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Prime Minister Helen Clark toured the new Student Centre in Palmerston North after officially opening it last week. She’s pictured with MUSA president Paul Falloon and MUSA Events Coordinator Clare Lees. Prime Minister opens student centre as Orientation kicks off
About 200 guests, students, staff and alumni attended the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Palmerston North) Professor Ian Psychology opens doors official opening of the new $10.5 million Student Centre on Warrington said the building represented a strengthening to local community Million dollar smiles: Dr Mark Goellner, Professor Tony Parker, Professor Duncan Joiner, Associate Professor Anders Warell, the Palmerston North campus last Thursday. of he relationship between the University and the students’ Page 11 Professor Claire Massey, Rodney Adank, and Lyn Garrett. Prime Minister Helen Clark unveiled a plaque after association. congratulating the University and its students’ association With Orientation underway, MUSA president Paul Falloon said Multi-million dollar boost for education for their commitment to providing quality facilities for he was delighted that the association, the Extramural Students students and staff. Society, Manawatahi (the Mäori students’ association), the “All of us that have had the privilege of a university student newspaper CHAFF and the student station Radio Control and research projects education know that the university experience is so much were now all together in one building – “a part of the campus Research and education projects run or led by Massey competitiveness through focusing on design for more,” she said. “It’s a time for exploring ideas – and not heart”. staff have been the recipients of several million dollars desirability. just in the lecture theatre.” worth of Government funding already this year. A team headed by Professor Bob Hodgson has She recalled her time as a student at the University of A project focusing on desirable design has been been granted $164,132 to develop well-qualified Auckland from 1968, the same year the original Massey awarded a $1 million grant for a two-year project that ICT professionals. Student Centre opened, when student demonstrations Mäori Television’s rising will see the University collaborate with manufacturers This project will identify the knowledge and rocked Europe and the United States. rugby stars such as Navman, Macpac, Gallagher Group and Tait skills gaps of people who work in engineering In New Zealand students were involved in opposing the Page 15 Electronics. and computer science-related roles, but lack Vietnam war and Helen Clark said she joined the student It is one of two projects funded through the Tertiary formal graduate qualifications. It aims to design executive of the Halt All Racist Tours organisation when it Education Commission’s Growth and Innovation Pilot a qualification that will bring their skills upto was formed in 1970. Initiatives. graduate level. “I look back on student years as incredibly stimulating.” Director of Affect, the Centre for Affective Design at The University will lead three of the 11 tertiary She noted the original centre was built for a student the University’s Wellington campus, Dr Anders Warell education projects to receive $9.7 million population on campus of 3000, which has now grown to says the grant will improve capability in research, Government Innovation and Development about 8000. teaching and consultancy to industry. Funding in the latest round. “It goes without saying that quality support centres like “It provides us with new options to engage with They are: this underpin quality education.” industry and make our industrial design programmes • Establishment of an inter-university Mäori Vice-Chancellor Professor Judith Kinnear described more relevant. We aim to integrate affective design academic network to be led by Professor Mason the centre as a key part of what was now the heart of the concepts into industry’s mindset and processes.” Durie. campus. PM opens new student Affective design is about tailoring products that • Creation of a New Zealand synchrotron support “The centre is a welcoming oasis for Massey students in The Prime Minister unveils a commemorative plaque. centre people bond with emotionally, such as the iPod or programme led by Professor Geoff Jameson. Palmerston North and, every time I go in there, for Massey Page 20 VW Beetle. • Co-ordination and implementation of e-learning staff.” The project aims at boosting New Zealand guidelines across the tertiary sector led by http://news.massey.ac.nz manufacturers and designers international Gordon Sudddaby. http://news.massey.ac.nz © Massey University 2007 Continues page 2
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2 Massey News - 26 Hui-tanguru 2007 - Issue 1 Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 19 141 Professor Ian Warrington (left) and Slipstream Automation CEO Mike Cook (right) in the lab with scholarship recipient Kristin Sze Mei Tham. New scholarships for technology entrepreneurs The University is funding three new commercialisation of emerging discoveries. at undergraduate or postgraduate students scholarships, with the support of the “We’re in a global economy and our students undertaking practical work experience in their Bio Commerce Centre, to encourage have to be ready to work in any environment summer break. the entrepreneurial spirit of science and in the world. The Bio Commerce Centre has The inaugural recipients of these technology students in the Manawatu region. been a very good initiative in focusing on that scholarships are Kristin Sze Mei Tham and Yin Applications for the Bio Commerce interface and has been critical in providing Zhang. Centre/Massey University Commercialisation integration between the various research and Ms Tham, a third-year Bachelor of Scholarship are open to postgraduate tertiary institutions in the region,” Professor Engineering (Biotechnology) student, is students undertaking a one-year, full-time Warrington says. working with the Bio Commerce Centre research project with commercial potential at The $15,000 scholarship is funded by Massey, resident company Slipstream Automation to the Palmerston North campus. and the Bio Commerce Centre will provide finalise development of a robotic plant-DNA The purpose of the scholarship is to commercial guidance and the opportunity extraction kit to speed up DNA analysis in promote commercialisation of technology for the recipient to base themselves in the laboratories. and encourage entrepreneurial activity centre’s business incubator. Ms Zhang recently enrolled in a Masters among Massey postgraduate students. Two Summer Scholarships have also been of Technology and will work with contract The University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor established to build relationships between beverage-manufacturing company Xenos, (Palmerston North) Professor Ian Warrington Massey, the Bio Commerce Centre and another Bio Commerce Centre resident says it is critical that students are aware local industry. Massey will fund two $5,000 company, on bottle-sterilising technology. of the interface between research and scholarships a year for three years, aimed Five new members on University Council for 2007 The University Council has five new members following Court of de Mission of three New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Convocation and staff elections and changes in student appointments. teams, has an accountancy degree from Canterbury and an MBA from The two new members elected by the Court of Convocation are Susan Massey. Baragwanath, of Auckland, and Bruce Ullrich, of Christchurch. Colin Anderson, from the School of Language Studies in the College Dr Baragwanath is a former Massey extramural student and research of Humanities and Social Sciences, is the new academic staff member. affiliate and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Massey in 2005. Andrea Davies, Regional Director of the Auckland Campus was re- She was founder of the chain of 35 He Huarahi Tamariki Schools for elected by the general staff for a further four year term. teenage parents. The new student members are Students Association president Mr Ullrich, OBE, is an accountant who runs an international business Paul Falloon and Veronica Tawhai who was nominated by the Mäori firm with close links to the Chinese education sector. He has been Chef Students’ Association.
Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 Seal of approval for Health and Counselling
The Health and Counselling Centre at the Auckland campus has come through a stringent appraisal process with flying colours. It joins the ranks of general practices that have been acknowledged for their provision of the highest standard in patient care. The seal of approval comes in “Cornerstone” accreditation from the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
Professor Mason Durie, Professor Geoff Jameson and Gordon Sudddaby. Revamped Ruawharo Massey teams to head three classes under way
The first students to study at the relocated national education projects Ruawharo centre were welcomed on (date). Massey University will lead three of the launched this year in Melbourne. The College of Education’s Hawke’s Bay site 11 tertiary education projects to receive A synchrotron is a huge machine about the moved to its new premises at the Eastern $9.7 million Government Innovation and size of a football field that creates beams of Institute of Technology in Taradale late last Development Funding in the latest round. extremely intense light a million times brighter year. Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor James They are: than the sun. Chapman says the move to improved facilities, 1. Establishment of an inter-university Mäori These are channelled into workstations and along with the retention of the site’s name academic network to be led by Professor can be used simultaneously. and identity, is an important reflection of the Mason Durie. The Melbourne synchrotron will feature 10 College’s ongoing commitment to the Hawke’s 2. Creation of a New Zealand synchrotron beams that will benefit many areas of research Bay community. support programme led by Professor Geoff across the University, including structural Jameson. biology, nanomaterials research, soil science, 3. Co-ordination and implementation of e- and medical imaging in the veterinary school. New students get going learning guidelines across the tertiary sector He says it is very complementary to Massey’s led by Gordon Sudddaby. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance suite and x-ray New students who will live on the Palmerston Professor Durie, the University’s Deputy crystallography facilities. North campus spent the day settling into Vice-Chancellor (Mäori), says academic “It’s a truly multi-use piece of equipment. the halls of residence before being officially leadership is under pressure due to demand by It will transform basic science and applied welcomed with a commencement ceremony government agencies and other organisations science as well. It can be used not just and dinner on 19 February. for qualified Mäori staff. for blue skies research but also in fields More than 1200 first-year students and their He says universities are finding it hard to like engineering and technology. With any families attended the dinner and for many, the replace senior Mäori staff in leadership roles, process which needs light, the synchrotron procession by senior staff in formal regalia was despite increasing numbers of Mäori obtaining will do it better – from hard x-ray light through their first glimpse of traditional academia. degrees and other tertiary qualifications, partly to infrared.” They were welcomed by Professor Ian because the pay rates for academics cannot The e-learning guidelines project Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor match either the private of public sector. will cost about $930,000 and involves 20 (Palmerston North), and Mayor Heather Funding, the amount still to be finalised, collaborative partners from across the tertiary Tanguay. has been offered by the Tertiary Education sector, including four other universities, The ceremony was part of the Let’s Get Commission for a project to be known as 12 polytechnics, Te Whare Wänanga o Going programme for all first-years, which MANU-AO (Mäori Academic Network across Awanuiärangi, and private training providers features informative activities designed to Universities in Aotearoa), which Professor including the New Zealand Tertiary College. make the transition to university life easy and Durie chairs. It may include a virtual marae Mr Suddaby says the initiative is innovative enjoyable. for academics to share teaching and research and important and, because of its sector-wide ideas. involvement, probably unique in international Teaching games across Professor Jameson says the successful education terms. It would build on earlier application Massey made on behalf of work, also led by Massey. the Tasman Auckland, Waikato, Victoria, Canterbury, “The project provides a mechanism for Lincoln and Otago universities will facilitate introducing, developing, trialling, evaluating, When it comes to teaching youngsters sport New Zealand scientists’ access to the $A220 and sharing exemplars of e-learning guidelines tactics Australians don’t seem to mind if they million Australian synchrotron facility, to be developed in the New Zealand context.” get ideas from the opposition. A new teaching resource by Dennis Slade in the School of Arts, Development and Health Education is 3D car design takes US top prize now used in five Australian universities for Tim Renton, a Bachelor of Technology graduate who majored in product development, has teaching the teachers how to teach games won a United States design award for three-dimensional modeling. Mr Renton, aged 22 from to children. The University of South Australia Auckland, has been named winner in the first of what will be an annual competition runby is the latest to order copies of Attack and Spatial, of Westminster, Colorado, a world leader in the creation of computer-aided design Defence in Team Games: A TGFU (Teaching (CAD) packages. Games for Understanding) Approach for its He took the US$5000 cash prize for his model Toyota GTi race car. Judges were impressed with undergraduate programme. The text is based the accuracy and detail of his entry in a competition which aims to demonstrate the innovative on a culmination of Mr Slade’s own research use of CAD system’s design and documentation capabilities. and work with children.
Massey News - 26 Hui-tanguru 2007 - Issue 1 First meeting for college advisory board The new advisory board for the College of Business held its first meeting Vaidyanath on the right. on 1 February at the Auckland campus. Other members and senior College of Business staff pictured are: The board, chaired by Business New Zealand chief executive Carmel Fisher, Dr Roger Wigglesworth, Edwina Neilson, Keith Wedlock, Phil O’Reilly, was set up last year by Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor John Heng, Doug Matheson, Greg Smale, Dorenda Britten, Annah Lawrence Rose. Shown above at the first meeting are Professor Rose Stretton, Alistair Davis, Tom Quelch, David Frith, Paul Hocking, Fraser left foreground, with Rodney District Council chief executive Vijaya Bell, Dr James Lockhart, Alan Cassidy and David Ritchie. New head of Commerce appointed Professor Ben Jacobsen has been appointed as on how factors like the change of seasons or an Professor and Head of the Department of Commerce outbreak of war impact on the stock market, was in the College of Business. also featured in the high profile Dow Jones business The position was left vacant after the appointment newsletter, Market Watch. last year of previous head, Professor Lawrence Professor Jacobsen has worked as a consultant Rose, as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of for a large number of financial institutions and as a Business. stock market expert and adviser to the media. He has Announcing Professor Jacobsen’s appointment, written several books on investments and has been Professor Rose noted his distinguished academic a columnist for Dutch magazines and newspapers. career and the international recognition that his He ranks in the Social Sciences Research Network research on investments has received. (SSRN) top 50 of the most downloaded business Professor Jacobsen’s academic work has been authors worldwide, with almost 15,000 downloads discussed in major international magazines and of his papers. newspapers including The Economist, The Wall Professor Jacobsen was previously with the Street Journal, The Financial Times and The New University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University in York Times. His most recently published research, Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Professor Ben Jacobsen. Professor takes up prestigious role Professor Janina Mazierska has been elected to a two- holds more than 300 major conferences annually year term as Director of the Institute of Electrical and and has more than 860 active standards with 700 Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the Asia Pacific region. under development. Professor Mazierska, head of the Institute of Professor Mazierska completed her PhD at the Information Sciences and Technology at the Palmerston Warsaw University of Technology in Poland and North campus, is the first woman to lead more than 66,000 before joining Massey, she held various roles IEEE members in the Asia Pacific region. at James Cook University for more than sixteen The IEEE is a non-profit, professional association of years. She was also a Stanford University Visiting more than 353,000 members in 150 countries, with a Scholar (Ginzton Laboratory) in 1991 and 1996. budget of $US500million governed by 31 directors. Professor Mazierska is well known Through its members, the IEEE is an authority in for her research into precise microwave computer engineering, biomedical technology and characterisation of low loss materials (especially telecommunications, electric power, aerospace and High Temperature Superconductors for which consumer electronics among other areas. she has been elected an IEEE Fellow Class 2005, It produces 30 per cent of the world’s literature in Professor Janina Mazierska and for her service to the engineering profession electrical engineering, computers and control technology, worldwide.
Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 Hydrogen energy research gets $260,000 boost A Massey scientist working on the requiring large amounts of compete in supplying hydrogen development of nano-materials that could power. gas for industry and automotive reduce global reliance on oil has been awarded These nano-sized fuel cell applications. a postdoctoral fellowship from the Foundation particles can speed up If hydrogen is produced in for Research, Science and Technology. this process and reduce electrolysers using electricity Dr Aaron Marshall, a researcher in the the amount of power from renewable sources, the Institute of Technology and Engineering at the required. Dr Marshall says gas is a completely clean and Palmerston North campus, has been awarded the process is the reverse renewable energy carrier with the $260,000 to carry out the three-year study. of that used in fuel cells, potential to replace oil as a main Dr Marshall’s research has the potential to with water and electricity fuel source. place New Zealand as a world-leader in the used in the cell to produce Dr Marshall developed chemical production of nano-materials used in hydrogen hydrogen gas. processes to produce nano-sized energy technology. “Natural gas is the particles as a PhD student at the His aim is to prepare nano-sized (dimensions most common source of Dr Aaron Marshall Norwegian University of Science of around 100,000 times smaller than the hydrogen used in fuel cells, which of course is and Technology in Norway. thickness of a human hair) particles for use not sustainable. Water electrolysis is a clean In May 2006 he was awarded the Exxon inside water electrolysers. Water electrolysers and simple way to produce hydrogen gas from Mobil Prize for his doctoral research and make hydrogen and oxygen by splitting water electricity,” he says. returned to Massey to take up a post-doctoral molecules, which is normally a slow process The electrolysers he is developing will position. Eighteen New Year honours Three senior academics at Massey University – Professor Robert She has taken a one year research contract with the Ministry of Anderson, Distinguished Professor David Parry and Dr Farah Palmer Maori Affairs. Dr Palmer is former captain of the Black Ferns. – received awards in the 2007 New Year’s Honours list. Professor Graeme Fraser became a Distinguished Companion Former staff member Emeritus Professor Graeme Fraser and 14 of the Order, for his services to education and the community. He alumni were also honoured in the list. was Foundation Professor of Psychology at Massey, later becoming Vice-Chancellor Professor Judith Kinnear congratulated all staff Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Academic), and is currently Chair of the members, former staff members and alumni who were acknowledged Health Research Council. in the list. “Such honours are a mark of significant achievement in their Alumnus Lieutenant Commander Wayne Burton of the Royal New academic fields as well as in their contribution to the community.” Zealand Navy became an Additional Officer of the Order. Professor Anderson, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Sciences, Other University alumni whose contributions were acknowledged became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to in the New Year Honours list were: Raewyn Clark for services to the science, education and cricket. He is also a Massey alumnus. community, Raymond Clarke for public services, Nicolette Dallow Distinguished Professor Parry became a Distinguished Companion of for services to the community, Rae Julian for public services, Peter the New Zealand Order of Merit for his contribution to biophysics. The Kerridge for services to rugby league and the community, Neville former head of the Institute of Fundamental Sciences, he is a world- Mosley of the Corp of Royal New Zealand Engineers, Philip Palfrey ranked researcher in fibrous proteins. and Kevin Reilly, both for public services, Mary Schnackenberg Dr Farah Palmer became an Officer of the Order of Merit, for services for services to people with visual impairments, Darryl Tracy from to women’s rugby and sport. Dr Palmer is a senior lecturer in coaching the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, and Mark Wheeler and sport management in the College of Business. and Mathew Williams from the Royal New Zealand Navy. Power imbalance in health services planning New research has identified problems with establishment process for the Horowhenua be incorporated in planning, and community community participation in planning and Primary Health Organisation, which she representatives are very well positioned to setting up primary health services. observed over a nine-month period. take leadership in this. Community participation is a government She found the effectiveness of community Community participants should be involved requirement in the development, governance involvement is diminished by factors that in all decision-making processes and not and monitoring of health services. But include a power imbalance between the excluded at various stages of the planning research by Dr Jan Lockett-Kay, from the bureaucrats and community representatives, process simply because they do not have the Department of Management, suggests the a lack of knowledge and understanding on knowledge and skills. traditional model of involving communities is both sides, and inadequate resourcing. She says although the way the experts not working. Her study suggests that power imbalances treated community people was not intended, “Health strategy implementation in New should be addressed, “Bureaucrats, health “it sent a clear signal of disempowerment”. Zealand is prescriptive and centrally driven, professionals and other experts must work Dr Lockett-Kay says policy makers are yet requires community input,” she says. with and along-side communities.” aware that primary health services will not “This should enhance the likelihood of health “All stakeholders, community, health work in the longer term if they do not meet the services reflecting the unique needs of the professional and bureaucrat, have valuable needs of their communities and are not run in community it serves. knowledge to contribute to the planning line with the community’s “way of doing.” “But the challenge for health service process.“ She says health service funders and planners is to manage the contradictions “The knowledge brought by community providers are continually looking at ways to and tensions which emerge as a result of representatives is important and legitimate. make community participation more effective. both centrally determined and community Experts and community representatives must “New relationships and partnerships that determined expectations.” learn from each other. challenge and modify existing networks are Dr Lockett-Kay used as a case study the “The unique needs of a community must essential,” she says.
