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Doctor of Philosophy

UC's Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) involves extensive, sustained, original research in your chosen subject. Learn more about doing a PhD through Te Kura Tāura | UC Graduate School. 

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2024 tuition fees estimate per 120 points:

• Domestic — $7,627 - $9,186 (subject dependent)
• International — $7,627 - $9,186 (subject dependent) for students residing in NZ. Students residing offshore may be charged at the rate of $35,400 - $48,000 per 120 points (subject dependent). Contact Te Kura Tāura | UC Graduate School for more information.

Introduction

The UC Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a research-only degree, carried out under expert supervision and using world-class facilities. At UC you can complete a PhD in over 70 subjects, joining over 1,000 students from more than 60 nations.

A PhD involves extensive, sustained, and original research in your chosen subject, with the results being presented in a thesis that will contribute to intellectual knowledge of the field. It is a mark of intellectual ability, self-discipline, and commitment. A PhD prepares you for a number of careers, including as an academic.

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Why study a phd at uc.

• In addition to expert supervision, UC provides all doctoral students with opportunities to gain transferable skills in areas including communication of research, networking, career planning, databases, statistical analysis, ethics, professional practice, and cultural awareness.
• UC has a number of unique research facilities, collections, resources, and field stations; many of which are renowned globally. See more about our Research impact .
• The University has a thriving postgraduate research community which includes clubs and associations for social interaction and support.
• To find out more about the research interests of staff, start by searching the database in the UC Research Profile . UC Research Profile provides information about individual researchers, the projects they are working on, the research groups they belong to, the specialist equipment that they use for research, and their affiliations.
• There are many benefits for international students studying towards a PhD in Aotearoa New Zealand, such as the possibility to work while studying, apply for a work visa once graduated, pay domestic student fees, and school and work benefits for your partner and children.

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Entry requirements.

Enrolment in a PhD requires completion of a research-focused honours or master’s degree, at First or Second Class (Division I) Honours or Distinction level (or equivalent qualifications).

Applicants with qualifications from outside Aotearoa New Zealand must have been granted admission to the University. Our admissions team, in consultation with the host department, look at your qualifications and transcripts to ensure that you have the background required to complete a PhD. It is possible that you may be required to complete preparatory courses prior to or after admission into a PhD programme.

In exceptional circumstances applicants without the typical academic background, but who can demonstrate the ability to pursue a PhD, may be admitted at the discretion of the Dean of Postgraduate Research.

If English is your additional language, you are also required to meet UC's English language requirements .

For the full entry requirements, see the Regulations for the Doctor of Philosophy or use the admission requirements checker .

One or more courses or research may require vaccination

The government has announced new vaccination requirements for the health and education sectors. At UC, our programmes are strongly connected to our communities of practice. For many of our programmes, you will not be able to complete research or practice-oriented courses if you are not vaccinated. This is due to research/practice taking place in health centres and schools/kura where all employees and volunteers are required to be vaccinated.

For enrolment in the Health Sciences major, you will be required to be vaccinated in line with the  NZ Government regulations , and supply evidence of your vaccination status.

How to apply

PhD students must contact a potential supervisor before applying. Information about the research interests of academic staff (supervisors) can be found on the relevant department website, or the UC Research Profile .

Find out more about how to apply for Doctoral degrees .

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2024 tuition fees estimate (per 120 points):

2023 tuition fees estimate (per 120 points):

• Domestic — $7,419 - $8,936 (subject dependent)
• International — $7,343 - $8,845 (subject dependent). Students residing offshore may be charged at the rate of $33,700 - $46,000 per 120 points (subject dependent). Contact Te Kura Tāura | UC Graduate School for more information.

SSL estimate (per 120 points):

• 2024 — $1,100.40
• 2023 — $992.40

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You may begin your PhD on the first day of any month of the year. Study and research for the PhD is regarded as a full-time occupation throughout the calendar year.

The minimum period of enrolment for full-time study is 3 years and the maximum period 4 years. There are provisions to apply for part-time study, in which case the minimum period is 4.5 years, and you should complete your thesis within 6 years.

For full requirements, see the Regulations for the Doctor of Philosophy .

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Christchurch company proposes taking over 2024 new zealand agricultural show.

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A Christchurch hire company is proposing to take over running the 2024 New Zealand Agricultural Show to ensure this year's event goes ahead.

In April, the Canterbury A&P Association board announced it was cancelling this year's show due to financial difficulties, and earlier this month most of the board announced they would retire.

Phil Anderson said his company, Event Hire, had sent the association a proposal to run a slimmed down version of the show, with a reduced number of stalls and visitors.

