Our research

Discover interdisciplinary and international research at Te Kura Toi | School of Arts, exploring storytelling, social media, game studies, arts activism, and more.

Our research in the School of Arts is interdisciplinary and international. These themes represent just some of the areas investigated by our passionate research active staff and postgraduate students:

  • Transmedia storytelling
  • Language of social media
  • Game Studies
  • Online grief and memorialisation
  • Matariki as a contemporary festival
  • Medical humanities
  • Inclusive theatre practice
  • Taonga pūoro
  • The impacts of the pandemic
  • Punkademia
  • Opera Studies
  • Visual Cultures of East Asia
  • Arts Activism in a Changing Environment
  • Embodiment and Creative Practice
  • French colonial history and literary innovation

Research Passions

Below are some examples of staff and postgraduate student (PhD) projects that give a flavor of the breadth of research completed in our School.

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