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Autumn/Winter 2020 Kia ora koutou Contents No.59 Vol.1 Autumn/Winter 2020 Unprecedented, historic, unchartered… also working closely with our residence halls these are some of the adjectives frequently to ensure students who are away from home used to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. are kept safe and engaged. It is a time that requires rapid responses, UC academics remain at the forefront of a great deal of agility, and perseverance. Editor: Breeze Robertson making a difference by providing evidence- At midnight Wednesday 25 March, Aotearoa based information and possible solutions for Publication New Zealand moved to Alert level 4 and a front-line health workers. Our academic Manager: Laura McLeod four-week period of lockdown, except for experts have quickly risen to the challenge Contributors : Aleisha Blake essential services, in order to slow the by sharing their knowledge and expertise on Breeze Robertson spread of the virus. The week preceding the COVID-19-related topics such as providing Corrina Donaldson lockdown was a turbulent time. From open source information on producing face Hannah Seeley Thursday to Monday we were confronted shields for health care workers and advising Margaret Agnew with the closure of all borders to non-New the Government’s Select Committee. Zealanders and non-residents, and Kelly Andrew At this time our priorities are to meet the gatherings were limited to 100 people. Kim Newth immediate challenges of alert Level 4, and Just as we were trying to adjust to this new Lisa Kulczycki then transition smoothly to alert level 3, reality, two days later on Saturday 21 March, then alert level 2, with a return to campus Photos: UC Photographic Services the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern informed 6 10 when it’s safe to do so. However our (unless credited otherwise) us the level of risk was increasing rapidly. ultimate goals remain the same - to deliver By Monday afternoon the risk level was Artwork: Brian Carney top quality education and world class raised to 3, with level 4 to take full effect Email: communications@ research – in a time when the health and from Wednesday midnight. canterbury.ac.nz well-being of our society is seriously Address: Communications, The University of Canterbury (UC), as with threatened. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha most universities around the world right Even in the midst of a global pandemic, UC University of Canterbury, now, has been thrust into a situation where is seeing the best in people. Through our Private Bag 4800, online delivery has become the most wonderful donor and alumni community, Christchurch. feasible way to continue our teaching and the UC Foundation is providing funding for research whilst almost all our staff are hardship grants, and the Student Volunteer UC is online and engaging with our communities. working from home, with only a very small Army has once again swung into action to Stay connected with our virtual campus, we’d love number of those deemed essential services to hear from you! deliver groceries to vulnerable people and going to the campus. From our homes we www.canterbury.ac.nz provide childcare for tamariki of essential are preparing for delivering learning online services staff. Facebook for the second term: rethinking how we Instagram 18 15 conduct assessments, supplying computers It is clear the pandemic will continue to Linkedin to students who need them, launching a impact our daily lives for months to come. Snapchat wellbeing expert series on Facebook, and Initially I wondered how I would work Twitter supporting our staff and students as effectively from home but have been Youtube effectively as possible. pleasantly surprised as I have discovered Email: [email protected] many small joys such as briefly stepping out I’ve been completely heartened by the to enjoy some sunshine before my next responsiveness and creativity of our UC meeting (remotely, of course). I sincerely community. Our academics and all our staff hope that you and your family are safe and have stepped up and have switched to well, navigating the challenges and working remotely. Our academics have opportunities of the lockdown together. shown remarkable innovation in their preparedness to deliver their curricula using Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui e-learning technologies. As a University Be strong, be brave, be steadfast. community we are committed to ensuring Professor Cheryl de la Rey our students are supported through their Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor studies and our student care team are 38 42 delivering online pastoral care. The team is

