AUGUST 2016

The University of News for Staff Vol 45/ Issue 06 /August 2016

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INSIDE WELLINGTON OFFICE KEEPING US SAFE EQUITY IN ACADEMIA A new office for UniServices and for the Talaloa Leau (known on campus as Tala) was The under-representation of New Zealand University had its official launch in Wellington born in Samoa and first came to New Zealand women in academic leadership is a global on 19 July. The office, which opened quietly with a dancing group from her village Manono. phenomenon. Recent New Zealand research earlier this year, is providing a great Tala is now the mother of eight children, aged shows that men graded A and B in the PBRF opportunity to raise the University’s profile between 20 and 36, and is one of 32 Unisafe are three times more likely to be professors in the capital, create hot desk space, provide Security Officers and one of only two females than women with the same PBRF grade. flexible accommodation for some of our currently on the security team. Read more Kirsten Locke from the Faculty of Education programmes and reduce costs for travel about Tala’s life, work and achievements in and Social Work, who is currently leading a around the city. It includes several meeting “My story”, which profiles a different member comparative research project on gendered rooms, including one large enough to host of staff in each issue of Uninews. career trajectories in Danish and New Zealand training or a seminar for up to 40 people. universities, gives an opinion on this.

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NEW WRITING GUIDE WHAT’S NEW ...... 3

A new edition of the University’s Writing Guide IN BRIEF ...... 4 5.3 has been produced by Publications and COVER STORY ...... 5 the Writing Guide Committee. The guide is a comprehensive reference document providing DID YOU KNOW? ...... 7 information about writing for the University, both for printed publications and for the web. WHAT’S ON CAMPUS ...... 7 It covers general but not academic writing and RESEARCH ...... 8 includes things like University terms and how they are used. It also includes information on WHAT AM I DISCOVERING? ...... 9 culture and gender, for example specifying University style in the use of Māori language. IN THE SPOTLIGHT ...... 9 FROM THE COLLECTION ...... 10 WOMEN IN IT WHAT’S COMING OUT ...... 11 The 2016 Women in IT conference will be held MARAMATANGA ...... 12 at the University on Monday 29 August. On the theme of “Making a Difference”, the conference will bring together University IT professional staff with students, academics and alumni, to further build the community for women in IT. It will also provide a forum to unlock the possibilities of a career in IT across multiple disciplines. Respected speakers from the industry will talk about their careers and the support for women in IT. Open to men and women. www.auckland. ac.nz/womeninit

LABOUR PARTY CENTENARY

Our former Prime Minister and current UN COVER PHOTO: Chancellor Ian Parton (left) and Secretary General contender Helen Clark Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon features in the General Library’s Special (right) with the University’s two new recipients of Collections display celebrating the New Zealand honorary doctorates: Richard Aitken (second from Labour Party (NZLP) centenary. The country’s left) and Charles Bidwill (second from right). oldest surviving political party, the LP was Photo: Richard Ng formed at a conference of the United Federation of Labour, Social Democratic Party and local Labour Representative Committees in Wellington on 7 July 1916. The display explores the formation and early history of the NZLP.

GET TANKED ON CAMPUS

TANK serving healthy, fresh, accessible and EDITOR: Tess Redgrave delicious food options from smoothies to wraps PHOTOGRAPHY: Godfrey Boehnke, ,Richard Ng, Tess Redgrave and salads will open on the City Campus in DESIGN: Student Information and Marketing Services mid-August. This New Zealand-owned, family- PRODUCTION: The run business has been revolutionising fast food since 2001. Meanwhile the University’s Retail Published by: Services listened closely to the feedback and The University of Auckland suggestions made by the University community Communications, and are delighted that they are able to offer Fisher Building, 18 Waterloo Quadrant, and encourage healthy options on campus. Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142 TANK will be located in The Quad, outside the Sport and Rec Centre from mid-August. www.auckland.ac.nz/universitynews

2 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF WHAT’S NEW NEW HUB IN THE CAPITAL

