Associate ProfessorValerie Sotardi

Associate Professor

School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

  • Associate Professor
    School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Caught Between Cultures: Exploring How Cultural Adjustment and Social Exclusion Contribute to Psychological Distress Among Young Migrant Adults in Aotearoa New Zealand
    1 Mar 2026
    Lambe, Farah Hanif
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understanding Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviours among Pacific Youth
    1 Mar 2026
    Ram, Ashnita
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Motivations Behind Absenteeism of Year 5 Children in New Zealand
    1 Feb 2026
    Stead, Libby
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Role of Social Comparison on Wellbeing and Life Satisfaction among University Students
    1 Feb 2026
    Hancock, Ashley
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understanding Teacher-Student Relationships in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Contexts: Cross-National Evidence on Multilevel Factors from PISA 2022 and TALIS 2024
    1 Nov 2025
    Chen, Meixi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Adaptive Metacognitive Intervention in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
    1 Oct 2025
    Liu, Yilin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Parenting, Stigma, and Support: The Influence of Parental Invalidation on Help-Seeking Behaviours in Indian Youth
    1 May 2025
    Chacko, Sumy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Help-Seeking Behaviours in Young Adults: Deciding when To Seek Help and When to Handle Problems By Themselves
    1 Feb 2025
    Stack, Niamh
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimising Numeracy Assessment: Influences of Delivery Mode, Linguistic Complexity, and Content/Cognitive Domains on NZ Secondary Students
    1 Feb 2025
    Hooper, Amy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Social-Relational Pathways to Help-Seeking: How Helper Attributes and Social Dismissals Influence Adolescent Help-Seeking Behaviours in New Zealand
    1 Feb 2025
    Balmer, Kara
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Role of Moral Perfectionism in University Student’s’ Perceptions and Responses to Ethical Dilemma in Academic Contexts
    1 Feb 2025
    Thompson, Jadyn
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understanding the Transition to University for Chinese Students in NZ
    1 Apr 2024
    Yang, Xiaoxu
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring the Constraints faced by New Zealand Primary Teachers in Addressing Trauma-Informed Behaviours in the Classroom
    1 Jan 2024
    King, Kiera
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    YoungMind: A Gamified approach to improve the mental well being of Computer Science and Software Engineering undergraduates
    1 Aug 2023
    Pooliyadda, Hirasha
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Information required by New Zealand family-carers managing Personal Budgets on behalf of adults with learning disabilities or autism
    1 Mar 2023
    Nicholls, Anita
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Stressful experiences at University and non-suicidal self-injury: The mediating role of personality and the moderating role of self-compassion
    1 May 2022 - 1 Mar 2024
    Syme, Tamara
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Happiness and Highlight Reels: An Exploration of the Experiences of Happiness and Social Media Use in Aotearoa New Zealand Young People
    1 Feb 2021 - 31 Jul 2024
    Leggett, Victoria
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Influence of COVID-19 and Online Delivery on Reading and Writing Skill-Based Anxieties in Japan
    1 Feb 2021 - 1 Feb 2022
    Kawabata, David
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Understanding Stress and Coping: Workshop and Discussion
    25 Jun 2019
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating Relationships between Self-Regulated Learning Processes and Formal Classroom Science Assessment
    1 Jun 2019 - 23 Nov 2022
    Bajaj Prakash, Maansa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Story Must be Told: Exploring University Students' Learning Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    1 Mar 2019
    Ren, Xin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Interdisciplinary Computational Thinking with Music and Programming: A Case Study on Algorithmic Music Making with Sonic Pi
    1 Aug 2018 - 1 Dec 2019
    Petrie, Christopher Grant
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Student Expectations of and Transition to University
    23 Jul 2018 - 23 Jul 2018
  • PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR
    Engaging Students at a Distance
    10 Jul 2018 - 10 Jul 2018
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Extending Worked Examples in Intelligent Tutoring System: from Static to Adaptive
    1 Jul 2018 - 31 Jan 2022
    Tahir, Faiza