Pasifika Nius Waia is the University's Pacific news channel, where we share what’s happening in our Pasifika community at Victoria University of Wellington.
A television drama series fictionalising events around the Te Urewera police raids of 2007 has been awarded the 2019 David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
With the help of a Health Research Council of New Zealand grant, researcher Dr Zaramasina Clark will be joining Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Biological Sciences where she will mentor young Māori and Pasifika students and take part in cutting-edge fertility research.
Victoria University of Wellington students have been awarded three of the four 2019 Maori and Pasifika Scholarships from Wellington ICT Graduate School. Congratulations to Petone Groom, Cameron MacDonald, Renee Waiwiri and Sarah Rivers who have been awarded scholarships that cover their full tuition as well as a stipend generously provided by ANZ.
The University is celebrating 30 years of the longest-running Samoan Studies school in New Zealand—and the only University to offer an undergraduate major in Samoan Studies.
Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of Tavita Nielsen-Mamea as the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence for 2020.
