An independent review team has been appointed to look at how Dunedin City Councillors are elected.

The council is required by law to have its representation processes reviewed.

The review team will consider whether councillors should be elected within wards, or at large, or a combination of both.

And it will look at the role and responsibility of community boards within the district.

Members of the team include Associate Professor Janine Hayward, from the University of Otago's politics department.

Local iwi are represented on the team, which also includes a former government statistician and Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull.

The team's findings will be presented to the council in about six months.