NICAI Research Toolkit

Our website is an important source of information for current and future students, staff and the wider community. All these audiences expect to find comprehensive, up-to-date profiles of our academic staff, including their research interests and activities, either via search or when browsing the site.

The Research Toolkit has been developed to help you compile your profile information in the right format for the web. You can access the Toolkit via the quick link at right. Login instructions are on the introductory page. If you are new to the Toolkit, we suggest you download the step-by-step tutorial PDF and print it out, or have it open in a different window on your screen while you are using the Toolkit.

How your profile appears on the NICAI website
The staff details in bold below are required for all members of permanent academic staff. New staff members will need to fill out the staff profile form (download the Word doc at top right of this page) and send it to your school\programme manager, who will forward the information to the NICAI web team. You can request updates to this "above the line" part of your profile by clicking on the "Preview research profile" button in the Research Toolkit (see the Research Toolkit tutorial).

The remaining sections (your research profile) will only display on the web page if you enter the content into the Research Toolkit yourself, and then release it to the web team for publication (see the Research Toolkit tutorial).

Academic staff details
Name
Nick Nicai

Current position(s)
(Use official University of Auckland position title(s) only)
Associate Professor
Programme Leader

School/Centre
Elam School of Fine Arts

Phone
(Use this format )
+64 9 373 7599, ext 88321

Email
(Use University address only)
n.nicai@auckland.ac.nz

Academic qualifications and professional associations
(Up to 8 bullet points; use University of Auckland standards only for presenting qualification i.e. as per University Calendar format)
•BA Virginia
•MA Liv.
•MFA
Note: At present, this is the only field in which we can enter a short bio (200 words max)

Teaching and Research Interests
(Up to 8 bullet points, up to 8 words per bullet point (as per University Media Guide format)
•Sculpture
•Installation
•Painting

Academic research profiles
We need you to provide up-to-date information about your areas of research and special interests as well as your activities and achievements. This information is stored on a live database and fed into the NICAI website to form your research profile. 

Content that you enter into the Toolkit will display on the website under the following headings (if you have no content for a particular section, leave the field blank).

Current research
(Up to 100 words)
I am currently using sculpture to address issues of landscape, specifically the intersection of subjectivity with the social, economic, and political production of space.

Recent research outputs (publications, exhibitions and performances)
(As many as you like, but we suggest within the last 10 years only)

• Exhibition (Group): "We Could Have Invited Everyone", Palais de Tokyo, 2007
• Exhibition (Group): "Dark Places", Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006
• Refereed Journal Article: Ashkin, M.,"Documenta 11", Design Documenta Journal, Vol 73, No.1, pp.43-57, 2006
• Exhibition (Solo): Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, 2005

Note: When the new UoA staff directory comes online in Q4 2011 or Q1 2012, research outputs will automatically be generated from Research+ and populate your profile on the website, avoiding duplication of entries.

Awards and Prizes
(placing, award, year )

•Winner, University of Auckland Teaching Excellence Award for collaboration in Teaching, 2007
•Finalist, Walters Prize, 2006

Media
(Attach up to 4 image files)
(Attach up to 4 video files)
Note: This limited capacity for media attachments is due to the fragility of the current database. When the new UoA staff directory comes online in Q4 2011 or Q1 2012, uploading multimedia and images will be simpler and better supported by the system.

Examples of staff members’ completed profile pages:

Dr Deidre Brown
Assoc Prof Michael Gunder
Mark Harvey
Prof Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
Dr Nancy November