Chanelle Kerr

Colleen Monachan

Colleen leads the Student Support Services team at Tai Poutini and is responsible for coordinating student assistance across TPP programmes running throughout the country. Based on the Greymouth campus she is the first point of contact for students studying programmes there, providing pastoral care and arranging internal and external help as required.

Management of the Student Support network on the West Coast, and at MAINZ in Auckland and Christchurch is part of her role; as well as working with tutors and programme leaders in outlying locations to overcome any barriers their students face.

David Mason

David was employed in his first role at TPP in 2006 as “Development Officer – Maori Education and Training”. His role changed and developed in 2007 to: “Te Takawaenga/Kohinga Matauranga (Maori Development and Support Officer), Kaiwhakaako (Tutor). His new role is to provide guidance and support for; Maori and Pacific Island students enrolled in programmes and courses at Tai Poutini Polytechnic, ceremonial and other occasions that require Maori protocol and to coordinate the development and maintenance of Maori course content across the polytechnic and throughout Te Tai Poutini.

Dean Thomas

Margot Hinton

Melaia Tamani

Monica Crawford

Pic Neilson

Pic became a member of the Tai Poutini Polytechnic staff in 2008, her role as Disability Co-ordinator sees her striving to provide a welcoming and supportive learning environment for all students. Pic brings a great deal of experience to her position and we look forward to watching her grow and develop within TPP.

Trinity Kaumoana

Trinity's love of music and the amazing experiences she has enjoyed and still does today began in Dunedin singing in a band called Vaderwhale. In the year 1998 she moved to Auckland and enrolled in a 2-year diploma course in Contemporary Music Performance at MAINZ where Trinity joined up with a band called The Lyrical Systers. Once Trinity had finished her diploma, she ventured back to Dunedin to study a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts and a Bachelor of Music degree. It was here that Trinity formed a band called "Sanka", completed an EP then went on tour around the South Island. After completion of her degree Trinity travelled to Auckland to pursue a career in the music industry. Trinity now tutors on the Foundation Sound and Music programme at MAINZ with some library administration duties and is also working on an album (undisclosed release date).