Unitec and MIT Senior Legal Counsel Kara Hiron named among best in country

1 April 2022

According to NZ Lawyer, the role of in-house lawyers has significantly changed over the past few years:

“Once relegated to managing strictly legal issues, in-house counsel are today considered some of the most valuable advisors within an organisation as their duties have expanded into assisting businesses with everything from legal to planning.”

Unitec Creative Practice graduate wins major art award with her highly-acclaimed work, ‘Pink Bats’

29 March 2022

Melissa McMahon, a recent Master of Creative Practice student, has won the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Three Dimensional Artform 2022 with her winning work Pink Bats selected from nearly 300 entries nationwide.

“It’s never too late to learn” – Turning your passion into a profession

18 March 2022

The Space Between Us

Bold Innovators Scholarship 2022 awarded to Social Practice graduate

10 March 2022

The Bold Innovators Scholarship is worth $15,000 and is awarded annually to recent Unitec Master’s or Doctoral Graduates to help them develop innovative and enterprising projects based on their research.

Kristi’s project draws on research undertaken for her Master of Applied Practice (Social Practice). She also holds a PGDip in Counselling (Narrative Therapy).

Kristi Shaw

2025 Unitec Pacific Scholarships

Unitec Pacific Success Scholarships - this scholarship, is to encourage Pacific students thinking about studying at Unitec for the first time, to pursue their goals and study with Unitec. 

Counting dogs

Dogs head to maths class

3 March 2022

Led by Senior Lecturer Dr Kristie Cameron, the researchers are investigating if dogs can be taught to count by understanding the differences in quantities. The project was started by BASCI graduate Sophie Nannestad in 2021, and will be continued by another graduate Kayla Briden in 2022 after the project won a contestable Early Career Research grant.

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