He said they would hope to get between 30,000 to 50,000 visitors over three days. Last year the show got 110,000 visitors.

They are also proposing moving the show from Thursday to Saturday, rather than the traditional Wednesday to Friday.

The Agricultural Show usually ends on the Canterbury Anniversary Day public holiday.

Anderson said reducing the visitor numbers would help the planning process.

"From a planning perspective it is good to work with limited numbers," Anderson said. "You can do pre-sales, and manage your infrastructure. Its really driven around traffic management, and toilet infrastructure et cetera."

Anderson said they also want to reduce the entry fees to make it very affordable for families, and to reduce the cost for stall holders.

Under the proposal, the association could either lease Event Hire the land to run a show in conjunction with the association's showing events, or have Event Hire partner with it and share profits.

"What we are trying to do is remove a lot of the risk for them, and just say here is a guarantee for money you could make."

Anderson said the proposal does present certain risks for the company.

"There is definitely heightened risk for our company, the cost to do it and the exposure. I mean we want to deliver this really well, and obviously people will give feedback, and you are in the public eye."

He said they also have an ongoing relationship with the show which they did not want to damage.

Anderson said they were encouraged to get involved by a number of customers who usually have stalls at the show, and wanted to see it go ahead this year.

He said they are meeting with the board on Tuesday, and would need a decision by the end of May in order to get on with planning.

The Canterbury A&P Association board has been approached for comment.

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A rare feather just sold for $28,000, making it worth 40 times as much as gold by weight

• A feather of the extinct huia songbird just sold in New Zealand for about $28,000.
• That makes it worth about $3,153 per gram, or 40 times as much as gold's $77 per gram in New Zealand.
• The huia's plumes are sacred to the Māori people and were worn by those of high status.

A single feather of an extinct bird was auctioned off in New Zealand on Monday for about NZ$46,521, or about $28,000, making it the most expensive feather ever sold worldwide.

The feather of the huia, a songbird native to New Zealand's North Island, is sacred to the Māori people and was worn by elite chiefs, per the New Zealand Geographic.

But the bird has been extinct for over a century, with its last sighting in 1907.

The huia feather sold at Webb's Auction House in Auckland was initially estimated to be worth around $1,830, but its sale price ballooned after 59 bids.

As noted by The Guardian , its final price of $28,000 makes it worth more by weight than gold. Gold costs around $77 per gram in New Zealand, and the 9-gram huia feather is worth $3,153 per gram.

In 2010, another huia feather was sold for about $4,400.

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The feather sold on Monday is framed under protective glass and is classified by the New Zealand government as a Y-registered object. Such items can only be purchased by registered collectors in New Zealand and cannot leave the country without permission.

Dark brown with a white tip, the huia feather was highly valuable in Māori societies and sometimes used in trade or as a gift.

As New Zealand Geographic puts it:

Of all Tane's children, the huia was the most sacred to Māori. Other birds, such as the kōtuku (white heron) and amokura (red-tailed tropic bird) were also prized for their plumes, but huia was pre-eminent. In pre-European times, only chiefs of high rank and their whānau wore the distinguished tail feathers in their hair.

These birds were typically found in pairs in New Zealand's forests and were understood to bond for life, with males and females working in tandem with their differently shaped beaks to feed on insects in trees.

According to New Zealand Geographic, a Māori method of catching a huia was to mimic the bird's call, snare one, and then wait for the other to arrive after it hears its mate's cries.

Habitat loss and capturing of the huai in pre-colonial times contributed to some population loss, per the magazine. Deforestation and systemic hunting by European naturalists and traders exacerbated the bird's decline as its feather became a fashion accessory in the 19th century.

Despite efforts in 1892 to make the huia a protected species, the bird is thought to have gone extinct in the early 20th century.

The huia feather sale comes as auctions draw attention largely from sports and celebrity memorabilia sold at once-seemingly outlandish prices. The famed "Hand of God" jersey worn by soccer legend Diego Maradona, for example, sold in 2022 for $5 million.

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“Your commencement speech at Benedictine College showed courage and conviction and I admire that,” Holtz wrote, later linking to a form from America First Works for people to sign and offer their thanks to Butker for his comments.

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You’ll never set foot in one. But its emissions still effect you. Shanti Mathias reports on a campaign to make private jet owners pay for their emissions in some way.

The private jet passengers saunter down the red carpet, wearing sunglasses and heels; paparazzi cameras flash. The sky is blue, the air control tower in the background is watchful and the climate protesters on each side of the red carpet are holding banners and chanting, “If we allow private jets, climate change is what we get.” 

