Our people
Collaborators
The AUT Human Potential Centre has collaborated with a wide range of experts on many of its research projects.
- Professor Kuni Jenkins
- Ms Margaret Johnston
- Professor Jim Mann
- Claire McLachlan
- Dr Rachael Taylor
- Associate Professor Sheila Williams
- Dr Hannah Badland
- Nic Mason
- Associate Professor Karen Witten
- Nicholas Garrett
- Associate Professor Felicity Goodyear–Smith
- Dr Lannes Johnson
- Dr Louise Schofield
- Dr Rachael Taylor
- Suzanne Mavoa
- Associate Professor Karen Witten
Current students
- Andrew King (Master's candidate)
Topic: The Ergogenic Effect of Pre-Exercise Carbohydrate on High-Volume Resistance Training Performance.
Supervisors: Eric Helms, Caryn Zinn - Christine Wardle (MPhil)
Topic: Public Health Nutrition
Supervisors: Professor Grant Schofield, Catherine Crofts - Fern Pereira (Master's candidate)
Auditing the healthiness and eco-friendliness of year 6 students' lunchboxes in socio-economically diverse Auckland schools
Supervisors: Prof Grant Schofield, Tom Stewart - Julianne Taylor (MPhil candidate)
Topic: A pilot study to test the effect of the autoimmune protocol diet in people with rheumatoid arthritis.
Supervisors: Caryn Zinn, Gael Mearns - Olivia Malamentenios
Feasibility of using digital photography with a food processing classification system to improve quantification of food quality
Supervisor: Prof Grant Schofield - Rebecca Rose (Master's candidate)
Topic: Acute effect of heart rate monitor projection on exercise effort in Intermediate aged school students
Supervisors: Assoc Prof Nigel Harris, Chris Lonsdale - Tanya Cleland (Master's candidate)
Topic: Exploring the oral health attitudes and practices of adolescent mothers: A case study
Supervisors: Patricia Lucas, Carolyn Cairncross - Yuval Eyal (Master's candidate)
Topic: The role of secondary school sport academies in New Zealand
Supervisors: Patricia Lucas, Simon Walters
- Anantha Narayanan (PhD candidate)
Topic: Application of data science methodologies to explore, predict and model wellbeing outcomes using the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).
Supervisors: Dr Tom Stewart, Assoc Prof Scott Duncan, Prof Gail Pacheco - Elias Cohen (PhD candidate)
Topic: Applied mobilities and the creation of healthy participatory futures concerning urban regeneration on community wellbeing in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Supervisors: Assoc Prof Scott Duncan, Jennifer Nikolai - Erin Smith (PhD candidate)
Topic: High intensity combined aerobic and resistance exercise: Effects on cardiometabolic health
Supervisors: Nigel Harris, Lance Dalleck, Gary Van Guilder - Gazal Bharara (PhD candidate)
Topic: Positive Mental Health of Adolescents: Facilitators and Inhibitors
Supervisors: Aaron Jarden, Scott Duncan, Erica Hinckson - Geeta Sharma (PhD candidate)
Topic: Benefits and feasibility of an integrated dance programme in the New Zealand primary school curriculum
Supervisors: Scott Duncan, Jennifer Nikolai, Tom Stewart - Kim Santabarbara (PhD candidate)
Topic: Female Hormonal Cycle Based Strength Training Programme Design
Supervisors: Nigel Harris, Deborah Dulson, Robert Borotkanics - Lana Chisholm
Topic: Examining the wellbeing of rangatahi impacted by new urban regeneration projects in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand Supervisors: Prof Erica Hinckson, Assoc Prof Scott Duncan - Leila Hedayatrad (PhD candidate)
Topic: Disentangling the combined effects of 24-hour time use behaviours on childhood physical and mental wellbeing: a compositional data analysis
Supervisors: Scott Duncan, Tom Stewart - Nikki Penetito-Hemara (PhD candidate
Tuia te matauranga, kia hono ai te kori - Bind the knowledge to connect movement
Supervisors: Isaac Warbrick, Assoc Prof Nigel Harris - Peter Carter (PhD candidate)
Community Governance: A technology-based citizen engagement planning model in the Auckland context
Supervisors: Erica Hinckson, Ljubica Mamula-Seadon, Moushumi Chaudhury - Sylvia North (PhD candidate)
Topic: Dietary Approaches in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Blood glucose, insulin, and carbohydrates
Supervisors: Caryn Zinn, Catherine Crofts, Grant Schofield - Tamara Bozovic (PhD candidate)
Topic: Quality of the walking environment and difficulties to access local destinations
Supervisors: Erica Hinckson, Melody Smith, Tom Stewart - Wendy Reynolds (PhD candidate)
Yoga as a Self-Management Tool: The flow-on effect of Yoga to Physical Health, Psychological Wellbeing, and Positive Health Behaviours
Supervisors: Elizabeth Du Preez, Assoc Prof Nigel Harris - Yasmine Elmahdy (PhD candidate)
Topic: Towards more sustainable marine mammal tourism: An assessment of New Zealand's marine mammal tourism management regime
Supervisors: Mark Orams, Michael Lueck
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