Massey News - 26 Hui-tanguru 2007 - Issue 1 New fine arts and music Biochemist to join partnership established National Panel Dr Mike Boland New Zealand music and fine arts students will particular attraction for me,” he says. has been benefit from a new exchange programme with “I’ve been fascinated by the fact that arts appointed to the a leading British arts college. disciplines are often allowed to develop quite National Science The programme is being set up by Professor separately from each other, yet when they are Panel, established Matthew Marshall, who has been appointed combined, the creation of unique and novel by the Royal to a one-year position as Acting Director of concepts becomes possible.” Society of New Music at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, Professor Marshall says the student Zealand late last England. exchange programme will give fine arts and year. He has taken a year’s leave of absence from music students from each institution the One of 12 his position as Interim Co-Director of the New opportunity to experience an alternative prominent science Zealand School of Music. context for their development as artists. leaders appointed, A wide range of artists has been attracted to “Dartington College of Arts received a high Dr Boland joined the Riddet Centre last year Dartington over the years, notably tenor Peter rating in the last UK Research Assessment after 15 years in the dairy industry, first with Pears, musician Ravi Shankar, and composers Exercise and this connection will provide the the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and Benjamin New Zealand School of Music and Massey’s and then with Fonterra. He headed a group Britten. College of Creative Arts with an important and involved in protein research and was general Dartington offers five fields of study: influential partner in the UK. It will also enable manager for strategic research. He was music, theatre, art, choreography and opportunities for staff exchange and research also global programme leader for the New writing. Students are able to combine study collaborations. Zealand Dairy Board’s “Milk Characteristics” in more than one field and gain a broader “The College is a vibrant community of artists programme, running a research portfolio with understanding of contemporary arts practice who are at the cutting-edge of contemporary an annual budget of around $8 million. and research. arts practice and research. It will be wonderful Professor Paul Moughan, co-director of the Since his appointment in August last for Massey students to have the opportunity centre, says the appointment demonstrates year, Professor Marshall has been involved to be inspired by the progressive and radical Dr Boland’s considerable standing in the in contextual enquiry project supervision, approach that is part of the Dartington ethos,” scientific community. music performance and teaching, and cross- he says. The science panel will engage with science disciplinary performance. “I look forward to bringing my experiences and business organisations, government and “The ability to work within and between back to Massey and the New Zealand School the public, and seek opportunities to optimise different contemporary arts disciplines has a of Music.” the value of science to New Zealand. Where serial killers operate Do milkshakes fill Serial killers target victims from areas where factors, such as a high ratio of executions the gap? more divorced people, single parents and to homicides per state, hunting licences, unemployed live, new research shows. subscriptions to magazines, enlistment in the A Massey PhD student is looking for The study, which explored variations in National Guard and violent television viewing, participants for her research into the effects rates of male serial killers in different states also correlated with a higher rate of male of dairy proteins and peptides on satiety. of the United States, was led by University serial killers. Based in the University’s Riddet Centre of Connecticut Emeritus Sociology Professor Dr Prochnow says psychiatric analyses in Palmerston North Ms Sylvia Chung is James DeFronzo working with researchers have been used to understand male serial researching the theory that protein is more from Northeastern University in Boston and killer activity, but this has not explained filling than either carbohydrate or fat, which Villanova University in Pennsylvania, and Dr the considerable geographic differences may help facilitate weight loss over time. She Jane Prochnow from Massey’s College of that exist. “Many serial killers have had says protein, and its relationship with satiety, Education. typically traumatic childhoods and childhood is gaining more interest with the re-emergence Their report notes that the incidence of behavioural problems like abusing little animals of the popular high protein diets. male serial killers varies widely among states and younger children. We were interested in “Dairy product consumption has been but there has been little effort to attempt to the relation of structural and cultural variables associated with the maintenance of healthy explain the reasons for these differences. The as opposed to explaining the brutal actions of body weight in humans,” Ms Chung says. new study is believed to be the first to show these killers simply in psychological terms.” Her research will investigate the effects of that both cultural and social structural factors The study focused on the United States whey protein, naturally present in milk, and a play a role in the incidence of serial killing. because of regional subcultures and state popular dietary protein supplement, on satiety The researchers examined male serial differences in laws, including the death and weight management. killers in the United States from 1970 to 1992 penalty, but Dr Prochnow says the findings are Ms Chung requires 50 healthy volunteers using sociological perspectives identified in relevant elsewhere. “The structural variables between the ages of 18 and 40, and based in earlier research by Professor DeFronzo and which are indicators of vulnerable targets for Palmerston North, to drink four different types Dr Prochnow. serial killers are relevant to most societies, of milkshake followed by a lunch meal, on four They found that social structural factors, especially more developed societies. You different days, and then answer questions such as the percentage of a state’s population would expect that other places, including in regarding their sense of satiety. living in urban areas, the percentage of New Zealand, Australia, Britain, or Canada, The Riddet Centre is a partnership between divorced residents, one-person households which have higher percentages of one person Massey University and the universities of and unemployed residents, helped to explain households, divorced people and unemployed, Auckland and Otago, with core strengths why some regions are home to more male would also have higher rates of male serial in nutrition, food functionality and food serial killers. The study also found that cultural killers.” processing.
Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 Study traces the origins of the kumara Genetic analysis of kumara by a Massey PhD student will determine whether they are varieties cultivated by Mäori in pre-European New Zealand or varieties descended from those that travelled with early 19th Century whalers and sealers. The question of their origin is at the heart of a Waitangi Tribunal claim to flora and fauna, and Andrew Clarke will be able to provide an
Dr Roger Lentle demonstrates human digestion answer within the year. A researcher in the Allan Wilson Centre Animal digestion for Molecular Ecology and Evolution at the University’s Palmerston North campus, Mr study may aid Clarke is analysing the DNA of the Polynesian kumara to trace the movements of pre- human obesity European Polynesians. Using DNA fingerprinting, he is testing A study of the ways in which different feed the theory that the kumara was introduced types and pasture cultivars mix and flow in the to Polynesia from South America about 1000 digestive tracts of sheep has applications to years ago. His research, supervised by Biology the development of nutritional treatments for Professor David Penny, demonstrates how human obesity. DNA from plants and animals that Polynesians Associate Professor Roger Lentle is took with them on their voyages can be used collaborating with visiting French researcher to reconstruct patterns of human movement in Associate Professor Karim Bekkour to design the Pacific. Andrew Clarke a system to measure the extent to which feed Mr Clarke is studying the leaves of three “It’s a case of answering ethno-botanical mixes and flows through the digestive tracts varieties of kumara (Hutihuti, Taputini and questions with genetic tools.” of ruminants. Rekamaroa) that are not grown commercially He says the historical evidence of the “By looking at what happens to different but are maintained by the Government’s Crop kumara’s journey currently being presented types of feed in the digestive tract, we will find and Food Research Institute and Mäori groups. in the Tribunal case, gathered through which ones mix best in the rumen, and which He says the Owairaka Red, the most common written material such as shipping records, animals consequently spend less energy variety on supermarket shelves, is definitely complements evidence based on genetic digesting,” Dr Lentle says. related to a type introduced by Europeans in research. He says although animal scientists have the 1860s. The Allan Wilson Centre is a government- previously focused on feed conversion rates “It’s clear that Mäori had some kumara funded Centre of Research Excellence directed (how quickly the nutrients are accessed) varieties before European arrival but it is also by Massey professors David Penny and Mike not much is known about the influence of clear that American varieties were introduced. Hendy and which combines expertise from feed varieties on the mixing of digesta (food So we are looking to find exactly when this Massey, Auckland, Victoria, Canterbury and in the process of being digested). They will happened,” Mr Clarke says. Otago universities. also investigate the effect of additives to feed, in particular the effect of additives that encourage large particles to slide over each From molecules to mozzarella other and mix more efficiently in digestion. Milk proteins, and their roles in complex food He says the results of this project will systems such as cheeses, were the focus of a have applications for human health and the symposium hosted by the Riddet Centre at the development of treatments for obesity. University’s Palmerston North campus. “The flipside of knowing how to increase Milk Proteins II: From Molecules to the digestibility of feeds for animals is knowing Mozzarella considered a range of key topics, which materials decrease digestibility, and including the nutritional attributes of milk this can be applied to human nutrition and proteins and the benefits they offer in food the development of food additives which may products. slow the digestive process, meaning people Symposium organiser and Riddet Centre feel fuller for longer.” researcher Dr Abby Thompson says the Dr Lentle is an internationally leading presentations offered insights and opinion specialist on digestive tracts and rheology from internationally renowned experts, as well (the flow and morphology of materials) in the as the latest findings from talented emerging The symposium was organised by the Riddet Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health scientists. Centre, Massey University, and Fonterra. at the Palmerston North campus. Keynote speakers included Professor The Riddet Centre is a partnership between Dr Bekkour is a petroleum engineer from the Patrick Fox, who delivered live presentations Massey and the universities of Auckland and Louis Pasteur University, Institute of Fluid and via a video link from the University College in Otago, with core strengths in nutrition, food Solid Mechanics, Strasbourg, France, who Cork, Ireland. Professor Fox gave an overview functionality and food processing. specialises in the rheology of drilling fluids. on the origins of dairying, the evolution and Dr Bekkour’s visit to Massey is funded by the classification of mammals and the evolution A symposium programme can be read at: Royal Society of New Zealand. of lactation. http://milkproteinsymposium.massey.ac.nz
Massey News - 26 Hui-tanguru 2007 - Issue 1 Code-cracking adventures for kura kaupapa kids
Children returned to Kura Kaupapa Mäori schools this month to the final book in a trilogy of space-adventure, code-busting chapter- books written in Te Reo Mäori. Darryn Joseph, a lecturer in Te Pütahi a Toi (School of Mäori Studies) at the Palmerston North campus, says the third book in the RT3 series stands alone, but also builds on the stories and characters developed in the first Dr Te Kani Kingi two. In the third book, Ki Tua o Täwauwau, Mr Joseph (who writes under the pseudonym New head for Täkuta Höhepa) includes a second point of view – that of Hinewai. He says Hinewai’s Mäori research gutsy character, and the fact that she piloted a spaceship in the first two books, proved unit popular with young readers, girls particularly. A top academic and researcher of Mäori “A second point of view makes for a more health and social issues has been appointed challenging read, which is the intention of director of Te Mata o te Tau, the Academy for this series – to extend kids’ reading skills,” he Mäori Research and Scholarship. says. Inaugural director Dr Te Kani Kingi (Ngäti The books contain themes children can Awa, Ngäti Pukuko) says the academy aims identify with. The little hero, Rangi Tautoru, is to encourage greater research collaboration brought up by his eccentric grandfather and Darryn Joseph among Mäori academics across Massey’s goes on a space adventure with Hinewai, his he invented a new genre of numerical rhyming three campuses. best friend. karakia (like a cross between a sports chant The academy was founded in 2003 by All three books feature the illustrations of and a karakia). Mason Durie, Professor of Mäori Research award-winning illustrator Ali Teo and a major The books are written for 10-12-year-olds, and Development and Deputy Vice-Chancellor theme in the series is code language. The first and kohanga reo teachers have been reading (Mäori). It serves as an umbrella for existing book featured rhyming riddles, the second them aloud to their younger pupils. Mäori research units already operating at the used illustrated riddles and the third features Mr Joseph was a finalist in the 1999 and University with the intention of forging stronger a code-wheel designed by Mr Joseph using 2001 Huia short story competition and in 2003 links and promoting more interdisciplinary a combination of numerical code, alien code, won the Huia short story competition with contact between Mäori academics. morse code and code made from traditional Tama Tähae, Tama Ora. Professor Durie and Dr Kingi also want to Mäori motifs. He will finish his doctoral thesis on Mäori create better links between academics and “The codes are like a secret language that literature this year, under the supervision of external institutions and organisations with an readers can engage with and they add a fun Professor Tai Black. He learnt Te Reo Mäori interest in Mäori development. challenge to the stories.” as an undergraduate student at the University “If we want to further develop and build Mr Joseph has also included kiwaha of Waikato and has fine-tuned his fluency Mäori research capacity, a comprehensive (idiomatic expressions) to engage readers, and through an honours year at Massey. and more integrated approach is needed,”says Dr Kingi. Te Kaiwawao appointed The academy will provide a forum for Mäori academics to meet and exchange ideas, Te Tumatakuru O’Connell (Ngäti Raukawa, Ngai through regular video-conferencing sessions, Te Rangi, Te Ati Awa, Ngai Tahu, Airani) has seminars and publication of research been appointed to the position of Te Kaiwawao monographs. at the Wellington campus. “We’ve had very good growth in the number He has been working as a Maori language of Mäori PhD graduates in the past few years,” lecturer for the Shool of Mäori Studies for the says Dr Kingi. “We want to ensure that this past two years. growth continues and that opportunities for Te Kaiwawao assists in making the University ongoing development continue.” accessible for all Maori by offering academic The name of the academy relates to Matariki, and personal advice that can assist students to the star constellation known also known as achieve their academic potential. Pleiades, and symbolises the promise of a Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrea fruitful year, and advancement of knowledge. McIlroy says Mr O’Connell brings considerable Dr Kingi was recently chosen as one of six experience and knowledge to the position and people to represent New Zealand at this year’s will be a great asset to the campus and the Commonwealth Study Conference, to be held University. next month in Delhi, India. “As a member of my senior management The conference is designed as a forum team, he brings an important Mäori perspective Te Tumatakuru O’Connell for top-level academics and researchers to to our decision making and I welcome him to January, when he was interviewed by Maori exchange ideas in a quest to find solutions to the team.” Television for a story about the quality of roof- pressing health and social problems. Mr O’Connell hit the ground running in collected drinking water.
Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 Young designer wins NY trip
Fashion design graduate Sarah Smeath has jetted off to the Big Apple with Auckland designer Karen Walker. Ms Smeath, of Wellington, is the recipient of the Air New Zealand Inspiring New Zealanders in Fashion scholarship, which includes a 12- week work experience programme and a trip to New York Fashion Week. Her entry, an outfit inspired by an onion, caught Walker’s eye, but the deciding factor was her drive and the experience she had already garnered in the industry, including an internship with Australian magazine Rush, work experience as an assistant stylist for The Dominion Post Fashion magazine, and writing for Wellington fashion magazine Lucire. “She is a really busy girl and the ability to Excellence in Business research get off your arse and get out and do it, and The rapid growth in the productivity and and Dr Nikki Hessell, of the Department of do it a bit harder than everybody else, is a performance of College of Business Communication and Journalism, were named really important attribute in this business,” Ms researchers has been recognised, with Pro- Emerging Researchers. Walker says. Vice-Chancellor Professor Lawrence Rose Professor de Bruin also acknowledged Originally from Kawakawa, Ms Smeath has and Director of Research Professor Anne de staff who had received external awards. They called Wellington home for the past five years, Bruin celebrating research achievements in included Dr Ian Laird, Centre for Ergonomics, during which she has completed a Diploma in 2006, at each of the three campuses. Occupational Safety and Health, who Fashion and Technology, and a Bachelor of Professor de Bruin acknowledged the received a prestigious Fulbright New Zealand Design. College’s success in the University Research Fellowship, and Qing Wang, Department of “I’m so lucky the internship is with Karen Awards: Professor Rose was awarded the Information Systems, who was awarded a because so many of the people she has College of Business Outstanding Supervisor Bright Future Top Achiever Scholarship. worked with and helped out are real success Award, Professor Klaus Dieter Schewe Other causes for celebration were the stories now,” Ms Smeath says. received the College Distinguished Research growth in the number of scholarships available Award and a University Research Fellowship, to College students, the growing number and Dr Sebastian Link received an Early Career of staff PhD completions, several external Research Award. research grants, a large number of Best Memorial service The ceremony also recognised researchers Paper awards, and a number of successful who were awarded 2006 College of Business conferences hosted by the College. for poet and Research Awards. Associate Professor Sven Pictured above are Dr Sebastian Link, Hartmann, of the Department of Information Professor Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Dr Ben teacher Systems, received the Advanced Researcher Marshall, Associate Professor Sven Hartman, Award and Dr Ben Marshall, from the Professor Lawrence Rose and (front) Dr Nikki Staff of the Auckland campus will hold a Department of Finance, Banking and Property, Hessell. memorial service next month for English tutor and poet Dr Theresia Liemlienio Marshall, who died suddenly on 1 January, aged 66. Massey lecturer wins UK award Dr Marshall taught written communication College of Education researcher Dr Madhumita Bhattacharya is for the School of Social and Cultural Studies the inaugural New Zealand recipient of a Researcher Exchange and combined her academic career with Programme (RXP) award from the British Council. The award is writing and publishing poetry. designed to develop research links between Britain and other Longtime friend and colleague Dr Jack countries. Ross says Dr Marshall made a significant Dr Bhattacharya is a senior lecturer in the School of contribution to multicultural writing in New Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Palmerston North campus. Zealand and “was a unique voice in Pacific The funding will allow her to collaborate with Dr Jon Dron at poetry”. Brighton University, England. Their research looks at online A book of her poems, The Pohutukawa- learning environments for multicultural audiences. Beringin Tree, was published by Griffin Press “The globalisation of education cannot be achieved without in 1993, with a second edition in 1997. She adapting resources to different cultural values and ways of formed the Pohutukawa Press after Apirana thinking,” Dr Bhattacharya says. Taylor, then writer-in-residence on Massey’s “The UK and New Zealand are similar in their multicultural Palmerston North campus, told her he could make-up, which is why this collaboration has come about.” not find a publisher and Pohutukawa Press This research area is particularly important for Massey, published his book, Soft Leaf-falls of the Moon, which has the most extramural students in New Zealand. The Dr Madhumita Bhattacharya in 1996. area is also a priority research topic for the Tertiary Education The school’s Auckland campus administrator, Commission and its British equivalent, the Higher Education Leanne Menzies, says Dr Marshall was “like a Funding Council. grandmother to the students. She loved them The British Council is the British government’s agency for cultural relations. It has awarded 70 all”. grants to international researchers under the RXP awards scheme. New Zealand researchers
10 Massey News - 26 Hui-tanguru 2007 - Issue 1 Dr Kerry Gibson. Psychologists reach out to local community The Centre for Psychology at the Auckland campus is opening its doors region to support them in their work. Dr Gibson comes to the centre with to the community, offering treatment and consultation. an extensive background in working with children and families and is “We have so many resources to offer, we can play an important role driving the move to work more closely with the community and boost working with the many organisations and services that are already out support resources in the region. there doing a very good job,” says the new director of the centre, Dr At the centre in Albany the services offered include psychological Kerry Gibson. assessment and testing, psychotherapy, workplace counselling and The move to bring psychology to the community has been planned support and a range of training options for psychology professionals since the University established the centre – one of the largest in the working in the field. country –a year ago. It is a centre for research and teaching but also “We are here to assist with the common psychological problems like for treatment and consultation across the community. The staff includes depression and relationship difficulties to families and to individuals, clinical psychologists, organisational psychologists, healthy psychology and to offer our services, resources and expertise to organisations.” consultants and therapists. “This is an invitation to organisations to come and knock on our Already the centre is reaching out to school counsellors across the door,” says Dr Gibson. Gay churchgoers abandon mainstream religions New Zealand lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians have quit mainstream The difference between the 73 per cent raised Christian and the religion at two-and-half times the rate of the general population, 15 per cent who are currently Christian “is a remarkable 80 per cent according to a Massey study. decline”, Dr Henrickson says. “Christian religions by and large have done an excellent job in He compared the figures to those of the 2001 census, which revealed communicating that a Christian identity and a homosexual identity are that people identifying themselves as Christian dropped from 90.1 per incompatible, or at least difficult to reconcile,” says report author Dr cent to 59.8 per cent – a decline of 33.6 per cent in 35 years when Mark Henrickson. compared with figures from the 1966 census. “A large number of raised Christians appear to have resolved the The results of the study showed that “for most people, if they are dissonance between their identities and their religion by leaving their forced to make a choice between their religious faith and their personal religion.” identity, they’ll choose their personal identity”. The senior lecturer in social work at the Auckland campus has been “What we can say is that whatever negative messages that organised working on Lavender Islands: Portrait of the Whole Family since 2004. It religions want to communicate – they’re working. is the first national, strengths-based study of New Zealand’s lesbians, “They’re not working to change gay people, they’re working to drive gays and bisexuals. them away, ”says Dr Henrickson, who is himself an Anglican priest, but The just-released study on gay spirituality and religion is a part of this stresses he is not speaking in his role as a clergyman. broad survey, which also investigated well-being, politics, income and While mainstream Christian denominations such as Anglican, spending, careers, leisure and families. Presbyterian and Methodist churches refrain from overtly preaching Of the 2269 participants in the survey, 73 per cent said they were an anti-gay message, some individual congregations – particularly in raised as Christians, with 22.5 per cent not raised in any religion. But Auckland – actively welcome the gay community. But there remains a only 15 per cent of raised Christians were currently practicing their perceived unease felt by many gays towards them from the church, the religion, while 73 per cent of the gay, lesbian and bisexual participants survey shows. were currently non-religious. “In an era of declining mainstream church participation, churches Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and “other” religions accounted for only may want to examine the way they’re coming across, the way they’re a small percentage of responses. being heard,” Dr Henrickson added.
Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 11 Uncovering kiwi Education is sweeter than a ban secrets Are negative effects from food and drink bans outweighing the gains? Health Education A Massey researcher camped out over senior lecturer Kama Weir thinks so, and says summer with a brown kiwi population on a they may actually be doing more harm than Hauraki Gulf island to find answers to some good. little-known kiwi secrets. She says there are more constructive ways PhD student Birgit Ziesmann is studying the to deal with youth obesity and health issues mating system and the social organisation of than banning the sale of ‘bad’ foods and fizzy the North Island brown kiwi. drinks in schools, such as is happening across Ms Ziesmann is amongst a high density the country as the first term is under way. population on privately owned land on a Gulf A recent agreement between schools and island, just half an hour from Auckland city. soft-drink manufacturers has effectively The larger number of birds in one place banned the sale of full sugar beverages in increases the opportunity for contact between schools, and will see them phased out over birds and Ms Ziesmann has fitted tiny radio the next three years – something Ms Weir Kama Weir transmitters onto 38 kiwi to track their believes only addresses the cause and not the movements and contacts. problem. “But the easiest solutions are not always the Typically there are two hatchings of young She says it’s better to invest in programmes healthiest.” a year, the first in August and the second lot for health education rather than prohibition. Ms Weir says that banning food and drink of chicks appearing around December. The “The debate is over right of choice versus options within a controlled environment such large eggs take up to 85 days to hatch, solely the right of state to make our decisions for us,” as a school sends children the wrong message, incubated by the male. Until now, scientists Ms Weir says. “We need to educate children and can lead to them having an ‘anything goes’ have not known where the female parent goes to make the right decisions, and they’re more attitude outside of the classroom. or what she does while her egg is incubating. capable of it than perhaps we give them credit “Messages about food and nutrition are “The females, just sort of wander off, for.” simple in biological terms, but in fact, are unaccounted for during this time,” says Ms Ms Weir believes that better resources are far more complex. People tend to apply very Ziesmann who may be the first researcher to needed to educate both students and teachers simplistic solutions to matters of diet.” go in pursuit. to make their own healthy choices, and that The danger here is that food becomes “Its been assumed that kiwi formed long even foods we consider to be ‘bad’ are healthy associated with feelings of guilt and rebellion,” term bonds but the data we’ve collected its in moderation, if not for our bodies, but for our she says. reveals that female kiwi could be mating with a minds. “Food plays a significant role in our social different male while her first partner incubates. “Children need to feel empowered to make and cultural lives. It is emotionally laden and This increases the likelihood of these kiwi the right decisions about what, when, and how for that reason, better health education is having a polyandrous mating system where much they eat,” Ms Weir says. “As eductors, vital.” the female has chicks to more than one male we have a responsibility to develop their Ms Weir says she doesn’t support the partner,” says Ms Ziesmann. critical thinking and encourage them to use presence of corporations in schools, and She expects genetic evidence may confirm their own initiative, based on the information believes that options for fundraising (other this from analysis she is doing back at the we give them. than selling chocolate bars) can be explored. laboratories on the Auckland campus. “This is why teachers need resources too. “Health education needs to be delivered They’re not nutritionists and rarely have a way in an impartial capacity, rather than with Massey chair for to validate the messages they receive. We the outside influence of corporations, need to equip them to deliver healthy advice government, and lobbyists. It’s all too easy to Vision Manawatu with regards to food choices. pollute educational resources with political “It’s all too easy to say no.” Ms Weir says, agendas,” she says. The Head of the Graduate School of Business, Dr James Lockhart, has been appointed as the new Chair of the Vision Manawatu Board of How the world has changed Trustees. As a new class of students enters university this month, a team of New Zealand academics is Dr Lockhart has been Acting Chair since helping their colleagues understand the historical, social, economic and cultural mindset of their former Chairman John Heng resigned in students. The 2007 New Zealand Mindset List provides academic staff with insight into the events November last year and has been a Vision incoming first-year students have experienced, or not. The list captures a picture of New Zealand Manawatu Trustee since 2005. and the world in 1988, the year most first-year students were born. Appointments chairman Paul O’Brien says “The principal purpose of the New Zealand Mindset List is to raise the awareness of our Dr Lockhart is ideally qualified to chair the fellow academics that our students have grown up in a world that is different from our own. Board: “He teaches governance to post- Their mindset is different, and we need to be aware of this in our teaching and our interaction graduate students, has been involved in with them” says team leader Dennis Viehland, an Associate Professor of Information Systems at strategic reviews for large New Zealand Massey University’s Auckland campus. companies, and manages a farming business Most items reflect New Zealand events, such as the passage of the introduction of Fast Post of his own. or the vast economic changes brought on by “Rogernomics”. Other items are derived from global “I am delighted that James has agreed to events such as the end of the Iran-Iraq war and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, both take on the role. He has a firm grounding in events that are still very pertinent given today’s headlines. both theory and practice of governance and The 2007 New Zealand Mindset List is published on the Web at mindset.massey.ac.nz. he has our full confidence.” Academics and others who want to contribute to the 2008 list are invited to contact Professor The chief executive of Vision Manawatu, Viehland at [email protected] Andrew Powrie, said he was excited by the The term “Mindset List” is a registered trademark of Beloit College and is used with permission. new appointment and by the dynamic nature All rights reserved. of the refreshed board – four new trustees The 2007 New Zealand Mindset List is copyright 2007 by Dennis Viehland. All rights reserved. have been appointed since October last year.
12 Massey News - 26 Hui-tanguru 2007 - Issue 1 State house sales boost home affordability Professor Bob Hargreaves, director of the University’s Property clever infill, the rearrangement of existing state-owned houses on land Foundation, has a solution to the increasing problem of high rents and owned by the Crown, and some comprehensive redevelopment of prime low home affordability. sites. The net result might be that instead of adding, say, 1500 units to He notes that the current debate about the lack of affordable housing the housing stock each year, HNZ could add around 8000 units.” in New Zealand has put the spotlight on the supply side of the housing Professor Hargreaves says this creates a clear win for the 6600 equation. “Logically, increasing the supply of houses will moderate tenants who become home owners in well-built houses: they don’t have price increases. The big question is how to best achieve this.” to move and without the need for real estate agents their transaction His proposed solution would involve the Government taking a lead role costs would be minimised. in increasing the supply of affordable housing within the confines of our “There is a win for other would-be first time buyers, with 6600 existing cities. He says by international standards, New Zealand towns additional houses added to the housing stock each year. People on the and cities have a very low density of population per square kilometre. HNZ waiting lists also win because the construction of new rental units The internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia shows that these densities are would target localities in greatest need. generally less than half those found in Australian capital cities and a “The taxpayer wins because income from property sales would quarter of densities in many North American and European cities. balance expenditure on building new units. The building industry Professor Hargreaves’ plan would increase the supply of housing at wins because guaranteed HNZ work would help to smooth out market no cost to the taxpayer. fluctuations. The environment wins because with medium density He says Housing New Zealand (HNZ) currently rents out around housing the residents “footprints” are minimised in terms of land usage, 66,000 state houses. “Using conservative values, we can assume these energy efficient housing and commuting costs. The convenience of houses will be worth on average $200,000 each, giving a total value being able to walk to work and shops also offers a health benefit for of $13.2 billion. Let us say for each year over the next five years the residents in higher density areas. “ government sells 10 per cent of its rental houses at market value. First However, he says there may be some losers. “If the plan works, option to buy would be given to the existing HNZ tenants and the next property speculators may not benefit from the sort of increases in rents option to other first-time buyers. For HNZ, the sale proceeds would and prices that we have seen over the last five years. “ come either directly from the purchasers’ deposits and private sector He says some important questions remain. Could the building industry mortgages or the HNZ could offer vendor financing and then secure cope with this additional work? Would the private sector respond by the debt.” simply reducing supply in other segments of the market, such as city Sale proceeds of $1.32 billion per annum would then be applied to apartments? building 6600 new medium-density rental units (preferably a maximum Do HNZ and local government have the technical and regulatory of two-storey) in areas of greatest need. “This is likely to mean building expertise to achieve good quality medium density housing outcomes? more medium-density units in Auckland and having a wider range of Is there a case for a public-private partnership? bedroom types to cater for the increasing number of small families,” “The problem of increasingly unaffordable housing is an important one he says. and these are all questions worth answering.” Professor Hargreaves “The land costs for each new rental unit would be minimised by says. Maximising education for stronger primary sector Massey has been awarded $100,000 by the tertiary level in New Zealand will result in and Gordon Suddaby, will also present their Tertiary Education Commission to investigate, a greater number of qualified and highly- findings at conferences hosted by tertiary develop and promote best-case models of skilled professionals working in the primary institutions and through the soon-to-be- tertiary education in the horticultural and industries. established National Centre for Teaching agricultural sciences. The results from this study, expected Excellence. Ewen Cameron, Director of the University’s late 2007, will be used to inform and shape The project fits within the Tertiary Education Applied Science Programmes, says the project educational practice, and case studies in Strategy of strengthening system capability aims to meet the demand for greater numbers course design, preparation, presentation and and quality, under the specific objective of a of skilled and qualified people in the primary maintenance will be available for teachers stronger system focus on teaching capability industries. and course coordinators. and learning environments to meet diverse He says raising the quality of teaching The research team, comprising Ewen learner needs. and learning in the applied sciences at a Cameron, Dr Tony Morrison, Warren Anderson Putting Kiwi authors in cyber-cyclopedia Literary intellectuals and bibliophiles may Other writers, including Katherine bemoan the advent of cyberspace and its Mansfield, Alan Duff, Keri Hulme and Frank perceived threat to reading books in traditional Sargeson, have made it on to the website hard copy form, but English lecturer Dr Jenny through contributed essays from overseas Lawn says there is immense value in websites academics. such as The Literary Encyclopedia. Many more New Zealand writers will The website, http://www.litencyc.com is a be represented on the site as entries are comprehensive online literary guide, which for completed with encouragement from Dr the past three years she and Mark Williams, of Lawn. the University of Canterbury, have contributed Edited by a distinguished international to and edited the New Zealand content for. board and owned collectively by its editors Writers such as Janet Frame, James K and writers, it has since 1999 published more Baxter and Maurice Gee are among several than 3700 profiles written by 1400 contributors from a 40-strong “A-List” of New Zealand and plans to add 900 new ones this year. authors on the site in essay-style entries of up Dr Jenny Lawn to 2000 words.
Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 13 Beef and lamb Fertiliser workshop explores good for your sustainable farms bones The 20th Annual Fertilizer and Lime Research Centre workshop focused on topics of high public interest under discussion again this year, with presentations on water quality, forestry Research shows beef and lamb are rich conversions to dairy farming, and carbon credits. sources of a type of vitamin D usually absorbed Lance Currie, of the University’s Fertilizer and Lime Research Centre, says the two-day from sunlight. workshop examined critical aspects of soil and water management. Associate Professor Roger Purchas, in the Presentations were organised into four sessions – environmental best management, closing Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, the nitrogen cycle, measuring land use impacts, and carbon farming. says this form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin Keynote speakers included: Robert Brodnax, head of policy and strategy at Environment D, is three times more potent than other Waikato, on managing the adverse effects of land-use intensification; Robert Sojka, former types. Dr Purchas estimates that one serving President of the American Society of Soil Science, on the management of irrigated agriculture to of lamb can provide half the daily vitamin D increase carbon storage; Jim Watson, Genesis Research and Development, on energy farming requirement, and beef about a quarter when and bio-refining. both forms of the vitamin are taken into Presentations by Massey researchers included: Mike Bretherton on the variability of soil water account. and production in hill country pasture; Baisen Zhang and Professor Russ Tillman on pasture “Recognising the contribution beef and responses to nitrogen and phosphorous fertiliser, and Dr Ian Yule and Hayden Lawrence on lamb can make to our vitamin D intake is both ground-based fertiliser-spreading vehicles. timely and important. Food sources have been limited primarily to oily fish, eggs, and some dairy products. New Zealand beef and lamb can now be added to the list,” Dr Purchas says. A survey of children’s nutrition by the Ministry of Health in 2003 identified young New Zealanders, particularly girls, at risk of vitamin D deficiency. Up to a third may have insufficient in their blood. A lack of vitamin D can lead to rickets or long-term health problems, such as osteoporosis. This research was funded by Meat and Wool New Zealand. Students gain social worker experience After more than 180,000 rotations in 30 years of operation on the University’s Number Four dairy farm, this rotary dairy shed platform has a few more years’ work ahead of it. The 36-berth platform A memorandum of understanding signed was recently lifted and shifted to Rongotea to be expanded to 40 berths, and put to work on Andy between the School of Sociology, Social Rogers’ dairy farm. Gareth Evans, Massey Agricultural Services’ deputy director, says the $50,000 Policy and Social Work and the Child, Youth rotary shed built in 1973 was replaced in 2004 with a state-of-the-art 50 bail rotary shed worth & Family Service (CYFS) will give social work $1.1 million. students greater experience before they step into the workforce. Under the agreement, up to five students in Lo-fi zine at The Engine Room the Bachelor of Social Work and Masters of Social Work programmes in Palmerston North will become involved with the service’s lower North Island service centre this year. Professor Robyn Munford, who coordinates the University’s social work programme, says the agreement is a significant event in which both parties will benefit. She says that as part of the agreement CYFS staff will be invited to attend lectures and workshops from the Massey staff, and there are opportunities for joint research ventures. Artist Bryce Galloway turns The Engine Room Wellington, New Zealand and Verl, Germany. Students will work with CYFS staff who gallery into a reading room for his fanzine, Fine Arts lecturer Bryce Galloway’s art have had training in supervising students, enticing his audience with free coffee, zines delivers a personal politic that is lo-fi, everyday and who have had a minimum of three years’ and music. and infused with self-deprecating humour. social work experience. The school will also The exhibition, Mumbling Through to The Engine Room is a public art gallery at the ensure students have up-to-date theoretical the Chorus, also launches the 26th issue of Wellington campus, focused on developing an knowledge and skills before they begin their Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People, a non- important site for the exhibition of diverse and placement. musical collaboration with Daniel Powell. In interesting contemporary art. Gallery hours cartoon form the pair have diarised the same are Wednesday to Saturday 12–4pm, and the dates in 2006, from their respective homes in exhibition runs until 16 March.
14 Massey News - 26 Hui-tanguru 2007 - Issue 1 Mäori Television’s young rugby stars on campus The makers of one of Mäori Television’s most popular programmes, School of Hard Knocks, returned to the Palmerston North campus this month to make a second series. School of Hard Knocks follows the progress of three promising young Mäori rugby players as they participate in the International Rugby Academy’s annual high-performance players’ course at the Sport and Rugby Institute. The three-week summer course, run each summer, exposes about 30 teenage players – usually two from each position – from throughout the world to some of the best New Zealand and international coaches and former players. They include current All Blacks coaches Graham Henry and Steve Hansen, former Wallabies and current Queensland Reds coach Eddie Jones, and greats of the game such as Frank Bunce, Grant Fox, John Eales, Richard Loe, Sir Brian Lochore, Sean Fitzpatrick, Nick Farr-Jones and John Kirwan. The academy, headed by former All Black Murray Mexted, is in its sixth year of operation at the Sport and Rugby Institute, where it offers Mäori Television paid the $7500 fee for each to play last year’s international academy courses for coaches, managers and players. of the three players, Matenga Baker from team. “The coaches are top too – you can’t Mäori Television broadcast eight episodes Otaki, Ariki Henry from Omaio and Turoia Kuka get better.” of School of Hard Knocks last year, the final of from Tauranga. All have followed similar paths Mr Kuka (Ngäi Te Rangi),19, now living and which was its highest-rating programme since in their plans to become rugby professionals. studying in Auckland, plays prop and spent the channel’s inception, according to Head of Mr Henry (Te Whänau a Apanui), 19, a three seasons in the 1st XV at Kings College, Programming Larry Parr. second five-eighth, who has just finished Otahuhu. Last year he was in the Auckland This year’s series, to be screened from 7 Rotorua Boys High School and three seasons Rugby Union Academy. June, has been increased to 10 episodes, Mr in the 1st XV, says the academy is “awesome” Mr Baker (Ngäti Toa, Ngäti Raukawa and Parr says. and the facilities “probably the top in New Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai) is an openside “We were very happy with the way it went. Zealand”. He played for the Bay of Plenty flanker who played three seasons for Otaki It was something we funded ourselves.” Academy team that came to Palmerston North College 1st XV, two as captain. Mobile learning technology not so far away You are in the quandrangle , your assignment is due tomorrow, you have two missed calls and you have just walked past your lecture theatre … The student of the not-too-distant future will know all this with a glance at a little hand- held personal organiser. It’s a mobile learning technology now in development at the Centre for Mobile Computing. The hand held personal learning organiser is designed to help users to navigate their precinct, communicate with others and access a range of information while on the move. The device was among projects showcased at New Zealand’s inaugural conference on mobile learning technology and its applications, hosted by the Auckland-based Centre for Mobile Computing (Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences). Organiser Dr Dave Parsons says the conference is a milestone for mobile computing research and development. It attracted the core of leaders in the field who presented a range of research now underway at institutions across New Zealand and Australia
Dr Hokyoung Ryu, Aaron Wong and graduate Richard Brown
