Victoria University / August 2020
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Mastering the slow art of architecture
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alumnus James Wallace shares what he loves about a meaningful career designing projects that positively benefit local communities and makes the case for helping mentor the next generation of architects.
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Indigenous designs help Wellington celebrate Matariki 2020
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Wellington’s 2020 Matariki celebrations saw a variety of events and installations across the city—several of them created by David Hakaraia, lecturer at the School of Design Innovation.
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Virtual educational tourism experience offered to schools
- Victoria University of Wellington
- School students will get the chance to ‘visit’ Peru and learn about its people and culture thanks to an experiential learning tool developed at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Retirement of Professor Gregor Coster
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Gregor Coster, Dean of the Wellington Faculty of Health, has announced that he will retire at the end of this year.
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Influenza expertise supports COVID-19 vaccine development
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alumna and senior lecturer in Immunology Dr Lisa Connor is using her vaccine expertise to help in the quest for a New Zealand made COVID-19 vaccine.
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A gap between criticism and reality
- Victoria University of Wellington
- From the tone and tenor of criticism in New Zealand, an otherwise uninformed observer would think our leadership has performed as badly as that of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, writes Professor Jack Vowles.
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University part of new COVID-19 vaccine alliance
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researchers will play a key role in a new alliance that brings together several organisations in the search for a COVID-19 vaccine for New Zealand.
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When good intentions aren’t enough: where New Zealand’s border quarantine system really went wrong
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has shown a remarkable grasp of fine detail and an ability to communicate it under pressure.
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When good intentions aren’t enough: where New Zealand’s border quarantine system really went wrong
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Although blame games over New Zealand's border testing shortcomings are inevitable, more urgent is a closer look at the assumptions and responsibilities embedded in our institutional structures, write Dr Barbara Allen and Dr Flavia Donadelli.
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Designing 'with' not 'for': the social movement of co-design
- Victoria University of Wellington
- School of Design Innovation alumni Kelly Ann McKercher (they/them) has forged a varied career that spans design, teaching, and public health.
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September graduation ceremonies in Wellington are cancelled
- Victoria University of Wellington
- In light of the recent announcement by the Government extending the COVID-19 level 2 restrictions until at least Sunday 6 September, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is cancelling its September graduation ceremonies and parades.
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Wellbeing focus for schools in lockdown
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Eighteen principals from a diverse range of secondary schools throughout New Zealand were interviewed about their experiences in lockdown, and their feedback was remarkably similar, writes Associate Professor Kate Thornton.
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Predicting diabetes
- Victoria University of Wellington
- After using data from 10,000 patients to develop an algorithm to predict the onset of type 2 diabetes, Dr Binh Nguyen and Professor Colin Simpson want to turn what they learned into a tool healthcare professionals can use.
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Pandemic shifts some education myths
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The world after COVID-19 calls for a new educational purpose, one that reconnects thinking around environmental wellbeing, social health and economic fairness, write Professor Stephen Dobson and Dr Neil Boland.
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What is Islam’s appeal to Māori?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- With Islam one of the fastest-growing religions in Aotearoa New Zealand, particularly among Māori, Dr Ayca Arkilic is exploring its growing appeal and the socio-political implications of conversion.
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The riddles and challenges of ‘island syndrome’
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Kevin Burns examines the concept of 'island syndrome' in plants and animals as he attempts to solve some of the riddles of island evolution.
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Alumni and donor data security
- Victoria University of Wellington
- If you have studied at another university, you may have been recently contacted about a data security breach. This breach affected Blackbaud, a database management software commonly used by universities and charities globally, including this University.
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New research shows declining alcohol and cigarette use in New Zealand youth
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A new study co-led by a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher shows that cigarette smoking is now rare in high school students, and binge drinking has declined since 2012.
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Study sheds light on the state of mental health and wellbeing amongst New Zealand youth
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New research co-led by a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher shows that while more than two-thirds of high school-aged New Zealanders reported good wellbeing, an increasing number of students are reporting high levels of distress.
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington academic wins prestigious national teaching award
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Senior lecturer Dr Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) from Te Kawa a Māui (School of Māori Studies) at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has won a 2020 Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award.
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What can we learn from the last lockdown?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Having surveyed over 2,000 people, Dr Kate Prickett has valuable advice for families, employers and government to make life easier for New Zealanders this time around.
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Acclaimed New Zealand writer to receive honorary doctorate
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Acclaimed New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox is to receive an honorary Doctor of Literature from Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington.
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Rethinking the English effect
- Victoria University of Wellington
- When English becomes the global language of education we risk losing other, often better, ways of learning, write Professor Stephen Dobson and Muhammad Zuhdi.
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Space data gives Earth insights
- Victoria University of Wellington
- With the support of a Fulbright-EQC Scholarship, PhD student Jesse Kearse from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences plans to head to the United States to study satellite data with world-leading experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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Climate explained: could electric car batteries feed power back into the grid?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alan Brent, Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, discusses whether it's possible to put spare power from electric vehicles back into the grid.
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Uncovering the social life of plants
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Individuals living in colonies, working together through the division of labour and cooperating to care for young is nothing new in the animal kingdom, but the discovery of this behaviour in a plant offers a major breakthrough in our understanding of how life has evolved on Earth.
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Scholarships shaping Pasifika futures
- Victoria University of Wellington
- After my degree I want to do everything. I want to write, teach, make films. I want to be creative. Pasifika people are great story tellers and I want to use that to help in the work I hope to do with Pasifika communities here in New Zealand.—Kaitlin Abbott, Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Scholarship 2020
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Wellington scholar changing refugee narratives
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Iranian photographer Ehsan Hazaveh wants to challenge the stereotypical stories people often see in the media about refugees through his PhD in Media Studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Lockdown’s legality and the rule of law
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Associate Professor Dean Knight provides expert analysis of the High Court judicial review of New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown.
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Track Zero funds seven climate change projects
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A climate change charity with support from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has announced $40,000 seed funding to seven collaborative climate-related art projects.
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Glacier melt linked to human greenhouse gas emissions
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Research from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Antarctic Research Centre has shown a strong link between human greenhouse gas emissions and the increased melting of glaciers.
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The silence around miscarriage
- Victoria University of Wellington
- We are more comfortable than ever telling stories about intimate experiences in public, so why is miscarriage still such a taboo subject, asks Associate Professor Rhonda M. Shaw.
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