Current and completed postgraduates

Current postgraduates

• Chris Arnison
  'Religious Experience and Psychedelic Compounds' (PhD, 2025)
• Luke Tisch
  'The Impact of Market Integration on the Relationship between Parental Religiosity, Fertility, and Child Outcomes' (MA, 2025)
• Hayley Bryan-Brett
  'The Reindigenisation of Wairuatanga in the Evolution of Māori Identity' (MA, 2025)
• Angela Finestone
  (MA, 2025)
• Yincheng Qian
  (MA, 2025)

Completed postgraduates

• Akbordin Rattana
  'A Translation and Comparative Analysis of Pussadeva’s Paṭhamasambodhi' (PhD, 2025)
• Gregory Smith
  'A Hindu Twist to the Panentheist Turn: Comparing Rāmānuja and Krause' (MA, 2025)
• Woramat Malasart
  'The Dhammakāya Gātha from core text to commentary: Textual circulation, manuscript transmission and Buddhist practices in traditional Buddhism in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia' (PhD, 2024)
• Anushka Kahandagama
  'New Buddhist trends in post-war Sri Lanka: Negotiating power and authority' (PhD, 2024)
• Donna Roy
  'Threads of Faith: Finding Meaning in the Art of Ecclesiastical Embroidery' (MA, 2024)
• Cherie Aarts Coley 
  'Rasa: The Theories and Psychology of Aesthetics, Emotion and Liberation' (MA, 2023)
• Alistair Savai’i Knewstubb
  'Buddhist contemplative techniques will not cause a scientific revolution (MA, 2022)
• Luka Johnston
  'Religion and Sex Work: Sex workers perspectives on religion, identity, family and health in New Zealand and Australia' (MA, 2022)
• Gihani De Silva
  'Buddhist Nuns and Social Empowerment' (PhD, 2022)
• Thomas White
  'Contronymic Secularism: The Constitutional Politics of Religion in Fiji' (PhD, 2020)
• Holly Jones
  'Life-Prolonging Medical Care and Religiosity at the End of Life' (MA, 2020)
• Woramat Malasart
  'The Dhammakayanussati-katha: A Trace of “Siam's Boran Buddhism” from the Reign of Rama I (1782-1809 CE)' (MA, 2019)
• Keziah Wallis
  'The Bonds of Water: Strings of Connectedness in Bamar Buddhist Life' (PhD, 2018)
• Tongthida Krawengit
  'The Three Trials of Kruba Sriwichai' (MA, 2018)
• Masoumeh Rahmani
  'Drifting Through Samsara: Tacit Conversion and Disengagement in Goenka’s Vipassana Movement in New Zealand' (PhD, 2017)
• Linda Zampol D'Ortia
  'The Cape of the Devil: Salvation in the Japanese Jesuit Mission under Francisco Cabral (1570–1579)' (PhD, 2017)
• Helen Bradstock
  '“Let’s Talk about Something Else”: Religion and Governmentality in New Zealand’s State Primary Schools' (PhD, 2016)
• Danilo Giambra
  'Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media' (MA, 2016)
• Phra Akbordin Rattana
  'On the Devotion to the Buddha in Paramanuchit’s Marabandha Episode of the Paṭhamasambodhi' (MA, 2016)
• Nicole Aaron
  'Let the “Dirty” Women Speak: The Agency and Divergent Aspirations of Devadasis and Development Interventions in Karnataka, India' (PhD, 2015)
• Phra Kiattisak
  'Mission, Meditation and Miracles: An Shigao in Chinese Tradition' (MA, 2015)
• Tenzin Mullin
  'The Shifting Narratives and Circling Bodhisattvas of Baoguo Si: A Study of Lay Buddhist Ritual at an Historic Temple on Mt. Emei, Sichuan China' (MA, 2013)
• Katharina Völker
  'Quran and Reform: Rahman, Arkoun, Abu Zayd' (PhD, 2012)
• Isara Treesahakiat
  'The Significance of Khruba Sriwichai's Role in Northern Thai Buddhism: His Sacred Biography, Meditation Practice and Influence' (MA, 2011)
• Lisa Knitter
  'Exploring Spirituality in a New Zealand Oncology Unit' (MA, 2011)
• Elizabeth Young
  'Politics and the End-Times: Pretribulational, Premillennial Dispensationalist Interpretations of the Bible and Current Events' (MA, 2010)
• Eric Repphun
  'Haunted: religious modernity and reenchantment' (PhD, 2009)
• Ron Fogel
  'Spirituality, Culture and Place: the Rainbow Temple in NSW, Australia' (MA, Anthropology-Religious Studies, 2009)
• Bindu Rajendren
  'Representing Identities through Theyyam Ritual and Performative Practices' (MDance Studies, 2009)