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History And Development Of University Doctoral Academical Dress In Aotearoa (New Zealand), Scott Pilkington Oct 2022

History And Development Of University Doctoral Academical Dress In Aotearoa (New Zealand), Scott Pilkington

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In 2018 it was announced that Auckland University of Technology (AUT) would join the other seven universities in Aotearoa (New Zealand) in offering a higher doctorate qualification. As part of this process it became apparent that new academical dress would need to be designed and created. Working in the university’s Graduate Research School gave me an opportunity to provide input, and as a result, I designed a new set of academic dress for these qualifications in conjunction with the university’s official robemaker, Paul Fielder (FBS).

This provided a prompt to examine what academical dress exists for existing AUT doctorates – …


Conforming To The Established Standards: American Degree Colours (1936–1961), Kenny Suit Oct 2018

Conforming To The Established Standards: American Degree Colours (1936–1961), Kenny Suit

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