Our world-class scholarship embraces cultural and linguistic diversity and promotes global citizenship in the digital age.
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We specialise in research on language teaching and learning, and also have expertise in phonology, syntax, pragmatics and sociolinguistics.
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Focussing on China, Japan and Korea, we study film, youth culture, social history, literature, religion, diaspora, nationalism, language teaching, and more.
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We research the pivotal roles that communication plays in shaping the social, political, technological, cultural, and environmental aspects of society.
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We research topics from medieval and Renaissance works to global pop culture and postcolonial literature and historical memory in European languages.
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The Global Studies team is, as its name suggests, working across multiple intellectual fields and transdisciplinary issues around the world and in Aotearoa.
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Filmmaker Professor Annie Goldson won Best Editing Award at the TVNZ Awards for her documentary ‘A Mild Touch of Cancer.’
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Dr Patrick Thomsen's research is centred on tautua or service to marginalised communities.
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Professor Mark Mullins is Director of the Japan Studies Centre in this cross-University institute, which undertakes research focusing on engagement with Asia.
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This pan-University institute researches contemporary Europe and EU-related issues, and shared Europe-New Zealand concerns.
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Our interdisciplinary research encompasses state politics, film, Indigenous leadership, responses to ecological degradation and more.
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We encourage research into the historical and contemporary links between Europe and the Pacific, and offer access to a database of Germans in Tonga 1855–1960.
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