{"id":914,"date":"2019-04-04T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=914"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:08:51","slug":"latest-phd-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/latest-phd-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest PhD submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_915\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2019\/04\/de\u0301po\u0302t-de-la-the\u0300se-1-avril-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-image-915 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2019\/04\/de\u0301po\u0302t-de-la-the\u0300se-1-avril-2019-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2019\/04\/de\u0301po\u0302t-de-la-the\u0300se-1-avril-2019-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2019\/04\/de\u0301po\u0302t-de-la-the\u0300se-1-avril-2019-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2019\/04\/de\u0301po\u0302t-de-la-the\u0300se-1-avril-2019-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2019\/04\/de\u0301po\u0302t-de-la-the\u0300se-1-avril-2019.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Richter-Gravier submitting his thesis for examination.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Te Tumu is proud to announce the latest PhD submissions by one of our students, Raphael Richter-Gravier, entitled &#8220;<em>Manu<\/em> narratives of Polynesia: a comparative study of birds in 300 traditional Polynesian stories&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Raphael came to Otago in 2012, having previously studied history in his native France, to pursue a Diploma for Graduates in Japanese and M\u0101ori Studies.\u00a0 He was a top student in his reo papers; that he has always achieved the highest grades in all his papers shows his amazing work ethic and flair for languages.\u00a0 He started his PhD in 2016 on bird narratives, with Professor Michael Reilly and Dr Michelle Schaaf of Te Tumu as supervisors.\u00a0 Raphael&#8217;s thesis was completed as a &#8220;co-tutelle&#8221; from both Otago and l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 de la Polyn\u00e9sie fran\u00e7aise.\u00a0 Raphael&#8217;s other supervisor was Professor Bruno Saura, an expert on Polynesian culture at UPF.<\/p>\n<p>Koia, koia, e hoa. We look forward to your graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Te Tumu is proud to announce the latest PhD submissions by one of our students, Raphael Richter-Gravier, entitled &#8220;Manu narratives of Polynesia: a comparative study of birds in 300 traditional Polynesian stories&#8221;. Raphael came to Otago in 2012, having previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17855],"tags":[67396,67397,67395],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-success","tag-manu","tag-pacific-birds","tag-polynesian-narratives"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}