Dean's List 2024
The Dean’s List recognises theses that are of exceptional quality in every respect including scholarship, research content, quality of expression and accuracy of presentation.
This page is updated each month as new doctoral candidates are added to the Dean's List.
January
Chad Drake (Auckland Bioengineering Institute)
Thesis title: Non-Invasive Biomagnetic Imaging of the Stomach Validated by Electroanatomical Mapping
Main Supervisor: Dr Recep Avci
Co Supervisor: Dr Niranchan Paskaranandavadivel and Prof Leo Cheng
Fengyuan Zhen (Arts)
Thesis title: Heisei (1989-2019) Evil Woman: Textualising Murderous Women in Contemporary Japan
Main Supervisor: Dr Nicole Perry
Co Supervisor: Dr Rumi Sakamoto
Xichen Chen (Engineering)
Thesis title: Digital Technologies (DT) in the AEC Industry: Investigating Determinants Impacting DT Adoption & Developing a Transformative Roadmap Facilitating DT Implementation
Main Supervisor: Assoc Prof Alice Chang-Richards
Co Supervisor: Dr Yang Zou
February
Jena Macapagal Foliaki (FMHS)
Thesis title: The role of stromal cells in the establishment of Glioblastoma tumour microenvironment immunosuppression
Main Supervisor: Dr Thomas Park
Co Supervisor: Prof Michael Dragunow
Juliana Tong (Science)
Thesis title: Novel Cleavable Linkers for Antibody-Drug Conjugate Targeted
Cancer Therapy
Main Supervisor: Prof Dame Margaret Brimble
Co Supervisor: Dr Iman Kavianinia
Leo Baldwin-Ramult (CAI)
Thesis title: Symptoms in Silico: Psychoanalysis and Generative Computer Art
Main Supervisor: Dr Lucille Holmes
Co Supervisor: Dr Simon Ingram
Mie Riisom (Science)
Thesis title: Organoruthenium Anticancer Agents: Analytical and Cell Biological Studies
Main Supervisor: Prof Christian Hartinger
Co Supervisor: Prof Bruno Fedrizzi and Assoc Prof Stephen Jamieson
Song Yang (Science)
Thesis title: Spatio-temporal Graph Representation Learning
Main Supervisor: Assoc Prof Jiamou Liu
Co Supervisor: Dr Kaiqi Zhao
March
Alina Pavlova (FMHS)
Thesis title: Developing multi-level interventions to facilitate compassion in healthcare
Main Supervisor: Prof Nathan Consedine
Co Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sarah-Jane Paine
Felicia Fui Kueh Tai (Science)
Thesis title: Assessing the landscape of pesticide risk for solitary ground-nesting bees
Main Supervisor: Dr David Pattemore
Co Supervisor: Prof Jacqueline Beggs
April
Kelsey Miller (Science)
Thesis title: Evaluating large-scale sea urchin removal as a potential tool for restoring kelp forests
Main Supervisor: Assoc Prof Nick Shears
Co Supervisor: Dr Richard Taylor
Neil Birrell (Science)
Thesis title: Insects as Food in Aotearoa New Zealand
Main Supervisor: Assoc Prof Greg Holwell
Co Supervisor: Prof Thomas Buckley and Dr Leilani Walker