2 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 3 UC contributes to the fight against COVID-19 The ‘herd immunity’ route to fighting coronavirus is unethical and potentially dangerous From the maths behind the lockdown, By Arindam Basu, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Canterbury. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. to advice on leading staff through the pandemic – UC staff and students are As most of the world tries to suppress the infections from that one case. So to end the the virus to elderly people who are at high providing important research and advice coronavirus spread, some countries are going spread, this number will need to drop below 1. risk of dying from it. it alone - trying to manage the pandemic about COVID-19. The reproduction rate for coronavirus is One expert analysis found that creating herd through so-called “herd immunity”. Below is a snapshot of some of the between 2 and 3. immunity in the UK would require more Herd immunity means letting a large number than 47 million people to be infected. With a incredible work our community has As infection spreads, the pool of susceptible of people catch a disease, and hence develop 2.3% fatality rate and a 19% rate of severe produced that demonstrates how UC is people shrinks as more develop immunity. immunity to it, to stop the virus spreading. disease, this could result in more than a making a difference. Herd immunity aims to lower the number of million people dying and a further eight The Netherlands reportedly plans to use herd susceptible people to the point where the million needing critical care. Prototype face shield immunity to combat the coronavirus epidemic, reproduction rate drops below 1 and the Associate Professor Don Clucas, just as Britain retreats from such plans after spread of infection stops. How to lead through a crisis SVA launches nationwide COVID-19 What should we be doing? Distinguished Professor Geoff Chase and warnings it could lead to 250,000 deaths. Technical Officer David Read from the College of Business and Law academics initiative In the case of measles, 95% of people need to Let’s say Australia and New Zealand relied on College of Engineering, and Don’s medical Associate Professor Bernard Walker and UC’s largest student club, the Student A “herd immunity” strategy has been criticised be immune for infection to cease. For herd immunity. Now let’s assume, student daughter Emma Clucas, designed Adjunct Fellow Tracy Hatton explore five Volunteer Army, launched a national by the World Health Organisation, which said coronavirus, I calculate this figure is around conservatively, that 10% of the population a prototype face shield for health workers principles for leading staff through the volunteer response to support people far greater action is required. Other health 40%, based on a reproduction rate of 2.6. So, were infected – that’s 500,000 New to wear during the COVID-19 outbreak coronavirus crisis. The principles are based impacted by COVID-19 in March. SVA experts say the approach is experimental at if about 60% people are immune to the Zealanders and 2.5 million Australians. Over on research into previous disasters and offer volunteers did this by supporting and have shared the information on open best, and dangerous at worst. infection, this is sufficient herd immunity to a short period, those numbers would access. Stuff covered their stellar work here. guidance to leaders for the weeks ahead. essential services across Aotearoa through stop coronavirus spreading. volunteering: providing childcare for the So can herd immunity protect us from the disastrously overwhelm the nations’ health Emergency law must be clearer The role of nutrition tamariki of healthcare professionals and coronavirus, and are countries wise to adopt it? (There have been a few reports of people systems. In the ‘new normal’ for New Zealanders College of Science psychology lecturers they built a grocery store system for those becoming infected with coronavirus twice, The safest public health strategy is to Associate Professor Gini McIntosh and and many around the world, Professor John aged over 70 (and the families of healthcare First, let’s understand immunity but they haven’t been substantiated in prevent the onset of coronavirus at all costs. Professor Julia Rucklidge, who specialises Hopkins argues in Stuff that emergency laws workers). Read more> Our bodies fight infectious diseases such as peer-reviewed research, so can be discounted This would buy the health system time, in mental health and nutrition and gave a must be clear to avoid conflict, confusion for now.) livestreamed talk as part of the Te Hāpai and abuse of power. Student news: Food tech heroes coronavirus through our immune systems. The “flattening the curve” so hospitals were not Ō | UC Live Speaker Series 2020, providing Professor Hopkins, an expert in Disaster Law, Entrepreneurial UC students feature in Food body produces antibodies in response to An image showing the main elements of inundated with cases all at once. also advised the Select Committee, chaired Tech News with their use of gaming tech intruder organisms to fight and remove them. advice on how to staying on track during a coronavirus. Wikimedia This is why it’s so important to control time of uncertainty and stress. Read more by National Party leader Simon Bridges, on in a proposed ‘non-contact’ online event Once the body has fought off a disease, it movement across our borders, impose here. the unique situation the level 4 lockdown connecting STEM students with careers So is herd immunity a good plan? has brought about. Read more> in food, fibre and agritech. The team were retains a “memory” of the germ, and how to self-isolation, restrict public gatherings, On the face of it, a herd immunity strategy Modelling and mapping winners in the @UCE Event Marketing fight it better and faster next time. trace the contacts of existing cases and Online tour of Bill Sutton portrait might seem wise. But the absence of a isolate those with the virus. Australia and Mathematicians Associate Professor Alex Smackdown. Read more> Once a person has developed immunity to a James and Professor Michael Plank, and UC exhibition coronavirus vaccine means it is very high-risk. New Zealand are both now essentially virus, they probably won’t catch it again. The BSc Hons graduate Nic Steyn, are part of a UC Postgraduate Curator, Maria Brown following these measures. It might also be For more news about our communities' theory behind herd immunity is that once a lot The best way to rapidly develop herd team working on statistical modelling of created a video tour of Bill Sutton’s portraits wise to screen passengers in departure at Wellington Portrait Gallery so they can be response to COVID-19 go to our latest of people develop immunity to a virus, it will immunity is through vaccination. A vaccine the spread of COVID-19 for the government. terminals for signs of the virus, and test enjoyed at home during isolation. news page. eventually stop spreading to people who delivers a small amount of a virus into the Read the Spinoff article here, the Otago where necessary. haven’t yet caught it. body, and the immune system learns how to Daily Times interview with Professor Plank Canterbury graduate returns to help the here, and a detailed summary of the team’s We'd love to hear about any more of fight it off without having to get sick. But we Also critical is educating the public on safe SVA mobilise nationwide our UC community who are making a Herd immunity is more effective if a vaccine is work here do not yet have a vaccine for coronavirus. hygiene and ensuring supply of Until quite recently, UC graduate and Kiwi difference here in Aotearoa or beyond. available. AAP/David Crosling disinfectants, hand sanitisers, safe food, Is herd immunity worth considering? entrepreneur Guy Horrocks was living in Email us at If vaccines are not available and the infection soap, and water, as well as access to services A ‘herd immunity’ approach to fighting New York helping launch a new data [email protected] Number-crunching on herd immunity spreads, some people will develop a mild when needed. Now is also the time to take coronavirus is unethical and can be management company, Solve. But, as Herd immunity is essentially a numbers game. version of the disease and recover. But it is dangerous, Associate Professor of the number of COVID-19 cases in the city dangerous and unethical to rely on this extra care of our elderly. It all rests on the basic reproduction rate - in Epidemiology and Environmental Health climbed, cafes closed and business meetings method to combat the disease. With these measures in place, we give were cancelled, he realised it was time to go. other words, how many new infections each Arindam Basu, wrote for The Conversation. ourselves the best chance of putting the Dr Basu also explained Why New Zealand’s Read more> case will generate. First, the intermediate and longer term coronavirus genie back in the bottle sooner coronavirus cases will keep rising for weeks, consequences of coronavirus are not yet A rate with a value of 1 would mean that one rather than later, and minimising the even in level 4 lockdown. known. And second, while some people are person can pass it on to at least one other not badly affected by the disease, under a number of deaths. person. The higher this number, the more herd immunity strategy they could still pass

4 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 5 Without Paris Accord, emperor penguins are in dire straits: new study

Unless climate change is slowed, emperor build their colonies on ice with extremely The researchers ran the model on three penguins will be marching towards specific conditions – it must be locked in to different scenarios: a future where the extinction, according to a newly published the shoreline of the Antarctic continent, but global temperature increases by only 1.5 study co-authored by a UC scientist. close enough to open seawater to give the degrees Celsius (the goal set by the Paris birds access to food for themselves and climate accord), one where the temperature “Basically, if we don’t hit the Paris Accord their young. As the climate warms, however, increases by 2 degrees Celsius, and one emissions goals, emperor penguins are in that sea ice will gradually disappear, robbing where no action is taken to reduce climate deep trouble,” says co-author UC scientist the birds of their habitat, food sources and change, causing a temperature increase of Dr Michelle LaRue, a lecturer of Antarctic ability to hatch chicks. 5 to 6 degrees Celsius. Marine Science in Te Kura Aronukurangi | School of Earth and Environment. The international research team conducted Under the 1.5 – degree scenario, the study the study by combining two existing found that only 5% of sea ice would be lost Emperor penguins are some of the most computer models. The first, a global climate by 2100, causing a 19% drop in the number striking and charismatic animals on Earth, model created by the National Center for of penguin colonies. If the planet warms by but a new study from the Woods Hole Atmospheric Research (NCAR), offered 2 degrees, however, those numbers increase Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the projections of where and when sea ice dramatically: the loss of sea ice nearly United States has found that climate would form under different climate triples and more than a third of existing change may render them extinct by the end scenarios. The second, a model of the colonies disappear. The ‘business as usual’ of this century. The study, which was part of penguin population itself, calculated how scenario is even more dire, the researchers an international collaboration between colonies might react to changes in that found, ensuring an almost complete loss of scientists, was published in the journal ice habitat. the colonies. Global Change Biology. “We’ve been developing that penguin model “Under that scenario, the penguins will “If global climate keeps warming at the for 10 years,” says Dr Jenouvrier. “It can give effectively be marching towards extinction current rate, we expect emperor penguins in a very detailed account of how sea ice over the next century,” she says. Antarctica to experience an 86% decline by affects the life cycle of emperor penguins, the year 2100,” says Dr Stephanie Jenouvrier, Also collaborating on the paper were David their reproduction and their mortality. When a seabird ecologist at WHOI and lead author Iles, Sara Labrousse and Rubao Ji of WHOI; we feed the results of the NCAR climate on the paper. “At that point, it is very Hal Caswell of WHOI, the University of model into it, we can start to see how unlikely for them to bounce back.” Amsterdam and the Max Planck Institute for different global temperature targets may Demographic Research; Laura Landrum and The fate of the penguins is largely tied to affect the emperor penguin population as a Marika Holland of NCAR; Jimmy Garnier of the fate of sea ice, which the animals use as whole.” the Université Savoie Mont Blanc; and a home base for breeding and moulting, the Cristophe Barbraud and Henri Weimerskirch researchers note. Emperor penguins tend to of the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé. “If we don’t hit the Paris Accord emissions goals, emperor penguins are in deep trouble,” UC Lecturer of Antarctic Marine Science, Dr Michelle LaRue.

