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#WellingtonUni's Julie Deslippe and her team are featured in this week’s Our Changing World #podcast episode with their research into the impacts of a warming climate on alpine plant life. Listen here: bit.ly/3Zrt7Oo
On the blog — Ronan Speden, Master of Museum & Heritage Practice student, shares the work he has been doing while interning with us. Includes working with the LAGNZ collections & researching the history of exhibitions at the Library. Te Herenga Waka—Wellington Uni Research ow.ly/l4mM50NyepW
As global environmental challenges grow, people & societies are increasingly looking to Indigenous knowledge for solutions. Research by #WellingtonUni's Tara McAllister & University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau's Cate Macinnis-Ng & Dan Hikuroa explores the concept of kaitiakitanga bit.ly/42RO0oX
According to Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora, NZ’s obesity rates are among the highest worldwide. #WellingtonUni's Professor Samuel Becher's opinion piece for Stuff explores what needs to change with NZ's food labelling efforts to influence what food products we consume bit.ly/3GbLfoM
.Malaghan Institute's Dr Kjesten Wiig says new therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostics featuring RNA technology will be able to be designed and manufactured in #NZ thanks to support from the MBIE Science-funded platform, hosted by #WellingtonUni and University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau
#WellingtonUni Professor Ken Ryan recently visited Antarctica alongside Natalie Robinson as part of the Antarctic Science Platform's sea ice research programme. Find out why their recent research trip was unlike any of their previous expeditions on rnz's The Detail ❄️
Funded by MBIE Science, Ferrier Research Institute researchers at #WellingtonUni are developing new antivirals to combat #COVID19 and other viruses. With Maurice Wilkins Centre colleagues at University of Otago and members of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH they've published a new paper
"What do health care professionals want to know about assisted dying?" #WellingtonUni researcher Dr Jessica Young finds out in a new BMC paper published in collaboration with the #AssistedDying Research Network and funded in part with support from HRC New Zealand
Associate Professor in Politics Lara Greaves raises concerns that racial online abuse could deter people of diverse backgrounds from participating in politics, after Young TOP - The Opportunities Party vice-president, 18-year old Shakeel Shamaail received a racist DM on Twitter bit.ly/3obteAE
As a thought leader in sustainability, #WellingtonUni is one of only three official nominators from Aotearoa New Zealand for the The Earthshot Prize. Congratulations to Sea Forest Ltd, Humble Bee Bio, and XFrame for being considered for one of five £1m prizes 🌟bit.ly/3UxlIwg