so far and it's obviously a great place for family and friends to visit. Auckland Law School is just around the corner from the harbour and there's always a beach close by. I've also found living here for it to be a very multicultural city with lots of different nationalities, cultures and cuisines and the Law School is just around the corner from Brithomart which has lots of different restaurants and cafes for lunch and dinner. I live in a nearby suburb called Newmarket which is on the main train line making it very easy and affordable to travel to the Law School for work every day. I was really welcomed by the Law School and everyone was really warm and friendly on arrival so it was really easy to adapt and often felt like home from an early stage. You are provided with an office and a study space on arrival and it's next to view of the offices of PhD students here. It provides you with a great support network which is really important when you're always working independently as a doctoral student. The faculty is quite small here so you get to know people very quickly and everyone is always interested in how you're getting on and how your research is going. I'm really lucky to have excellent supervisors here. I'm currently supervised by Professor Jane Kelsey and Dr Jane Norton who have been very supportive from the beginning and they helped move my application before arriving here.