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Dan Hikuroa in the Dominion Post
"Geologist believes natural hazards hidden in Māori mythology" was the headline for a piece written by Olivia Wannan. It featured in the Dominion Post, Saturday September 12 about one of our Associate Investigators Dan Hikuroa. You can find the piece here
Rebecca Ford
On Friday 28th August, our new Associate Investigator Rebecca Ford took part in the International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2015 (IST15) Follow the tweets Research session: Cultures of transitions: Using the EC framework to examine socio- technical...
Jaffe on Marsden Fund
Back in May, after some criticism of the Marsden Fund processes made it into the media, I wrote about Te Pūnaha Matatini investigator Adam Jaffe’s study of the Marsden Fund. Adam presented his preliminary findings at our Launch workshop in February, and today they...
Public Lecture – Professor Ingrid Daubechies
The University of Auckland and the Department of Mathematics presents You don't want to miss the Esteemed Professor Ingrid Daubechies, lecture about image analysis detection.
Public Lecture – Professor Alan Hastings
Te Pūnaha Matatini presents Distinguished Professor Alan Hastings University of California, Davis. Professor Alan is visiting New Zealand and will be giving public lectures around the country. Driven by human forces, there are great challenges to maintain...
Shaun on New Zealand’s Economy in Innovation
Here's Shaun talking with Mark Sainsbury, on RadioLive about innovation and New Zealand's economic future. Listen here
Les on the history of economics in New Zealand
Here's Les talking with Mark Sainsbury, on RadioLive about the history of economics in New Zealand. Listen here
A prize of one’s own
In 1947 Elizabeth Joan Batham made New Zealand science history when she became the first woman to win a Royal Society of New Zealand prize, medal, or award.
Some thoughts on Going Public
An abridged version of this blog post appeared in the University of Auckland’s Uninews on June 4th 2015. Two years ago, towards the end of my term as President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, a journalist asked me an astonishing question. News of the...
Should the Marsden Fund be restructured?
By Shaun Hendy The MacDiarmid Institute’s Kate McGrath created a bit of a stir on Friday with a blog post that took a critical look at the Marsden Fund’s decision to invite 15% fewer proposals into the second round of its funding process than it did last year. The...
Ways to Change the World – Thoughts on a Panel at the Auckland Writers’ Festival
Change, always present, is now, more than ever, the dominating feature of life on earth. This is how Phil Ball, the eminent science writer and former editor of Nature, described the world when asked by panel chair Jesse Mulligan what we’re doing right.
Dr Sarah Morgan on NZAS 2015
By Dr Sarah Morgan Scicomm: Building a Sledgehammer for the Walls Between Science and Society I’ve been wracking my brain about how to structure this piece, and have picked so many starts and specific topics that I’ve tied myself up into a delightful hot mess. I typed...