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    University reopening Friday 2 May

    • 1 May 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The University is now open for teaching, learning, and research activity.
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    The promise of urban agriculture: reconnecting cities with their food

    • 30 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Instead of letting urban sprawl consume productive land, we could design cities and towns that embrace urban agriculture—from rooftop gardens to vertical farms, writes Isabella Mendonca.
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    Kānuka extract shows promise in reducing medication’s side effects

    • 30 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • An extract from the native kānuka plant could help reduce the side effects of a drug used in organ transplants, new research has found.
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    Te Herenga Waka strengthens Pacific connections through new partnership with the Université de la Polynésie française

    • 29 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has deepened its commitment to regional collaboration through the signing of a new framework agreement with the University of French Polynesia (Université de la Polynésie française—UPF), a key partner in the Nārua project.
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    Documentary on modern sorcery violence aims to shift beliefs

    • 28 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Many of us think witches being burned at the stake is a thing of the past, but there’s an enclave in the South-Pacific where innocent people today face violence and persecution due to accusations of witchcraft.
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    Reefs in the ‘middle’ light zone along NZ’s coast are biodiversity hotspots

    • 28 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • We're discovering more about the diverse marine communities that live around our coast—many of these communities are largely unprotected from human impacts, writes James Bell.
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    They see me rollin’, they learnin’

    • 22 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The School of Psychology’s innovative mobile help desk, fondly known as the Badger Cart, is bringing support directly to students.
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    Easter break closure and library hours

    • 17 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The University is closed from 5 pm, Thursday 17 April—7.30 am, Wednesday 23 April for the Easter break.
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    Cost cutting risks children’s learning and wellbeing

    • 15 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: Early childhood education services should never be considered merely a business proposition, write Carmen Dalli, Jenny Ritchie, and Linda Mitchell.
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    Law change means owners will no longer be responsible for tourism accidents on their land—but they never really were

    • 15 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: A planned change to health and safety legislation aims to protect landowners from a risk they never really faced, write Chris Peace, Danaë Anderson, and Joanne Crawford.
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    Rural Māori students fulfil their dream of studying technology

    • 7 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Information management services provider TEAM IM NZ has sponsored two new undergraduate scholarships for Māori school leavers who wish to study STEM-related subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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    Te Herenga Waka community supports tuatara research at Zealandia

    • 7 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • More than 700 people from the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington alumni community attended a friends and family event on Saturday 22 March.
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    Zealandia, Lake Road, Highbury, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Yes, data can produce better policy—but it’s no substitute for real-world experience

    • 6 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: Data often lacks the depth, context, and responsiveness needed to drive real-world change, writes Anna Matheson.
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    New maps show coastal sites with high rates of subsidence and increased flood risk as sea-levels rise

    • 6 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • High resolution maps pinpoint coastal sites in major cities that are sinking faster than previously thought.
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    Ngā Mokopuna to star in TV show about Māori architecture

    • 3 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Professor of Architecture Derek Kawiti is hosting a TV show examining the influence of Māori design concepts on Aotearoa’s contemporary built environment—and Ngā Mokopuna is set to play a starring role.
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    Wellington’s new indie game studio with a literary twist

    • 2 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Associate Professor Zach Dodson, co-founder of the Visual Narrative Lab at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, has launched independent game studio Interactive Tragedy, Limited.
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    Cancer during Covid inspires survivor to participate in Relay for Life

    • 2 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • In early 2020, at the age of 14, Kyrith Reynolds was diagnosed with cancer. They had just begun high school, and the COVID-19 lockdowns were starting.
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    Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it

    • 2 Apr 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: Financial anxiety is causing young Chinese to change their spending habits—and that has global implications, writes Christian Yao.
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    Four Te Herenga Waka professors named Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows

    • 26 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Law and engineering researchers feature in the 2025 list of new Royal Society Fellows.
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    Te Herenga Waka talent takes the stage at CubaDupa 2025

    • 24 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • CubaDupa showcases Wellington’s cultural scene with standout performances from local acts, including many Te Herenga Waka students and alumni.
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    Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Trump silences the Voice of America: end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?

    • 24 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: Voice of America may be remembered by many as the US propaganda outlet from World War II. But the reality of this and similar state-sponsored global media outlets is more complex, writes Valerie Cooper.
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    If NZ wants to decarbonise energy, we need to know which renewables deliver the best payback

    • 24 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Life-cycle assessment of renewable energy technologies can tell us about their carbon and energy footprints, write Alan Brent and Isabella Pimentel Pincelli.
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    From speculums to self-testing—champion of HPV self-testing wins Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year

    • 20 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Bev Lawton ONZM (Ngāti Porou) from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Te Tātai Hauora o Hine National Centre for Women's Health Research Aotearoa has been named 2025 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year.
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    After Orr: time for NZ to rethink imported banking rules

    • 19 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: By cherry-picking standards from Australia, Singapore, or the UK, politicians, pundits, and influencers risk undermining local regulatory effectiveness and the Reserve Bank’s credibility, writes Martien Lubberink.
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    NZ has no dedicated database to track losses from weather disasters—without it, we’re planning in the dark

    • 18 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, but we don't know how much they're costing us, writes Ilan Noy.
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    Research finds significant shortfalls in early intervention psychosis services

    • 18 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The ‘early’ part of early psychosis care is significantly lacking in New Zealand, researchers say.
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    The politicisation of research funding

    • 16 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: A funding model that favours immediate economic returns over intellectual diversity and long-term societal benefits will undermine academic independence, write Mirjam Schindler, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha, Mairéad de Róiste, and Brendon Blue.
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    Climate reporting cuts bad for business

    • 16 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Comment: New Zealand’s leadership in climate reporting could be undermined by softening disclosure rules, writes Yinka Moses.
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    Fiordland’s marine habitats surveyed to develop first complete picture of biodiversity

    • 16 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Researchers have been diving in Fiordland’s Te Puaitaha—Breaksea Sound and Tamatea—Dusky Sound to collect data on the diverse marine communities that live in these areas.
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    Criminology scholar connects Cambodian temple trafficking to white collar crime

    • 12 Mar 2025
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Simon Mackenzie from the School of Social and Cultural Studies recently published a paper about the dynamics of transnational crime and illegal global markets, exploring the movement of cultural and natural collectibles from economically-poor to wealthy countries.
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