LIGGINS TURNS 15 For 15 years the Liggins Institute has been researching how early life events, starting even before conception, influence our likelihood of developing diseases such as diabetes, obesity and coronary heart disease in adulthood. The focus is on a healthy start for a health life. They’re celebrating this milestone with a public lecture and cocktail reception and all are invited. Distinguished Professor Jane Harding, a specialist in fetal and neonatal care, is among the speakers. She made international headlines with A new office for UniServices and for the All are now at Level 8, 38 Waring Taylor Street a treatment her team developed to prevent brain University of Auckland had its official launch (the Petherick Tower). damage in newborns, now standard practice in in Wellington on 19 July. The building is in the same block as MBIE, New Zealand. Among those present were Hon Steven Joyce, Internal Affairs and SUPERU (a government agency Molecular biologist Dr Justin O’Sullivan, a senior Minister for Economic Development, Professor that aims to increase the use of evidence-based research fellow at Liggins, will give a mini-lecture Stuart McCutcheon, University Vice-Chancellor, and research in the social sector so that better decisions about epigenetics and how the structure of a Dr Andy Shenk, CEO of Auckland UniServices Ltd. can be made). genome can influence long-term health outcomes. The office, which opened quietly earlier this Stuart stressed the commitment of the University Other frontier science discussed will be ongoing year, is providing a great opportunity to raise the and UniServices to working with the New Zealand studies into the effect of stress hormones on University’s profile in the capital, create hot desk Government to increase the impact and economic breastmilk, and into a novel therapy using Viagra to space, provide flexible accommodation for some returns from our Science and Innovation systems. improve fetal growth. of our programmes and reduce costs for travel He underlined the importance of evidence-based Wednesday 10 August, 6pm, Lecture Theatre around the city. It includes several meeting rooms, research for the future of New Zealand. 007, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Building including one large enough to host training or a Steven Joyce spoke of the high significance of 505, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland. seminar for up to 40 people. commercialisation and of the role the University www.liggins.auckland.ac.nz The new office brings together the University’s and UniServices are playing in increasing business Note this event is now fully booked. Wellington-based teams – including members from investment in research and development; Conectus, the Centre for Professional Learning/ improving international connections; and Photo above: Left to right are Dr Andy Shenk, Associate Professor Team Solutions and the new Government Business encouraging innovation. Nikki Turner, Hon Steven Joyce and Professor Stuart McCutcheon. Development Manager.

Led by retired District Court Judge, Dr David The second strand is in the field of research Harvey, the new centre forms part of the Law and the development of ICT policy based on a School at the University of Auckland. solid evidential foundation. Projects include the The centre has been established to study use of technology to assist with access to the and consider the implications of ICT within the law as well as an examination of the operation of context of the law, technological developments, the Harmful Digital Communications Act. and its impact upon society. The third strand is to design and develop an “The centre is a specialist hub,” said Dr on-line electronic moot courtroom as a teaching Harvey. “Information and communications facility for students, as an advocacy training technologies are becoming more and more a centre, and as a place where lawyers, judges and part of the everyday life of New Zealanders. The court staff can familiarise themselves with new NEW ICT LAW impact of these new technologies on the law and technologies for use in the Courtroom. CENTRE vice versa need to be examined,” he says To find out more visit: The centre has three main strands of activity. www.law.auckland.ac.nz/ICT The New Zealand Centre for Information and The first is the development of teaching Photo: Dr David Harvey Communications Technology (ICT) Law was programmes for students and law practitioners launched at Old Government House last week. to keep them up-to-date with new legal developments in the ICT field.

UNINEWS 3 WHAT’S NEW IN BRIEF

SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME HOOD FELLOWS The Ballot Box 2016 series, developed by Professor Eamonn O’Brien from the the Business School, will bring together Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of preeminent speakers to inform debate and Science is one of three University academics challenge thinking about issues that will shape who have won outgoing Hood Fellowships. Auckland’s future. Developed to look beyond Eamonn is well recognised the three-year election cycle and encourage internationally as a leader in computational an informed conversation, this public series algebra and is an outstanding mathematician comprises three separate events, each looking with a strong track record of research activity. He at an issue of critical importance to Auckland. will use his fellowship to collaborate with experts The first, on August 30, will look at how at four universities in the UK: Imperial College, Cambridge and Professor Paul Barker - world we can foster a more inclusive Auckland. Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick, each dedicated leader in metal-based anticancer agents. The line-up features independent economist to a specific issue, including two long-standing Incoming Hood Fellowships were awarded to Shamubeel Eaqub; Rangimarie Hunia, director open problems in group theory. Professor Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma; of the property and investment arm of Our two other outgoing Hood Fellows Professor Keith Syrett, Cardiff School of Law and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei; Associate Professor of are Professor John Montgomery, Department Politics; Professor Martyn Goulding, Molecular Economics Susan St John, and Alan Johnson, of Marine Science, and Professor Christian Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, USA; the Salvation Army social policy analyst. Hartinger, School of Chemical Sciences. J ohn Professor McGowan (accompanied by Associate Expect lively discussion of how the social and will use his fellowship to extend his on-going Professor Jane Danielewicz), Department of economic impact of inequality threatens the collaboration with Professor Bodznich at the English and Comparative Literature, University of city’s future prospects, and what can be done. Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, UK. North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA, The second event, on September 7, will Christian will collaborate with the University of interrogate how Auckland can, and must, become a crucible for innovation. Speakers will include inaugural CEO of Callaghan Innovation Dr Mary Quin. Finally, on September 22, sustainability takes EDUCATION STUDENT TO RIO centre stage. Auckland is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which will affect Australia and SC 07 Bad Neuenahr in Germany. the region’s economy, infrastructure, natural With 115 caps, she is the second most capped resources, biodiversity, and quality of life. player in the Ferns, featuring in all of New High-profile businessman Michael Stiassny Zealand’s three matches at the 2015 FIFA Women’s is among leading thinkers who will discuss World Cup in Canada. transitioning Auckland to a high-growth, low- Katie has managed to fit studying for her degree carbon eco-economy. in between her professional commitments and See www.theballotbox.auckland.ac.nz intensive training, gym and yoga schedule, and is hoping to do her final year in 2017. “I’m looking forward to getting back into it, I really OUR OLYMPIANS like the practical side of the degree, learning how The University will be well represented at the to teach sport, going out on practicums in the Rio Olympics. Students going are as follows: schools and working with children.” Eliza McCartney, Pole Vault (Science);Dylan Third-time Olympian, Football Fern vice-captain With a degree under her belt, she says her future Schmidt, Trampoline (Commerce); Theresa and University student headed to after retiring from the professional game is Fitzpatrick, Sevens (Medicine); , Rio in late July with the national women’s team. open-ended, with teaching, personal training and Sevens (Science); , Hockey The 28-year-old defensive mid-fielder is three coaching all possibilities.In a tough draw, the 17th (Law/Arts); , Hockey (Law/ years through a four-year Bachelor of Physical FIFA-ranked Football Ferns will face the defending Business); Katie Duncan, Football (Education). Education degree at the Faculty of Education and Olympic champions USA in pool play, as well as Alumni going are as follows: , Social Work. She started playing football at four, Colombia (ranked No. 24) and France (No. 3) Hockey (Arts/Business);, getting plenty of encouragement from her parents, when their campaign begins on 3 August in Belo Hockey (Arts/Business);Petrea Webster, who coached her Hamilton-based team. She says Horizonte. Hockey (Education);, “mental strength and self-respect” are a key part At the 2012 London Olympics, the Ferns reached Hockey (Science); Sharika Baker, Sevens of her success. the quarter finals but as a stronger and highly (Education);Mahe Drysdale, Rowing (Business); Known as Katie Hoyle (nickname, ‘Hoylie’), Katie experienced team, are hoping to make it right to , Rowing (Business);, married fellow New Zealand footballer Priscilla the final in 2016. Canoe (Science). Duncan in 2014. The pair moved to Switzerland together, where Katie played for top Swiss team FC Zurich and Priscilla worked in the media for FIFA. She has also played professional seasons with Notts County in the UK, Melbourne Victory in

