PhD
Find out what our past PhD students have researched and studied.
Lindsay Bilodeau
Lindsay Bilodeau is researching the inclusion of indigenous languages in New Zealand and canadian museums.
Emma Bugden
Emma Bugden focuses on artists-run spaces, which are sites for creative and intellectual research, workplaces, and launching pads for professional development.
Michele Fontana
Michele Fontana's PhD reflects his mixed background, exploring the intersection of the film, theatre and science fields.
Susette Goldsmith
Susette Goldsmith researches garden heritage, why it has been overlooked in the past, and how heritage practice could evolve to better manage gardens.
Arapata Hakiwai
Arapata Hakiwai investigated the relationship between Māori tribal identity and development, and the role that taonga play within this.
Michelle Horwood
Michelle Horwood's research investigated innovative ways for Māori communities to develop relationships with museums that hold collections of their heritage.
Simon Jean
Simon Jean's research focus is on Māori culture and the repatriation of human remains from France as a new postcolonial approach of museum practice.
Elizabeth Pishief
Elizabeth Pishief explored places and compared the different meanings and practices of heritage constructed around them by archaeologists and Māori
Philipp Schorch
Philipp Schorch looked at Te Papa as a global public sphere, or discursive space, studying individual experiences of visitors at the museum.
Samuele de Stefani
Samuele de Stefani focuses on museum practice, evaluating new approaches to culture-led museum management.
Lisa Terreni
Lisa Terreni examines the current extent of early childhood access to art museums in New Zealand.