Of course, this isn’t what private jet users normally look like at all: the lack of a red carpet and paparazzi is the point. Many of the websites offering private jet services around New Zealand instead quietly mention their privacy and discretion. In most major airports around the country, there are terminals set aside for private passengers so they don’t have to mingle with the public. 

The sunglass-wearing “passengers” haven’t disembarked from a plane: they’re part of 350 Aotearoa, a climate action group staging a demonstration against private jets as part of a broader campaign about how airports around the country “roll out the red carpet” for private jet flyers. Within a few minutes, airport security staff roll up in a car and tell the group to pack up. They do. 

“Private jets are 15 times more polluting than commercial flights,” says Nellie Potter, a 350 Aotearoa spokesperson. “These aren’t necessary emissions, they could easily hop on a commercial flight with everyone else.” 

New Zealand’s aviation sector is one of our fastest-growing sources of emissions, rising 116% from 1990 to 2019, according to a recent article by researchers Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan. They found that while globally, aviation produces about 2.8% of all carbon emissions, Aotearoa’s domestic aviation emissions are 12% of our climate change contribution. Their model suggests that the aviation industry is a major threat to New Zealand’s already-in-jeopardy emissions targets: allocating New Zealand’s slice of a global carbon budget, we only have 10 more years of aviation traffic at 2019 levels without jeopardising our international commitments to keeping warming at 1.5 degrees. And the level of flying seen pre-pandemic in 2019 was higher than even a decade earlier, with flights increasing throughout the 2010s. Despite this, New Zealand’s international aviation emissions still aren’t part of the emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Private jet use in New Zealand seems to be growing. Data released to 350 under the Official Information Act and seen by The Spinoff shows a steady uptick in the number of private planes arriving from overseas since 2011, barring an obvious dip during the pandemic. Queenstown Airport , the only airport that releases information about private jet landings publicly, shows 494 private jet landings in 2023, compared to 287 in (pre-pandemic) 2019. 

Adding to the injustice, that OIA showed that the structure of Civil Aviation Authority fees means that privately owned planes pay a third of what commercial flights pay per flight hour; private passengers don’t just get to use exclusive terminals, they also pay less overall for the regulation of the aviation sector.

Paul Callister, the aviation emissions expert, agrees that ending use of private jets is an important, straightforward step to reducing Aotearoa’s emissions while impacting very few people. “It is small, but it’s symbolically important: huge income inequalities are mirrored with emissions inequality.” Private jet websites estimate that the cost for a midsize jet charter in New Zealand starts at $4,300 an hour; people who outright own their own planes, like Peter Jackson , spend millions of dollars. In 2010, a three-day trip to Fiji in his $80m plane was quoted as costing $91,500, higher than many people’s annual salaries.

International flight fees don’t include GST, either. “A poor person going on holiday to Mount Maunganui on a bus is paying GST, while someone flying to Tahiti who is much richer doesn’t have to pay [GST] at all,” Callister says. 

The push against private jets is part of a wider reaction to the idea of luxury emissions, also seen in the climate groups engaging with cruise ships across the country. “It’s so easy to cut [private jet] emissions,” says Alva Feldmeier, the co-director of 350, who was also at the Auckland Airport demonstration. “No one gets harmed from not being on a private jet or a megayacht,” Potter agrees. 

But even if most people think that the use of private jets is unfair, what would have to change to disallow them? Despite saying he would always travel commercially, it only took a few months in office before prime minister Chris Luxon was using the Defence Force plane to go to Australia. Meanwhile, a wealthy businessperson gave David Seymour use of his plane during the 2023 election campaign. The companies that operate private jet terminals and planes around the country aren’t forthcoming about what changes they could imagine for the sector: The Spinoff approached more than five for comment on this article, but none provided any on-the-record information. 

The public is invested in private jets, even if they’re not the ones in the planes. Most major airports in New Zealand are at least part-owned by local councils, which can be a point of contention: are they businesses, run to make profit, or assets, operated in the interests of the public – including the interest of reducing emissions? 

There have been consistent protests against Christchurch Airport’s proposed Tarras expansion in Central Otago, Wellington airport extending its runway , and Auckland Council selling its airport shares. As Joel MacManus has argued , this public ownership creates incentives that are at odds with each other: on one hand, airport ownership is a business meant to generate revenue for councils, regardless of what kinds of flights are landing there. Conversely, many councils have ambitious climate goals, and have declared climate emergencies, which is at odds with the high emissions of aviation, and private planes in particular. 