6 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 7 2019 Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden awards $6.54m to UC researchers

Twelve UC-led research projects have been green-lit by the 2019 Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden to the total of $6.54 million in diverse fields of research. The research covers four of UC’s five colleges, and includes research in engineering, management, computer science and software engineering, linguistics, political science and te reo Māori as well as physical, chemical and biological sciences.

Te Rāngai Pūtaiao Te Rāngai Pūkaha Te Rāngai Toi Tangata College of Science College of Engineering College of Arts • Exposing the intricate interactions of • Understanding the human experience • Awakening the proto-lexicon ($660,000), membrane-bound bacterial machinery of intelligent user interfaces ($530,000), Professor Jeanette King, Te Kāhui Roro Reo ($300,000), Dr Tim Allison, Physical & Professor Andrew Cockburn, Computer | New Zealand Institute of Language, Chemical Sciences Science & Software Engineering Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) and Aotahi • Could airborne microplastics play a role • Engineering defect-free metal organic School of Māori and Indigenous Studies in climate change? ($300,000), Dr Laura framework membranes in tubular ceramic (see page 19) supports ($300,000), Dr Matthew Cowan, Revell, Physical & Chemical Sciences • Issue mapping and analysing the lethal Chemical & Process Engineering • Unravelling molecular details of protein autonomous weapons debate ($842,000), interactions that drive Alzheimer’s disease Dr Jeremy Moses and Associate Professor ($300,000), Dr Vanessa Morris, Biological Te Rāngai Umanga Amy Fletcher, Language, Social & Political Sciences me te Ture | College of Science (see page 14) • Understanding bacterial membrane • Tracking the emergence of presemantic transport proteins: setting an antimicrobial Business and Law lexical knowledge ($858,000), Professor TRAP ($890,000), Professor Ren Dobson, • It looks grim: The future of Māori academics Jen Hay, Te Kāhui Roro Reo | NZILBB and Biomolecular Interaction Centre and in New Zealand universities ($300,000), Language, Social & Political Science Biological Sciences Dr Tyron Love, Management, Marketing • Molecular wiring of graphene with organic and Entrepreneurship films: optically transparent charge selective electrode materials for efficient solar energy conversion ($960,000), Dr Paula Brooksby, Chemistry (see page 35) • Does sexual selection drive the evolution of sex-biased gene expression? ($300,000), Dr Sarah Flanagan, Biological Sciences

Dr Tyron Love will investigate the future of Māori academics in Aotearoa New Zealand universities thanks to a Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden.

8 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 9 Brainwave activity that reveals knowledge of crime

An innovative research project that detects The project, funded by the New Zealand Law Professor Palmer hopes the technology could brain activity revealing individuals’ Foundation, involved two extensive be applied to criminal proceedings, knowledge of criminal behaviour is experiments in which 30 student volunteers especially pre-trial investigations as a way of delivering positive results for a UC-led and 15 sentenced prisoners were tested on eliminating people as possible suspects. research team. scenarios that took place on UC’s campus. “The proposed next stage of the project is to The project team, led by UC Director of apply the technology to criminal cases, and Clinical Legal Studies Professor Robin Palmer, to compare the Farwell FBA system to rival has been working for the past three years to Professor Palmer hopes FBA systems currently in use such as the attempt to validate Forensic Brainwave the technology could Rosenfeld Concealed Information Test and Analysis (FBA) technology. This technology the Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature uses an EEG (electroencephalogram) to be applied to criminal system.” detect brainwaves that indicate whether or proceedings, especially In 2020, with support from Ngā Pirihimana o not a person has specific knowledge pre-trial investigations Aotearoa | New Zealand Police, the project contained in their brain. The knowledge may team hopes to implement a pilot suggest that the tested person was involved as a way of eliminating programme and test actual suspects. in criminal behaviour. people as possible The research team is made up of UC’s “Our initial expectations of the accuracy and suspects. Professor Robin Palmer, Professor Richard reliability of the technology have been Jones, Associate Professor Debra Wilson, confirmed, and we are confident about Dr Ewald Neumann and research assistants positively proceeding to the next stage of This FBA technology (also known as Alex Pallett, George Mander, Sarah Makarious the project,” Professor Palmer says. ‘brain-fingerprinting’) was pioneered by and Usman Afzali; along with colleagues FBA works to uncover the knowledge a Dr Lawrence Farwell of the United States, Associate Professor Colin Gavaghan and person has by measuring certain brainwave and the aim of the three-year project was to Dr Jeanne Snelling from Te Whare Wānanga o responses during testing. independently confirm his reported results. Otāgo | Otago University; Professor Kris Dr Farwell travelled to Aotearoa New Zealand Gledhill from Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki The testing technique detects and interprets a number of times to have discussions, Makau Rau | Auckland University of the behaviour of the electrical brainwave implement experiments and train testers on Technology; and Professor Chris Gallavin known as P300. The P300 brainwave is the correct use of his system. However, the from Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa | Massey produced as soon as the brain detects final sequence of experiments was done University. information that is of significant interest, for independently of Dr Farwell, while applying example, in a criminal investigation where his prescribed testing protocols. there is unique information and detail only the offender or someone heavily compromised would know.

