Victoria University of Wellington / October 2026
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(Un)social media: political parties’ Facebook posts keep followers at arm’s length
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- Latest results from the 2026 New Zealand Social Media Study examine how political parties are interacting with voters on Facebook and what they’re doing to mobilise turnout.
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Four University researchers recognised in 2026 Research Honours
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- Presented annually by Royal Society Te Apārangi, the awards celebrate outstanding achievements and research excellence.
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Two innovative Te Herenga Waka researchers recognised with fellowships
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Tāwhia te Mana research fellowships from the Royal Society Te Apārangi will help Professor Bing Xue to build an Aotearoa New Zealand-owned AI system, while future leader Dr Keri Multerer aims to develop an ‘ancestry-aware’ genetic tool.
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Latest Te Arawai Ako fellows celebrated
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- On Wednesday 7 October, 22 Te Herenga Waka staff members were recognised as new fellows at the annual Te Arawai Ako celebration.
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Election 2026: Parties may have competing tax visions, but paying for NZ’s future isn’t getting cheaper
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- Unless the next government is willing to borrow more, and accept the higher interest costs associated with that, it will need to reduce spending or increase taxes, writes tax expert Professor Lisa Marriott.
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Fake it till you make it? Study digs into disinformation in parties’ Facebook posts
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- New results from the 2026 New Zealand Social Media Study show how much false information is being shared in political parties’ Facebook posts so far this election, and who these posts are targeting.
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Election 2026: AI regulation needs to look beyond foreign role models
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- AI regulation is long overdue, but New Zealand can’t just copy and paste rules from overseas, writes Andrew Lensen.
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NZ’s climate in ‘uncharted territory’, with more extreme weather events ahead
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- A new climate report shows New Zealand faces a future of more frequent extremes, with inevitable losses of infrastructure and property, writes climate scientist James Renwick.
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An evolution of time, technology, and teaching
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- In his inaugural lecture, Genes to genomes: A journey from drift to adaptation, Professor Peter Ritchie traces a research journey through the rapidly changing field of evolutionary genetics. His own personal journey through the field began when he was a child.
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How can NZ media achieve balance when reporting on armed conflict?
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- We need to think differently about balance in news media coverage of armed conflict, Sarah Ather found in her recent Master of Laws research at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Victoria University appoints Aotearoa’s first Chair of Advanced Artificial Intelligence
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- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has appointed internationally recognised researcher Professor Prasenjit Mitra as the Bob Dykes Chair in Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Election vibes and jibes: what parties’ Facebook posts tell us about the 2026 campaign
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- Latest results from the New Zealand Social Media Study show which political parties and leaders are posting the most and what they're focusing on in this election.
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University honours leader in Māori health, research, and data governance
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- Māori data governance and data sovereignty leader Tereki Stewart received an honorary doctorate from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington last week.
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Just politics or the ‘opposite of clever’? The risks and rewards of strategic voting
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- Vote splitting isn't new but the issue is creating more clamour than usual at this election, write Claire Timperley and Richard Shaw.
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Riana Pho Named Sportsperson of the Year After Back-to-Back Sportswoman Honours
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- After representing New Zealand at the FIH Nations Cup and 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup, Riana Pho has been awarded both the sportswoman and sportsperson of the year at this year’s Blues Awards.
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Election 2026: Climate change policy missing in action
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- The lesson from climate change in this election may be that some decisions are simply too complex, too long-term, and too consequential to leave to electoral politics alone, writes Dr Cathrine Dyer.
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Te Herenga Waka connection woven into Nobel Prize of Literature
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- In 2024, Marco Sonzogni, professor of Translation Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, embarked on a journey to bring Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson’s book Men in the off hours to life in the Italian language.
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Are we really becoming more divided? What the research tells us
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- The loudest political disagreements are not necessarily evidence that voters as a whole are more divided, write Sarah Bakewell and Tom Jamieson.
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Prepare for the unexpected: the coming super El Niño and NZ’s ocean weather
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Past El Niño events foreshadow what we could see in the months ahead. Marine researchers Amelia Hesketh and Christopher Cornwall explain.
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University planning underway for staff industrial action in two weeks
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- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has been notified that members of the TEU and PSA unions will take strike action from 1.15–5 pm on Wednesday 21 October.
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Behind the doors of select committees
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- In theory, select committees can provide a strong check on government powers, but in practice that’s rarely the case, says Dr Will Dreyer, who recently graduated with a PhD in Political Science from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Election 2026: We can’t treat our way to a sustainable health system
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Political promises to cut hospital waiting lists ignore the root causes of illness in our communities, says public health researcher Associate Professor Anna Matheson.
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