DrJosta Heyligers

Josta is an academic writing lecturer for Postgraduate Research within the AUT Library. She was educated as a secondary school teacher of English and Health Education in the Netherlands and started her academic career in New Zealand as a halftime Psychology lecturer for Physiotherapy at the then AIT Northshore campus and as an academic learning adviser at the University of Auckland. She continued fulltime in the latter role and coordinated learning support services at a branch campus as well as writing programmes for students with English as a second/additional language. She was further involved with integrating academic literacies into the curriculum for Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Fine Arts and Architecture and supported students at all levels of study: from foundation academic literacy training to doctoral skills programme. In her present role, she focuses mainly on contributing to the writing development of research students.