Massey News - 26 February 2007 - Issue 1 15 Massey People In the news awarded a post-doctoral 7 February conducted a study into ACC fellowship from the Foundation claims, that has shown horse for Research Science and The Dominion Post, Manawatu riding is New Zealand’s 18 January Technology, to work on the Standard, NZ Education Review: most injury-causing sport, development of nano-materials Professor Mason Durie, AVC contributing to over 20 per cent The Dominion Post, The New that could reduce global reliance Maori, leads the development of of all claims. Zealand Herald, Bay of Plenty on oil. a ‘virtual Marae’ that will allow Times, Otago Daily Times, academics to share teaching and 13 February Dannevirke Evening News, 1 February research ideas, by electronically Wairarapa Times-Age, Bay linking all eight universities. The New Zealand Herald, of Plenty Times, Manawatu Newstalk ZB, New Zealand Manawatu Standard, Otago Standard, Waikato Times, Herald, Manawatu Standard, 8 February Daily Times, Gisborne Herald, Marlborough Express, Nelson Otago Daily Times: A study Radio Live; Dr Mark Henrickson, Mail, Westport News, Gisborne conducted by Dr Jane North Shore Times, Western from the School of Social and Herald, Rodney Times, Central Prochnow, from the Department Leader, Manakau Courier, A.K Cultural Studies, conducted a District Times, Gulf News, of Learning and Teaching, with City Harbour News: Pamela Von study that has revealed lesbian, Nor-West News, The Tribune, two American Universities, has Hurst, a PhD Student, will lead gay and bisexual Christians quit Wairoa Star, PTVL Prime TV, revealed the geographic factors a research project which will mainstream religion at a much TV3News, TVNZ TV One News, pointing to where serial killers observe the health and nutrition higher rate than the general RLI, RNZ, PhysOrg.com USA: strike their victims, and that of more than 300 South Asian population. Stan Abbott, from the Institute social and cultural structural women, in an aim to learn more of Food, Nutrition and Human factors can explain state about their health, diet, life-style 15 February Health, has conducted a five- variations in serial killing. and genetic characteristics. year study into water collected The Dominion Post, Manawatu Wairarapa News: Dr Alan The Daily Post: Associate from home roofs, which has Standard, Waikato Times, The Cameron, from the Department Professor John Kirkland, from shown that more than half Press, Ashburton Guardian: Dr of Management, says that all the Department of Health of the samples taken exceed Andy Shilton, from the Centre indications from the around the and Human Development, the maximum contamination for Environmental Engineering world about farmers’ markets, conducted a study into New levels. and Technology, says the biogas suggest that they are here to Zealand school children, which found in New Zealand dairy stay. has shown that one in ten are 27 January farms is a wasted resource, and RNZ Rural Report: Professor too frightened and exhausted could be used to lower, on-farm Mike Hedley, from the Institute of to learn because of a troubled The New Zealand Herald: energy costs. Natural Resources, talks about, home life. Professor James Chapman, the two day fertiliser conference believes between a quarter and 2 February starting in Palmerston north 18 February a third of New Zealand children that will focus on reducing are missing out on reading RNZ Rural Report: Warren agriculture’s environmental Herald on Sunday: Dr David because the wrong methods are Anderson, from the Institute impact. Tripe, from the Department of being used to teach them. of Veterinary, Animal and Finance Banking and Property, The Dominion Post: Professor Biomedical Sciences, is part of 9 February says New Zealanders have Kevin Stafford, from the a team launching a project to responded well to the online on- Institute of Veterinary Animal develop the quality of learning The Press, Manawatu Standard, call savings accounts launched and Biomedical Sciences, says in horticultural and agricultural Waikato Times, The Dominion in the past two years because of drugs such as Prozac have courses, which is being funded Post, Otago Southland Farmer, the flexibility they allow. been used in animals for as by the Tertiary Education Bay of Plenty Times, Dannevirke RNZ Insight: Professor Ivan long as they have been used on Commission Grant. Evening News, Taranaki Daily Snook, from the College of humans, but there is still very News, The Tribune, Wairarapa Education, participates in a little known about the emotions 5 February Midweek, Ashburton Guardian, discussion into whether New of animals. Southland Times, Gisborne Zealand still provides a free Manawatu Standard, National Herald, Rodney Times, TRN education system. 28 January Business Review, Rangitikei Newstalk ZB: Nick Roskruge, Mail, The Tribune, Fielding from the Institute of Natural 19 February Sunday Star-Times Education Herald: Dr James Lockhart, Resources, says the three Update: Dr Dianne Brunton from the Graduate School of varieties of kumara to which TV3 News: Dr David Tripe, and Dr Weihong Ji from the Business, has been appointed a Mäori group is claiming the from the Department of Finance Institute of Natural Resources Chairman of Vision Manawatu, commercial rights to, as one Banking and Property, says will conduct a reptile study that and believes the area needs to of a number being considered Kiwibank has benefited because will monitor the rare Duvaucel’s be jolted out of its comfort zone relating to the Wai 62 flora and it has taken over a lot of business Geckos that were released into for it to be able to prosper. fauna claim to the Waitangi from New Zealand Post. a new habitat in Auckland’s Tribunal, are all non-commercial Hauraki Gulf. 6 February kumara. 20 February Southland Times, The New 30 January Rural News: Professor Ralph Zealand Herald, Waikato Times, The Press: Dr Chris Wilkins, Sims, says New Zealands bio- Marlborough Express, Hawkes from the SHORE centre, says Manawatu Standard, The fuel production will initially rely Bay Today, Bay of Plenty the popularity of pill-form drugs Guardian: Dr Aaron Marshall, on by-products as these are Times: Dr Tim Bentley, from like ecstasy means these drugs from the Institute of Technology cheaper than growing energy the Department of Management are perceived as healthier by and Engineering, has been crops. and International Business, young people.
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Prime Minister Helen Clark toured the new Student Centre in Palmerston North after officially opening it last week. She’s pictured with MUSA president Paul Falloon and MUSA Events Coordinator Clare Lees. Prime Minister opens student centre as Orientation kicks off
About 200 guests, students, staff and alumni attended the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Palmerston North) Professor Ian Psychology opens doors official opening of the new $10.5 million Student Centre on Warrington said the building represented a strengthening to local community Million dollar smiles: Dr Mark Goellner, Professor Tony Parker, Professor Duncan Joiner, Associate Professor Anders Warell, the Palmerston North campus last Thursday. of he relationship between the University and the students’ Page 11 Professor Claire Massey, Rodney Adank, and Lyn Garrett. Prime Minister Helen Clark unveiled a plaque after association. congratulating the University and its students’ association With Orientation underway, MUSA president Paul Falloon said Multi-million dollar boost for education for their commitment to providing quality facilities for he was delighted that the association, the Extramural Students students and staff. Society, Manawatahi (the Mäori students’ association), the “All of us that have had the privilege of a university student newspaper CHAFF and the student station Radio Control and research projects education know that the university experience is so much were now all together in one building – “a part of the campus Research and education projects run or led by Massey competitiveness through focusing on design for more,” she said. “It’s a time for exploring ideas – and not heart”. staff have been the recipients of several million dollars desirability. just in the lecture theatre.” worth of Government funding already this year. A team headed by Professor Bob Hodgson has She recalled her time as a student at the University of A project focusing on desirable design has been been granted $164,132 to develop well-qualified Auckland from 1968, the same year the original Massey awarded a $1 million grant for a two-year project that ICT professionals. Student Centre opened, when student demonstrations Mäori Television’s rising will see the University collaborate with manufacturers This project will identify the knowledge and rocked Europe and the United States. rugby stars such as Navman, Macpac, Gallagher Group and Tait skills gaps of people who work in engineering In New Zealand students were involved in opposing the Page 15 Electronics. and computer science-related roles, but lack Vietnam war and Helen Clark said she joined the student It is one of two projects funded through the Tertiary formal graduate qualifications. It aims to design executive of the Halt All Racist Tours organisation when it Education Commission’s Growth and Innovation Pilot a qualification that will bring their skills upto was formed in 1970. Initiatives. graduate level. “I look back on student years as incredibly stimulating.” Director of Affect, the Centre for Affective Design at The University will lead three of the 11 tertiary She noted the original centre was built for a student the University’s Wellington campus, Dr Anders Warell education projects to receive $9.7 million population on campus of 3000, which has now grown to says the grant will improve capability in research, Government Innovation and Development about 8000. teaching and consultancy to industry. Funding in the latest round. “It goes without saying that quality support centres like “It provides us with new options to engage with They are: this underpin quality education.” industry and make our industrial design programmes • Establishment of an inter-university Mäori Vice-Chancellor Professor Judith Kinnear described more relevant. We aim to integrate affective design academic network to be led by Professor Mason the centre as a key part of what was now the heart of the concepts into industry’s mindset and processes.” Durie. campus. PM opens new student Affective design is about tailoring products that • Creation of a New Zealand synchrotron support “The centre is a welcoming oasis for Massey students in The Prime Minister unveils a commemorative plaque. centre people bond with emotionally, such as the iPod or programme led by Professor Geoff Jameson. Palmerston North and, every time I go in there, for Massey Page 20 VW Beetle. • Co-ordination and implementation of e-learning staff.” The project aims at boosting New Zealand guidelines across the tertiary sector led by http://news.massey.ac.nz manufacturers and designers international Gordon Sudddaby. http://news.massey.ac.nz © Massey University 2007 Continues page 2