Thesis Information: Pacific Postgraduates

• Pacific Student Support

  This covers a range of services, support people, resources and groups which support your success as Pacific students at Otago. For those of you who did you undergraduate degree here at Otago, many of these faces will be familiar.

• Contact on-campus Pacific Staff for support, e.g.

Esmay Eteuati, Commerce Division

Dr Allamanda Faatoese, Health Sciences Division

Kala Fagasoaia, Pacific Island Research and Student Support Unit

Dr Telesia Kalavite, Humanities Division

Dr Christiane Leurquin, Humanities Division

Assoc Prof Jesse Kokaua, Va'a o Tautai, Centre for Pacific Health

Talai Mapusua, Va'a o Tautai, Centre for Pacific Health

Dr Vanisha Mishra-Vakaoti, Sciences Division

Support Advisors, within each division, can offer support, advice and advocacy to help you in your research journey:

* acting as a link to the resources offered by the University;
* offering workshops, regular research meetings and seminars;
* acting in an advocacy capacity;
* offering support to individual students;
* offering advice on scholarships; and,
* providing opportunities for you to meet other Pacific postgraduate students and staff at Otago and nationally.

• Pacific Research @ Otago - find out about the primary role of Pacific research in generating knowledge and understanding about, and for, Pacific peoples and their environments.

• Contact your Pacific Engagement Advisor: Sela Pole-Fehoko                       Te Pātaka Mātauraka | The Library

Email: sela.pole-fehoko@otago.ac.nz

• Subject Librarians - contact your Divisional Library support librarian network

• Hocken Library Resources and Services for Pacific students and staff 

Email: Kākahu.Banks@otago.ac.nz

• Conduct Pacific Research at the Hocken Library

Come home to the Pacific Islands Centre

Te Pokapū mā kā ākoka o kā Moutere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa

Tel: +64 3 479 8278 
Email: pacific@otago.ac.nz 
Office: 520 Castle Street