Victoria University of Wellington / July 2020
August 2020 | June 2020-
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No place for profit in early childhood education
- Victoria University of Wellington
- An investment in quality public early childhood education is an investment in New Zealand's future, write Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns and Associate Professor Jenny Ritchie.
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New Zealand needs a tax on inherited wealth
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Forget a capital gains tax, a capital acquisitions tax is the way to go, writes Dr Jonathan Barrett.
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Leading New Zealand’s digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic
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- New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has received praise from around the world. Alumna Katie Brown played an important part in that response as the Digital Communications Lead for Unite Against COVID-19.
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Sex work discrimination unacceptable
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Sex work has frequently been conflated with human trafficking, and corporate entities like banks are under increasing pressure to take action to prevent it, but the reality is much more complicated than that, writes Dr Lynzi Armstrong.
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Could co-op housing solve our housing crisis?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- With the necessary social and financial infrastructure and support, housing cooperatives have serious, practical potential for providing secure and affordable housing in New Zealand, writes Mark Southcombe.
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University makes it easier to benefit from our research
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Two new Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington initiatives make it easier for government, businesses and other organisations to benefit from its wide-ranging expertise.
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Quiet time across the world
- Victoria University of Wellington
- You may have noticed New Zealand was significantly quieter during the COVID-19 lockdown. The noise from cars, emergency sirens, and children playing in the school yard faded away, leaving urban areas in particular much less noisy during March and April 2020.
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Where water and culture collide
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Ministry for the Environment’s recent freshwater report outlines the scale of the country’s pollution problem and makes many references to Māori ways of thinking, but what does it take to really understand an issue from another culture’s perspective? ask Emeritus Professor Lydia Wevers and Associate Professor Maria Bargh.
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New degree aims to meet demand for engineers in New Zealand
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s new electrical and electronics degree will help address a growing demand for engineers in New Zealand.
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A critical-thinking springboard
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Since leaving Wellington, alumnus Christopher Wright has had 22 separate addresses across 10 cities, six countries and three continents.
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Generous gift secures Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A generous $1.2 million gift to Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington from the Grace Memorial Trust will ensure the University’s research and leadership in the area of restorative justice will continue far into the future.
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Leadership week aims to inspire young people
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A week of online workshops and webinars at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington aims to challenge and inspire young people to take action on pressing social and environmental issues.
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The body image issues you can’t see
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Snita Ahir-Knight talks about how to promote a culture of acceptance for those who are not so much worried about how their body looks as how it functions.
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'Green fairies' and the cannabis referendum
- Victoria University of Wellington
- When medically prescribed cannabinoids are inaccessible or ineffective, ‘green fairies’ step in to help, but those in chronic pain deserve better than an ad hoc, black market system, writes Professor Kevin Dew.
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Reducing the environmental cost of steel
- Victoria University of Wellington
- In today’s urbanised world, steel is a ubiquitous material, used in everything from infrastructure like roads and railways, through to buildings, wind turbines and electric vehicles. But making that steel comes with a significant environmental cost.
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Research explores motivations and barriers for learners of te reo Māori
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The value Māori place on learning te reo Māori is strongly linked with Māori identity and societal attitudes, as well as cultural and community connections, according to research by Dr Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) from Te Kawa a Māui at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Five activities that can protect your mental and physical health as you age
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Learning something new and joining a sport or social club are among the things linked to a longer lifespan, write Professor Paul Jose, Dr Ziggi Ivan Santini and Dr Vibeke Jenny Koushede.
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Tiwai Point closure is far from a done deal
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As with any ransom demand, the questions are whether the threat is credible and how bad the consequences of refusing would be, writes Dr Geoff Bertram.
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History is in the eye of the beholder
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Nicholas Agar explains why relocating statues and erasing their names may be what the people they commemorate would have wanted.
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Get ready for some repression
- Victoria University of Wellington
- How authoritarian rule is applied to Hong Kong may make New Zealanders question whether closer interactions with China are necessarily desirable, writes Dr Catherine Churchman.
