Māori in the military business
What started out as simple curiosity for senior lecturer Dr Maria Bargh has culminated in a new book on a highly secretive world—one that challenges perceptions around the economic contribution of Māori.
2015
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Bold vision for heritage precinct
Getting stuck into a real architectural issue in a real urban setting is an exciting opportunity for a group of Victoria students tasked with devising a creative upgrade of an inner-city heritage precinct in Wellington.
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Playing to our strengths
We all want better government, but how do democracies like New Zealand tackle the practicalities of bringing about the change that is needed?
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Top honours
Professor Colin Wilson has received one of the highest international honours in science with his election as a fellow of the Royal Society of London.
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Revolutionising cell biology
A discovery by Dr Melanie McConnell and her colleagues at Victoria University and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research has threatened to ‘rewrite the textbooks’.
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Political marketing scrutinised
Suffolk University’s Ken Cosgrove intrigued world-leading political researchers and practitioners in Wellington with his comparison of sports and political marketing.
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A collective century of gender research
It’s a scholarly pursuit that has grown out of social justice concerns and which looks at traditional academic disciplines through a different critical lens.
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Changing lives
Give your best, and motivate your students to give you their best in return says award-winning teacher Professor Dale Carnegie.
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Surveying the damage
After spending several weeks living in a campervan in Hagley Park and voluntarily inspecting buildings following Christchurch’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake, Victoria Building Science lecturer Geoff Thomas was asked to help with a formal survey of badly damaged houses in the city.
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Research hits the mark
The commercial impact university research can have is powerfully illustrated by the fruits of an idea that traces its roots back to a conversation at Victoria between two of New Zealand’s most respected scientists.
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Excellence rewarded
Seventeen of Victoria’s outstanding academics were honoured at an event at Parliament in July.
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Rebooting Futurism
Rebooting Futurism Futurism—an avant-garde artistic movement that was a major inspiration for New Zealand artist Len Lye—came to life at a day-long event at Victoria.
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Launch of new Māori resource
A new bilingual tool, unlike anything else produced in New Zealand, was unveiled at an interactive launch held by Victoria’s Faculty of Law at the start of Māori Language Week.
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The challenge of our time
Victoria University is leading research and a debate on understanding climate change and how we can best respond to it.
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Taking climate change to the classroom
Helping young people deal with the challenge of climate change has been the goal of a recent project to take an award-winning documentary about global warming into New Zealand schools.
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Poverty linked to climate change in Tuvalu
Tauisi Taupo’s doctoral research is focused on the impact of climate change on poverty levels in his low-lying home country of Tuvalu.
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A game changer
Regardless of any agreements made by global leaders in Paris this year, the world will be impacted by changes in the climate.
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Accounting for carbon emissions
Although traditionally associated with numbers and finance, accounting also has a role to play in a lower-carbon future, according to Victoria research.
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Youth shout out on climate change
Avid climate change activist James Young-Drew pauses momentarily when asked if young people actually care about climate change.
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Big dreams pay off
When 18-year-old Shivali Gulab started at Victoria University, she had big dreams. But even she couldn’t have forseen that within two decades she’d be working in New York as chief executive of a biotech company chasing a cure for cancer.
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Solving a surfing puzzle
The frustration of having to wait around for a lift to the beach while the best waves were breaking without him sowed the first seeds of creativity for Victoria University Design student and social surfer Max Robotham.
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The business of risk
Victoria has become the first university in the country to offer an undergraduate degree majoring in Actuarial Science.
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How far is too far?
If someone is arrested for an imprisonable offence, should police have the authority to decide whether a DNA sample should be taken? Should they be allowed to use reasonable force to obtain it, and what happens to the data?
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Finding our place amongst the world disorder
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is an expert in big-picture issues—geopolitics, economics, international relations and security.
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Rise in global rankings a win
Victoria University’s standing as a research intensive university at the forefront of arts and humanities scholarship has again been confirmed with the release of the QS World University rankings.
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Double delight
Victoria’s Kelburn campus came alive to the sound of opera in August, when Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) staged a brilliant double bill at the Memorial Theatre.
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A carnival of comedy
A vow by a king and his cohorts to swear off women and devote themselves to scholarly pursuits goes comprehensively—and hilariously—off the rails in the next production by the Summer Shakespeare Trust.
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Conflict—a contemporary conversation
Victoria academics have been drawing crowds at the National Library, as they present lectures on the theme of conflict—its nature, causes, effects and possible resolutions.
