At the end of the first 12 months of a PhD, a formal document (usually 10,000 words) and a presentation of about 40mins are required to summarise the research to date. At AUT it is referred to using the term PGR9. It forms a checkpoint and milestone, after which, if successful, the provisional PhD student becomes a PhD candidate. One thesis type is thesis by publication (pathway 2), pathway 3 is through practical work artefact and thesis. But presenting work-in-progress can assist in prepping work and refining ideas (almost as thesis by presentation). Two main academic events acted as milestones to my present work, which in turn creates material for the thesis: the AUT Symposium 2018 and the Nga Pae o te Maramatanga MAI Doctoral Conference 2018.
In addition, I undertook a number of activities and creative projects that occur in the intersection of comics, children’s books and indigenous storytelling.
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| Creative projects and activities. Copyright Zak Waipara 2018 |
The Stolen Stars of Matariki with Miriama Kamo, Penguin’s Oh Boy: A Storybook of Epic NZ Men (with a bunch of epic NZ illustrators), Cardboard Campus from AUT Makerspace, a Comics Workshop in Rawene (Hokianga Book Festival), the Ko Rongowhakaata Exhibition book, and a shout out from Te Papa Museum.
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