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NZ’s health spending isn’t enough for current needs, let alone future ones, researchers say
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Without major policy and budget changes, there's no chance we can pay for the health system we need, argue Tim Tenbensel, Bill Rosenberg, Jackie Cumming, and Paula Lorgelly.
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How molecules have influenced an ‘all in’ career
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Bridget Stocker’s inaugural lecture, Targeting diseases the organic way, is a homage to the people she has learned from, worked alongside, and shared knowledge with.
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Three new exhibitions open Adam Art Gallery’s winter season
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington will open its winter season with three new exhibitions.
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NZ space scholarships show students a new world
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Four students from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington have been awarded scholarships to intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California.
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Miss Pacific Islands crown opens doors for Pacific Studies alumna
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Litara Ieremia-Allan, who received the Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Scholarship while completing her Pacific Studies degree, won the Miss Sāmoa pageant in 2024 followed by Miss Pacific Islands in 2025.
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Science student awarded prestigious postgraduate scholarship
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Isabella (Izzy) Hadlow has been awarded the William Georgetti Scholarship, one of New Zealand’s most prestigious postgraduate awards, through Universities NZ.
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Earthquakes can be destructive for distant cities built on top of basins—now we know why
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Sedimentary basins, like the one Wellington is built on, can trap seismic waves, leading to a higher risk of shaking when an earthquake hits. Tim Stern explains.
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Dr Kendall Stevenson: Research woven by relationality
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The world as Dr Kendall Stevenson sees it is a complex series of relationships that are always in motion.
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(Re-)imagining history
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Giacomo Lichtner from the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, draws on his multidisciplinary background in his inaugural lecture to examine how memory and imagination can shape our perceptions of the past.
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Violence through the eyes of the ordinary woman
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Naz Karim grew up listening to the soothing voices of her mother and sisters. Those stories are now woven into who she is—they fill the pages of her thesis and carried her across the Te Herenga Waka graduation stage in May.
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Two research projects awarded $2.4 million to advance Pasifika and Māori health outcomes
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Two Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington research projects have received over $2 million in funding from the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) to advance the wellbeing of Pasifika and Māori communities.
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Antarctic surface melt set to increase dramatically this century, new study finds
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Research highlights the rising risks for Antarctica’s ice shelves as our climate warms.
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Is NZ taxation compatible with human rights?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights intended paying tax to be a duty as a corollary of claiming rights, writes Jonathan Barrett.
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Why planned ‘ban’ on prolonged solitary confinement is not a ban
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A new bill proposes banning prolonged solitary confinement in prisons. This sounds like a good thing—but the ban is deceptive, writes Christine McCarthy.
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Kickstarting a research career by going viral on social media
- Victoria University of Wellington
- In a non-traditional career start, the ambitions of Bachelor of Arts graduate Jazz Nuku to be a psychology researcher were given an unexpected boost when her viral social media post landed her in a research team.
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Te Herenga Waka mourns the passing of Emeritus Professor Whatarangi Winiata
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The influence of Emeritus Professor Whatarangi Winiata (Ngāti Raukawa) in both his field of research and for the Māori community of the University was immense.
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Te Herenga Waka alumni celebrated in 2026 King’s Birthday Honours
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Te Ripowai Pauline Higgins, QSM (Ngāi Tūhoe) and distinguished alumnus Sir Peter Francis Boshier are among those recognised in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours.
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Te Herenga Waka mourns the passing of Professor Sir Hirini Moko Mead
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The vision and leadership of Tā Hirini Moko Mead saw the establishment of Te Herenga Waka marae, and provided a bedrock of mātauranga Māori scholarship.
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The price of winning at all costs—wellbeing in high-performance sport
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Recent graduate Wayne Aquila’s Master of Commerce research suggests that while care is often promised in elite sporting environments, it isn’t always delivered.
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Jordan Payne tackles rural mental health
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Former Chiefs player, Jordan Payne, has stepped off the rugby field and into a new arena, completing a PhD focusing on rural mental health in Aotearoa.
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Personal and professional meet at the National Music Centre
- Victoria University of Wellington
- When Professor Sally Jane Norman steps into the National Music Centre for the first time, one seat in the Adam Auditorium will hold a very special family connection.
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Comment: The missing Budget funding for primary healthcare
- Victoria University of Wellington
- If political cycles were put aside, and a longer-term view was taken, every health and economic argument would favour significant investment in primary healthcare, writes Associate Professor Mona Jeffreys.
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‘Like drinking from a firehose’—what it’s like to be the human in the AI loop
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Generating AI ‘workslop’ is cheap and fast, but quality oversight by humans needs to be budgeted for and valued by organisations, write Mary Tate and Haibo Yang.
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Kupe scholarship supports a passion for improving mental health
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Nia Road has no doubt about the impact the Kupe scholarship has had on her life: “I wouldn’t be where I am without it. And I don’t think I would be who I am without it either.”
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A ‘supereruption’ transformed NZ 350,000 years ago. We now know how it happened
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New research into the ancient Whakamaru supereruption reveals how multiple underground magma systems combined to unleash one of Earth’s most explosive events. Anna Miller explains.
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The push for a smaller public service risks coming at a larger cost for New Zealanders, researchers say
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Sweeping public sector reforms assume fewer jobs and more AI will deliver better value for taxpayers. But that is far from certain, write Barbara Allen, Jonathan Boston, and Michael Macaulay.
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Te Herenga Waka graduates stand tall
- Victoria University of Wellington
- It is Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington graduation week, and the city is buzzing as students collect caps and gowns from Kelburn campus, and loved ones from airports and stations.
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India is a ‘country of countries’—NZ business needs a regional strategy to make the trade deal work
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Despite the promise held in the free trade agreement, those at the coalface of building business relationships in India have to be realistic about the challenges, writes Revti Raman Sharma.
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Why ‘greenhushing’ signals deeper issues with NZ’s climate risk reporting regime
- Victoria University of Wellington
- There are signs the country's climate disclosure regime may be driving a trend towards 'greenhushing'—not saying much at all about climate risks, writes Hang Pham.
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Choosing midwifery as a mature student
- Victoria University of Wellington
- For Daisy Wright, being invited to participate in the birthing experience of expecting whānau is an incredible privilege.
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