Auckland Museum’s Summer Student Programme is open to promising undergraduate students from a range of disciplines. Students will join a cohort-style programme for ten weeks over the summer to gain career-relevant experience and have the opportunity to train alongside Museum professionals and to gain an insight into the culture and heritage sector. Our Summer Studentships provide an opportunity to undertake a project tailored to your interests and aspirations. 

About the programme:  

• Summer studentships will run over 10 weeks from 17 November 2025 to 13 February 2026 (with a 3-week break over the Christmas and New Year period)
• Cohort-style programme, with tours and talks from staff at Tāmaki Paenga Hira
• A wide-range of interesting and unique research projects 
• A stipend of $6,750 will be awarded to each successfully selected student

Project Description:

​​​​Survey of Auckland's war-related historical geography

Since initial settlement in the mid-14th century the Auckland region has had a long association with war / armed conflict. This project focuses on information mining as the initial stage in a proposed long-term project to better understand the range and depth of those associations through locations and structures (natural and man-made), their influence on the city’s development and the ways in which their respective life cycles suggest/reflect changing perspectives and attitudes. The museum-based research aims to review traditional, historical, and contemporary sources to begin collating a list of protected, existing and disappeared military and civilian sites in the Auckland urban area that have a demonstrable association with New Zealand’s war experience.