Emma Dalton found the perfect part-time job to work around her studies at the University of Waikato. The role of programme coordinator for the Bay of Plenty branch of Recreate NZ, a provider of social and recreational services to the disability community, was also a good fit for the sociology student’s goal to make a difference in the lives of others.

Master of Professional Writing student, Heidi Rogers, has claimed first prize in this year’s Peter Wells Short Fiction Contest.

Rogers won the competition for her piece Finding Our Way Around Violets– a story about a couple who is aware of their neighbour being abused, and the struggle of not knowing what they may have come across.

More than one-in-16 people in New Zealand today – or more than 300,000 in total – is a migrant without residence status, living here on a temporary work, student or family visa.

Many of those migrants fill key roles that will help us through this COVID-19 pandemic. Care workers, nurses, doctors, truck drivers, farm workers and fruit pickers are just a few examples.

Senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato, William Jennings, has been made a knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques, a national order bestowed by the French government to around 100 distinguished academics each year.