AUT - Postgraduate Symposium August 2012
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Postgraduate Symposium August 2012
The University Postgraduate Centre hosted its 6th Annual Postgraduate Symposium in the AUT City Campus Conference Centre on 28 August 2012.
Professor Richard Bedford, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research) opened the symposium, inviting participants to engage in the scope and quality of postgraduate research presentations.
Keynote speaker: Professor Welby Ings (award-winning designer, film maker and playwright)
Professor Welby Ings' stimulating presentation focused on ‘The back of beyond: Research and thought in postgraduate education’.View a video of Professor Welby Ings’ keynote presentation here
Postgraduate research students from various faculties then presented their research while onlookers admired poster presentations outside the conference room.
Visit our Facebook page for photos of research presenters and presentations
3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition 2012
11 AUT doctoral and Master of Philosophy students (representing engineering, sport and recreation, business and law, communication, computing and information sciences, and public policy) delivered a 3 minute talk on their research, using only 1 PowerPoint slide.Winner: Jesse Pirini, PhD, School of Communication Studies, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
Jesse won the competition with his presentation titled ‘Health, lifestyle and will power’.
Jesse received:
- A $1,500 research award
- A Lenovo X220 notebook
- The audience favourite award of $300 AUT Printsprint vouchers
- Travel and accommodation to represent AUT at the 2012 trans-Tasman competition hosted by University of Queensland, Brisbane on Thursday 11 October 2012
2nd prize: Samuel Ekundayo, PhD, Faculty of Business and Law
Samuel received a $500 AUT Printsprint voucher for his presentation titled 'The contributions of ICT to teaching and learning in the overcrowded classrooms of universities in developing countries'.
3rd prize: Kudakwashe Tuwe, Master of Philosophy, Institute of Public Policy, Faculty of Culture and Society.
Kudakwashe received a 1-year AUT Sport and Fitness Centre dual membership (valued at $365) for the presentation 'African Health Promotion Challenges in New Zealand'.
View the video clips for each 3MT Presenter
Further information
- Symposium and 3MT Photo Gallery
- Thesislink Symposium blog
- Trans-Tasman 3MT at University of Queensland
- Email postgraduate@aut.ac.nz
Thank you to the sponsors
- AUT Enterprises Ltd
- AUT Printsprint
- AuSM
- AUT Fitness Centre
- Cyclone Computers
- AUT University Shop
Postgraduate research students’ presentations (alphabetical order)
- Aaron Evans, Master of Applied Science: The squid genus Teuthowenia in New Zealand waters: Systematics, ecology and big, googly eyes
- Chen Shen, Bachelor of Health Science (Honours): A qualitative exploration of Chinese immigrants’ lived experience of their sense of identity before, during and after immigration to New Zealand
- Don Amila Samarasinghe, PhD: Supplier selection in the construction material purchasing function
- Elisa Duder, PhD: Te Ao Kōhatu ki te Ao Rokiroki: Māori language learning in the 21st century
- Erica D’Souza, Master of Communication Studies: The reception of political documentary film among young Mumbaikars in India
- Heather Braid, Master of Applied Science: Systematic review of whip-lash squid (Cephalopoda: Mastigoteuthidae) found in New Zealand waters
- Imko Meyenburg, Master of Business: The role of human communication and social processes in the generation of consumption preferences
- Kelvin Wang, Master of Applied Science: Identification of novel compounds in Undaria Pinnatifida with anti-cancer potentials
- Kudakwashe Tuwe, Master of Philosophy: The challenges of health promotion within the African communities in New Zealand
- Nathan Bromberg, Master of Business: Digital activism: Divergent ideas in spontaneous social movements
- Nelly Kalizinje, Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychology: An investigation into the lived experience of New Zealand birth and adoptive mothers in open adoption.
- Peyman Sabouri, PhD: A real-time edge detection using FPGA (field-programmable gate array) technology
- Priyanka Raina, PhD: The status of retentions in the New Zealand construction industry
- Ratanachote Thienmongkol, PhD: Using information design and human-centred approaches to create navigation systems for new urban transport systems in Khon Kaen city, Thailand
- Ross Milne, PhD: Making the implicit explicit; the importance of understanding the underlying assumptions of your philosophical positioning
- Shelaine Zambas, Doctor of Health Science: Dewey’s pragmatism offers a way of exploring ‘consequences’
- Simon McLellan, Master of Philosophy: Examining pedagogical practice as ‘initiation into something worthwhile
- Thanh Long Nguyen, PhD: An ethnography of inter culturality in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching in Vietnamese universities: What do teachers say about their culture teaching practices?
- Thanuja Ramachandra, PhD: Securing payment in the New Zealand construction industry
- Thi Hang Ngyuen, PhD: A study of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers’ code-switching in classroom instruction in Vietnamese universities
Last updated: 11 Oct 2012 9:30am