Rate My Professor Cole Thompson

Cole Thompson serves as a Student Advisor in the Pathway and English Language Centre at the University of Otago, located in the Otago Business School Commerce Building at 60 Clyde Street, Dunedin. The centre supports students through pathway admissions, student support services, homestay management, external examinations, and academic coordination for foundation year and English language programs. Staff in the centre include directors for the Language Centre and Pathway programs, operations managers, and various advisors and coordinators.

Cole Thompson has made contributions to research in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago. He completed a summer scholarship in 2021 studying the Otago wētā, Hemideina maori, with supervisors Dr. Sheri Johnson from the Department of Zoology and Dr. Priscilla Wehi. Noted for being curious and conscientious in the field, he created a poster on wētā colour morphs and behaviour that earned third prize at the 2021 New Zealand Entomological Society Conference held in Dunedin. This work led to his co-authorship on the paper titled 'Are there differences in behaviour between the two colour morphs of the mountain stone wētā, Hemideina maori?', published in the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 51, Issue 2, pages 211-227, in 2024. The co-authors were Luke Thompson, Hamish Doogan, Priscilla Wehi, and Sheri Johnson. Additionally, Cole Thompson received an Undergraduate Research Fellowship in 2014 and provided field assistance for studies on stickleback fish, including projects on assortative mating by diet and rates of alloparental care by male stickleback in natural lake populations. He is affiliated with Ngāi Tahu.