Victoria University / May 2020
June 2020 | April 2020-
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Upping the ante on vaccine development
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Associate Professor Bridget Stocker has received a significant funding boost for vaccine research that has potential to help with diseases ranging from bowel cancer to COVID-19.
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Levelling the language playing field
- Victoria University of Wellington
- How many languages do you think are spoken in New Zealand on a daily basis? Five, 10, 50?
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Research reveals part of an ancient volcanic “superplume” beneath New Zealand
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Seismic wave-speeds have revealed part of an ancient volcanic “superplume” beneath New Zealand, highlighting connections between the Earth’s deep interior and the surface we live on.
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A significant five years since Lecretia Seales v Attorney General
- Victoria University of Wellington
- In 2015, Lecretia Seales went to the High Court to seek a ruling that would allow a doctor to assist her to die with her consent; in September, the End of Life Choice Act will give all New Zealanders the opportunity to vote in a referendum to allow assisted dying.
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University-made glass a key part of new radiation treatment
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher has played a crucial role in an international project to improve radiation treatments for cancer.
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Why languages matter
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As New Zealand emerges from the last of lockdown and begins to look beyond our borders again, let’s not forget the vital role language skills play in strengthening our economic, political and cultural connections to the rest of the world, writes Associate Professor Sally Hill.
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Adaptability sees Samoan language grow
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington lecturer Dr Sadat Muaiava is driven by a fascination with how Samoan words are created, used, change meaning, and become obsolete.
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And where was the board?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Simply changing the Civil Aviation Authority's chair is not necessarily going to solve the organisational problems at play, writes Lola Toppin-Casserly.
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What do we want to leave for our children?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The COVID-19 lockdown has been a chance to examine the nature on our doorstep and to think about what its future might be, write Associate Professor James Beattie and Professor Bruce Clarkson.
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Research grant for more equitable autism therapy
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Hannah Waddington has been awarded a Health Research Council Emerging Researcher Grant worth $250,000 over three years to research low-intensity therapy and parent coaching for young children with Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD).
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Growing our Future—Adopt a plant for Arbor Day 2020
- Victoria University of Wellington
- To mark Arbor Day/World Environment Day (5 June) in 2020, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has teamed up with Wellington City Council to offer 1,000 native plants for free to good homes.
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Rebuilding fairly after COVID-19 will be a global challenge
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Without global empathy and better global leadership, the poorest countries and poorest people will only be made poorer by the pandemic, writes Professor Ilan Noy.
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COVID-19 'no justification for shutting out community input'
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Rushed reform of New Zealand's Resource Management Act, restricted public debate and disrespect of iwi are a recipe for bad decisions, writes Dr Amanda Thomas.
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As with COVID-19, NZ has a pandemic of sexual violence
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Why in 2020 are New Zealanders still reacting as if this is the first time they have heard the high statistics for sexual violence in the country, asks Adjunct Professor Jan Jordan.
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Trustees Scholarship opens up a Great Future for Lachlan Paulsen
- Victoria University of Wellington
- “Now that I have been awarded the scholarship, the door has opened to opportunities that I could only dream of and I am excited to find out how far I can make this momentum take me.” —Lachlan Paulsen BE Hons Engineering and Computer Science and Trustee Scholarship 2020 recipient.
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Remote justice? Criminal proceedings in a pandemic
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The way technology is used in courts during COVID-19 requires careful thought to ensure processes respect fair trial rights and the need for open and transparent justice, write Professor Yvette Tinsley and Associate Professor Nessa Lynch.
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University’s design expertise behind production of face shields for local health workers
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Design Innovation has been using its design expertise and state-of-the-art facilities to help create face shields to meet demand from medical centres under COVID-19.
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University athletics club outruns competition
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Success in competition and the coordination of an 80-team University Relay team saw the Victoria University of Wellington Athletics Club win Blues in 2019, and they hope to build on this in 2020.
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Fale Malae Trust thrilled by Budget 2020 funding
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Fale Malae Trust says it is thrilled with the support provided in Budget 2020 for the Fale Malae Trust and Pasifika communities in their shared vision of building a twenty-first century Fale Malae in the heart of the capital’s Parliamentary precinct.
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Frank Kitts Park, Lambton, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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'Emperor' Robertson's new clothes
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Norman Gemmell calls out the electioneering he sees by New Zealand's Finance Minister in the country's Budget 2020.
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Getting serious about privilege
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Inequality is easy to reinforce and difficult to reverse, so policies addressing COVID-19 and the economic crisis must tackle the accumulation of wealth and privilege, writes Dr Anna Matheson.
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Award supports international research into traditional Pasifika medicine
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The 2020 Biennial Zonta Science Award will support a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher to get an international perspective on her research on traditional Pasifika medicine.
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Budget 2020 'too weak, too short'
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The New Zealand Government has not gone hard or early enough fiscally, and is planning on winding it back far too quickly, writes Dr Simon Chapple.
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Boost for Pasifika Fale Malae in central Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Budget 2020 has provided a $10 million boost for the Pasifika community in their goal of developing a twenty-first century Fale Malae in the heart of the capital’s Parliamentary precinct.
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Frank Kitts Park, Lambton, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New Zealand’s pandemic budget is all about saving and creating jobs. Now the hard work begins
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Budget 2020’s focus on 'jobs, jobs and jobs' is understandable, commendable and vital, writes Professor Jonathan Boston.