Professor Robin Palmer is positive about proceeding to the next stage of testing FBA technology and hopes to work with Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa | New Zealand Police to test it on actual subjects

10 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 11 How to engineer a zero-carbon future

UC Mechanical Engineering Professor Susan Krumdieck, a pioneer in the emerging field of transition engineering, has written the world’s first book on engineering the carbon downshift, in which she tackles the huge issues of climate change and world decline in oil supply. Most of us worry about climate change and realise urgent action is needed, but what inspires someone to take on the job of figuring out how to save the planet? “When my son was a boy, he was getting really worried about climate change. He wanted to know that sustainable energy – my research area at the time – would be the solution,” Professor Krumdieck says. Professor Susan Krumdieck wrote the world’s first book on engineering the carbon downshift. “I remember the conversation 15 years ago when I had to come clean with my son. I had Transition Engineering, like all other engineering “The only way to transition energy systems to tell him that even if all the solar and wind fields, has science-based fundamentals and into the low-carbon systems of the future is These UC Biomedical Engineering student interns and technical supervisors spent 10 weeks repairing hospital equipment in Tonga. and other sustainability work was successful, methodologies for achieving the deliverables. In for professional engineers in every field to do it wouldn’t change the unsustainable use of this case, the job of transition engineering. fossil fuels. Students engineer medical solutions in Tonga the deliverables are innovations in how to Policymakers, economists and the general “When your child, with total faith in you, says, change a particular system to downshift public have a vital role – demand a rapid ‘Well Mum, you have to figure out what will carbon. transition.” work,’ then you have to challenge your Over 10 weeks, seven UC students repaired “We repaired hospital equipment in Tonga “Fifty years from now, fossil fuels will not be The book’s content has been taught in assumptions.” life-saving medical equipment and for 10 weeks while also developing the Background part of the consumer lifestyle. That transition universities in Europe and Aotearoa New engineering biomedical solutions in Tongan framework for a training programme for Her new book, Transition Engineering: Building starts now, with thousands of different shift Zealand. It has also been used in Hundreds of developing countries hospitals this past summer. local people to continue the repair and a Sustainable Future, examines new strategies projects, every one involving re-engineering and professional development courses. maintenance work.” depend on donated hospital equipment emerging in response to the mega-issues of re-developing by the Re-Generation, using Transition engineering projects have been Sponsored by Callaghan Innovation summer to provide lifesaving care. This global climate change, decline in much more resourcefulness than resources.” carried out in transportation, housing, research grants, the UC Biomedical Dr Munro was the supervisor for the first five equipment, mostly used or near its conventional oil supply, scarcity of key commercial buildings, products, airlines, Engineering students departed for Tonga in weeks. UC Electronics Technician Julian Over the past two decades transition expiration date, in various states of industrial minerals, and local environmental agriculture and energy use. late November 2019 after training on campus Phillips, who received a staff development engineering has been developed through repair comes from different constraints. The book is unique in that it does at UC in Ōtautahi Christchurch to repair award to attend, took over supervision for research and collaborations across a range of Professor Krumdieck has taught energy manufacturers. not offer solutions, but rather sets out the medical devices. the second half of the internship in January. disciplines around the world. Professor engineering at UC for 17 years. Her research methodology for discovering innovative Often, the recipient country does not Krumdieck says her new book teaches the focuses on developing engineering methods changes in unsustainable systems. UC Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering The seven UC Biomedical Engineering have the resources to maintain the Transition Engineering methodology in a way and innovative technologies that reduce Dr Debbie Munro leads the initiative. student interns are: equipment, operate it in a controlled “All of our unsustainable energy and material that engineers can begin applying it in their fossil fuel production and consumption. She “I was super excited to partner with • Josie Dixon environment or repair it. Because they use is possible through successful work. is an expert in developing new ideas for received it as a donation, they also engineering, therefore achieving transition achieving decarbonisation in transportation Callaghan Innovation, Fisher & Paykel • Amy Fellowes “Transition engineering is a methodology for cannot get technical assistance from will require evolution in engineering,” systems and urban regeneration. Professor Healthcare, and Take My Hands to send these • Rhys Fitzgerald working on complex social and economic students to Tonga for a global work the manufacturer. Professor Krumdieck says. Krumdieck is also the co-founder and a • Manu Prosser problems, but there are usually engineered experience where they could apply their The equipment can only be used until it trustee of the Global Association for “We can’t predict the future, but we know systems at the heart of the issues. Transition biomedical engineering skills towards • Sam Tullett (student supervisor) breaks down. Transition Engineering (GATE), she serves on this century will be different from the last. engineers work with communities and improving healthcare in developing • Callum Wilkie the editorial board for six journals, including Engineering World Health and other More than 90% of current energy supply is organisations to re-develop for the next countries,” Dr Munro says. Energies, Energy Conservation & Management, • Frederick Wright. philanthropic organisations have long fossil hydrocarbons. Massive transformational century,” she says. Social Business and Biophysical Economics, been sending students to developing change of everything is the realistic and she has edited special issues of Energy countries to repair hospital equipment. mitigation of catastrophic climate crash.” Policy, Energies, and Sustainability.

12 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 13 UC researchers study UC sociologist leads global How to ‘lead with’ in a fast-changing world ‘killer robots’ debate discussion on rise of digital hate How does today’s education system prepare young people for a world that is rapidly changing in ways we may not yet fully comprehend? From COVID-19’s community implications to climate change to technology-driven disruption to work, modern challenges have global and local consequences, and solving them requires collaboration and new models of leadership.

