PhD placement
Students who completed philosophy PhDs since 2006 (in some cases jointly supervised with another discipline):
| Year | Student | Current post |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Chloe Wall | Teaching Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington |
| 2019 | Charles Gibson | Senior Administrator, Information Maintenance, Timetable Services, Otago |
| 2018 | André R. Sant'Anna | Postdoc, Center of Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes; website |
| 2017 | Jon Keyzer | Senior Policy Analyst, Ministry of Primary Industries |
| 2017 | Unsal Cimen | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Mus Alparslan University, Turkey |
| 2017 | Manuel Lechthaler | Student Teacher, University of Strathclyde; website |
| 2017 | Tiddy Smith | Adjunct professor, Universitas Indonesia; website |
| 2017 | Ali Hosseinkhani | researcher at IPM (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences), Iran |
| 2016 | Guillermo Badia | lecturer, University of Queensland; previously postdoc, Johannes Kepler Uni |
| 2015 | Hannah Clark-Younger | R & D Software Engineer, Soul Machines |
| 2015 | Daniel Wee | lecturer, Universiti Brunei Darussalam |
| 2015 | Kirsten Walsh | lecturer, University of Exeter |
| 2014 | Paul Broadbent | software developer |
| 2014 | Hannah Burgess | journals publishing assistant, Wiley |
| 2014 | Juan Gomez | lecturer, Universidad Sergio Arboleda; English teacher, Richmond School (Bogota) |
| 2013 | Sarah Grant | project editor, Epigeum |
| 2012 | Jonathan Jong | research fellow and deputy director, Brain, Belief, and Behaviour Research, Coventry University |
| 2008 | Mary Butler | senior lecturer (occupational therapy), University of Otago |
| 2007 | Greg Dawes | professor (phil and religion), University of Otago |
| 2007 | Glenn Peoples | data analyst, Inland Revenue Department |
| 2006 | Lynley Anderson | associate professor (bioethics), University of Otago |
| 2006 | Peter Ogle | unknown |
| 2006 | Sanjay Thakur | ranger, Department of Conservation |
| 2006 | Scott Williamson | lawyer |
MA placement
Students who completed philosophy MAs since 2006:
| YEAR | STUDENT | CURRENT POST |
| 2023 | Seth Whittington | Graduate Program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 2023 | Rachel Cao | PhD scholarship at Australian National University |
| 2020 | Finn Butler | Administrator, Student Administration, University of Otago |
| 2020 | Briony Blackmore | PhD programme, University of Otago |
| 2019 | Zach Swindlehurst | PhD program, Australian National University |
| 2018 | Chris Lernpass | PhD program, Australian National University |
| 2017 | Britta Clark | PhD student in Philosophy at Harvard |
| 2017 | Sam Pensler | PhD student in Philosophy at UCLA |
| 2017 | Mike McLeod | Professional musician and licensee of The Captain Cook |
| 2016 | Duncan Wilson | |
| 2016 | Trees Beckett | Policy Analyst, Ministry of Social Development |
| 2016 | Caitlin Fitchett | PhD student, Harvard University |
| 2016 | Mark Specht | Energy Analyst, Oakland California |
| 2014 | Charles Gibson | PhD student, Otago |
| 2013 | James Darcy | PhD student, University of Virginia |
| 2013 | Lucy Weston-Taylor | Database and Research Administrator, Nikau Foundation |
| 2011 | Bessie Olsen | PhD student, University of Victoria, Wellington |
| 2010 | Andrew Donnelly | policy analyst, Ministry of Education / PhD University of Sydney 2014 |
| 2010 | Macintosh Stewart | Information Technology Services, Otago / previously assistant professor, Fiji National University / PhD University of Sydney 2014) |
| 2010 | Cristy Yonetani | trainee teacher, New Zealand Graduate School of Education |
| 2009 | Matthew George | independent film-maker |
| 2008 | Kelvin McQueen | assistant professor, Chapman University; previously postdoc at Tel Aviv University / PhD Australian National University 2013 |
| 2007 | Duncan Eddy | local activist |
| 2007 | Marco Fahmi | library e-services manager, Queensland University of Technology |
| 2007 | Emily Jennings | EFL teacher, Korea |
| 2007 | Holly Lawford-Smith | lecturer, University of Melbourne / previously at University of Sheffield / PhD Australian National University |
| 2007 | Raamy Majeed | lecturer, University of Auckland / previously postdoc at Cambridge, Open University / PhD University of Sydney 2012 |
| 2006 | Charles Boulton | senior policy officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade |
| 2006 | Euan Cochrane | digital preservation manager, Yale University |
| 2006 | Taryn Knox | PhD student in bioethics, Otago |
| 2006 | Ian Lawson | Bard College Berlin / PhD University of Sydney 2015 |
| 2006 | Dan Sears | MA student in TESL at University of Washington |
| 2006 | Steven Sue | senior policy advisor, Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment |