Current PhD students
Meet PhD students currently studying at the School of Design Innovation and read about their research.
Tanya Ruka
Te Ara Wairua: Reclaiming Pacific Spirituality Through Waka Migration and Indigenous AI
Le Pan
VR Storytelling and Creative Tasks for Preserving Cultural Heritage: Taking Historical Chinese Architectural Pattern as an Example
Hongshuo Guo
Design and Production of Animations to Enhance Stroke Patients' Engagement in Task-Specific Training
Katy Cottrell
The Realm of Intricate Inlays: A Marquetry Practice of Sustainability, Education and Community
Lu Li
Design Fictual: Performative Design Explorations of Reimagining and Disrupting Inherent Women's Identity
Yuwei Wang
Designing a 3D Body Scanning Application to Mitigate Body Image and Privacy Concerns in Customising Fit Bras
Emily Morris
From Game to Play to Beyond: Queering as Transformative Tabletop Role-Playing.
Lina Goldstein
The vein preservation experiences of people with chronic kidney disease and criteria for medical alerts to prevent harm
Jeremy Cameron
Emotional Affordances in Game Design: A Novel Approach to Design Methodology, Creating Moving, Emotively Engaging Player Experiences.
Ola Sawaie
Māori-besque: a study in cross-cultural design and hyphenated identities in New Zealand.
Emma Tempest
Cultivating the spaces that hold us: postpartum health and design in Aotearoa New Zealand.