Associate ProfessorRobyn Hetem

Associate Professor

School of Biological Sciences

  • Associate Professor
    School of Biological Sciences

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Vertebrate Biology
    13 Jul 2026
    BIOL210
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Impacts and mitigation opportunities to reduce road deaths for New Zealand pinnipeds
    1 Jul 2025
    Donaldson, Ashlin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Can Spiders Plan? Detouring Behaviour in Trite planiceps and Portia labiata
    17 Feb 2025
    Patrick, Marshall
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Microclimate selection and activity patterns of Waitaha gecko at Te Kāio
    17 Feb 2025
    Farrant, Jamie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    New Zealand Fur Seal Diet
    17 Feb 2025
    Drummond, Libby
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy
    29 Jul 2024 - 31 Jul 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Determining the depths and times of subantarctic fur seal dives
    4 Mar 2024
    de Surville, Zoe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The cost of cooling off: trade-offs between thermoregulatory behaviour and maternal investment of New Zealand fur seals (kekeno; Arctocephalus forsteri) in Kaikōura
    4 Mar 2024
    Le Poidevin, Jessica
  • PROGRAMME DEVELOPED
    Integrated Sciences for Medical Students
    14 Jan 2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Can fine-scale behavioural changes buffer the impact of climate change on antelope?
    1 Oct 2023
    Schwan, Zarah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Landscape drivers of antelope movement and physiology
    1 Oct 2023
    Schill, Clarissa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Quantifying Weddell seal stress responses to human disturbances in Antarctica
    1 Aug 2023
    Aspinwall, Arek
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Biodiversity in a Changing World IIIB: From Physiology to Behaviour
    10 Jul 2023 - 22 Sep 2023
    APES3079
  • PROGRAMME DEVELOPED
    Biodiversity in a Changing World IIIB: From Physiology to Behaviour
    10 Jul 2023
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    How energy and thermal landscapes influence habitat use in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus)
    9 Jan 2023 - 31 Jul 2025
    Botha, Katinka
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Why do zebras have stripes?
    9 Jan 2023 - 16 Jun 2025
    Chen, Amy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Spatial occupancy and activity patterns of herbivores in relation to water sources
    4 Jul 2022 - 25 Oct 2024
    Padayachy, Janiel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The gene catalogue and functional analysis of the gut microbiome of lions in Etosha National Park
    4 Jul 2022 - 1 Jul 2024
    Belger, Carl
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Can baboons use thermal heterogeneity in the landscape to buffer macroclimate extremes
    1 Feb 2022 - 30 Nov 2022
    Botha, Katinka
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Seasonal diet of aardvarks in the mesic Waterberg
    1 Feb 2022 - 30 Nov 2022
    Chen, Amy