{"id":758,"date":"2025-08-27T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/?p=758"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:27:06","slug":"driving-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/driving-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianca Elkington | PhD student driving change in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-743 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/files\/2025\/08\/Bianca-Elkington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/files\/2025\/08\/Bianca-Elkington.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/files\/2025\/08\/Bianca-Elkington-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/files\/2025\/08\/Bianca-Elkington-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>This excerpt is from an article originally published on the university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/news\/newsroom\/phd-student-driving-change-in-education\">Te P\u0101nui Taura | Postgraduate News Bulletin<\/a>. K\u014drero by Brigham Riwai-Couch, M\u0101ori Communications Adviser.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Studying at the University of Otago \u2013 \u014ct\u0101kou Whakaihu Waka was initially far off her radar, but a soon to be Doctor of Education now finds herself leading meaningful research here.<\/p>\n<p>Bianca Elkington (Ng\u0101ti Toa, Ng\u0101ti Tama, Ng\u0101ti Koata, and Ng\u0101i Tahu), has always had a firm belief that education is more than classrooms and qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>She believes that for M\u0101ori students especially, using whakapapa and identity are crucial to making spaces where students can thrive.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button button--callout\" href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/news\/newsroom\/phd-student-driving-change-in-education\" aria-label=\"Read the full article Driving Change\">Read the full article <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This excerpt is from an article originally published on the university Te P\u0101nui Taura | Postgraduate News Bulletin. K\u014drero by Brigham Riwai-Couch, M\u0101ori Communications Adviser. Studying at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86705,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/taor-ncpacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}