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Wellington researcher joins world’s largest polar research expedition
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington scientist will become the first New Zealand researcher to join MOSAiC, the world’s largest international polar research expedition.
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Where are we at with solar energy?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Alan Brent looks at how New Zealand's solar resources can be used more effectively to address energy demand in our transitioning economy.
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Time for a new funding model in ECE
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Covid-19 crisis has exposed gaps in the funding of early education that we should be bold in responding to, writes Associate Professor Sue Cherrington of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Using groundwater to track earthquake movements
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Understanding how earthquakes affect the ground they travel through could be the key to understanding how buildings and structures aboveground will be impacted by a given earthquake, says Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Geophysics Martha Savage.
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Black Lives Matter: What’s in a name?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Why does it take a huge, international outpouring of resistance, antagonism and grief to make brands consider changing their discriminatory names, asks Associate Professor Val Hooper.
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Auteur vs computer: the frightening complexity of visual effects
- Victoria University of Wellington
- If an unending cycle of computer-generated mayhem makes for bad movies, it’s not because they use VFX, it's because they didn’t know how to, writes Sunny Teich.
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Early learning plan ‘shovel-ready’
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The COVID-19 lockdown has only confirmed how vital New Zealand’s early childhood sector is to the country's future, so now is the time to bed in a systemic policy infrastructure to support resilient children, write Professor Carmen Dalli, Emeritus Professor Helen May and Dr Anne E. Meade.
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Online course explores bicultural treatment of ‘primal resource’
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Who owns water? What is its legal status? How do waterways express cultural identities? The University's latest massive open online course (MOOC) explores questions around cultural relationships to wai (water), in the final installment of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first-ever bicultural MOOC series.
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Award-winning research communicates the impact of community gardens
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Bliss Graetz, a 4th year Master of Landscape Architecture student at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, used her Summer Research scholarship to research the impacts of community gardens.
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A ‘fresh’ perspective on linguistics
- Victoria University of Wellington
- For Bryer Oden, a summer research scholarship was a chance to explore further her love of linguistics and prepare for her Master’s programme.
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Summer research success for architecture illustrator
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Lauren Hayes, a 5th year Master of Architecture (professional) student at Victoria University of Wellington won Best Visual at this year’s Summer Gold Awards.
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The flowers and the bees
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Hannah Creary says her Summer Research Scholarship involved “ten amazing weeks working in one of New Zealand’s coolest museums with centuries old herbarium specimens and some pretty neat people”.
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The science of history
- Victoria University of Wellington
- According to the oral histories of iwi in the area, D’Urville’s Island’s Lake Moawhitu and Hawke’s Bay’s Lake Whakaki may archive evidence of devasting tsunamis in the past.
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Summer success for Wellington predator management
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- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington student Emily Chase spent her summer traipsing across the city, surveying 240 sites to figure out how effective predator management strategies have been in Wellington.
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Award-winning research into architectural design of mental health wards
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Tim Donaldson, a 5th year Master of Architecture student, won a Summer Gold Award for his project studying acute mental health ward design in New Zealand.
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Summer research project gives insight to writing history and culture
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Bachelor of Arts student Elisabeth Willmott researched 19th century writing in France with lecturer Dr Yuri Cerqueira dos Anjos from the School of Languages and Cultures during her Summer Research Scholarship.
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University researchers create innovative MRI technology
- Victoria University of Wellington
- In a collaboration between scientists and designers, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researchers have developed new technology to make magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRIs) more comfortable, accessible, and affordable.
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The parenting myth revealed by lockdown
- Victoria University of Wellington
- While lockdown was difficult for everyone, a national survey conducted by researchers from the University highlighted how much we rely on schools and early childhood education to enable work in the paid economy.
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Saving lives in Indonesia
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alumna Dr Endah Setyaningsih is working to improve the lives of mothers and babies in some of the most remote parts of the Indonesian archipelago.
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Paying it forward
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alumnus Jason Nichols shares what his Law degree taught him, highlights from his career and what he enjoys about supporting the next generation of the legal profession through the Alumni as Mentors programme.
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