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Sailing in a New Direction ■■Page 5 SEPTEMBER 2017 The University of Auckland News for Staff Vol 46/ Issue 07 /September 2017 SAILING IN A NEW DIRECTION ■ PAGE 5 INSIDE A 700-plus page biography and Collected Poems of New Zealand literary heavyweight Allen Curnow, pictured above, by the late Emeritus Professor Terry Sturm is being launched this month by Auckland University Press. PAGE 5 COUNTING THE VOTES THE TAX QUESTION TOURIST IN HER OWN Just like Brexit and the 2016 US election, in the None of our political parties are dealing with COUNTRY upcoming General Election on 23 September the basic inequities of the current tax system, This month’s My Story, Samantha Perry, is every vote will definitely count, writes political says tax specialist Mark Keating. looking forward to going back to her family’s scientist Jennifer Lees-Marshment. roots in Sri Lanka in September. PAGE 12 PAGE 9 PAGE 6 SNAPSHOT CONTENTS TOP PRIZE FOR WATERCOLOUR WHAT’S NEW ............................ 3 In 1999 a generous bequest to create a IN BRIEF .................................... 4 scholarship to ‘foster interest in New Zealand COVER STORY ............................. 5 watercolour’ established the country’s largest art prize for the medium, the Henrietta and Lola DID YOU KNOW? ......................... 7 Anne Tunbridge Scholarship, worth $10,000. Awarded annually to an Elam School of Fine Arts WHAT’S ON CAMPUS .................. 7 student, this year the prize was jointly shared RESEARCH IN FOCUS .................. 8 between undergraduate Honor Hamlet and postgraduate Scarlett Cibilich from dozens of WHAT AM I DISCOVERING ............ 9 entries. The Tunbridge’s foresight continues to strengthen the medium’s appeal. Right, detail IN THE SPOTLIGHT ...................... 9 from Scarlett’s winning work. FROM THE COLLECTION ............ 10 PHILOSOPHER HEADS BIOETHICS PANEL WHAT’S COMING OUT ............... 10 Dr Emily Parke, right, who specialises in the CLASSIFIEDS ....................... 11 philosophy of science and of biology, is co- leading, with Dr James Russell, a panel whose MARAMATANGA ....................... 12 focus is pest eradication policies in New Zealand. The panel will advise on social and ethical issues relating to the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge-funded project “high tech solutions to invasive mammal pest control”. The project is part of a larger endeavour to make New Zealand predator-free from rats, stoats, and possums by 2050. NAPKIN CHALLENGE Put a great idea for a new venture down on a COVER PHOTO: Allen Curnow in Kaikoura, January napkin and you will be in to win weekly prizes 1938. He and wife Betty were en route to Nelson or a $500 travel voucher from Orbit Travel. on a two-week camping trip in their recently Just write or draw your ideas on the back of a purchased 1926 Hupmobile, which was altered to napkin along with your full name, email address allow for the seat to be let down for sleeping in. and ID number and drop it it into an entry box (Privately held) at any participating café, common area or staffroom. Run by the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, (CIE) the challenge will run from 14 August to 1 September. For more information contact [email protected] WORK SHOWCASED IN AUSTRIA EDITOR: Julianne Evans A creative team led by Professor Uwe Reiger from [email protected] the arc/sec Lab for Digital Spatial Operations PHOTOGRAPHY: Godfrey Boehnke, Craig Berry, Jenny Mason at the School of Architecture and Planning has DESIGN: Mike Crozier been invited to Austria to present two projects at PRODUCTION: The University of Auckland world-leading digital art and technology festival, Ars Electronica. Published by: The interdisciplinary works, LightScale II and The University of Auckland SINGULARITY, will be performed to tens of Communications, thousands of people during the five-day event. Fisher Building, 18 Waterloo Quadrant, SINGULARITY, created in collaboration with Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142 Associate Professor Carol Brown from Dance Studies, was previously performed at Auckland’s www.auckland.ac.nz/universitynews Q Theatre. Pictured right, LightScale II detail. 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF WHAT’S NEW TOP TEACHER REFUGEE ADVOCATE views on more than 30 policy or issue-based questions to find out how closely aligned they Associate Professor Jay Marlowe, from the ELECTION are to party positions. School of Counselling, Human Services and More than 330,000 New Zealanders used the Social Work, was honoured with a prestigious DEBATE ON tool three years ago, and Jennifer hopes to see national Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in similar numbers in 2017. August. YOUTH ISSUES “As campaigns can often end up being plagued Jay’s area of research interest is refugee by personality issues and billboard slogans, Vote settlement, social inclusion and ways that migrant Ahead of the General Election on 23 Compass plays an important democratic role by communities can participate within civil society. September, TVNZ will run a debate focused ensuring discussions of policy, and public views He is the