Faculty oF humanities and social sciences 2013 - Victoria University ...

Miki Seifert
PhD, Te Kawa a Māui
“To ensure that Māori values, ethics and aspirations
were an integral part of my research, I chose to
conduct my research at Te Kawa a Māui.”
Miki, a recipient of the New Zealand International Doctoral
Research Scholarship, was awarded the 2010 PGSA Research
Excellence Award for Māori Knowledge & Development for her
development of a decolonising methodology that employs
a mix of knowledges and finds that knowledge production
needs to be performative—something must be done—and
transformative—something has to change. Her research drew
upon her 20-odd years of exploring the cultural interface as an
artist-researcher in the US.
With William Franco, she is co-founder and co-artistic
director of With Lime, a Wellington-based international,
interdisciplinary arts company that creates performances,
installations and projections that explore the interface between
cultures and is committed to the vision of the arts as positive
force for personal and societal transformation. Presently,
they are developing The Dragon King’s Daughter, a onewoman
Butoh performance for Miki that utilises her research
methodology and the latest image projection technology.
Libby Johns
MMusTher candidate and Scholarship
recipient
“My journey in music has continued to expand my
experience as an individual and in relationships
with friends and the community.”
In 2008 Libby completed a BMus in Jazz Performance as a
saxophonist. It was during these studies at NZSM’s Mt Cook
Campus that she became acquainted with the Music Therapy
Programme, the only tertiary programme in Music Therapy
available in New Zealand.
“I really wanted to make music and to empower others to make
music. Following two years of working and travelling I enrolled in
the Master of Music Therapy in 2011. The papers and programmes
on offer at the NZSM have given me the ability to specialise, whilst
still exposing me to music and people outside of my focus area. I
am now working, as a music therapy student, in a profession which
I am both fascinated by and excited to be a part of.”
Libby is a recipient of the Sir Roy McKenzie Scholarship. She is
currently on a nine-month placement at the Raukatauri Music
Therapy Centre in Auckland where she works as a student music
therapist with children who have diverse needs and abilities.
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