University of Wellington
In September, the University Council voted to recommend to the Minister of Education that the legal name of the University be changed to University of Wellington.
In September, the University Council voted to recommend to the Minister of Education that the legal name of the University be changed to University of Wellington.
Wellington has a growing reputation as a start-up city, and a new partnership between Victoria University of Wellington’s commercialisation arm, Viclink, and New Zealand financial services company Booster will take this even further.
Two leaders on the Victoria University of Wellington Council are ensuring the University is primed for future success.
The heart of Whakaari / White Island volcano is a boiling, toxic plume that has prevented attempts by researchers to get a glimpse inside—until now.
What does it take to become a New Zealander? A Victoria University of Wellington academic tested this question with an unusual case and ended up breaking new ground in citizenship law.
“Quality education for everyone, everywhere”—this is the idea on which the edX online learning platform was founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, and it’s the aspiration that is continuing to push Victoria University of Wellington’s own programme of edX massive open online courses (MOOCs), to create a range of unique courses.
New Zealand has amazing birdlife: nocturnal parrots, birds that can’t fly, unique and beguiling birdsong, and varieties that turn up after 50 years of being thought extinct. Unfortunately, many native species require wildlife management programmes and their clever camouflage often makes them hard to monitor.
We still don’t really know what lives deep in the waters of Fiordland—especially when it comes to the creatures lurking more than 40 metres beneath the surface— but Associate Professor James Bell is on a mission to find out.
When Dr Van Jackson started writing his new book on the North Korean crisis, he wasn’t sure whether or not there would be a nuclear war by the time he’d finished it.
How do small- and middle-sized states navigate an increasingly turbulent world? How do they find ways to construct order out of anarchy?
Professor Margaret Hyland loved her 18 months as chief scientist at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and was sad to leave. But the opportunity to lead research at New Zealand’s top university for research quality doesn’t arise every day and was too tempting to pass up.
Dr Lucy Baragwanath was at the coalface during one of the most complex governance projects in New Zealand in recent years, working in various capacities for groups involved in the amalgamation of Auckland’s local government into a single ‘super city’.
In a world where many traditional jobs are at risk of automation, creativity and imagination will play a crucial role in the future of human work.
The weather is one of the most enduring topics of conversation—and Victoria University of Wellington’s new Master of Meteorology (MMet) is certainly getting people talking.
A new accelerator programme supported by Victoria Business School is helping put Wellington on the world map for government innovation.
Victoria University of Wellington’s supporting partnership with the news and current affairs website Newsroom is going from strength to strength, with nearly 200 think pieces, analyses, and other articles now contributed to it by the University.
“We learn about these theories and challenges in the classroom, but we don’t really see them,” says Anjela Frost, a current Master’s student in Forensic Psychology. “Completing this internship has given me the chance to see how forensic psychology actually works in the real world.”
A social enterprise based in Wellington’s CBD is at the forefront of a global movement to bring mental health out of the shadows.
Fertility can be a fraught issue for many people, and fertility tests are an expensive and timeconsuming process. But senior lecturer and MacDiarmid Institute principal investigator Dr Natalie Plank plans to change this by creating technology that will move routine fertility tests from the lab to the doctor’s office, or even the patient’s home.
For Professor Arthur Grimes, an important aspect of wellbeing is the ancient Greek concept of eudaemonia, or purpose in life.
How early is too early to jump online and announce the arrival of your new bundle of joy?
Establishing a faculty is a formidable task—but then, the dean of the new Faculty of Health, Professor Gregor Coster, is someone who does triathlons for relaxation.
A group of academics from the Faculty of Architecture and Design is forging connections between locals and the land in a research partnership with eco-sanctuary Zealandia.
Professor Jacqueline Cumming has devoted much of her career to under-researched areas of New Zealand’s health system including, most recently, the performance of primary healthcare services.
Dr Fiona Hutton wasn’t at Victoria University of Wellington long before people were emailing the Vice-Chancellor, demanding he sack her. She had appeared in the media talking about clubbers and recreational drugs. “I’d only been here a year or so. I thought, ‘Hmm, this is going well.’”
Graduates of Victoria University are making an impact on the health and wellbeing of our society. We caught up with two alumni who shared their advice, experience, and memories.
Dr Terry Fleming develops and studies digital tools designed to support mental health and wellbeing.
Addressing the challenges faced by young people struggling with their mental health is high on the agenda at Victoria University of Wellington.
An endowment fund is being established to help grow the work of the internationally renowned Centre for Women’s Health Research / Te Tātai Hauora o Hine.
Is your home really a thriving therapeutic centre? Would you tell your GP you take alternative medicine? And are hospital decisions about treatment truly objective?
How integral is the pursuit of peace to the New Zealand psyche? Victoria University of Wellington academics Geoffrey Troughton and Philip Fountain explore how New Zealanders have been inspired by visions for peace in their new book, Pursuing Peace in Godzone: Christianity and the Peace Tradition in New Zealand.
Hours after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviewed him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling stories and memories from her own remarkable family history.
What if you could browse through all the literary works of an author and see underlying narrative structures in an instant? Victoria University of Wellington researchers Dr Markus Luczak-Roesch and Dr Adam Grener have created a visual program that aspires to do just that.
James, who studied a Bachelor of Commerce and now works for accounting firm Grant Thornton, returned to his former room to meet current resident Kyndra Garton, who is in her first year of a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Environmental Science.
Looking back over the course of her 27-year fundraising career at Victoria University of Wellington, former executive director of the Victoria University Foundation Tricia Walbridge says Boxing Day 2005 was one of her most memorable days on the job.
The future is looking brighter for more young New Zealanders thanks to a new Victoria University of Wellington philanthropic programme.
Anyone who attended school in New Zealand from the 1960s onwards will recognise the covers, but it’s the words and philosophy of the Ready to Read series that capture PhD researcher Kay Hancock.
Victoria University of Wellington’s reach extends well beyond our home in Wellington.
Alumna and Labour MP Kiritapu (Kiri) Allan has had a remarkable journey to Parliament from a small town in the Bay of Plenty, and it all came about through a chance meeting with a patron in an Auckland bar.
Joanah Ngan-Woo became part of history earlier this year when she was named as one of 28 rugby players to receive a professional contract with the Black Ferns.
At a time when most of the world’s football fans were preoccupied with the FIFA World Cup, a group of alumni and students had something more important to celebrate.
It was the disconnect between media representation of refugees and the reality of their day-today lives that led alumna Rebecca Stewart to start a not-for-profit social enterprise.
Senior lecturer in Art History Dr Peter Brunt describes himself as a “student and a lover of art”, but as co-curator of the United Kingdom’s first major show to explore Oceanic art, he may be being modest.
The extensive photography collection of the late gallerist Peter McLeavey is on display at Adam Art Gallery/Te Pātaka Toi, giving visitors a rare look into the iconic Wellington figure’s life and private obsessions.