UC Associate Professor Amy Fletcher UC Associate Professor Mike Grimshaw The diverse team assembled to teach the new Bachelor of Youth and Community Leadership A revolution in warfighting sees the rise of algorithmic warfare UC Associate Professor Mike Grimshaw is editing a collection (BYCL) degree programme at the University of using ‘killer robots’ and precision targeting technology. of international research that seeks a deeper understanding Canterbury (UC) is determined to empower Internationally, the controversial use of lethal autonomous of digital hate. young people in innovative ways, combining weapons (LAWS) is being argued at the highest academic, authentic leadership, global awareness and “It is vital we have this in-depth analysis because this is about more intergovernmental and corporate levels, but so far there has been bi-cultural competency with knowledge of how than March 15, more than Brevik, more than El Paso: something is no systematic attempt to map the debate. issues and communities intersect. happening with our use of the internet that is facilitating these Three of the new Bachelor of Youth and Community Leadership team (from left) Dr Hilary Dutton, A new UC study, which received $842,000 from the 2019 Marsden violent actions and we need to critically investigate what is going “The BYCL aims to respond to what’s Dr Mahdis Azarmandi and Dr Christoph Teschers. Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, aims to map and analyse this on,” he says. happening in the world right now by equipping fast-evolving debate. Its findings could help the development of students with an education that, while useful “I focus on social justice issues. A lot of my includes global awareness, bicultural Called ‘Digital Hate and (Anti-)Social Media’, the research forum was effective and ethical regulation of these sophisticated weapons. for the changing world of work, will prepare work is on intersectionality – what are the competence and community engagement, launched by Associate Professor Grimshaw in the wake of the 15 them for the broader challenges facing them barriers in society that keep people from alongside academic achievement and Three UC political scientists, Associate Professor Amy Fletcher and March attack on Ōtautahi Christchurch mosques and the now and in the future,” BYCL lecturer Dr thriving or gaining access to justice or employability. Senior Lecturer Dr Jeremy Moses from the Political Science and Christchurch Call. Researchers from around the world are resources? How do different markers of Bernadette Farrell says. Dr Teschers makes the distinction between International Relations department and Postdoctoral Fellow contributing papers to the collection, which will be published by identity, such as class, gender, race and ability, business leaders, and youth and community Dr Geoff Ford with Te Pokapū Aronui ā-Matihiko | UC Arts Digital Palgrave Communications, an open-access online journal of “Young people are increasingly finding their impact that? We need to be aware of those leaders. Lab, will delve into this issue over three years from 2020. high-quality original research. voice as it becomes ever more apparent that structural issues to create healthy, thriving their future will be directly affected by Around 12 countries are known to be developing LAWS, including the “When the attack happened here, I was contacted by researchers in communities and people.” “In the corporate environment, leaders are decisions and actions taken today. There are often seen as being at the helm – people United States, China, Russia and Israel. Norway who were seeing connections between March 15 and Andreas Students will choose the issues they feel numerous examples of youth leaders acting in appointed to a position, whereas in the BYCL Brevik’s 2011 attacks in Norway and the rise of alt-right hate,” he says. passionate about, be they local, global, “Proponents argue that autonomous weapons could decrease the world right now, from Greta Thunberg and we are focusing on what it means to lead environmental, humanitarian or social justice, civilian casualties through enhanced targeting precision and reduce Two months later, Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister the Rt Hon Malala Yousafzai on the global stage to local within a community, which often means to she says. the risks for human soldiers,” Associate Professor Fletcher says. Jacinda Ardern and President of France Emmanuel Macron launched activists and social entrepreneurs responding lead from behind, to lead from within, and to the Christchurch Call aimed at eliminating terrorist and violent “Opponents fear a world of ‘algorithmic warfare’ in which robots to issues within their community, including Young people themselves provided the draw people along, instead of making sure extremist content online. can make decisions to kill in the absence of human oversight and in students right here within the UC community.” inspiration for the new BYCL degree. they follow.” which the speed and complexity of war accelerates to the point that “Will it be effective? What is the scale and scope of alt-right and As the first students start the new degree “The Student Volunteer Army (SVA) was a While new and unique, the BYCL degree is in international rules of conduct are rendered irrelevant.” hate-speech content online and is it possible to regulate it in a qualification through UC’s School of grassroots reaction by hundreds of students some ways a return to familiar values. transnational way? These are some of the questions this series will Educational Studies and Leadership, they are who mobilised across Christchurch to help Dr Moses adds: “Virtually all nation-states, including New Zealand, “There’s a long tradition in education that explore,” Associate Professor Grimshaw says. also studying subjects from across the out after the earthquakes,” programme leader must now grapple with the implications of algorithmic warfare and advocates the university as a space for university. Core BYCL subjects will take them Dr Christoph Teschers says. the ethics and lethality of autonomous weapons.” “Other questions under interrogation will be: Is social media exploring, for resistance, for coming together increasingly anti-social in its content and effects? How does through self-awareness as leaders, to leading This project will apply innovative text-mining tools, some developed “UC then created the CHCH 101 course, which in dialogue – where students can learn hate-speech circulate and why do social media platforms host it? with others, to leading for change where they by Dr Ford, to analyse the debate with the goal of producing is open to all UC students and awards them democratic dispositions such as listening, And what can or should be done about content on platforms such will plan and lead a community project. comprehensive, insightful data to better inform regulators and academic credits for community engagement tolerance, questioning, critical thinking, as, for instance, 4chan, 8chan and the dark net?” decision-makers. “There’s a lot of questioning, looking at projects, recognising the important personal self-reflection and debate,” Dr Farrell says. Contributors include researchers from Aotearoa New Zealand, yourself and what makes you a good leader on development that takes place through service This is one of 12 UC-led research projects supported by the 2019 “The BYCL is a degree that embraces all these Norway and Australia. a personal level, and then how that translates learning.” Marsden Fund. A total of $6.54 million was awarded across four of when you go out into the world and interact characteristics that are so vital in the world UC’s five colleges. with different communities,” BYCL lecturer UC also added community engagement to the right now.” Dr Mahdis Azarmandi says. graduate profile – a set of attributes all UC students should graduate with, which 14 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 15 Professor Emerita Paula Jameson awarded Marsden Medal

UC scientist Professor Emerita Paula Jameson was awarded the 2019 Marsden Medal by the New Zealand Association of Scientists. The Marsden Medal is awarded for a lifetime of outstanding service to science. Plant biologist and former Tumuaki Kura |Head of Te Kura Pūtaiao Koiora | School of Biological Sciences, Professor Jameson received the recognition from her peers for her work on plant cytokinins, among other research, over her extraordinary scientific career. An alumna with both her BSc (Hons) and doctorate from UC, she has long been noted for her research expertise in physiological and molecular plant biology, her extensive list of publications, her support supervising postgraduate students, and her services to the scientific community.

Her work as a leading plant scientist has been notable in Professor Anne-Marie Brady is a specialist of Chinese politics (domestic politics and foreign policy), polar politics, Pacific politics, and Aotearoa New Zealand foreign policy. combining internationally recognised research on the regulation of plant growth with an interest in Aotearoa New Zealand’s indigenous flora. Professor Jameson served as Chair of the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour Royal Society Te Apārangi elects first panel, was on the ministerial appointed Independent Biotechnology Council and was the Principal Moderator for the Performance-Based Research Fund 2018. female political scientist In 2004, Professor Jameson was appointed UC’s inaugural Head of the School of Biological Sciences (SBS). Through her direct leadership and mentorship of early career academics, SBS is now The first female professor of political “I am truly honoured to be joining the ranks As the author of 10 books and more than 50 has one of the country’s most highly ranked groups of biologists. science at UC has been elected a Fellow of of the Fellows of the Royal Society of New scholarly papers detailing China’s foreign Meanwhile she maintained a highly productive research the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Professor Zealand, especially because I am the first and domestic politics, Antarctic and Arctic programme and involvement in the community, especially on Anne-Marie Brady is the first female female political scientist to be accepted as a politics, Pacific politics and Aotearoa New issues relating to genetic technologies. political scientist, and one of only a few Fellow,” Professor Brady says. “It amazes me Zealand foreign policy, Professor Brady is a political scientists, to have received the that after more than 100 years of the prolific researcher and communicator. She honour. feminist movement in Aotearoa New also won the 2019 Women of Influence – Zealand, there are still glass ceilings to be Global category award. She is one of 19 Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi broken. I hope my achievements can inspire Fellows and Ngā Ahurei Honore a Te others to take an interest in politics and in Apārangi Honorary Fellows elected to the the wellbeing of our society. A strong Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi democracy relies on an active, engaged and for distinction in research and advancement inclusive citizenry.” of science, technology or the humanities in 2019.

