Victoria University of Wellington / October 2021
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Three composer residencies at the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī announced for 2022
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- The New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī are offering three new composer residencies thanks to funding from Creative NZ.
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SALSA spreading along the Alpine Fault
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- A Te Herenga Waka-led research team has this week started installing the densest network yet of earthquake-recording equipment along the Alpine Fault.
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Adam Art Gallery’s new intern announced
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- Louie Zalk-Neale has taken up their role as the new intern at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The biggest threat to reefs in our lifetime
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- Ocean acidification is the biggest problem for coralline algae when assessed against all others. Now is the time for COP26 leaders to be courageous on the issue, argues Dr Christopher Cornwall.
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Youth justice experts call for urgent law changes to reduce harm in the youth justice system
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Associate Professor Nessa Lynch with Professor Ian Lambie of the University of Auckland and Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft have been leading a piece of work on closing the legislative gaps in the youth justice system
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Severe fires cause declines in plants
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- Research on trees in North America paints a gloomy picture for the recovery of native plants in Aotearoa New Zealand following severe fires. Dr Nicola Day co-authored a recent study about plant re-establishment after forest fires.
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New Chancellor for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Wellingtonian John Allen has been elected Chancellor of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington for 2022, succeeding Neil Paviour-Smith whose time on Council ends in early 2022.
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Airborne microplastics affect climate change
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- Microplastics in the atmosphere are likely to directly affect climate change in the decades ahead, according to a new study.
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Jared Wiremu Kane is the International Institute of Modern Letters 2022 Emerging Māori Writer-in-Residence
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jared Wiremu Kane (Ngāpuhi) as the 2022 Emerging Māori Writer-in-Residence.
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Researcher joins Breakthrough Energy Fellows
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Franck Natali joins Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Fellows to help bring climate innovation from the lab to widespread adoption with his work into cleaner ammonia production.
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Walking through living architecture
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- Dr Robin Skinner from the Wellington School of Architecture is looking forward to leading a walk through the Kelburn campus on Sunday 31 October during Wellington Heritage Week.
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Taking RNA technology into NZ’s future
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand has the opportunity to establish itself at the cutting edge of RNA technology. We already possess the scientific expertise to solve problems unique to our nation and globally—we just need the investment, writes Kylie Price from the Malaghan Institute.
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Parents are not failing their children by bringing them into the world
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- As people start to consider the morality of bringing children into our climate change-wreaked world, visiting research scholar and teaching fellow Dr Snita Ahir-Knight explores why this is flawed.
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Long-term greenhouse gas influence on retreating glaciers
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- Greenhouse gases have determined the extent of Aotearoa New Zealand’s glaciers for longer than just the industrial period, scientists now believe.
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Many of New Zealand’s most popular websites use ‘dark patterns’ to manipulate users – is it time to regulate?
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- Media Studies lecturer Dr Cherie Lacey and postdoctoral research fellow Dr Alex Beattie from the Centre of Science in Society explain "dark patterns" and the impact they are having on our online purchasing habits.
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Mandatory vaccination required for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington halls of residence
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Vaccination against COVID-19 will be mandatory for students and staff living and working in Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington operated student accommodation in 2022.
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Humans are driving animals and plants to the edge. But are we really heading into a mass extinction?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- It is now common to refer to the current biodiversity crisis as the sixth mass extinction. Associate Professor Michael Hannah asks if this is true? Are we in the middle of an event on the same scale as the five ancient mass extinctions Earth has experienced?
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Kicking the can on methane
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- There is a real risk that focusing on methane will mean we take our foot off the accelerator of CO2 reductions – where we've traditionally had a pretty poor record, write Professor Dave Frame and Dr Adrian Macey.
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International education’s hidden taonga
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Once the COVID-19 storm abates, the international education field will hopefully be ready to unearth its taonga. Chris Beard explains what that is.
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Let the children vote
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Simon Keller lays out a case for why mature democracies like ours should extend the right to vote to children as young as 10.
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Coping with ambiguity now COVID's here to stay
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- A new and confusing system is now in place thanks to the uncertainty of Delta, and many are feeling more stressed and anxious than ever. Te Herenga Waka's Dr Dougal Sutherland and his colleagues have some practical suggestions.
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Te Herenga Waka student joins Emerging Innovator programme
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- Master's student Holly Gooch is now part of the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator programme to progress a project to help twice-exceptional secondary students.
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St Ashley of COVIDton
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Superhero, saint, sex symbol, saviour—the mild-mannered public servant fronting the COVID-19 response has been the focus of an almost cult-like following, according to new research published by two sociolinguistics scholars.
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New leadership appointments for Faculty of Law and Wellington School of Business and Government
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- Professor Mark Hickford has been appointed to the newly-created role of Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Government, Law and Business, to whom the Deans of the Faculty of Law and the Wellington School of Business and Government will report.
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ECE teachers essential workers in all but name
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- Returning to work amidst the outbreak of the Delta variant, early childhood teachers must be recognised as essential workers - and remunerated as such, writes Dr Sue Cherrington.
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The minority group we're not including
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- Organisations everywhere are talking 'diversity' but there's one large minority group whose voice is not being recorded, represented and heard, writes the Faculty of Law's Professor Graeme Austin.
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Separate stroke and heart attack risk predictors necessary
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- Dr Denise Taylor and her colleagues at the University of Aucklan call for separate stroke and heart attack risk predictors to improve understanding for those at risk.
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Cisco and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington announce new cybersecurity micro-credential delivered by Kāpuhipuhi Wellington Uni-Professional
- Victoria University of Wellington
- thanks to a new micro-credential created by Cisco and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealanders wanting a career in the lucrative and growing cybersecurity industry now have a natural starting point.
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New Zealand’s debt collection problem
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand has a problem with harassment by debt collectors, and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Victoria Stace believes guidelines such as those in operation in Australia are the answer.
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On campus trial of tap in technology with NZ COVID Tracer
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- The Ministry of Health is trialling use of Near Field Communications tags with the NZ COVID Tracer app at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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