The NZGS Post/Graduate Network has been initiated to strengthen the Geography discipline, build future capacity, and enhance the experience, skills and feelings of belonging among Geography post/graduates across New Zealand universities.

We aim to develop a support network where students can discuss, share and learn about issues that directly affect them.

To develop the Network’s capacity and generate fellowship, we aim to hold regular postgraduate workshops, theme-based webinars through the access grid, and national workshops at the biennial NZGS Conference.

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National Representatives

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University of Auckland

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Kat is embarking on a BSc Honours in Physical Geography, specialising in geomorphology.  Her research interests include landform generation and destruction by fluid dynamics.

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Marc has recently finished his MSc in Geography, with plans to start a PhD later in 2012. His Masters thesis examines the relationships between information and environmental values in freshwater planning, and creating new spaces for deliberation about freshwater knowledge. He has a strong interest in the politics of biophysical science and disciplinary debates in geography

University of Waikato

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Cherie is doing a PhD in Geography at the University of Waikato, and her thesis examines the ways in which love and romance develop and evolve within the virtual environments of online games like World of Warcraft. Cherie also works as an editorial assistant for Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.

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Gail is currently beginning the second year of her PhD. thesis in Critical Human Geography.  Her thesis examines the spaces of emotion and affect within the experiences of relocated Christchurch earthquake survivors.  Gail aims to create dialogues between disaster scholarship and contemporary theoretical explorations of emotion and affect, as well as, influence disaster response and recovery policies.

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Jessica is completing the MSocSc in human geography at the University of Waikato. The research examines the spatialised subjectivities of New Zealand men who experience anxiety and depression and the ways in which men relate to gender and mental health discourses in New Zealand media. Jessica also works part-time for the tourism programme as a tutor, and is a student representative for the Waikato Branch of NZGS.

Massey University

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Jane is in her final year of a PhD in Geography at the Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University.  Her research involves investigating the response of New Zealand rivers to Holocene climate change, and as part of this she is focussing on establishing a high resolution ¹⁴C dated record of flooding and sedimentation in Northland catchments.

Victoria University

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Amanda is a doing a PhD in Human Geography, looking at how discourses around "nature" intersect with a water storage project in the Hurunui catchment, Canterbury​. She is also interested in activism that challenges the neoliberalisation of New Zealand's universities.

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Gradon is doing a PhD in Human Geography, looking at forms of everyday urban activism which hint at a post-capitalist politics. He has also recently taken up gardening

University of Canterbury

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Joanne is doing a PhD at the University of Canterbury with the Geography and Accounting and Information Systems Departments.  Her research explores organisational recovery and resilience following the Canterbury earthquakes.  She is examining the way in which an organisation’s relationship to its local context and its social network structure shape its recovery trajectory and ability to adapt to new post-earthquake contexts.

Lincoln University

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Ruth is completing the second year of a Masters in Environmental Policy at Lincoln University.  Living in Christchurch it is hard not have an interest in the rebuild and associated issues, although her interest in the environment and policy is more general than the urban form.

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Nick is a PhD candidate at Lincoln University studying water governance in the Canterbury region. Before starting his PhD he authored articles on climate change mitigation, common-pool resource governance of fisheries and collaborative approaches to water planning. He has an interest in human, environmental and economic geographies, with a particular focus on how power interacts with and shapes space and place.

University of Otago

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Ben is currently completing his MA in Geography at the University of Otago. His research is focused on the high country landscapes of New Zealand and examines the relationship between high country agricultural and conservation interests. Ben’s thesis seeks to examine how high country landowners value and understand the high country environment and where these values align with conservation interests in this nationally significant place.