UC Professor Emerita Paula Jameson was awarded the 2019 Marsden Medal by the New Zealand Association of Scientists.

16 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 17 UC-led research wins grant for study on te reo Māori adult language acquisition

Aotearoa New Zealand adults who don’t speak te reo Māori nevertheless grow up hearing and seeing Māori words throughout their lives. With the support of a $660,000 grant from the 2019 Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau, a UC-led research team will explore whether adult language acquisition can be facilitated by awakening this latently acquired knowledge . Without being aware of it, New Zealanders who can’t speak Māori build up a surprisingly sophisticated knowledge of the word forms of te reo. This type of knowledge, acquired before word meanings Dr Masayoshi Ogino, of UC’s Global, Cultural and Language Studies, received a 2019 Ako Aotearoa award for teaching excellence. are fully understood, is called a proto-lexicon. Professor Jeanette King of UC’s Aotahi School of Māori and Indigenous Studies and Te Kāhui Roro Reo | New Zealand Institute Award-winning sensei connects of Language, Brain & Behaviour (NZILBB) is leading a research project called ‘Awakening the proto-lexicon’ which recently won a three-year grant from the 2019 Marsden Fund Te Pūtea Rangahau. Japanese students globally Other researchers on this project include UC Professor Jennifer Hay, Director of NZILBB and Dr Peter Keegan from Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau | University of Auckland. Japanese language students at UC chat to “My passion is to help my students explore Japanese visitors from a local English school Interestingly, the proto-lexicon plays an important role in early life students in Thailand, Korea and Japan in new ways of thinking about a world of and groups of English language learners when infants are learning how to speak and understand language, online forums and mentor younger diverse peoples and cultures – my mission is from Japan. Professor King says. This latest research will explore whether adults students as part of ground-breaking to transform their lives and I do this by The innovations are effective. On a global can activate their proto-lexicon in a similar way. initiatives that develop better proficiency teaching them Japanese,” he says. “I firmly scale, a UC student placed third in an and create enduring communities of believe that learning an additional language “This study will investigate whether adult New Zealanders can International Japanese Essay Contest in 2019, learners. has the power to broaden their horizons, activate their proto-lexicon of Māori when they learn te reo and add out of 6,793 essays from 62 countries. Within enrich their world and their professional meanings to these word forms more quickly and accurately than Teaching Japanese means creating New Zealand too, in the Tertiary National career.” learners who don’t have a Māori proto-lexicon,” she says. communities both locally and globally for Japanese Language Speech Contest, UC ‘sensei’ Dr Masayoshi Ogino, of UC Global, Dr Ogino became known internationally for students placed 2nd in 2018, 1st and 2nd in As well as conducting an experimental study, the researchers will Cultural and Language Studies, who pioneering online World Café Forums for 2017, and 1st in 2015. follow real-life learners. received a 2019 Ako Aotearoa award for Japanese Language Educators, which in 2018 “Connections created through language and “In harnessing the relatively unique situation of the Māori teaching excellence. attracted 60 educators from 15 countries. culture can engender empathy, compassion language in New Zealand, this project has implications both for The initiative inspired and connected Since joining UC in 2011 Dr Ogino has and a better understanding of oneself and second language learning internationally and the increasing role of Japanese language teachers in Aotearoa with created a multi-layered learning others,” Dr Ogino says. “It has been my the Māori language in New Zealand’s identity.” a global community. environment that draws on traditional pleasure to play my part in deepening Professor King has published widely in areas relating to the Māori Māori support systems, where more Dr Ogino’s students also post messages and people’s mutual understanding and respect language and is a member of the Māori and New Zealand English Professor Jeanette King of UC’s Aotahi School of experienced tuākana guide less experienced videos to Facebook groups, creating a for other cultures through teaching Japanese Māori and Indigenous Studies and Te Kāhui Roro (MAONZE) project examining change over time in the tēina, and that connects students parallel online experience that strengthens at UC.” Reo | New Zealand Institute of Language, pronunciation of te reo Māori. internationally through technology. classroom learning. His classes host Brain & Behaviour (NZILBB).

18 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 19 Students’ tech startup Sports student aims for turns voicemails to text Olympics