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Soldiering on against COVID-19
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Let's be as cautious about the lives of older, sicker New Zealanders as we are about the lives of our soldiers, writes Professor Nicholas Agar.
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Was lockdown legal? An alternative view
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand's Health Act can be read with a more benevolent eye to provide a defensible legal basis for COVID-19 isolation orders, write Associate Professor Dean Knight and Professor Geoff McLay.
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The future of New Zealand’s state sector
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Central government has abdicated responsibility and accountability by decentralising its decision-making and when the dust clears from the COVID-19 crisis we should look at bringing back specialised departments headed by real experts, writes Dr Geoff Bertram.
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Victoria University Press takes top non-fiction prize at book awards
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University Press of Wellington took out three prizes at the Ockham NZ Book Awards on Tuesday night, including the top prize for general non-fiction for rock musician Shayne Carter’s autobiography Dead People I Have Known.
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Budget must plan to restore its buffer
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand's Government is legislatively required to maintain a financial buffer in case of crises like COVID-19 and Budget 2020 must give a clear timeframe for when that buffer will be restored, writes Professor Ian Ball.
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Pandemic Budget: From preventative medicine to patient care
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Flexibility and a path towards lower debt need to be the guiding principles for New Zealand’s Budget 2020, writes Professor Norman Gemmell.
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Research for Life funds projects on vaccines, strokes, cancer, and maternal health
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Four Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researchers have received funding in the first Research for Life funding round for 2020.
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What caused major climate change in the past?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor James Renwick explains what caused high levels of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere in the past, before the burning of fossil fuels and the contribution of other human sources of carbon dioxide.
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International student collaboration supports sustainability
- Victoria University of Wellington
- There are numerous benefits to international collaboration between universities for research, teaching, and engagement.
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Made in Australia and New Zealand
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A trans-Tasman bubble is an opportunity to reduce dependence on China, write Associate Professor Hongzhi Gao and Assistant Professor Monica Ren.
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Is Ardern going to change the world?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- With more ethical leaders like New Zealand's Prime Minister emerging globally, we may start to see some of the change we need, writes Lola Toppin-Casserly.
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Wellbeing amid lockdown
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Arthur Grimes is one of the experts from 11 countries who have given their views on how to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Confronting performance-based identities in lockdown
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Productivity and happiness do not always go hand in hand, writes Dr Ben Walker.
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Budget lessons from past pandemics
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Coronavirus Budgets can drive faster economic recovery, but they need to be well-targeted, writes Professor Ilan Noy.
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COVID-19 lays NZ health inequality bare
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The COVID-19 crisis shows, in no uncertain terms, that New Zealand's underlying systems are not fit for purpose when it comes to health inequality, writes Dr Anna Matheson.
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The origins of the nature we’ve rediscovered
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The roots of the parks and tree-lined streets New Zealanders have enjoyed during the COVID-19 lockdown lie in nineteenth-century colonialists’ belief in the restorative power of nature, writes Associate Professor James Beattie.
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Advice for a recovering tourism industry
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As New Zealand recovers from COVID-19, tourism operators would be wise to consider how to benefit from better understanding the complex purchasing decisions of families, write Associate Professor Ian Yeoman and colleagues.
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We can’t ignore cannabis referendum
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Associate Professor Fiona Hutton urges us not to turn a blind eye to New Zealand's cannabis referendum, even though it may not feel significant amid COVID-19.
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University welcomes newest graduates to our alumni community
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington acknowledges and celebrates the 2,578 graduates who would have crossed the stage next week to collect their qualifications in seven graduation ceremonies.
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Council member fee and senior leadership staff salary reductions at Victoria University of Wellington support students and staff
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Members of the Victoria University of Wellington Council are reducing their fees by 33 percent for the rest of 2020, as part of the University’s response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
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The strangest start to the job
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The University’s newest Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ehsan Mesbahi, has lived in Iran, India, England, Singapore and Scotland. But he’d never moved countries during a pandemic before.
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Creating new social divides: how coronavirus is reshaping how we see ourselves and the world around us
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive public health and economic crisis, but it is also reshaping how we see ourselves and the social world around us, write Dr Ben Walker, Dr Rebecca Bednarek, Associate Professor Todd Bridgman, and Associate Professor Urs Daellenbach.
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Can we rely on China to save the economy?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- After largely controlling the spread of COVID-19, China is now seeking to kick-start its economy. Can we rely again on Chinese growth to help pull the global economy out of its economic doldrums, asks Associate Professor Jason Young.
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Connecting the dots in contact tracing
- Victoria University of Wellington
- While New Zealand appears to have brought its Covid-19 outbreak under control, quick and efficient contact tracing is more critical than ever.
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Architectural honours for University’s newest building
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s newest building, Maru, has been shortlisted for two awards by the Wellington branch of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA).
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Films on researchers highlight why expertise matters
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A new documentary film series highlights the work of three leading New Zealand researchers as they dedicate their lives to illuminating and protecting different aspects of one of our most precious resources—water.
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Adapting to climate change impacts
- Victoria University of Wellington
- How do we avoid the worst possible climate change scenario? New research led by Te Herenga Waka– Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr Judy Lawrence suggests a new method, starting with the future we wish to avoid and working backwards to identify the steps we need to take, and under what conditions we need to take them, to avoid that future.
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Post-earthquake lessons for after COVID-19
- Victoria University of Wellington
- What happened in Christchurch in the wake of 2011 can teach New Zealand much about life following lockdown, writes Esther Marshall.
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