Student Advisory Group: postgraduate research and doctoral student representatives

The Graduate Research School has postgraduate research and doctoral student representatives for AUT's Student Advisory Group, who take on the role for one to two years. They attend regular Student Advisory Group meetings and report back to their peers with updates. The group meetings are also a chance for our reps to raise any issues experienced by postgraduate research students.

The Student Advisory Group is made up of the following members:

  • Dean of the Graduate Research School
  • Doctoral student representatives
  • Student services representative
  • AUTSA representative
  • Library services representative
  • Postgraduate student advisors

Doctoral student representatives

Kai Schaedlich

Emma Hitchcock
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
emma.hitchcock@aut.ac.nz

arda

Arda Eser
Faculty of Culture and Society
ghr4647@autuni.ac.nz

mohith

Mohith Gaddipati
Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
mohith.gaddipati@autuni.ac.nz

emma

Emma Duffy
Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences
ccb5438@autuni.ac.nz

Postgraduate student representatives

kerri

Kerri Moran
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
kerri.moran@aut.ac.nz

ezra

Ezra Elle Galang
Faculty of Culture and Society
ezraelleg@gmail.com

marco

Marco Staines
Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
pmn0483@aut.ac.nz

Role of doctoral and postgraduate research student representatives

The role for doctoral and postgraduate research student reps involves:

  • Attending bi-monthly meetings as a member of the Student Advisory Group
  • Raising doctoral student issues with the Dean of the Graduate Research School and/or the Student Advisory Group
  • Reporting back to research students with updates once/twice a semester

Nominations now closed

Nominations for doctoral student reps are now closed.