Social Practice graduate Sheree Veysey has helped many people with their mental health since leaving Unitec, including working on the National Depression Line and working in South Auckland as a social practice worker. In her current role as Programme Manager of the Rethink team, she’s back at Unitec in November, offering Mental Distress workshops to… Read more »
Our Cyber Guy Meet Rie Dodsworth from our IT team. He’s a man with eclectic interests, including cracking safes, dowsing (divining ground water), cooking, riding horses, reading lots of books and travelling – in fact he’s worked in 12 different countries! But over the next few months, you’re going to get to know him as… Read more »
This week on campus our creative and media agency Drum-PHD, photographer and a film crew, supported by Marketing, have been on site to capture stills and video footage for our new brand campaign; ‘Find your thing’ – Rapua tō ara. Find your thing, at Unitec This ‘tag line’ is a key part of Unitec’s brand… Read more »
Our School of Environmental and Animal Sciences is working alongside far north Iwi, Te Roroa and the Department of Conservation to help them prevent the extinction of the Roimata o Tōhē shrub. Roimata o Tōhē have only ever been found in one area near the summit of Maunganui, not far from Dargaville, which is also… Read more »
Two of our Trades students have excelled nationally in their recent industry exams, earning excellence awards from the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board, and putting them at the top of their field in the country. Each year, the Board awards the Certifying Merit of Excellence Award acknowledging high standards of achievement in the certifying registration… Read more »
Update from Executive Director – Ako, Simon Nash: EERrrrrrr – Week 1 Kia ora e te whānau Week 1 has gone really well (note: you have to get your fun where you can, so we’ve adopted a pirate voice for saying “EERrrrrrrr”). Focus area teams are emerging from their panel sessions looking pleased with themselves,… Read more »
What a year it’s been! After a very busy year full of unexpected bumps, wouldn’t it be nice to get your team together for some fun and games? Throughout November, our Sports Centre team is offering one-hour, free, facilitated sessions to help you take a break from your day-to-day office setting, and relax and have… Read more »
Ngā Wai a Te Tūī researcher and lecturer Jacqueline Paul (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Puhi Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) recently arrived at the University of Cambridge to study a Master of Philosophy in Planning, Growth and Regeneration in the Department of Land Economy. The 26-year-old who holds a four-year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree has been… Read more »
Our annual Research Symposium attracted a record number of entries this year with more than 160 research submissions from tertiary institutes from all round the country. Tūāpapa Rangahau Director, Associate Professor Marcus Williams, said the number of entries this year was unprecedented, and the convening team had made the decision to stage the Symposium over… Read more »
The Unitec Excellence Awards – Ngā Tohu Kairangi o Wairaka 2020 Tukua kia tū takitahi ngā whetū o te rangi – Let each star in the sky shine its own light It’s that time of year when we recognise and celebrate the amazing work that our people have contributed to Unitec. Our ELT launched… Read more »