designer and co-ordinator of courses on issues that matter to young people, in on them remain on the agenda,” says Jennifer. on working with loss and grief, youth justice, association with Vote Compass and the Jennifer and Dr Danny Osborne from addiction and migration. University of Auckland. Psychology are academic advisors to the tool He is highly valued by students for his Hosted by popular broadcaster Jack Tame, and will comment on the data for TVNZ as the innovative teaching style, commitment to the 1News Young Voters Debate will be a 2017 campaign progresses. experiential learning, constructive feedback and 90-minute special focusing on youth issues, Asking what this election means for Auckland, supervisory support. featuring Chris Bishop (National), Kris Faafoi the Auckland Issues Debate was held on 28 Jay joined the University in 2010 and has (Labour), Chloe Swarbrick (Greens), Shane August on City Campus, and convened by developed a track record in preparing students Taurima (Māori Party), David Seymour (ACT) and Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin, director of for sound professional social work practice in the Darroch Ball (NZ First). the newly-formed Public Policy Institute. Faculty. It will be live streamed on 1 NEWS NOW, It featured Paul Goldsmith (National), Phil He was drawn to tertiary teaching through Facebook and YouTube and simulcast on Twyford (Labour), Julie Anne Genter (Greens), working with homeless children in Guatemala, Newstalk ZB on 14 September from 7.30pm. Tracey Martin (NZ First), Tasha Hohaia (Māori indigenous communities in the Amazon River Brought to New Zealand for the first time Party), Mika Haka (TOP) and Brooke van Velden basin of Ecuador, refugees resettling in Australia in the 2014 General Election by Associate (ACT). and young people from gang-related backgrounds Professor Jennifer Lees-Marshment (Politics and The debate will be broadcast on Radio NZ in the United States. International Relations) through her Canadian National at 4pm Sunday 3 September and 9pm Within the University, Jay has taken on a research links, Vote Compass is an interactive Tuesday 5 September. Find Vote Compass at leadership role in advocating for the recognition of engagement tool that enables voters to give their www.votecompass.tvnz.co.nz/home students from refugee backgrounds as a University equity group. Dean of Education, Professor Graeme Aitken, says that through Jay’s regular use of such approaches as metaphor, stories, role play and NEW DEAN COMMITTED video he “engages his students with real life experiences that through their authenticity and TO LEVEL PLAYING FIELD emotional connection motivate them to engage and learn”. Congratulations to Professor Mark Barrow As a secondary school teacher, mainly in low who will succeed Professor Graeme Aitken as decile schools, he got an understanding of the the Dean of Education and Social Work when interplay between educational and social issues, Graeme retires at the end of the year. an area he has been committed to ever since. Now Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty Mark was then appointed to an academic of Medical and Health Sciences, Mark graduated development role at Unitec, becoming academic from this University with bachelors and masters director and then dean of teaching and learning. degrees in science before taking the Diploma In 2003, he completed the Doctor of in Teaching at the then Auckland College of Education degree here at Auckland and joined Education. the University in 2007 to take up the associate dean’s position. He says he’s “looking forward to the challenges of the job while also being aware that I have big shoes to fill”. UniNews will farewell Graeme Aitken and look back at his many achievements in an upcoming issue. Graeme’s final lecture, Ambition and its Enemies, a Report Card on 40 Years of Leadership in Education, will be in the J1 lecture theatre at the Faculty of Education and Social Work from 6–7pm on 25 October 2017. UNINEWS 3 WHAT’S NEW IN BRIEF WEB REVAMP ON TRACK UNDERSTANDING The Web Presence Improvement Programme is launching new homepages for all faculty OUR PAST and Large Scale Research Institute (LSRI) websites. They will have the same look and A new initiative focused on understanding feel as the University of Auckland website, Auckland’s past in all its diversity and vibrancy with the addition of a new faculty/LSRI menu. was launched at a widely attended event at Old Each faculty and LSRI can use their new Government House in August. homepages and menus to highlight and link The Auckland History Initiative, which has to content that is appropriate and important come out of the Faculty of Arts History Discipline, for their specific audiences. aims to begin what many claim is a much needed The new design is mobile-friendly, meets conversation about Auckland’s past. AA accessibility standards and has been “We want to reach out and connect designed in collaboration with faculty to Auckland’s many history and heritage communications and marketing managers communities and start an energetic Emeritus Professor Russell Stone and Professor of History and content writers.
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