“Emissions are going up, and private jets and planes are continuing to use Christchurch airport,” says Tyla Harrison-Hunt, a Christchurch councillor. Christchurch City Holdings, the council-controlled organisation that owns the city’s airport (along with the government) has been embroiled by resignations recently , in part due to disagreements over how much the council should be involved in directly managing its assets. “Those company directors want to be a company first, while [councillors] need to consider a city-first approach that includes climate emissions … it’s misaligned with the company’s goal to grow,” Harrison-Hunt says. 

For the moment, Harrison-Hunt doesn’t think it’s possible for the council to ask the airport to outright ban private jets, or for the council-owned port to ban cruise ships: instead, local government has to provide the airports and ports with investment so they don’t have to make money from luxury emissions. “There’s no reason to have more emissions from private emitters.” Knowing that many of these emissions aren’t counted by the government, he wants councils to push the government to include all emissions in its calculations. 

Queenstown Airport, which has a disproportionately high number of private jets landing at its airport due to its reputation as a hub for luxury tourism and billionaire boltholes , is also majority owned by the Queenstown Lakes District Council (the other 25% is owned by Auckland Airport). The airport has a separate terminal for private jets and has at times run out of parking space for privately owned aircraft. In a comment to The Spinoff, an airport spokesperson emphasised that private jets are a “tiny proportion of aircraft movements” at the airport. While the council has flagged aviation emissions in its climate and biodiversity plan – a focus for the region, given that its snowy peaks are particularly vulnerable to heating – the plan doesn’t mention reducing private planes specifically. 

Councillor Esther Whitehead, who is also the climate action co-lead at Climate Action Aotearoa , says that she has suggested to the airport that reducing private flights would “be a straightforward solution to decreasing carbon emissions in line with its own aspirations.” Banning or at least applying a significant tax to private jets would show a meaningful commitment to climate action, she adds, even if reducing the emissions of the aviation sector more broadly is difficult. There’s international precedent: in France, aviation fuel for private aircraft is taxed at 70% .

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Questions about the increasing prominence of private jets get to the heart of how New Zealand’s tourism sector markets itself. Previous tourism minister Stuart Nash emphasised wanting to attract “high quality tourists”: the kind who spend lots of money instead of eating “two minute noodles”. Reading between the lines, it suggests the tourism industry would rather have charter-flight type tourists than backpackers, although new minister Matt Doocey has said that all types of tourists are welcome . Spending more money almost always means creating more emissions, which ultimately damages the natural environment people visit New Zealand to see. Researcher Paul Callister worries that the emphasis in the aviation industry on as-yet-unrealised technologies, like electric planes and so-called “sustainable aviation fuel” , is greenwashing at the expense of the poor, again and again. “Airports are subsidised by the public, at everyone’s expense,” he says. “If you’re asking people to catch the bus or train or cycle while they see people fly over them in a jet, untaxed, it’s hard [for the public] to support reducing emissions overall.” 

The invisibility of private jets is part of the problem, says climate activist Adam Currie. From below, planes are anonymous: a dreamy drift of white in the sky above, a dispatch from a life where you could be escaping to tropical waters or ancient monuments, where you have the money to do so thoughtlessly. Kilometres above, there’s no way to tell who owns a plane; no way to see the carbon dioxide generated from its engines incinerating thousands of litres of kerosene. People who use private jets “benefit from operating in the shade,” Currie says. He thinks it’s time for that to change. “In the middle of the climate crisis, we can start by reducing some of the most wasteful emissions.”

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Having completed his studies, he accepted a place on HSBC’s graduate programme in Sheffield in the north of England. But after attending several induction events, the lender abruptly withdrew his offer last week, citing changes to visa eligibility rules.

Rohan — whose name has been changed to protect his identity — is now rushing to find another employer to sponsor him before his current two-year visa runs out.

“It feels like I’ve wasted 18 months of my life,” he said. “When I first came here the rules were very different. I now feel like I chose the wrong place to study and the wrong place to start my career.”

He is one of scores of international students who were expecting to embark on a professional career in the UK, but have had job offers rescinded after recent changes to visa rules made it too expensive for banks, consultants and many other companies to hire them.

In an attempt to reduce record levels of legal migration — and following pressure from the right flank of the ruling Conservative party — British prime minister Rishi Sunak’s government in April raised the main salary threshold for skilled worker visas from £26,200 to £38,700, the UK median for full-time staff. Occupation-specific thresholds have risen even more sharply.

Companies can still hire some recent graduates at a lower rate of at least £30,960 but the changes are already forcing businesses to rethink their recruitment. The two-year visa available to international graduates from UK universities is not long enough to cover many of the companies’ training programmes.

HSBC , Deloitte and KPMG are among big UK graduate employers to have revoked offers to overseas graduates in recent weeks.