Vxt CEO Luke Campbell and Vxt Chief Technology Officer Lucy Turner. Hours of training have prepared UC Sports Science student Lorcan Fivet for top-level judo competitions and helped him develop as an individual as well. UC student inventors and co-founders of tech startup Vxt, Luke Campbell and Lucy Turner, have commercialised an Taking up judo five years ago changed the course of Lorcan Fivet’s innovative app that converts voicemails to text. life. He has the Olympics to work towards, he has changed his studies to a sports-related qualification and he has gained more The original idea was to build a simple app that converted speech to personal confidence. text. Through their participation in Te Pokapū Rakahinonga | UC Centre of Entrepreneurship Summer Startup Programme, a startup Lorcan trains twice a day, balancing his passion for judo with accelerator in Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School, Lucy and Luke studying for his UC Bachelor of Sport Coaching (majoring in Sports developed a more ambitious vision. They’re building a smart Science) and a job at Te Ratonga Hākinakina | UC Rec Centre. assistant that converts voicemail to text, automates meeting Training has paid off, with national titles in the junior men’s scheduling and prioritises meetings. Award-winning glaciologist Dr Heather Purdie receives an Ako Aotearoa Award from Minister of Education, Hon Chris Hipkins. category in 2017 and 2018, a world ranking of 13th and a first senior Vxt CEO Luke, studying a Bachelor of Science, says the tool is men’s national title in 2019. particularly helpful for the hearing impaired and small business He headed to Brazil in January for intensive training for three owners looking for a tool to work more efficiently. months, then he plans to compete in Argentina, Peru and Chile as Glaciologist wins national tertiary part of his goal to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Lorcan also has his sights set on the 2024 Olympics, which means teaching award They’re building a smart assistant full-time training for the next four years. “I want to take it as far as which converts voicemail to text, possible.” He has been passionate about judo since he first tried it five years Connecting students to the environment is From UC’s Te Kura Aronukurangi | School of Her Ako Aotearoa Award citation also noted automates meeting scheduling ago. “I tried it and loved it. After the first year I was competing and as important as their education in the Earth and Environment, Dr Purdie is known her commitment to integrating te reo Māori and prioritises meetings. training 12 times a week. I went through the grades to black belt.” classroom, according to award-winning for her dynamic, engaging and student- and te ao Māori in her teaching practice, glaciologist Dr Heather Purdie, who centred teaching. Her teaching style ranges using pūrākau or storytelling to bring the Judo also influenced Lorcan’s study choices. “I studied speech and language pathology in 2018 but soon realised I want to do received Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary from experiential learning, including field outside in. “We knew that there are people, like tradespeople, who receive more teaching excellence honours at the 2019 trips to local ski fields, to reimagining the something I can mix with my judo. I’ve particularly taken a liking to Winning the national award means more than 30 voicemails a week, and that it can take hours to listen to Ako Aotearoa Awards. field in the classroom. the psychological aspect of sports so I would like to become a than mere accolades. “Tertiary education is a them, take notes and respond, and wanted to offer them a more sports psychologist or similar. Dr Purdie’s passion for education and her “My research expertise is in the field of significant investment, and you want to efficient solution,” Luke says. “I want to do something that can bring me as an athlete to outstanding career saw her receive the Ako glaciology, specifically glacier mass balance, ensure that what our students get out of Vxt’s Chief Technology Officer Lucy, studying a Bachelor of Aotearoa Award at a ceremony in Parliament dynamics, and climate change, with a focus their courses will best benefit them in the understand my barriers, whether they be physical or mental. I like Engineering with Honours, says, “At the start… we had thought of a the thought of helping others, and by being an athlete who studies from Minister of Education, Hon Chris on mountain glaciers in Te Tiritiri-o-te- long term,” she says. name and really basic concept, but we didn’t know whether it was Hipkins. moana New Zealand Southern Alps,” she sports psychology I hope to get a first-hand understanding of what The Ako Aotearoa Awards recognise up to 10 technically possible to do what we wanted to in Aotearoa New says. “My teaching focuses on fostering the other athletes must go through so I can help others in the same “I feel really honoured, and quite humbled, educators annually for their sustained Zealand!” students’ connection to their environment, position as me.” to be part of a core group of people who are excellence in tertiary teaching and learning. creating interactive activities that help Lucy and Luke also received a $4,000 New Zealand Business passionate about quality teaching and This award follows Dr Purdie’s success in students understand how natural systems Intelligence grant towards further development of Vxt, and learning,” she says. UC’s 2018 Ngā Tohu Ako | Teaching Awards, work while stimulating their curiosity and competed in the 2019 Entre $85k Challenge where they were named which recognise teaching excellence in both drive to learn more.” first-equal winners and won ‘Best Pitch’ for their final presentation. undergraduate and graduate programmes.

20 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 21 After a nine-year absence, hundreds of UC graduands returned to the streets of Ōtautahi Christchurch last December, participating in the University’s first graduation parade in the city centre since 2019 UC graduands before the 2011 earthquakes. The parades started at Te Matatiki Toi Ora | Arts Centre – the original town site of the University and current home to UC Arts’ Te Kura hit the streets Puoro | School of Music and Classics department – and arrived at the Christchurch Town Hall before the ceremonies began. Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey welcomed the return of the tradition, saying graduation ceremonies are an important occasion for students and the street processions add to their visibility for local residents. “Parading through the central city is a great opportunity for our graduands to share the pride they feel with the local community, and for people to recognise the years of hard work they’ve put into earning their qualifications,” she says. “We’re very proud of the high calibre of our UC graduates and this is a chance for them to celebrate together with their family and friends, and to look ahead to the next exciting steps in their future.” More than 1,900 UC students graduated that week, with 1,626 graduating in person at the Christchurch Town Hall, watched by friends and family as they receive their UC degrees, diplomas and certificates.

Congratulations to all students who successfully completed their studies and graduated in absentia in April. We are proud of our graduates who are engaged, empowered and are making a difference in a changing world! Some 70 graduands and their families got creative and celebrated together online, TVNZ reported.

22 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 23 UC Engineering excels in Marketing for a stronger MBIE Endeavour Funding community

Three Te Rāngai Pūkaha | UC Engineering academics have been awarded Hīkina Whakatutuki | Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) 2019 Endeavour Funding totalling $11.8 million to lead research in areas of renewable energy and advanced manufacturing. Professors Conan Fee, Shusheng Pang and Mathieu Sellier all received funding in the latest funding round announced by Hon Dr Megan Woods, Minister of Research, Science and Innovation. This research can and will impact society as we look for more efficient solutions to modern challenges, Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey says. Director of UC’s Biomolecular Interaction Centre, Dr Volker Nock. “Funding of Professor Pang’s research into smart and renewable Local marketing professionals in discussion. energy highlights the importance of this area for Government, an ambition that also aligns with UC’s commitment to local and Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School and the Marketing Researcher awarded $800,000 regional development,” she says. Association teamed up for a new initiative that aims to provide “The innovation behind Professor Sellier’s spin-coating research and collaborative pro bono advice to charities. Professor Fee’s research into using 3D printing technologies to The first Marketing for Good event was held on 1 November 2019, fellowship to save kauri from attack advance manufacturing processes will challenge the status quo of bringing marketing professionals together in a half-day workshop industries and create new possibilities for product developers”. to provide guidance to local charity Aviva, a provider of support and • Professor Conan Fee, Te Kura Hanga Otinga | School of Product education services for families affected by abuse. UC engineer Dr Volker Nock received the “My work is very much at the interface Dr Nock will receive $800,000 over five years Design, Te Rāngai Pūkaha | UC Engineering – 3D-printed porous The session was facilitated by Professor Ekant Veer from Te Kura 2019 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from between engineering and biology,” he says. for his research titled: Electrotaxis and media for process engineering ($9,812,550 funded over five years) Umanga | UC Business School’s Management, Marketing and the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2019 to “This fellowship will give me the unique protrusive force generation in fungal and • Using advances in 3D-print technologies, the research programme Entrepreneurship department. An expert in social marketing, he accelerate research into saving native trees opportunity to study the fundamental oomycete pathogens – pathways to new will develop ways to create structures of complex solid and fluid says he became an academic to research and teach in an area that from fungal pathogens. mechanisms underlying fungal and biocontrol strategies. channel geometric design to deliver heat and mass exchange more could make a difference. oomycete diseases in ways not previously efficiently. Using a lab-on-a-chip approach, Dr Nock will possible. “It’s a huge privilege to partner with the Marketing Association and receive funding for the next five years to • Professor Shusheng Pang, Chemical and Process Engineering – Rutherford Discovery Integrated chemical looping and oxygen uncoupling with advanced to convene a team of excellent people in the community to work better understand how plant diseases such “Hopefully this work will lead to new, less biomass gasification, for renewable hydrogen production and together to support a local charity that does so much good,” says as kauri dieback and myrtle rust (which damaging ways to protect plants, such as Fellowships carbon dioxide capture ($999,999 funded over three years) Professor Veer. “We were able to put our combined knowledge, threatens pōhutukawa, rātā and mānuka) the iconic kauri tree, while reducing the The Rutherford Discovery Fellowships • Developing a new process and materials to produce bio-hydrogen talents, experiences and passions together to support Aviva. It’s a target and invade their hosts. impact of treatments on beneficial micro- receive $8 million per annum of and capture carbon dioxide by using Aotearoa New Zealand wood dream to facilitate such a discussion and help to find actionable organisms. After all, fungi and oomycetes Director of UC’s Biomolecular Interaction government funding and award biomass resources from log harvesting and wood processing. solutions to help the charity going forward.” normally play crucial roles in ecosystems Centre, Dr Nock says he is delighted to be $800,000 over five years to each and our world would look very different • Professor Mathieu Sellier, Mechanical Engineering – Development Aviva has been providing support to the Ōtautahi Christchurch recognised as a rising Aotearoa New Zealand research fellow. There are at least 50 of a multi-axis spin-coating system to coat curved surfaces without them.” community since 1973, as the Christchurch Women’s Refuge, researcher with the awarding of the Rutherford Discovery Fellows supported ($1,000,000 funded over three years) changing its name and model in 2013 to include support services for Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. at any one time. By developing a system with the capability to spin-coat curved all affected by abuse. The goal is to expand its reach and to extend surfaces product developers will have more flexibility in the shapes support services for those who need it most in the community. they can produce.

