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Contact Learning Development and Success: Te Tari Āwhina
Here you’ll find our locations and contact details, including information on each Te Tari Āwhina staff member.
Te Tari Āwhina locations: City, North Shore and Manukau campuses
City Campus
WB239
Phone: +64 9 921 9840awhina@aut.ac.nz
Self Access Learning Centre
WA level 4 - located in the Library
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 8526
awhina@aut.ac.nz
North Shore Campus
AS215Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 7755
awhina@aut.ac.nz
Self Access Learning Centre
AL114a - located in the Library
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 7703
awhina@aut.ac.nz
Manukau Campus
Self Access Learning Centre
Learning Commons - located in the Library
Phone +64 9 921 9999 ext. 9840
awhina@aut.ac.nz
Staff at Learning Development and Success: Te Tari Āwhina
Administrative staff
Beverly Chan
Te Tari Āwhina Programme Administrator (BBus)
Beverly has worked in administration and customer services for more than 17 years both in New Zealand and overseas. Beverly is currently in her last year of part time study at AUT, working towards a Bachelor of Business degree.
Phone: +64 9 921 9840
beverly.chan@aut.ac.nz
Tracy Edmonds - Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi
Self Access Learning Lab Administrator, North Shore Campus
Tracy has an administrator role within the Self Access Learning Lab on the North Shore Campus. Nau mai haere mai.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 7703
tracy.edmonds@aut.ac.nz
Academic staff
Jennifer Naeem (MA, DBA, Dip TESOL)
Academic Learning Development Senior Lecturer
Jennifer was born in Fiji and has worked at the University of the South Pacific, Massey University and Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Jennifer came to AUT in 1990. Jennifer’s strengths are student /staff liaison, student learning related to management and administration, the recognition of prior learning and assisting students, particularly ESL, with study and learning skills. Jennifer is also responsible for coordinating faculty teaching requests.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 5418
jennifer.naeem@aut.ac.nz
Academic learning development for Māori students
Messina Shaw (BA Hons, Māori Ed.) - Te Aupouri, Ngāti Te Ata
Māori Learning Development Senior Lecturer
Messina’s work within Te Tari Āwhina is aimed at improving tertiary education outcomes for Māori students at AUT. Messina provides study support assistance including tutorial sessions and one-to-one appointment and drop-in services, to encourage undergraduate and postgraduate Māori students to achieve at AUT.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext.8565
messina.shaw@aut.ac.nz
Layne Waerea (BA, LLB, BVA)
Māori Learning Development Lecturer
Layne’s academic interests are in commercial law and the visual arts. Layne has been lecturing in the Business and Law School - on the First Year Integrated Programme and the Legal Executive course. Layne is currently completing postgraduate studies in the visual arts, exploring legal issues related to photographic imagery. Layne’s work within Te Tari Āwhina focuses on assisting students to develop the necessary academic tools required for tertiary learning. Layne can assist with academic writing, expression of ideas and different ways of problem solving in a written or visual form.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 6721
lwaerea@aut.ac.nz
Academic learning development for Pasifika students
I'u Tuagalu - (MA Hons, Dip Libr)
Pasifika Learning Development Senior Lecturer
Malo le soifua maua ma le lagi mama. I’u has a background in academic and research librarianship with an area of speciality in Pacific history and Pacific communities in Aotearoa. I’u can assist students with research and the expression of ideas. I’u welcomes any queries about academic English, critical analysis and the research process.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 8058
iu.tuagalu@aut.ac.nz
Academic learning development for Postgraduate students
David Parker (PhD, BSc Hons)
Postgraduate Learning Development Senior Lecturer
David has a doctorate from the University of Leeds in the UK, where he studied orientational ordering and critical phenomena in micellar liquid crystals. David continued this research, using nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, in a two-year fellowship at Massey University in Palmerston North. For 12 years David worked in the publishing industry as a book editor working on reference books and, more recently, on business and legal textbooks. These two sides of David’s experience - research work and writing - are brought together in his role supporting postgraduate students in all aspects of learning, research and thesis/dissertation/report writing.
Phone +64 9 921 9999 ext 8880
david.parker@aut.ac.nz
Academic learning development for students with learning disabilities
Sue Beechey (BA Psychology)
Learning Disability lecturer
Kia ora. Sue’s past experience has been a mix of teaching a variety of subjects, studying psychology and then researching and teaching in the area of learning disabilities at the University of Auckland, as well as working with people who have difficulties with learning. Sue’s focus within Te Tari Āwhina is to provide appropriate support to students with a learning disability. Sue is especially interested in working alongside students to assist them with clarifying the nature of their learning difficulty and with finding ways to make their learning easier, so that they can progress towards achieving their learning goals.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 8531
suebeechey@aut.ac.nz
KEYS academic learning development programme coordinator
Sue Bretherton (BAgSc, Dip Industrial Relations, Dip Tchg, CLTA)
Academic Learning Development Senior Lecturer
Sue has been teaching at AUT for a number of years and until recently taught on the First Year Integrated programme of the Bachelor of Business. Sue’s specialist subjects are economics, employment relations, HRM and management. Prior to joining AUT Sue worked for a number of large businesses both in New Zealand and overseas. She is particularly interested in helping students in the transition to university study and assisting them to acquire new skills, particularly academic writing, oral presentations, problem solving and critical thinking.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 5783
sue.bretherton@aut.ac.nz
Academic development for EAL students (English as an additional language)
Robyn McWilliams (MA Applied, PG Dip Lang Tchg) Acting Manager
English Learning Development Senior Lecturer
Robyn’s experience is in English language learning and development and she is particularly interested in academic language learning development. Robyn enjoys talking to students about their studies and helping them to achieve their goals in all aspects of their academic studies. Robyn is available to help students both individually and in small groups to enhance their academic learning experience.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 6425
robyn.mcwilliams@aut.ac.nz
Academic learning development in numeracy
Vitali Babakov (DSc, PhD, BSc, Dip Tchg)
Maths Learning Development Senior Lecturer
Vitali’s field is mathematics and Newtonian mechanics. Vitali likes working in a university environment, being part of a team, being around people and sharing in their energy and vitality. Vitali also enjoys lecturing and believes it is important to let students know that. Vitali’s goal is to help students succeed and achieve in their academic performance. Vitali believes that a contemporary lecturer must continue to develop as a professional and he looks forward to continuing to learn as he teaches.
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 8501
vitali.babakov@aut.ac.nz