New Ministers urged to strengthen Tiriti relationship for environmental protection
Two senior Māori academics urge the new Ministers of the Environment and Conservation to centre Te Tiriti o Waitangi relationships in environmental protection.
2020 news
Read news items from our 2020 archives.
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New Zealand School of Music Orchestra to perform special one-off concert
The New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī orchestra will perform its only 2020 concert on 26 September conducted by NZSO Principal Conductor in Residence Hamish McKeich.
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New Zealand language values equality
If you walk into a workshop to learn a trade in New Zealand, you’ll hear the teacher referring to the group as ‘guys’, and individual students as ‘mate’—reflecting the egalitarian values of the society we live in.
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Ongoing victims of Havelock North’s water crisis
Three summers after the devastation that crippled Havelock North in Hawke's Bay, Dr Sarah Monod de Froideville from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Institute of Criminology looks at the lasting effects on many of those who fell ill.
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Online course explores bicultural treatment of ‘primal resource’
Who owns water? What is its legal status? How do waterways express cultural identities? The University's latest massive open online course (MOOC) explores questions around cultural relationships to wai (water), in the final installment of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first-ever bicultural MOOC series.
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Pacific Studies lecturer Dr Emalani Case explains her passion for activism and teaching
Dr Emalani Case describes her activist roots and details some of the causes closest to her heart. She also discusses her current research and reveals how her passion for activism informs her work as a lecturer of Pacific Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures.
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Silver Scrolls award winners in the running once again
NZSM Associate Professor Michael Norris has been nominated for the SOUNZ Contemporary Award, and MFA (Creative Practice) Teaching Fellow David Long is a finalist for the APRA Best Original Music In A Series Award at this year’s APRA Silver Scrolls Awards.
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PhD graduate’s career weaves together digital technology, primary teaching, and poetry
Creative Writing PhD graduate Dr Ben Egerton is a poet and a teaching lecturer in primary Digital Technology and English at the Wellington Faculty of Education. We find out from Ben how he has successfully woven these three hugely contrasting spheres—technology, poetry, and primary teaching—into a working career.
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Podcast: Election 2020—Key social media trends
With New Zealand’s general election heating up, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Wellington Faculties of Humanities and Social Science and Education Professor Jennifer Windsor sits down with Dr Mona Krewel and Professor Jack Vowles, from the University’s globally ranked Political Science and International Relations programme, to talk about their research project analysing data from hundreds of social media posts by political parties and top election candidates.
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Premature past inspires research into personhood of premature babies
Cultural Anthropology PhD graduate Zoe Poppelwell investigates how we speak about premature babies—and how this differs depending on our caring role.