 Welcome to AUT University's Centre for Refugee Education, a department of the School of Languages and Social Sciences.
The Centre is located within the Mangere Refugee Resettlement complex in South Auckland.
The Centre provides a six week, on–arrival programme for refugees who have come to New Zealand under the government quota scheme (currently 750 people per year). Refugees live on site at the New Zealand Immigration Service hostel, and attend AUT reception classes Monday to Friday. Recently arrived groups have included Afghani, Iraqi, Kurdish, Ethiopian, Somali, Myanmarese, Colombian, Congolese and Sudanese refugees, and for the first time in New Zealand, Bhutanese refugees in the 2008 intake.
Staff
Maria Hayward: MA (First Class Hons), Dip Tchg, Dip TESSOL
Senior Lecturer (above the bar): Centre Manager
email: mhayward@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9784
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Maria Hayward leads the education team at the Centre. She is responsible for liaison with on-site agencies, AUT, the Ministry of Education, the Tertiary Education Commission, and for representing the Centre externally. Maria has worked in the field of refugee education in New Zealand, for almost 20 years. Maria’s current research interests lie in the provision of refugee on-arrival education worldwide, refugee resettlement issues, and refugee education.
Jacqueline Mortimer-Hughes: MA (Hons), Dip Tchg, CLTA, NZRT
Senior Lecturer: Quality Systems Manager
email: jacqueline.mortimer-hughes@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6663
fax 64 9 276 1146
Jacqueline Mortimer-Hughes is the Quality Systems Manager at the Centre for Refugee Education. She is responsible for developing and maintaining quality systems and supervising programme delivery and design. Jacqueline's interests are in the area of refugee and migrant education and settlement. She has worked in refugee education for nearly 7 years and previously in the secondary sector.
Manh Bui-Van: B Ed, Dip Tchg, Dip TESL, NAATI
Senior Lecturer: Adult programme coordinator
email: mbuivan@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6348
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Manh Bui-Van teaches English and Orientation to New Zealand, to adult refugees at the Centre. A political refugee himself, having fled Vietnam in 1975, Manh has worked with refugees and migrants for more than twenty years. He tutored Vietnamese to the first New Zealand ambassador to Vietnam.
Man Hau Liev: MPhil, B Mgmt Stud, CLTA, NAATI
Senior Lecturer: Database coordinator
email: mliev@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6349
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Man Hau Liev teaches English literacy in the adult section, and brings personal experience as a refugee, having escaped from Cambodia in 1980. Man Hau’s interests are in literacy, refugee adaptation and mental health, and refugee ethnic identity. Man Hau has written and published various articles and research papers related to the resettlement of refugees from Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Laos, and Vietnam.
Meng Allen: Sec Teacher Training (Malaysia), Dip TESL, Dip TEFL (UK), CATE
Lecturer
email: mallen@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6324
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Teaching Area: Adult section, English and Orientation to Life in New Zealand
Marianna van den Bergh: MA (Applied Languages, Hons), HED, HDL, CLTA
Lecturer: Secondary Section coordinator
email: MVandenb@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 4801
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Marianna van den Bergh introduces students to methods, routines, and learning expectations of the New Zealand secondary school system. Marianna has teaching experience in secondary schools as well as in the tertiary sector. Her academic interests lie in the successful adaptation and journey of adolescent refugees entering New Zealand secondary schools.
Marilyn Carroll: BA, Dip Tchg, Cert. TESOL
Lecturer: Primary Section coordinator
email: mcarroll@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6353
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Marilyn Carroll teaches in the primary and adult sections at the Centre. Her current education interests are in the assimilation of refugee children into the New Zealand education system.
Barbara Windsor: BA, Dip Tchg, CLTA
Lecturer: Primary section
Email: Barbara.windsor@aut.ac.nz
Phone: 64 9 921 6243
Fax: 64 9 276 1146
Tony Masterton: BA (Otago), Dip Tourism (Otago), Californian Teaching Credential (Univ. San Francisco)
Lecturer: Primary and Early Childhood Sections
email: tmastert@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6351
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Kerrie Ann Van Gelder: Dip Tchg (Primary), CLTA
Special Needs Coordinator
email: kgelder@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6356
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Teaching Area:
- Special Needs, primary and adult sections
Meriel Cavanagh: BBus, Dip Tchg (Primary) CLTA
email: meriel.cavanagh@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6352
Fax: 64 9 276 1146
Jo Perry: M Ed (Hons), BA (Hons), HDipT, Dip T ECE, PGCE, Cert. TESOL, NZRT
Head Teacher, Early Childhood Centre
email: jperry@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6678
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Jo Perry is the Head Teacher at the early childhood centre. She has been involved with early childhood education for 12 years. She regularly supervises Early Childhood student teachers on practicum placemnts at the Centre
Minoo Gorgani: Dip Tchg (ECE), CLTA
Teacher: ECE
email: minoo.gorgani@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6676
fax: 64 9 276 1146
Peng Mee Chan
Secretary/Administrator
email: peng.chan@aut.ac.nz
phone: 64 9 21 9367
fax: 64 9 276 1146 | 
