Cate Prestidge

I have a passion for people, excellence, and ideas, and I feel education has endless potential for both teachers and students. Relationships are a strength, and I am excited about creating connections and learning opportunities beyond the classroom. After 8.5 years as a Team Manager, I’m enjoying working more directly with students on creative education goals, projects, and research.

Communication is a dynamic and creative field, and I love the way our degree responds to these contexts to give students genuine multi-media storytelling skills which complement sound writing, communication theory, and contextual knowledge. We are educating creative storytellers for the new world of marketing and media communications to produce engaging content underpinned by research and strategy to reach their audiences effectively.

I’ve had a series of careers in education and media; as a secondary English, theatre and media studies teacher, I worked for Rural Press as a writer, columnist, and in advertising, as a theatre reviewer, a communication tutor, a Stage Challenge judge and events MC. I am the external degree monitor for the NZ Broadcasting School and a breakfast host on FreeFM. Recently I spent a year as an education evaluator in the public service.