Academic staff

Head of School

Mandy Smith

Deputy Head of School

Sue Hedges

Associate Head of School, Teaching and Learning

Sue Jowsey

Associate Head of School - Research

Gregory Bennett

Te Kaiwhakatere

Rachel Carley

Associate Head of School External Engagement & International

Dafydd Sills-Jones

Heads of Departments

Animation, Visual Effects & Game Design: Dafydd Sills-Jones

Communication Design: Fiona Grieve

Fashion Design: Leica Johnson

Industrial Design: Dan Scudder

Interaction Design: Fiona Grieve

Spatial and Interior Design: Rafik Patel

Visual Arts: Fiona Amundsen

Programme Director – Bachelor of Design

Jenni Hohepa-Tupu

Director of Minors

Emily O’Hara

Director Postgraduate

Sue Gallagher

Postgraduate Programme Directors

Master of Design: George Hajian

Master of Visual Arts: Monique Redmond

Doctoral Studies: Christopher Braddock`

Professors

Albert Refiti

Chris Braddock

Mandy Smith

Stephen Reay

Welby Ings

Associate Professors

Dafydd Sills-Jones

David Sinfeld

Fiona Amundsen

Janine Randerson

Marcos Mortensen Steagall

Miriam Harris

Monique Redmond

Natalie Robertson

Susan Hedges

Senior Lecturers

Andreas Mikellis

Becky Ford

Bobby Luke

Carl Douglas

Caroline Powley

Dan Scudder

Dieneke Jansen

Emily O’Hara

George Hajian

Ingrid Boberg

Ivana Nakarada-Kordic

Jason Kennedy

Jennifer Whitty

Kei Hoshi

Lisa McEwan

Lyle Reilly

Meighan Ellis

Nooroa Tapuni

Rachel Carley

Rachelle Moore

Sue Gallagher

Sue Jowsey

Tatiana Tavares

Lecturers

Aakifa Chida

Aditya ‘AD’ Narayan

Amber Ruckes

Anke Nienhuis

Brooke Walker

Cecelia Faumuina

Chen Chen

David Van Vliet

Emily Ramsay

Jack Wu

James Smith

Jeena Shin

Layla Tweedie-Cullen

Lecia Johnson

Julian Hooper

Lesley Ung

Lucy Meyle

Masaya Todoroki

Michaela Dodd

Rafik Patel

Ziggy Lever

Senior Research Fellow

Jyoti Kalyanji

Research Officers

Cassie Khoo

Daniel Collings

Finn Godbolt

Postdoctoral Fellows

Arielle Walker

Dilshani Kumarapeli