Kelburn / April 2021
May 2021 | March 2021-
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What pink gloves and period pants can tell us about sexism in business
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Male inventors are valued over their female counterparts no matter how ridiculous their ideas, writes Associate Professor Jessica C. Lai.
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More use of advanced practitioners needed to ease primary health care pressures
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A study led by Dr Tara Officer shows that involving and educating consumers is key to using nurse practitioners and pharmacist prescribers more efficiently.
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How to revolutionise treatment of major diseases
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Verna Smith sees transformative potential in the New Zealand Government's proposed wholesale restructure of the country's health system.
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Hate speech proposals need more detail and wider debate
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A New Zealand Cabinet paper proposes tightening definitions of what qualifies as hate speech, but broadening the categories to which it can apply, writes Dr Eddie Clark.
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‘IIMBYism’ and our abysmal climate failure
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand is focusing purely on 'Impacts in My Backyard' rather than the brutal climate impacts already being felt elsewhere, writes Dr Luke Harrington.
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EVs not as bad but still not good
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Electric vehicles are much hyped but bring their own problems when it comes to cutting carbon emissions, says Associate Professor Ralph Chapman.
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In Memoriam: Elizabeth Welch Orr, CNZM
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Elizabeth Welch Orr, CNZM, the first female Chancellor of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, died last week at the age of 91.
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Professor of geophysics wins Marsden Medal for lifetime of outstanding service to science
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Pioneering researcher Professor Martha Savage has worked tirelessly on improving our knowledge of seismic activity, plate tectonics, and volcanology.
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Meaningful Holocaust work sees film from PhD study
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Lucy Liu and her supervisor have made a documentary telling the story of composer Boris Pigovat, his Holocaust Requiem, and the massacre that spurred it.
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No rest for rock-lover Alby Frampton
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alby Frampton explains why, at 65 years of age, he came to university to do some papers in geology. This culminated, fifteen years later, in a Master's in physical geography.
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Global coalition presses governments on emission targets
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Our Antarctic Research Centre joins other leading scientific institutions in calling for essential climate-change actions.
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Uncovering the structural mechanisms that reduce intervention-free births in healthy women
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Suzanne Miller’s research explored the experiences of healthy first-time mothers with uncomplicated pregnancies who choose to give birth in a tertiary-level maternity setting.
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Unique insight into babies’ cerebral fuel
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Deborah Harris hopes her study’s findings can be used to develop new national guidelines for diagnosing, treating, and managing neonatal hypoglycaemia.
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New partnership delivers Wellington courses to students in China
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has partnered with the Communications University of Zhejiang (CUZ) to give Chinese students access to Wellington’s world-class scholars in humanities research, learning, and teaching.
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Study reveals primary healthcare enrolment gap
- Victoria University of Wellington
- University researchers have found 300,000 New Zealanders are not enrolled, with striking inequities across socio-demographic groups and regions.
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A roadmap for change or the road to nowhere?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealanders struggle to get the help they need two years on from a funding boost for mental health services, writes Dr Dougal Sutherland.
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The price we've paid for the pandemic
- Victoria University of Wellington
- COVID-19 cost more in 2020 than the world’s combined natural disasters in any of the past 20 years, write Professor Ilan Noy and PhD candidate Nguyen Doan.
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Alpine Fault quake risk higher than experts thought
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alpine Fault earthquake probability more than doubles after a University-led study builds one of the most complete records of its kind in the world.
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'New housing policy is really just a new tax package — and it’s a shambles'
- Victoria University of Wellington
- With too many objectives and probable unintended consequences, the New Zealand Government’s policy risks serious incoherence, writes Professor Norman Gemmell.
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Climate change and ocean studies win marine biologist a PM science prize
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Christopher Cornwall's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize is the latest of many successes for the University's researchers in the prestigious awards.
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University awarded funding towards Zero Carbon Plan
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The goal of achieving net zero carbon by 2030 for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is a step closer today as the University is awarded funding to install LED lighting in its Rankine Brown building.
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Workplace whistleblowers deserve more protection than new law will deliver
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Legislation cannot be the only solution, but it acts as a foundation for organisational and cultural change, writes Professor Michael Macaulay.
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Classroom environments have more impacts than you think
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Children spend a large part of their waking life in school, so ensuring good indoor environmental quality is important, writes Dr Aniebietabasi Ackley.
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Why Westpac could struggle to find the right buyer for its New Zealand subsidiary
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Many factors may have led the bank to consider selling, but where are the prospective buyers, ask associate professors David Tripe and Martien Lubberink.
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Enabling communities to move away from climate risks
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand could be on the brink of another world first: laws to provide for climate adaptation, including managed retreat, writes Professor Catherine Iorns.
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On Harry Styles, campness and post-WWI men’s fashion in New Zealand
- Victoria University of Wellington
- In the 1920s and 30s, fears men weren’t masculine enough prompted one magazine to issue fashion advice to counter effeminacy, writes Ailish Wallace-Buckland.
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Essential workers’ voices on the 2020 lockdown
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As we reflect on New Zealand's collective effort against COVID-19, essential workers’ experiences should be to the fore, writes Dr Nayantara Sheoran Appleton.
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When a whole nation is at risk
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The survival of low-lying Pacific atoll nations' statehood can only be safeguarded through a concerted global effort, writes Professor Alberto Costi.
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