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Legacies of war
Among the platoons of books being published about World War I, a new anthology stands out by presenting a much broader picture of New Zealand’s involvement in war.
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How our film industry flourishes
How a relatively small country like New Zealand has been able to achieve notable international success for its feature film industry has been examined by a Victoria PhD student.
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A million words from one of the best
A 50-year-long labour of love comes to fruition for its editor, Dr John Weir, with the publication of four volumes containing over one million words by one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers.
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Who's in my room?
In this ongoing series, we ask an outstanding graduate to return to their old room at their former hall of residence and share stories with the current resident.
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The extraordinary life of Alan Hoverd
Piecing together dozens of skeletons, helping to design and build the Coastal Ecology Laboratory, rounding up 15,000 rogue bees—Alan Hoverd’s 50 years with Victoria University could never be described as ordinary.
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Who’s protecting your online reputation?
Defamation laws have protected the reputations of individuals for centuries. But those laws have yet to fully adapt to the changing way we publish and consume information online and the increased harm caused by online defamation.
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Going forward with Google
Going forward with Google Victoria University has further solidified its place at the forefront of research in one of the most innovative emerging technology areas—software defined networks (SDN).
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Honouring Victoria’s best
It was an impressive ensemble at the recent Distinguished Alumni event in Wellington’s Shed 6. At the centre of the celebrations stood six outstanding alumni,each of whose endeavours have garnered incredible success, locally, nationally and on the world stage.
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From the Beehive
Hon. Bill English takes a moment out of his duties as Deputy Prime Minister to talk about his student days at Victoria.
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Living the work you love
Chelsea Robinson co-founded Generation Zero while a student at Victoria. See where her ambition and drive took her next.
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International relations
The manager of Indonesia’s Centre for International Trade and Investment manager Dr Michelle Limenta talks about her student days at Victoria.
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A legal history
David McLean, current CEO of Westpac New Zealand, reminisces over his days as a Victoria law student in the 1970s.
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Legacy lives on
The legacy of Wellington photographer Ronald Woolf will live on through Victoria University with the endowment of the Ronald Woolf Memorial Trust funds to the Victoria University of Wellington Foundation.
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Prints of perfection
Traditional printmaking may have fallen out of fashion but David Maskill and his Art History Honours students are out to show audiences how exquisite the art form can be.
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Dealing to pests in the Pacific
Dealing to pests in the Pacific Having your home overrun by creepy crawlies is the stuff of nightmares, but ant invasions are a worrying reality for people in some parts of the Pacific.
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Swell of research success
Victoria is riding a wave of success, with 24 researchers receiving highly competitive Marsden Fund grants in 2014—the largest number ever for the University.
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Uncovering New Zealand’s ‘secret world’
State surveillance of New Zealand citizens is increasingly in the spotlight, but little has been written about how and why intelligence gathering began and developed in Aotearoa.
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Calling the shots
When Dr Bridget Stocker sent two internationally renowned scientists an email outlining her ideas, she was hardly expecting a reply.
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Moving mountains
At 3,500 kilometres, the Transantarctic Mountain range in Antarctica is the third longest on Earth.
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Painting China modern
Until the twentieth century, there were no words for ‘art’ or ‘fine art’ in the Chinese language.
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Filling in the gaps
Unlike a video camera, the human brain cannot record a perfect replica of an event.
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Shedding light on black holes
The mathematics and physics underlying black holes is both elegant and excruciatingly technical.
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Beyond the battlefields
War in the nineteenth century had a dramatic and lasting effect on New Zealand.
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All but forgotten
Dr Sydney Shep, director of the Wai-te-ata Press, will identify and analyse Colenso’s published writings and letter correspondence to understand his extensive local and international connections.
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Barriers to change
When news broke of the ‘roast busters’ sex scandal in 2013, people were shocked and outraged.
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Challenging rape mythology
Despite reform of law and process over many decades, adult rape complainants’ experience of the criminal justice system has not improved.
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Competition of Roman politics
Before they were ruled by emperors, Romans conducted annual elections at which they picked an elite group of the privileged social class to govern their city and command their armies.
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Piecing together a polar puzzle
The extent of sea ice in Antarctica is confusing climate scientists.
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Understanding investment behaviour
How, when and why do firms invest? Graeme Guthrie, Professor of Economics and Finance, will investigate these questions as part of a $400,000 Marsden-funded study to advance our understanding of firms’ investment behaviour.
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Tools of the trade
Whether you really are supporting small-scale producers and farm workers in developing countries when you opt to buy fairtrade products is coming under scrutiny in a Victoria-led study.