4 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF COVER STORY TWO HONORARY DOCTORATES AWARDED

Two leading businessmen, who have lingerie manufacturer Bendon. In 1992 Bidwill Executive Chairman of the Beca Group since contributed much to the University, were was the NBR’s inaugural New Zealander of the 2009. In that time, Beca has grown to 3000 awarded honorary doctorates at a special Year. But it was not all business: his interest in employees in 19 offices across New Zealand, ceremony on 23 June. sport saw him join with others in establishing the Asia and the Pacific. Internationally-successful entrepreneur NZ Sports Foundation to support elite athletes. Under Richard’s leadership Beca was in 2011 and founding donor to the Business School’s Significantly, he did this with Douglas Myers. By voted New Zealand’s most reputable organisation, Entrepreneurial Challenge, Charles Bidwill was 1997, having sold out of Ceramco, Bidwill and his beating out Air New Zealand. It has been Deloitte’s awarded a Doctorate of Laws for his philanthropy wife Sue relocated to London where he retained New Zealand Company of the Year, and was towards the University. his interests as an investor and trader. awarded International Business of the year by New Alumnus and Executive Chairman of the Beca Charles Bidwill has made a successful life out Zealand Trade and Enterprise. Group, Richard Aitken was awarded a Doctorate of of spotting opportunity, not just for himself, but Key to Beca’s success is its people and the Engineering in recognition of Beca’s exceptionally also for others. His underwriting of Radio Hauraki steps the firm takes to retain talent, and provide strong relationship with the University under his served as a sort of rallying cry for disentangling pathways for them all over the globe. Beca takes watch. the overregulation that served purposes no longer around 70 graduates a year, the vast majority of The University’s Public Orator, Professor Paul relevant – why a state monopoly on broadcasting? them from the University. Rishworth QC, delivered eulogies for both men As a founding donor to the Business School’s But Richard’s influence goes wider. Sought after at a ceremony at the Fale Pasifika. Here are the Entrepreneurial Challenge, Bidwill has given for his expertise, he holds external directorships in edited versions and responses. millions of dollars to help small to medium-sized numerous companies and joint ventures, as well businesses grow their business, particularly as advisory groups. He is a director of Auckland into overseas markets. As an entrepreneur he is Council company Panuku Development Auckland emphatically not afraid of failure, but it doesn’t Ltd, for example, and chaired the high-level take long to see that he has been astute to Construction Industry Strategy Group from its make failure very rare indeed. He is an exemplar establishment in 2010 through to March 2015. of the best of his generation and through his As part of Beca he has delivered infrastructure philanthropy and that which it inspires, may his projects in New Zealand and Australia worth success be carried on down to new generations of billions of dollars. The Melbourne Desalination students.” plant alone was a $4 billion project; the Waterview In responding Charles Bidwill stressed that motorway project $1.4 billion. “Entrepreneurism is about having a go and taking Engineers leave their mark on the world, and in a risk. If the economy doesn’t have people taking the case of Richard Aitken that mark comprises risks, then the economy doesn’t progress. Have the massive organisational contribution he CHARLES BIDWILL an idea,” he told his audience. “Take a risk and continues to make to the company he leads “Charles Bidwill left school and started as a have a go.” as Executive Chairman, to the numerous stockbroker in Auckland, soon dropping out of important projects it has handled, to all his his University of Auckland commerce course other directorships, and to his relationship with to concentrate on learning his new profession. this University .Partnering with its community is After three years, he set out on an American the lifeblood of a major research university like OE, combining travel with stints at the local Auckland, as is retaining links with its own alumni. offices of Merrill Lynch. In 1965 after time in Richard Aitken and Beca are exemplars of this London and an English stockbroking firm, partnership. he returned home and became the youngest In reply Richard spoke of Engineering as “an member of the NZ Stock Exchange. A foretaste exciting profession. An opportunity to solve of the business entrepreneurialism to come problems and create outcomes. was his underwriting the float of Radio Hauraki “Would I do it all again?” he asked. “Yes and in 1969 when the pirate radio station made with the same people. We’re a people’s business. an end-run around the state broadcasting RICHARD AITKEN That’s what makes Beca strong.” monopoly by beaming its radio signals from Richard Aitken is one of New Zealand’s most outside the 12 mile NZ territorial limits, prominent engineers. He joined Beca in 1965, Increasingly Bidwill became a deal- while still in the final year of his Bachelor of maker – seeing opportunities in acquiring and Engineering degree at Auckland. Then came restructuring businesses. With a syndicate of a masters at the University of Sydney on steel investors he bought Tappenden Motors, then frame buildings, followed by an OE with a whitewear manufacturer Atlas Majestic. As London consultancy before returning to Beca. market deregulation arrived in the mid 1980s An extraordinary career has since seen him hold Photo this page: Charles Bidwell and Richard Aitken Ceramco Corporation was formed, a public numerous leadership positions within Beca, receive their honorary doctorates from University company under the control of Messrs Bidwill and including Managing Director for New Zealand Chancellor Ian Parton. Alan Gibbs, with diverse holdings that included from 1995, Chief Executive from 2000, and

