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• • Sign languages are real languages

    • 21 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • COVID-19 has put sign language in the public eye, and New Zealand is often regarded as a shining example of strong status recognition, but there is much scope for improvement.
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• • A spike in vaccine development

    • 20 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr Davide Comoletti is playing a pivotal role in New Zealand’s drive to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
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• • Holocaust studies receives philanthropic funding boost

    • 18 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A generous philanthropic gift will support Master’s-level research in Holocaust studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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• • Lady Todd Memorial Prize a boost for Nursing student

    • 17 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • "We hear of people who have gone on to make an enormous impact on the world and it started with the kindness of a stranger.
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• • A ‘third referendum’ on Jacinda Ardern’s leadership

    • 17 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Alongside referendums on legalising recreational cannabis use and the End of Life Choice Act, New Zealand's 2020 general election has become, in effect, a referendum on the Prime Minister’s instincts, judgment and determination, writes Professor Stephen Levine.
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• • Adam Art Gallery’s new intern announced

    • 17 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Millie Riddell has started her six-month stint as the latest Adam Art Gallery Intern at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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• • Wiping out ‘dark patterns’ in digital design

    • 17 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • We need a 'building code' to protect our online privacy, write Dr Cherie Lacey and Alex Beattie.
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• • Let’s follow Wales’ lead in language regeneration

    • 16 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Dr Mere Skerrett wonders why, as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s official languages, te reo Māori gets only one focal week, as she ponders the likelihood England would have an ‘English Language Week’ or Germany a ‘German Language Week’.
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• • Tackling renewable energy infrastructure challenges

    • 16 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher will play a lead role in a new project designed to improve our power grids to suit increased use of renewable energy.
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• • University receives funding boost to build high-power electric motors for rail, shipping and aviation

    • 16 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Low-emission electric aircraft seem like a dream today but work is under way on the technology needed to keep planes flying in a decarbonised world.
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• • 'Music nerd' unearths forgotten Flying Nun recordings

    • 16 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Student William Daymond is a self-confessed music nerd who has landed the perfect internship helping to examine and describe the collection of iconic record label Flying Nun.
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• • Research to inform national cervical screening programme

    • 15 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Researchers from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington have been awarded more than $1 million from the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) to develop the evidence-base for an effective national HPV screening programme for detecting changes that may lead to cervical cancer.
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• • Research opens the way to new drugs

    • 15 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A surprise finding in the microscopic “assembly line” which constructs some types of anti-cancer and antibiotic molecules could have major benefits for our health.
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• • The pursuit of comfortable homes

    • 15 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington PhD student Germán Molina Larrain is helping to make comfortable homes a reality for more New Zealanders.
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• • A radical fix for our broken justice system

    • 14 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Justice reinvestment is a game-changer that redirects spending on criminal justice into social justice initiatives to strengthen communities and reduce social harms, writes Professor Elizabeth Stanley.
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• • Aotearoa's poets of the future feature in National Schools Poetry Awards

    • 11 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • E Wen Wong, a Year 13 student from Burnside High School in Christchurch, has won the 2020 International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award.
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• • Labour and National 'lock in existing tax unfairness'

    • 10 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • ‘Vertical’ equity, ‘horizontal’ equity—whichever way you look at it, New Zealand's major parties' tax policies are too conservative, writes Dr Jonathan Barrett.
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• • NZ leg of global research into election social media

    • 10 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researchers are conducting the New Zealand leg of an international project to analyse how political actors use social media to target, inform, interact with, mobilise and pursue voters in elections.
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• • A return to normality? Not for everyone

    • 9 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A vaccinated Aotearoa of late 2021 may look a bit like pre-pandemic New Zealand, but it could be a microbially more dangerous place for some, writes Professor Nicholas Agar.
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• • Breaking out of neoliberalism’s ‘iron cage’

    • 7 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Punishing anti-competitive conduct and the abuse of market power by corporates, and protecting consumers, will only come with a radical reform of the 1986 Commerce Act, argues Dr Geoff Bertram.
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• • What’s the big fuss about Māori seats on councils?

    • 7 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Dr Annie Te One explains why embedding Māori representation in local government shouldn’t be such a big deal.
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• • Strong messages about justice reform

    • 4 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Christine McCarthy looks at New Zealand political parties' criminal justice policies ahead of the general election, and argues open prisons would have a much better shot at prisoner reintegration than our current prison infrastructure.
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• • Roger Robinson Scholarship backs great futures for student runners

    • 3 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A new scholarship, that will support students who run competitively, has been established by Emeritus Professor and prolific runner, Roger Robinson.
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• • Why we must decolonise mental health

    • 3 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • We need to decolonise our mental health system if we want revolutionary change, says Dr Sarah Pinto in response to the Chief Ombudsman's report on human rights violations in mental health facilities.
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• • Darfield quake 10 years ago revealed secrets

    • 3 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Ten years ago a magnitude 7.1 earthquake ripped a 30-kilometre gash across the Canterbury Plains, revealing previously hidden faults and changing our understanding of earthquake science.
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• • Improving youth sport worldwide

    • 2 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr Justin Richards is part of an international project to determine what we know—and don’t know—about the benefits of sport, particularly for young people.
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• • Library needs to foster connection and collaboration

    • 1 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • While Wellington's boarded-up central library is a sad prospect, the city and its communities are now presented with an exciting opportunity, writes Professor Anne Goulding.
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• • COVID-19’s effect on assisted reproduction

    • 1 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New Zealand's rules for assisted reproduction need to be re-assessed in light of the pandemic closing down international travel and access to options overseas, writes Associate Professor Rhonda Shaw.
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• • Don’t let the gunman make his own myth

    • 1 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Nicholas Agar explains why we don't want to give Christchurch massacre murderer Brenton Tarrant access to the outside world but the outside world needs access to him.
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• • The value of disagreeing in good faith

    • 1 Sep 2020
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Things are generally better when we can disagree in public without doubting our opponents' motives, write Dr James Kierstead and Dr Michael Johnston.
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