Faculty of Arts


Tuākana undergraduate


Tuākana is a mentoring service for Stage I Māori and Pacific students.

The programme


The Tuākana Arts undergraduate programme provides academic and pastoral support to first year Māori and Pacific students in a culturally familiar environment.

Tuākana provide workshops, monitor the due dates of coursework and work with students who may struggle to meet course deadlines. The workshops are organised and run by Tuākana mentors (experienced students) who provide pastoral and academic support to students.


For more information

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Sereana Patterson
Undergraduate Equity Co-ordinator

Phone: + 64 9 373 7599 ext 84219
Email: s.patterson@auckland.ac.nz

Meet the mentors

Our mentors are high-achieving Arts students who share their pathways to success to help you on the road to yours. The mentors also run workshops around assignment and exam time, and you can contact them to find out when they have office hours.

You can find Tuākana Arts mentors throughout the faculty, in almost every department. You can contact them by email to make an appointment to discuss your coursework, learning or to find out what workshops you can attend to supplement your lectures and tutorials.

Tuākana Arts mentors know where and how to get the help you need.

Department  Email Contacts
Anthropology tuakana.anthro@auckland.ac.nz James Crooks
Asian Studies tuakana.asian@auckland.ac.nz Maia Turei
Applied Language Studies and Linguistics

tuakana.dalsl@auckland.ac.nz

tuakana.linguistics@auckland.ac.nz

Alex Tuxford (English Writing/Academic English Studies)

Forrest Panther

Art History tuakana.arthistory@auckland.ac.nz Adelaide Dunn
Classics and Ancient History tuakana.classics@auckland.ac.nz Marcia Leenen, Zoë Henry and Sophie Coombe
English tuakana.english@auckland.ac.nz Michelle Johansson and Michael McLeod
Film, Television and Media Studies tuakana.ftvms@auckland.ac.nz Jay Tausi and Chloe Manga
History tuakana.history@auckland.ac.nz Aleisha Skelton and Angela Vaai
Māori Studies tuakana.maori@auckland.ac.nz Valentino Wichman and Sam Stone
O'Rorke tuakana.arts@auckland.ac.nz Nikolas Wilson
Pacific Studies, Centre for tuakana.pacific@auckland.ac.nz Janet Ikimotu and Kya Lal
Philosophy tuakana.phil@auckland.ac.nz Talia Sellars and Rereaute Tamanui
Political Studies tuakana.politics@auckland.ac.nz David Green, Aroha Fletcher and Benedict Stewart
SELL tuakana.italian@auckland.ac.nz

tuakana.spanish@auckland.ac.nz

tuakana.german@auckland.ac.nz

tuakana.french@auckland.ac.nz

Adam Thompson (Italian)

Joshua Tahana (Spanish)

Kirstie Macdiarmid (German)

Aria Newfield (French)

Sociology

tuakana.sociol@auckland.ac.nz

tuakana.ftvms@auckland.ac.nz

Moeata Keil, Saia Mataele and Adam Craigie

Jay Tausi (stage 2&3)

Theology tuakana.theology@auckland.ac.nz Vaitusi Nofoaiga


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