UNINEWS 5 MY STORY STAFF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

sister passed away at five, and my youngest saying his girlfriend doesn’t want him. I started sister was stillborn. talking in Samoan to him. He was a Samoan. I I am the only one in New Zealand out of my believe talking in our own language can help biological family but my brothers’ and sisters’ create understanding. I got him to give me his kids are here. One of my sons is at Theological girlfriend’s cellphone number and I rang her College in Samoa. down at Pacific Studies. I got her to come up to the Rec. Centre and they talked and they sorted WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB? it out. Someone had said call the police, but In Samoa they don’t do what happens here where we didn’t need that. If you talk to the students you go and look for a part time job during school. within your heart, like you talk to your own child, After school finished I went to the School of they can feel it as well. Nursing in Samoa. Unfortunately I didn’t finish. The following day the couple came looking for I just did two years and then I had to leave me with a box of chocolates. I felt proud of because I had my first child. After I had my son I myself for that. worked as a shopkeeper in a shop in Apia selling ice-cream, cookies, that sort of thing – you know WHAT HAVE YOU ACHIEVED THAT YOU like a café here. ARE VERY PLEASED ABOUT? I am the sort of person who has a very soft heart. WHO WAS YOUR BEST TEACHER? I can love anyone. I can do anything for anyone. When I was in primary school our Principal by the I am pleased with that. Every time I come across name of Pese was the best one. a student in pain or even a homeless person on At College at the Catholic Church, Sister campus my heart goes out to them and I try and Alfonso was the best teacher in Form 1 and Form help them. 2. She was a really good nun, she was just like This was the gift I was gifted with and I am a mum, a mother. And then Miss Jones was a really pleased it has helped me help a lot of lovely person and she took us for PE and then Mr people. TALALOA LEAU Sitanilei. He was very funny. Talaloa Leau (known on campus as Tala) is one WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOING WHEN YOU of the University’s 32 UniSafe Security Officers IN JUST ONE SENTENCE DESCRIBE THE ARE NOT WORKING? and one of only two females currently on the PURPOSE OF YOUR PRESENT POSITION I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I don’t gamble. I go security team. As security officers we are the ears and eyes to church on Sundays. Tala was born in Samoa and first came to of the University. We look after the staff, we I enjoy doing my flower garden. I enjoy being New Zealand with a dancing group from her look after the students and we look after the with my granddaughter. She and her parents live local village Manono. She is the mother of eight University assets/buildings. with me at the weekends, Friday and Saturday children aged between 36 and 20. One son, Soo, nights. Her name is Emelynn and I love her more has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT THE than anything. and her daughter Rawinia is studying for a Social JOB? Work degree at the Faculty of Education. The people around the University. I love being Tala is on her own and last year her sons with people and around people. I love the bought her her first home in Weymouth. management. I love my boss Phil Kirkham. He’s After working in a variety of jobs including as a lovely, lovely person. Some of the students I a nurse in rest homes, Tala trained as security treat like my own. I talk to them like I do my own officer with Asia Pacific in Papatoetoe. From kids. This is the best security job. This is me. there she worked for six years as a security Where else can you get your uniform for free? officer and supervisor in cinemas across [laughs]. They provide us with everything: belts, Auckland. In September 2004 she was socks, shoes. The most important thing is the employed at the University and has enjoyed management. If you’ve got a good management being here ever since. [like here], then it’s no problem at all!

