Our postgraduate students

Meet some of our postgraduate students and hear what they say about studying at our internationally recognised faculty.

Shreya Agrawal

Shreya Agrawal's love for science stemmed from a fascinating fact about brain electricity, compelling her to pursue a masters degree.

Shreya's story

Morgan, of Ngāti Maru, chose to study toward a Master of Nursing to empower Māori nurses to take centre stage in hospice care.

Morgan's story

Rachel Lampkin has learned how fulfilling postgraduate study can be after coming back to it over 25 years later.

Rachel's story

Stella Williams-Terei hopes that her work researching Māori cancer nurses, inspires future generations of Māori health professionals in Aotearoa.

Stella's story

Tristram Allen chose to continue his postgraduate studies in his home of Whangārei at the Tai Tokerau Campus in Northland.

Tristram's story

Mikkol Gabriel Macabali completed his postgraduate study in Mental Health Nursing so he could contribute to a rapidly progressing field of health.

Mikkol's story

Emelia Masari's Master of Health Leadership helped prepare her for a career as a project analyst at Synergia.

Emelia’s story

Postgraduate Public Health Diploma student, Jonah Tangaroa talks about his journey through University and towards pursuing health equity in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Jonah's story

Hannah Rapata (Ngāi Tahu) is using her Master of Health Sciences in Nutrition and Dietetics to help improve equity for Māori health outcomes.

Hannah's story

International student Marilia Couto chose to study the Master of Health Leadership to transition from clinical medicine into management.

Marilia's story

Libby Martin was inspired to pursue postgraduate study after an undergraduate project allowed her to explore the intersection of two medical sciences.

Libby's story

In the Philippines, mental health is a taboo topic. Eivry Kerxen Ambe is hoping to change that by studying health sciences in Auckland.

Eivry's story

Jessee Fia’Ali’I is a health psychologist working with underserved communities, and encourages other Pacific youth to do the same with the PGDipHealthPsych.

Jessee's story

Summer Rangimaarie Wright (Ngāti Maniapoto) is taking a Māori Health and climate justice approach to her Master of Health Sciences in Nutrition and Dietetics.

Summer's story

Josh Cronin-Lampe pursued a Master of Public Health to drive policy changes and enhance equity, population health, and well-being.

Josh's story

Through her doctoral research in obstetrics and gynaecology, Robin Cronin has become an author, speaker, teacher, traveller, and researcher.

Robin's story