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JR’S Big Q: How can we live more lightly on the Earth?
JR Rowland is an Earth scientist with research interests in geothermal energy and mineral resources, earthquakes and volcanoes. She is the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Science. JR is a structural geologist passionate about tectonic-magmatic-hydrologic interactions,...
Voices amplified: Ngā Ara Whetū Affiliates get media ready
The Science Media Centre was on campus this week running a workshop exclusively for Ngā Ara Whetū affiliates to enhance their communication skills with the media and the public. “I found the media training workshop highly beneficial,” said Associate Professor of...
Unearthing the wealth within e-waste: Ngā Ara Whetū scholarship recipient’s research
William Sheard is a PhD student at the University of Auckland and holds a scholarship from Ngā Ara Whetū. William’s research hopes to transform how we see e-waste and save billions of dollars of rare metals lost yearly. Some of the rarest and most expensive metals on...
Success at advocacy workshops for Ngā Ara Whetū Doctoral Students
Ngā Ara Whetū put words into action recently when Niki Harré and Margaret Stanley ran a short course in advocacy for 20 Doctoral students. The workshops delved into different types of advocacy, reflections on our values and niches, and how to establish a profile and...
Rethinking our economy: The case for a circular approach
Modernity has become synonymous with wastefulness. We take, make, and dispose of the things we buy. This linear system operates so that resources flow in one direction. However, a promising alternative exists—a brave new world of the circular economy, which promotes...
Niki Harre’s Big Q: How can we better cooperate and protect the natural world?
Niki Harre is the Head of School for Psychology in the Faculty of Science and is a director for Ngā Ara Whetū. She is a community psychologist with research interests in sustainable organisation, core human values, religion, and political activism. She coordinates a...
Our policy submission to the climate change commision on the second emissions reduction plan
The Climate Change Commission asked for input on the draft advice to inform the strategic direction of the Government’s second emissions reduction plan. Click below to see Ngā Ara Whetū’s policy submission: Ngā Ara Whetū strongly supports the Climate Change...
RNZ interview: Can rocks help combat climate change?
While significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are essential for managing the climate crisis, it is now apparent that limiting the increase in global temperature to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels cannot be achieved without active removal of...
Jacqueline Beggs’ Big Q: How do we maintain NZ’s unique biodiversity?
Jacqueline Beggs is a professor at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland's School of Biological Sciences. She is an ecologist and a committed advocate for Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique biodiversity. Her PhD (University of Otago 1999) was on the ecology and...
Our policy advice in response to the Long-term Investment Briefing
“Where to from here? How we ensure the future of wellbeing of land and people.” The Ministry for the Environment asked for advice on the draft Long-term Investment Briefing. Click below to see Ngā Ara Whetū’s policy advice: Ngā Ara Whetū Submission to the Ministry for...
Project for Media in the Public Interest
Want to understand the world better? Get some context around some of the big questions? Have a fresh light shed on global issues and political debate?
The Project for Media in the Public Interest (PMPI) is a website connecting audiences to informed dialogue about science, economics, arts and politics. Academics from across disciplines at the University of Auckland, across America, Europe, Australia and other universities discuss their research on important topics via videos, podcasts, interviews, symposia and opinion pieces.
“We are aiming to elevate critical thinking, raise the level of public debate, and counter the trend towards soft news,” says the project’s founding director, political scientist Dr Maria Armoudian.
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