WHAT DID YOU LOVE DOING AS A CHILD? DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU DO I left my parents when I was five years old and CHANGES LIVES? grew up with my uncle because my parents were Yes. By being on campus I find myself helping in the country and that’s what we do in Samoa, students in unexpected ways. I will talk about living with relatives. I loved reading as a child. one example. There was a boy and girl, students I remember reading Snow White and Jack and here, and they were about to break up. We had the Bean Stalk. We played basketball. I loved a call that a person was doing some silly things Sunday school and I loved going to church. We around the quad. So we came and found him used to play cricket too and four square. I had sitting outside the Rec Centre. He was drunk eight siblings: five girls and three boys. My eldest and very upset. I said: “Hey calm down, what is your name? Ok just calm down.” He was

Tala with her granddaughter Emmelyn.

6 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF DID YOU KNOW

ceremony booklet an e-book, sent out with the e-tickets to a student’s University email address. And for the other component of the pack, ceremony numbers were made available for pick- up from designated areas on Graduation day. The benefits of the continuous-improvement changes is a reduction in the number of student queries regarding missing packs; tickets no longer required can be cancelled and reissued to students who have requested additional tickets; the Graduation Office can now accurately forecast ticket numbers and prevent over- allocation. There are savings in staff time, as the improved process now takes only a few hours; and savings from printing and posting costs. Niall says that the changes the team introduced shifted their thinking on continuous improvement, which in turn has led to further improvements, not to mention the fun way they ... our Graduation Office has transformed The work didn’t end there. Once the packs spent their team prize - a Red Balloon voucher. their processes as a result of the University’s were posted, the Student Contact Centre would The team participated in a high-ropes adventure Continuous Improvement Incentive Award receive an increase in calls from students who exercise at Woodhill Forest. Says Margaret Allen, Scheme. hadn’t received their pack. This was due to the Manager Scholarships and Graduation: “It was Up until 2014, the Graduation Office student not updating their contact details or the an amazing experience, great team-bonding day prepared and posted approximately 5,000 pack simply getting lost in the mail. Having no and challenged us all in more ways than one.” graduation packs to graduands. The pack way of tracking the missing pack, the Graduation contained the ceremony number, ceremony team would issue another one. booklet and guest tickets. Over the years, the Graduation team had From left to right: Margaret Crannigan Allen (Manager Scholarships and Graduation), Junior Isara Niall Redmond Niall Redmond, Team Leader, Graduation made various attempts to change the method (Team Leader, Graduation), Emily Thyberg, Jade Huang Office, describes the process of assembling of ticket production. Finally, in 2014 they the packs as “like a conveyor belt”, starting collaborated with the Maidment Theatre to with counting the tickets through to sealing the introduce e-tickets, which were successfully envelopes. This was all done on a large table, trialled at the September 2014 Graduation with the envelopes handed down the line for ceremonies. each item to be placed inside. The seven-step By now the desire to make improvements process took a day to complete, with the help of had gained momentum and the work continued. temporary staff. The Graduation team focused next on making the

WHAT’SWHAT’S ON ON CAMPUS CAMPUS

POPULAR MUSIC SHOWCASE US ELECTIONS SCIENCE AND UNCERTAINTY 11 August, 7-9.30pm 12 August, 12.05-12.55pm Robb Lectures, 15, 17, 19 August, from 7.30pm Venue: Level one, Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Venue: Fale Pasifika Venue: Engineering Building 401, Room 439 Shortand Street Publc event, Registration essential Free, all welcome Host: School of Music See www.arts.auckland.ac.nz Science, and its product technology, are deeply This concert is the major student event on the With the entire world waiting for the American woven into every part of our modern lives. How School of Music’s popular music calendar and people to pick their next Commander and can we allow a wider participation in what is will showcase current students performing Chief, the stakes are high. The candidates for arguably the greatest adventure of our species? their original works. President of the United States have presented Professor Stuart Firestein Chair of Columbia The event is supported by MusicWorks, what seems like contrasting visions for US University’s Department of Biological Sciences KOG Studio, Roundhead Studios and BFM. foreign policy. But is US foreign policy really (where his laboratory studies the vertebrate Admission is free. so malleable that one single person can olfactory system) will do his best to explain in a The contact email address for the concert is dramatically change course? Join Ambassador series of three lectures. [email protected] (Ret.) Derek Shearer to discuss the 2016 US For further information see www.auckland. Presidential elections and what is at stake. ac.nz/robb or phone 09 923 6669. www.arts.auckland.ac.nz

MARCH 2014 | UNINEWS 7 RESEARCH WHAT AM I DISCOVERING?

