Tauranga's Jenny Arnold has graduated from the University of Auckland after completing a thesis on gambling.
Ms Arnold graduated with a Masters degree in public health with honours on September 29.
Her thesis, The Colonising Work of Gambling in New Zealand: How the discourses frame the public health approach and position the practitioner, sought to identify how gambling talk, policy and text has colonised public health theory and staff into supporting the presence of gambling in society and assuming the gambler is the seat of the problem.
She received a Hoe Wha Scholarship from Te Rau Matatini for students undertaking research relevant to problem gambling.
Of those graduating from the Bay, 19 were from Rotorua, 21 from Tauranga, four from Mount Maunganui, three from Whakatane and one from Te Puke.
