Victoria University of Wellington / January 2020
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Update on the University response to coronavirus
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- Update on the University's response to coronavirus.
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The delicate art of managing a crisis
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- Whether it's the royal family or the police, organisations should strive to learn from crises, says Associate Professor Dan Laufer from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's School of Marketing and International Business.
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The economic impact of coronavirus
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- It will be the reactions of governments and individuals to the perceived threat of coronavirus, and not the virus itself, that will have the biggest costs, writes Professor Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Chair in the Economics of Disasters.
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Making digital accessible across Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is partnering with the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) to help make digital public services in New Zealand accessible to everyone through a new course.
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Talia Marshall named as first Emerging Māori Writer in Residence
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- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of Talia Marshall as its inaugural Emerging Māori Writer in Residence.
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Bringing out the best in the bureaucracy
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- It is time to farewell "tikanga Weber" and the new public management reforms and instead welcome the spirituality of wairua, say Emeritus Professor Bob Gregory and Kristen Maynard from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Government.
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Truancy begins in the classroom
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- When we talk about young people who truant, we often generalise and see them as problems to be fixed, says Delia Baskerville.
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University response to coronavirus
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- The University is closely monitoring the global outbreak of coronavirus.
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Classrooms should embrace, not ban, AI text generators
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- Systems such as GPT-2 could be used as a first-draft machine, writes Dr Grant Otsuki from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's School of Social and Cultural Studies.
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Courage in the void of suicide
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- Suffering can produce something; it's not random or meaningless, nor merely something to get rid of. It can act as either a fertiliser or a poison, writes suicide expert Dr Chris Bowden from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's School of Education.
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Remembering Professor Piri Sciascia
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- It is with great sadness that the University marks the passing of Professor Piri Sciascia.
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Bloomsday assassins: playing Ulysses
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- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Senior Lecturer Dr Miriam Ross likes to subvert what people are expecting within film.
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Research innovation to boost food safety
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- Inhibit Coatings Ltd—a business spun out of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington with the potential to help prevent contamination during food production—is taking the next step in bringing their research to the world.
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Crucial reef species may survive ocean changes under climate change
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- A seaweed species crucial to the survival of coral reefs may be able to gain resistance to ocean changes caused by climate change, new Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington research recently published in Nature Climate Change shows.
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NZ’s useful Huawei ambiguity
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- There will be times when there are incentives for the Government to clarify its Huawei position and those when it does not pay to do so, writes Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Strategic Studies Professor Robert Ayson.
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How AI can help the move to a low-carbon future
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- There's a dire need to speed the planet's shift to clean energy and the power of artificial intelligence can help, write PhD candidate Soheil Mohseni and Professor Alan Brent from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's School of Engineering and Computer Science.
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Putting the ‘service’ back into public service
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- Proposed changes to New Zealand's public service could do well to learn from collaboration within technology giant Microsoft, writes Dr Richard Norman from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's School of Management.
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Trailblazing for women in tech
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- New alumna Aleisha Amohia tells us how she conquered a conjoint degree, a job as a developer, and two years as the President of the University’s Women in Tech group.
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Wellington research could be a game changer for ammonia production
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- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researchers have discovered a new way of synthesising ammonia, with potential global environmental benefits.
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Finding order in the chaos
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- From cloud formation to conversations, our world comprises myriad complex systems that change seemingly at random, but what if we were able to predict these changes? Associate Professor Markus Luczak-Roesch and his team are developing a mathematical model to do just that.
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Understanding the significance of Suleimani’s assassination
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- Dr Hanlie Booysen from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Religious Studies programme explains the important role martyrdom plays in Iran.
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Celebrating Victoria University of Wellington's New Year Honours recipients
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- Three Distinguished Alumni Award recipients and an academic staff member are among 20 members of the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington community to receive 2020 New Year Honours.
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Cost barriers to copyright access need to go
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- Overseas innovations could offer useful lessons as the Government reviews New Zealand's Copyright Act, writes Professor Graeme Austin from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Faculty of Law.
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Ongoing victims of Havelock North’s water crisis
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- Three summers after the devastation that crippled Havelock North in Hawke's Bay, Dr Sarah Monod de Froideville from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Institute of Criminology looks at the lasting effects on many of those who fell ill.
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The politics of victimhood
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- Who gets to decide if someone is a victim? According to research by recent Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington PhD graduate Dr Emma Tennent, the concepts of ‘victim’ and ‘crime’ aren’t fixed—instead, they are negotiated during social interactions.
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Respect human dignity ahead of politicking
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- Whatever political party we support, we either respect human rights or we don't, writes Dr Jonathan Barrett from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's School of Accounting and Commercial Law.
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When facial recognition goes wrong
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- International experts tell a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington audience about the limits of facial recognition technology.
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