victims of family violence use lethal force against their violent partners, they are backed up in the kitchen – either in the process of being beaten or in an escalating situation of risk. They grab a kitchen knife and inflict one or (at the most) two stab wounds. In many instances this takes place against a history of chronic abuse that spans a significant period of time – in some cases decades. In fact, these are situations where the women are facing an imminent attack but juries do not generally acquit on the basis of self-defence. It is my view that juries do not acquit because they believe that the women are partially to blame for being in the violent relationship Art & Nature to begin with. There is the perception that a University illustrator and graphic artist Vivian Ward’s work features in a group exhibition ABOUT KEEPING VICTIMS OF reasonable woman, when she realises that her partner is violent, separates from him. currently on until 13 August at Solander Art FAMILY VIOLENCE SAFE This, of course, fails to factor into account the Gallery in Wellington. many complexities of peoples lives – including Vivian, who works in Biological Sciences with Associate Professor Julia Tolmie researches the fact that trauma is the normal human researchers producing material for teaching and in criminal law. She was on the Law response to being the victim of violence. publication, is one of four Australasian artists in Commission’s expert panel for the reference I believe that the essence of the problem an exhibition called Green Spaces Art & Nature. that produced the report, Understanding victims of family violence have in claiming “My work has often involved environmental Family Violence: Reforming the Criminal Law self-defence, is that we assume that what we, concerns,” says Vivian. “In various ways Relating to Homicide. Here she looks at the as a society, currently have to offer women in these works [in the exhibition] look at the Law Commission’s proposed changes to self- these situations is effective and will keep them encapsulation of green spaces within coloured defence law and suggests what we need to do safe. We therefore think that it is appropriate and managed micro landscapes and at the to keep victims of family violence safe. to blame victims of family violence for their translation of nature into artefact. If a person was taken hostage and tortured by predicament. Vivian has a Master of Fine Arts from Elam and terrorists and then used a weapon against one of The reality, however, is that we do not have has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. In 1999 the terrorists to escape, most people would have properly designed safety responses for our she spent two and a half weeks in Antarctica at no hesitation in saying that they were acting in most high-risk family violence victims. Victims Scott Base and at Cape Royds as a field artist/ self-defence. can experience that when they reach out for technician with a research group from the We would probably consider that they had help their situation does not become safer University (looking at the physiological effects of acted in self-defence even if they used more and – tragically – in some instances it becomes local pollution on specific Antarctic fish species). force than was strictly necessary because of their infinitely more dangerous. She has also worked as an artist at Leigh’s Marine feelings of terror and panic at the time. The reality is that women are approximately Laboratory drawing sponge and marine algae And while nobody deserves to die a violent three times more likely to be killed by their species for the purposes of identification and death, if the use of a weapon resulted in the partners and that almost 50% of those who publication, as well as drawings describing marine death of the captor we would consider that the are killed, are in the process of leaving or have species and habitats for educational brochures. terrorist had created the dangerous situation and left their partner. In other words, attempting to Above: Terrarium. Below: Vanishing point. Both ink on paper therefore, in part at least, authored their own terminate the relationship escalates the risk of (framed), 200x240mm, each from an edition of 1, 2016. destiny. being a homicide victim. So I struggle to understand some of the What we need are better safety responses reactions to the Law Commission’s suggestion by the family violence system and this is why that the law on self-defence be modified so the New Zealand Family Violence Death Review that an imminent threat is not required in Committee in its most recent report has circumstances where a victim of family violence proposed an integrated family violence safety kills their abuser in self-defence. system. Obviously the defensive force still needs to be Given that a significant proportion of women judged by a jury to be reasonable. The position who kill their male partners are the primary is not, as some have suggested, that the victim victim in that relationship, having a response of family violence becomes the judge and jury to family violence that is effective in keeping themselves in deciding whether they can use victims safe would not only save women’s lives violence against another. – it would also save men’s lives. I believe that the issue for battered women In other words, if we are concerned about in New Zealand is deeper and more difficult to women killing their male partners let’s focus on address than simple law reform. providing them with effective options for safety. In most instances where women who are

8 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF RESEARCH IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN FOCUS

