Welcome to the Heads of Student Administration (HoSA) Conference 2019

Kia ora tatou katoa,

On behalf of all New Zealand universities and the Wellington organising committee, we are writing to express how much we are looking forward to hosting you in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, for the 2019 Heads of Student Administration Conference.

The theme of this year’s conference is Capitalising on Connections. This explores the opportunities presented through collaborations and partnership and the sense that we need to connect both within our institutions and externally with our partners and communities. Topics might include: sharing insights into service design and delivery, case studies on successful change or collaboration, using data to improve performance, co-creating service outcomes with students and partners, transformational change and investing in new pathways or service models.

We would like to show you everything that Wellington has to offer. Throughout the conference, you’ll be exploring our city — our welcome event will be hosted in the Beehive, the colloquial name for New Zealand’s Parliament Buildings, the conference will be held on the Wellington waterfront at Te Wharewaka o Pōneke which is home to three traditionally carved Māori waka, and the conference dinner will be held at Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand.

They say you can’t beat Wellington on a good day, and we think that’s true. Wellington is located at the bottom of the North Island, which means that at certain times of the year the wind can blow a strong refreshing breeze through Cook Strait between the North and South Islands. This adds excitement to our Wellington climate and city sometimes fondly known as the windy city. The organising committee has requested fine weather with a gentle breeze, so fingers crossed!

The programme has been driven by you; visit the programme page for information on the sessions, speakers and social functions.

We look forward to meeting you all soon at the 2019 Heads of Student Administration Conference (ANZ), in Wellington.

If you have any general queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our conference organiser via email: hosa2019@confer.co.nz.

Ngā mihi nui,

Pam Thorburn
Director of Student Academic Services
Victoria University of Wellington

Dr Pat Sandbrook
Director, Student Administration
Massey University