Rachel reports on waste data

Sep 6, 2019 | News, Plastics

Following part 1 of our Rethinking Plastics report, where we looked at available data to quantify Aotearoa New Zealand’s plastic problem, WasteMINZ asked Rachel to explain what the findings meant for the future of waste data in Aotearoa New Zealand, for their...

Interesting ideas on inclusion from our interns

Aug 30, 2019 | Reflections

Kia ora koutou It has been a high profile week for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion issues in science and academia, so it seemed timely to update on some of our intern projects. We have three projects in this space, with interns David Pomeroy, Tara McAllister and...

Why isn’t my professor Pasifika or Māori?

Aug 30, 2019 | News

One of our interns, Dr Tara McAllister (Te Aitanga ā Māhaki), and her fellow researcher, Dr Sereana Naepi, joined Radio New Zealand to talk about their research into the stubbornly low numbers of Māori and Pasifika working at New Zealand universities. You can listen...

And haere rā to Kyle who is departing after three months of full immersion in artificial intelligence

Aug 6, 2019 | Reflections

Our second MacDiarmid intern left us last week, leaving us with lots of great resources on artificial intelligence which, unlike quantum computing, the subject of Wayne Crump’s recently finished internship with us, is technology that is very much upon is. As a taster...

Plastics in the environment: the Royal Society Te Apārangi summarises the evidence

Jul 23, 2019 | Plastics, Reflections

This week the Royal Society Te Apārangi has put out an accessible report on Plastics in the Environment: Te Ao Hurihuri – The Changing World. It is a great summary of the problems we face internationally dealing with the mountain of plastic waste that humans have...