UNINEWS highlights some of the University YOUTH MENTORING SCHEME research milestones that have hit the headlines in the past couple of months. The programme was inspired by the Campus Connections initiative at Colorado BETTER ACCESS NEEDED State University in the United States, one of the Researcher, Dr Corina Grey had wide places was able to visit in 2014 after receiving a coverage of a new study that found that year-long $90,000 Vodafone World of Difference Māori and Pacific New Zealanders are at Fellowship to further her expertise in this area. a greater risk of heart disease than other After seeing how successful it was, Pat and ethnicities and that there is a need for better Kelsey were determined to introduce it here. access for Māori and Pacific Island families to “Youth mentoring, if done well, can be life- healthcare in order to lower death rates from changing,” says Pat. heart disease. Coverage included both major “Campus Connections will provide a wrap- television stations and several radio stations. around service that simultaneously addresses the social, emotional, and educational needs SAFETY FOR INFANTS of vulnerable young people, in a safe, well- AA story in the Weekend Herald on the use supported and welcoming environment.” of wahakura or pepi-pods (a portable flax She says the NZ Youth Mentoring Network has woven bassinet) to prevent Sudden Infant identified a significant service provision gap for Death featured comment from Professor high-risk youth, particularly those involved in Ed Mitchell (Paediatrics), and was followed alternative education and Campus Connections up with news coverage on Radio NZ and an Aotearoa will help to fill this gap. interview on RadioLive. Pat and Kelsey are delighted with the Kelsey Deane (left) and Pat Bullen continued support from the Vodafone NZ TIMELY ANALYSIS Foundation ($220,000), Fletcher Trust ($20,000) Senior Professor Prasanna Gai from the and the $215,000 from Youth Minister Nikki Kaye, Department of Economics says we’re announced on Friday. experiencing the confluence of three factors In a first for New Zealand, at-risk teenagers “We are incredibly grateful to receive this globally: low productivity growth, high excluded from mainstream education are set funding,” says Pat. ”I’m also really humbled debt levels and economic and political to benefit from an innovative youth mentoring because Minister Kaye’s three-year commitment uncertainty. The resultant “protectionist scheme. demonstrates her belief in the value of mentoring discontent” historically follows financial Due to start in July 2017, around 25 young and in the University’s ability to successfully crises. Politicians have underestimated the people enrolled in alternative education in West develop and deliver the programme.” consequences and the duration of a financial Auckland will receive 48 hours of mentoring She says the money will allow her team to cycle gone wrong and they have not self- over a 12-week period from student mentors, create a comprehensive programme adapted to corrected along the way. counsellors and social workers at the University the New Zealand context. of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social As well as supporting vulnerable young AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS Work in Epsom. people, Campus Connections Aotearoa will Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin Each young person will then be supported to provide opportunities for University of Auckland from Politics and International Relations move into other social services, educational or students studying counselling, social and youth commented on the Australian elections (both employment opportunities. work to experience authentic youth mentoring, before and after the votes were counted) for Called Campus Connections Aotearoa, the case management and transition support. several radio and television shows, including scheme has recently received $455,000 from the Sunday Morning with Wallace Chapman and Ministry for Social Development, the Vodafone the Paul Henry Show. After the close result New Zealand Foundation and the Fletcher Trust. was announced she spoke on Turnbull’s one- It will be led by Drs Pat Bullen and Kelsey seat majority; the impact of Tony Abbott; the Deane, who specialise in youth development and likelihood of a plebiscite on gay marriage; the mentoring in the faculty. fact that Turnbull hadn’t won a mandate to Spread over three years, the funding will govern. allow them to set up a therapeutic programme involving third-year social work students mentoring teenagers who have fallen out of the NAME SUPPRESSION system for a variety of reasons. The scheme Professional Teaching Fellow Dr Bill Hodge uniquely combines intensive one-to-one comments on the number of New Zealanders mentoring with group-based activities and on- receiving name suppression following the site therapy. recent law change increasing the threshold of harm caused by identification from “undue hardship” to “extreme hardship”.

UNINEWS 9 FROM THE COLLECTION ART COLLECTION

Allan McDonald aims to capture a layer of New Zealand’s history that is extremely vulnerable. He passionately documents buildings and interior spaces before they disappear or change beyond recognition. Taking on an archival role, he notes the precise time and place when the picture was taken. McDonald aligns himself with the late nineteenth-century Parisian photographer, Eugène Atget, who recorded street scenes in Paris at a time of significant change in architecture due to the modernisation of the city. Included in the 2010 exhibition Something/Nothing at Anna Miles Gallery (Auckland), Greymouth (second hand shop), captures typical New Zealand. The definitive colouring of the paint divides the space into three disparate parts: sea, land, and clouds. These elements remind the viewer of the space outside of the interior: Aotearoa, The Land Of The Long White Cloud. Native wildlife is represented through the prominent positioning of the crayfish and the Maui dolphin, all of which allude to the natural habitat of New Zealand. The combination of the fishing rods and the landscape painting symbolises the great outdoors, a central aspect of a classic kiwi lifestyle. Waste is worse than loss... The scope of thrift is to make the most of what they had when income In many ways, this scene is reminiscent of a limitless. – Thomas A. Edison was scarce. This ‘make do and mend’ mentality museum display that includes various items from The second hand shop is a classic part of New was integrated into Kiwi culture and thus saw the different time periods, each carrying their individual Zealand rural society. Objects still intact must not rise in popularity of second hand shops. However, stories. The visual chaos forces the viewers eye be wasted and thus must be re-sold, recycled due to the increase of consumerist culture and to dart from object to object, resulting in a quaint and re-loved. This fear of waste intensified during gentrification, the archetypal New Zealand second shambolic quality. The camera has been angled the war effort when families left at home needed hand shop is now under threat. upwards to focus on the way store owners have

WHAT’S COMING OUT ops are democratically structured, community- and Douglas based organiations that use sun, wind, rivers, Lilburn. It tides, and plant and animal waste as sources was a city in of local power generation. The book is the which painters product of ten years of comparative research lived with across Canada, as Julie investigated the idea writers, writers and practice of energy democracy. She focused promoted on cooperative enterprises as a particular musicians, in manifestation of local engagement in the which the arts sector — where communities come together and artists from to produce, transmit, buy and sell renewable different forms EMPOWERING ELECTRICITY power. were deeply intertwined and where artists developed a powerful synthesis of European In Empowering Electricity, Dr Julie MacArthur modernist influences. In this book, Dr Peter of Politics and International Relations tackles BLOOMSBURY SOUTH Simpson (formerly associate professor in the community-driven energy projects in Canada. Department of English, Drama and Writing Canada is known for being an energy- For two decades in Christchurch a cast of Studies) tells the remarkable story of the rise producing nation — with much attention being extraordinary men and women remade the arts. and fall of this Bloomsbury”South” and the arts paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large Variously between 1933 and 1953, Christchurch and artists that made it. carbon footprint. This book looks at a very was the home of Angus and Bensemann and different part of the Canadian energy sector: McCahon, Curnow and Glover and Baxter, the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that the Group, the Caxton Press and the Little have sprung up across the nation. These co- Theatre, Landfall and Tomorrow, Ngaio Marsh

