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Doctoral
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Click, click, click... first shark sounds recorded
27 March 2025
Researchers at University of Auckland's Leigh Marine Laboratory have up-ended the notion sharks are silent.
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Soaring high: seabird researcher wins global contest
23 January 2025
Explain your PhD research in three minutes? No problem for Inka Pleiss.
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Researcher shines light on neurological disorder with a dark history
16 December 2024
A potential breakthrough treatment for functional neurological disorder could offer hope for those suffering from the condition.
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Does opioid use for people living with dementia meet best practice?
11 December 2024
Health Research Council award enables novel study of opioid use of people with dementia living in aged residential care.
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From human milk to flying yoga: a PhD journey
10 December 2024
Liggins PhD student Clara Han has helped us understand how nutrition supports healthy mums and their babies. Now it's time to take her expertise to the world.
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Dr Jin Russell’s PhD: 'Good things take time'
10 December 2024
Completing her PhD, while juggling her many commitments – and Covid-19 – took Dr Jin Russell ten years.
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Familiar media personality now 'Dr Bradley'
24 September 2024
New Zealand TV and radio journalist Sarah Bradley recently graduated from the University of Auckland with a PhD focused on the politics of New Caledonia.
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What drives double eyelid surgery?
23 September 2024
A fascination with cosmetic surgery and consumer behaviour saw PhD graduate Dr Min Li explore why Chinese women, in both China and New Zealand, choose double eyelid surgery.
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First Auckland Pacific counselling PhD graduate
20 September 2024
A unique counselling model tailored to working with Pacific survivors of sexual abuse is the focus of graduate Toleafoa Sarah Sala Va'afusuaga McRobie’s doctoral thesis.
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War and peace: graduate’s focus on nuclear-free world
5 September 2024
The urgent need for the world to rid itself of nuclear weapons is the subject of University of Auckland PhD graduate Carolina Panico’s thesis.
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Can we rethink tourism sustainably?
5 August 2024
Is sustainable tourism achievable or just a lofty ideal? Doctoral candidate Claire Beach is exploring the complexities of the tourism industry in her research.
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Standing up for what’s right: Bernard Sama
9 May 2024
From a prison in Southern Cameroon to Auckland’s Spark Arena, social work PhD graduate Bernard Sama has travelled a long way to reach this moment.