Victoria University of Wellington / August 2015
September 2015 | July 2015-
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Victoria’s contribution to international law recognised
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law has again been recognised for its global reputation in international law.
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Changes to Victoria Council
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Last week the Council confirmed its new 2016 structure after much consultation and careful deliberation with the Victoria community.
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So'o le fau i le fau
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Weaving relationships is central to Samoan culture.
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Opinion: Powerful statement needed on nuclear disarmament
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Distinguished Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law, returned to Hiroshima for the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb.
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Reviving a ritual—a poet is born
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Year 13 student at Auckland International College has won the National Schools Poetry Award for 2015, organised by Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
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Victoria 1-2-3 a guarantee
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington connection is guaranteed when the winner of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award is announced late September.
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Building a business
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Lauren McKay has a passion for two things: housing and people.
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Victoria University Council structure confirmed
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington has announced a new structure for its governing council that will see a 12-member body, which includes elected academic staff and students.
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Q and A with Distinguished Alumni Winner Tamati Kruger
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Tamati Kruger, who graduated with a BA in Māori Studies in 1978, was instrumental in securing the largest Treaty of Waitangi settlement to date for the Central North Island Iwi Collective and was chief negotiator of the Tūhoe-Te Urewera Treaty of Waitangi Settlement.
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Victoria appoints new University Librarian
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University has appointed a senior member of staff at one of Australia’s leading universities as its University Librarian.
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A three-minute winner
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The unreliability of memory has proved a fruitful research topic for psychology PhD student Robert Michael, who is the winner of the 2015 Victoria University of Wellington Three Minute Thesis competition.
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New York publisher and writer visits Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New York-based publisher and author Jonathan Galassi will be in Wellington in early September for a few days as a guest of Victoria University of Wellington.
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Global success for Wellington book on winning strategies
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A new book on creating and communicating effective strategies, co-authored by Victoria University of Wellington’s Stephen Cummings, is capturing widespread attention around the globe.
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Victoria students and staff to light up Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Light installations designed by Victoria University of Wellington staff and students will light up Wellington’s waterfront and alleyways during this year’s Lux Light Festival.
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New Master’s degree to test commercial resolve
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington is launching a new Master’s degree aimed at placing students at the coalface of product development and commercialisation.
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Katherine Mansfield’s encounter with New Zealand literature
- Victoria University of Wellington
- How Katherine Mansfield may have encountered New Zealand literature will be explored by Professor Jane Stafford at a Victoria University of Wellington public lecture next week.
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Painting a picture of New Zealand
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary is provided by Simon Keller, a Professor at Victoria’s School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations.
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The keys to book success
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Māori translation of a Victoria Library staff member’s book has won the Māori Language award at the 2015 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
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Probing the past to explain explosive eruptions
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington volcanologist will next week give a talk on the forensics of large-scale volcanic eruptions, following his recent election to Fellowship of the Royal Society in London—one of the highest international honours in science.
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Theatre academics win awards in Hawai’i
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Two Victoria University of Wellington theatre academics won awards at the Hawai’i State Theatre Council’s 2015 Po’okela Awards last week for their involvement in staging a New Zealand Samoan play in Hawai’i earlier in the year.
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Free public lecture: Climate change science and scepticism
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The hot topic of climate change will be explored from different perspectives by two leading Victoria University of Wellington researchers at an upcoming public lecture.
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Exploring the history of emotions in New Zealand
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A two-day conference at Victoria University of Wellington will trace emotions in history and how they are represented.
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Victoria student lights up international stage
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington PhD student is creating waves around the world with a win in the 2015 Sonic Arts Award.
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Research shines light on mediation market
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A survey of mediators around New Zealand has shed light on the small, but burgeoning, commercial mediation market, and the need to grow the sector.
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Master’s student granted $15,000 scholarship
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The hard work and dedication of Tash Bukholt has been publicly acknowledged at a ceremony in Auckland, when the Victoria Master’s student was awarded the Rose Hellaby Postgraduate Scholarship.
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Public sector advice not always "free and frank"
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington academic says the Office of the Auditor-General needs to conduct an inquiry into whether the public service is providing government with “free and frank” advice.
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Spreading risk for resilience in the urban system
- Victoria University of Wellington
- First world cities have an unhealthy dependence on the “urban machine”—the modern engineering solutions within their infrastructure—making their inhabitants vulnerable to disaster.
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Workplace whistleblowing research to chart new territory
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A three-year, trans-Tasman research project into whistleblowing practices in the workplace, has been granted over half of a million dollars (AU$457,800) in funding by the Australian Research Council Linkage.
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Teaching excellence award for Victoria’s Dean of Engineering
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Dean of Engineering has received one of the highest teaching honours in his profession—a 2015 Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence award.
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Young brains provide fresh business ideas
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Businesses and organisations on the lookout for an injection of innovative ideas this summer have the opportunity to get some creative thinking done using brainpower from Victoria University.
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Conference explores India’s emergence as a global power
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Leading scholars from Singapore, India, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand will be taking part in a two-day conference on the emergence of India as a global power in the twenty-first century.
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Health sector leader to chair University initiative
- Victoria University of Wellington
- One of New Zealand’s most experienced health sector leaders, Professor Gregor Coster, will chair initiatives at Victoria University of Wellington focused on improving health and wellbeing.
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New era for Ronald Woolf Memorial Trust
- Victoria University of Wellington
- After 28 years of supporting talented young photographers, the Ronald Woolf Memorial Trust is taking a new and exciting direction.
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Ground-breaking honour for geophysics researcher
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Professor Martha Savage has become the first woman in New Zealand to be elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
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Free public lecture: The rise and fall of tuatara and wasps
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Leading ecology experts from Victoria University of Wellington are visiting Napier this month to give a public lecture on two animal populations facing very different challenges.
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Poet and Artist
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor John Davidson to discuss the work of James K. Baxter and Colin McCahon.
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“Creative Anarchist” wins teaching award
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Senior lecturer, artist, education advisor and self-described “creative anarchist” Lisa Terreni is one of five outstanding individuals recognised with a Victoria University of Wellington Teaching Excellence Award.
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Time of useful consciousness
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary is provided by associate professor Ralph Chapman, the Director of the Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, and the author of Time of Useful Consciousness: Acting Urgently on Climate Change.
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Magical theme to opera double-billing
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A tragic love story tinged with magic, and the tale of a naughty child who is haunted by nursery toys coming to life are set to be performed by some on New Zealand’s finest young opera singers in Wellington next week.
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Acclaimed novelist visits Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Australian novelist Michelle de Kretser will be reading her fiction and talking about her work with Emily Perkins in one of the highlights of the winter reading series, Writers on Mondays.
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