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An explosive discovery
Underground dynamite explosions have helped a Victoria-led team of researchers to uncover secrets from deep underneath the Earth’s surface.
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Who’s in my room?
In this ongoing series, we ask an outstanding graduate to return to their old room at their former hall of residence and share stories with the current resident.
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Celebrating our best
A select group of six outstanding alumni, who exemplify Victoria University’s tradition of excellence, will be honoured at a Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner in June.
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Impact in Auckland
New premises in the heart of Auckland’s CBD provide a springboard for Victoria University to share its expertise in New Zealand’s fastest growing city.
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Close-up on Maurice Gee
A major literary biography about one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers will be published by Victoria University Press in winter this year.
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A+ report card for Victoria
Victoria University passed with flying colours in the most recent academic audit conducted by the Academic Quality Agency (AQA).
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Working with royalty
Jason Knauf, a Victoria alumni—shares his experiences after graduation, including a role as the Communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
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Celebrating a 100-year legacy
Celebrating a 100-year legacy Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) is marking what would have been New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn’s 100-year birthday with a year of celebration.
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Winning entrepreneur
Rebecca Milne—recent alumni shares her experiences after graduation and what gives us some insight into what it was like to study at Victoria.
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Putting a new spin on a University sporting tradition
The gentle thwack of leather on willow has echoed across Kelburn Park since 1906, and it’s hoped a fresh game plan will see Victoria University’s cricket club reach a double century at least.
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Celebration time at Victoria
Social events and a variety of activities are planned to celebrate some of Victoria University’s significant milestones this year.
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From fire attendant to judge
Jeremy Fordham gives his take on studying at Victoria and looks back on what he has achieved since graduating with a LLB.
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Bright spark
Melissa Clark-Reynolds tells us about her student experience at Victoria and shares her career highlights, including working as a technology entrepreneur, CEO and company director.
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Reaching for the sky
Andrew Chalmers is only one year into his PhD in Computer Graphics but already his work is being used to help create top Hollywood films.
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Multilingual Masterchef
Students get cooking and talking in an annual multilingual food competition organised by Victoria’s School of Languages and Cultures.
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Socially accountable
As a child in Vanuatu, Pala Molisa was dragged along by his parents to protests about gender justice or conferences on Pacific development.
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Memories of an attack
Professor Miriam Meyerhoff from Victoria’s School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies has heard some surprising and gripping stories while researching sociolinguistics in Vanuatu.
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Letters of nineteenth century Māori women
Thousands of letters written in the Māori language in the nineteenth century are held in public collections in New Zealand and overseas but relatively few of these are identified as being written by Māori women.
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Real-world experience
A Wellington business is planning to implement a branding concept suggested by a Victoria marketing student for a class assignment.
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App to discover Wellington treasure
A team of three former Victoria students is $10,000 richer after taking out the top prize in a competition to create a mobile app that will enhance students’ experience of the capital city.
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A unique bequest
A baroque violin made in 1760—when Mozart was only four years old—is among a collection of instruments gifted to Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) by the late musician, John David North.
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Successful Wellington lawyer leaves lasting legacy
A former Wellington coroner, who survived the rigours of war-torn Germany as a teenager, has left a generous bequest to Victoria University.
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Honorary doctorate—Dr Noel Barnard
A world authority in the field of early Chinese history and archaeology, Dr Noel Barnard, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature at Victoria’s December graduation.
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Third generation to cross the stage
Kuratapirirangi Higgins (Ngāi Tūhoe) followed in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother as she walked across the stage to collect a Tohu Māoritanga/Diploma in Māoritanga during graduation in December.
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Insights into the University’s art collection
The Adam Art Gallery treated visitors to seldom-seen gems and new acquisitions from Victoria University’s art collection at a recent exhibition.
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Collaborating to treat cancer
A novel way of treating cancer using immunotherapy has been discovered in a joint research venture between Victoria University and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, and is on track to being tested on cancer patients.
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Designing close to home
A house left abandoned by well-known Lyttelton artist Bill Hammond was the initial inspiration for a Victoria Architecture student’s award-winning work.
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Bootcamp builds entrepreneurs
From aiding medical professionals to pinpoint difficult veins to making unique packaging for boutique food and beverage companies, an intensive 14-week summer programme helps Victoria students turn their ideas into viable businesses.
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Founding father or legal villain?
An 1877 ruling that the Treaty of Waitangi was a “simple nullity” signed by “primitive barbarians”, by our Chief Justice at the time, has had far-reaching consequences for subsequent Treaty claims.