The changes have left big employers in a quandary. Previous case law suggested they could fall foul of rules on discrimination if they rejected candidates purely on the basis of their nationality and visa status. But employers cannot now bump up salaries for international recruits without doing the same for their UK hires — a move that would significantly increase the cost of employing their more junior staff.

“For fairness, consistency and due to the structured nature of our graduate programmes, we are unable to renegotiate or artificially inflate salaries to meet eligibility criteria,” said one person briefed on how KPMG was adapting to the visa changes.

There was a “crossover point” for many companies where “simply paying more” to candidates was “not viable”, added Ed Richardson, programme director for people and skills at BusinessLDN, a lobby group representing about 170 employers, including Lloyds Bank, Unilever and Deloitte.

The new salary requirements will hit hardest in sectors such as manufacturing, where employers have increasingly looked overseas to fill mid-level technical roles. Even in the high-paying tech sector, data centre staff, who often earn less than the new threshold, are in short supply.

But they will also affect professional roles, especially outside London where companies pay less. Stephen Isherwood, chief executive of the Institute of Student Employers, said that while starting salaries at big London-based firms generally cleared the new discounted rates, many regional employers paid less, as did smaller start-ups.

The Big Four — Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC — typically pay first-year graduates between £25,000 and £35,000 in the UK, meaning large accounting firms are caught in the crossfire of the threshold changes. About 3 per cent of Deloitte’s incoming autumn graduate intake — around 35 people — have had their offers withdrawn.

KPMG said it would now only hire overseas graduates to its London programmes — rather than elsewhere in the UK — unless they were part of actuarial schemes.

The visa issues have also exposed the disparity in junior pay within the wider professional services industry. While early career salaries at accounting firms have hardly budged in years, UK law firms have drastically inflated pay for junior staff as they compete with US rivals. A first-year trainee at law firm Freshfields now earns £56,000, rising to £150,000 after two years once they have qualified.

Overall, the median starting salary for graduates in 2024 has risen for a third year to £34,000, a £500 increase from 2023 and a 13.3 per cent rise since 2021, according to High Fliers Research. This follows a decade of largely stagnant wages when low inflation curtailed salaries.

Investment banks offer the highest median graduate salary of £55,000. Consulting firms pay an average of £47,500. But more than half of the 10,000 new UK consulting jobs expected by 2026 will be outside London, in cities such as Manchester and Birmingham, according to the Management Consultancies Association (MCA), and these typically pay less. Banks, including HSBC and JPMorgan Chase, have also been moving functions outside the capital.

Brian Bell, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), said the new salary requirements for skilled workers would in effect limit the system to professional roles and to more experienced hires — ruling out many people who “were not undercutting [UK wages] or being exploited and were contributing to taxes”.

The changes to the skilled worker visa scheme form one part of a wider government clampdown intended to cut legal net migration, which hit a record of 745,000 in 2022. Sunak’s government has also imposed a ban on masters students bringing family members to the UK and is mulling changes to the two-year graduate visa.

International students account for around a tenth of large employers’ graduate intake on average, according to Isherwood. But even within professional services, there is a lot of variation — with international recruits typically filling up to a third of roles in audit, but a far smaller share in consultancy.

Some firms have decided not to revoke offers. Mid-tier accounting firm Grant Thornton, for example, redeployed applicants to offices within the UK where salary bands did meet the new requirements. “We’ve not had to rescind or withdraw any relevant offers,” said one person familiar with the firm.

Isherwood said many other companies were going through prospective recruits and existing trainees “on a case-by-case basis” to see whether they could redeploy people into a role that would qualify for a visa.

Other employers are left managing the fallout, with dozens of graduates frustrated and jobless after having offers withdrawn.

HSBC angered some affected graduates after sending them an automated message saying the FTSE 100 lender was “sorry to see [them] go” after they “decided to leave the selection process”. “They are trolling us at this point,” said one person who received the email.

The bank is “looking into the issue of the automated message”, said one person familiar with the matter.

After spending tens of thousands of pounds on their education in the UK with an intention to stay and work in the country, some feel harshly treated now the goalposts have been moved.

One person who had an offer withdrawn by Deloitte summed up their frustration, saying: “Without any back-up jobs and no time to apply to other jobs as I was in my final exam period, I was left stranded by Deloitte with absolutely no warning or prior knowledge about this change. This is an extremely unfair decision.”

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The decision to commit to doctoral studies is a significant one. At the Business School, the minimum length of a PhD is three years. If you are considering embarking on this journey, you need to be interested in a specific topic or area, know that you enjoy working independently and as part of a bigger intellectual community, and be self-motivated and disciplined. The rewards, however, are many.

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