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About the Authors J W Carter is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Sydney and a Consultant at Herbert Smith Freehills. He is the author of several highly regarded works on law of contract in contract law and is the General Editor of the Journal of Contract Law. John Ren is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland and Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

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Women and the academy – why the There are conflicting assumptions and beliefs Leading on from this is the national paucity of data inequality? at play that effectively obfuscate the issue. One collection and reporting on women in the university The under-representation of women in senior assumption relates to the visibility of women in the sector. The Census of Women’s Participation, the most academic leadership positions in the academy is a university student cohort. This feminisation thesis is comprehensive report on women in the workforce global phenomenon. Recent award winning New supported by statistics in New Zealand that report that encompassed the university and higher education Zealand research shows that men graded A and B in women as participating in higher education in sector, released its last report in 2012 because of lack the PBRF are three times more likely to be professor consistently higher numbers compared to men 6. of funding. than women with the same PBRF grade.1 The New Women are also only slightly outnumbered as Only when we have consistent, finely grained, and Zealand university sector, it seems, is no exception to academics in the eight universities, although they easily accessible information on the state of gender this global trend. outnumber men in the higher education sector when equity in our universities with which to compare A cursory exploration of any of the eight New taken as a whole 7. However, this feminisation thesis data over a sustained period of time can we gain a Zealand university websites produces a collection becomes a story of decline as represented in the comprehensive picture of the issue and even begin to of statements that speak to each university’s “scissor graph” (again a global phenomena) where attempt to change the status quo. commitment to diversity, community, excellence, the two lines representing men and women from inclusion and equity. Yet figures from 2016 show that undergraduate to professor cross each other like a pair Dr Kirsten Locke is Senior Lecturer in the School of women comprise only 23 percent of all professors of scissors. Critical Studies of Education, Faculty of Education 2 and Social Work. Her research explores educational from these universities. While the figures show The feminisation thesis informs another commonly issues through philosophical lenses. Kirsten was a an improvement from the 2012 data collected held assumption that it will only be a matter of time 2016 recipient of the Early Career Research through the Census of Women’s Participation3 where before women are equally represented in positions Excellence Awards at the University of Auckland. She is currently leading a comparative research women comprised 19 percent of all professors, the of senior academic leadership. This is the pipeline project that explores gendered career trajectories in incremental rise of roughly one percent per year theory and despite decades of strong participation in Danish and New Zealand universities. signals gender equity in this category will take another higher education by women, this theory still provides 25 years - at least. a compelling, if inaccurate, argument in gender equity References This surface growth is somewhat compromised debates. In fact we need to get to the point, after at 1.A. Brower, and A. Menclova. (in press). “Does the relationship between research performance and academic when comparing figures gathered by the Ministry least 40 years of strong participation, where any “time rank differ by gender in New Zealand universities?” New of Education in 2014 4 that show women comprise lag” thesis associated with the pipeline theory has to Zealand Economic Papers. 28 percent of senior academic positions, defined be viewed as not serving any use in the wider debate. 2. Information about professors and associate professors was gathered from the staff listings provided in the 2016 as professor and associate professor, with figures The question then becomes what would help serve university calendars. The University of Canterbury did not gathered in 2016 showing no improvement 5 . Even the wider debate and while there are many issues, of publish its staff listings and provided them electronically. if the raw numbers have increased, the proportion which the notion of meritocracy linked to promotion This is the same methodology used by the Census of Women’s Participation, 2012. of women in these higher-level university academic and funding success deserves more scrutiny, my 3. https://www.hrc.co.nz/files/2314/2360/5171/ leadership categories has stagnated. research in this area has landed on the related issue web-census.pdf The New Zealand university sector is a relatively of data collection and transparency. Men and women 4. https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/ series/2531 strong higher education sector, with several of the alike seem not to be aware of the gender imbalances 5. Information about professors and associate professors universities and their associated faculties featuring in their own institutions and at the national level. was gathered from the staff listings provided in the 2016 prominently in various global metrics and rankings. My own institution, the University of Auckland, sets university calendars. The University of Canterbury did not publish its staff listings and provided them electronically. Unfortunately, however, it seems the sector has yet to a good example in terms of reporting equity data. 6. https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/indicators/main/ embrace gender equity in its academic worker cohort However, not all universities include gender as a student-engagement-participation/1963 as an important indication of its strength and success reporting category in their equity statistics and most 7. https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/ tertiary-education/resources criteria. do not make these reports easily or widely available.