24 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 25 Scholar leads global Internationally eminent ethnicity project ecologist wins medal

Professor Steven Ratuva, co-winner of the 2019 Tohu Pākai Rangahau | UC Research Professor Jason Tylianakis won the 2019 Tohu Pākai Rangahau | UC Research Medal Medal, led the world’s largest ethnicity project last year. for his work on ecological network responses to global environmental change.

Who we are, who we love, who we hate, what we live for and what UC Ecology Professor Jason Tylianakis has received the 2019 Tohu we would be willing to die for – ethnicity underlies our identity Pākai Rangahau | UC Research Medal, one of the highest awards the and drives many of the conflicts and challenges in our world today, University can bestow. says UC’s Professor Steven Ratuva, co-winner of the 2019 Tohu An internationally eminent ecologist in Te Kura Pūtaiao Koiora | UC Pākai Rangahau | UC Research Medal. Professor Geoff Rodgers (left) designed with Distinguished Professor Geoff Chase (right). Both are leaders in the field of earthquake mitigation devices that are designed to School of Biological Sciences, Professor Tylianakis has established a absorb energy in a big earthquake and prevent building damage. Professor Ratuva recently led the world’s most comprehensive work research platform with remarkable breadth and depth, producing a on ethnicity. The Palgrave Handbook on Ethnicity is a three-volume series of highly cited publications on the responses of species publication featuring 100 leading scholars on ethnicity from 80 interactions and ecological networks to global environmental countries. change. Professors win medals for innovative “The book deals not only with theoretical issues of ethnicity, but it “I think it’s really important to understand how humans interacting also deals with the real-life situations, experiences and reflections, with the environment affects the trajectory the environment will quake damping devices and means of responding to issues,” Professor Ratuva says. take,” he says. “How does the way people manage the environment, Professor Ratuva brought 20 years of interdisciplinary research to or the needs of people from the environment, drive the way we Professor Geoff Rodgers and Distinguished “The whole goal is to dissipate the energy formerly homeless or are from under- addressing the many challenges of ethnicity, traversing sociology, change our landscapes? Those processes, those relationships Professor Geoff Chase have been awarded without causing damage to the structure; privileged or low-income families. These political science, history and development studies. “These are all between humans and the environment will be what ultimately UC’s Tohu Pākai Auaha | Innovation Medal this allows people to safely get out of families wouldn’t necessarily have the part of our global, modern-day challenges for humanity and we determines the future of our planet.” for 2019 for their collaborative work on buildings and for businesses to continue resources or social networks to recover must address them in innovative, creative and people-based ways From the beginnings of his postgraduate research, Professor seismic damping devices. trading sooner, reducing that ripple effect quickly following an earthquake, making the to create a better world.” Tylianakis has been exceeding many measures of research excellence. through the economy,” he says. design of the building even more His work has been cited over 12,000 times, which places him Leaders in the field of earthquake mitigation Professor Ratuva is Director of UC’s Macmillan Brown Centre for important,” says Professor Rodgers. devices, Professor Rodgers and Distinguished The devices are already in use in two new Pacific Studies, lectures in Anthropology and Sociology at UC, chairs amongst the top international ecologists. In 2018, he was elected Professor Chase have developed their central Ōtautahi Christchurch buildings, The Tohu Pākai Auaha | Innovation Medal is the International Political Science Association Research Committee Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi , where, at research during their 15-year collaborative Forté Health on Kilmore Street and the awarded by Te Kaunihera o UC | University on Security, Conflict and Democratisation and has written many age 40, he was 27 years younger than the median age of Fellows. project, and designed a low-cost suite of award-winning public library Tūranga, as Council for excellence in transforming books related to ethnicity. After graduating from Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa | Massey University energy dissipation and seismic damping well as in a new, nine-storey community academic knowledge or ideas that are in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science, Professor Tylianakis received his devices. Already these devices have enabled housing building in San Francisco, United adopted by the wider community in ways Master of Science (with first class honours) at UC in 2002 before major changes in how structures are States. that contribute beneficial value. It is the receiving his doctorate (summa cum laude) from Germany’s Georg designed and built to create economically University’s highest recognition of an August University in 2006. His research excellence has been Professor Rodgers speaks warmly about the resilient cities and communities following outstanding innovator. devices being used in the San Francisco paralleled by what is probably the most rapid career progression in an earthquake. the University’s history. building project in which developer David Professor Rodgers and Distinguished Distinguished Professor Chase emphasises Mar, of Mar Structural Design in California, Professor Chase were presented with their the importance of energy dissipation during wanted to build “beyond a code-minimum medals at the UC Council-hosted event, a seismic event as the key to minimising the building”. Tangata Tū, Tangata Ora: Celebrating economic effects and preserving life Excellence, in November 2019. “I’m proud to be part of this inspirational following major earthquakes. project which supports occupants that were

26 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 27 28 TANGATA TŪ, TANGATA ORA community-engaged learningprogrammes. University’s studentwork-integrated and tolong-term benefitthe partnerships objectives. Plus, itwillallowUCto form cultural, andinnovation technology businesses to achieve theireconomic, social, will allowfor greater collaboration withlocal UC’s increased presence inthecentral city teaching andhostingevents. location for collaboration, partnership request was released seekingacentral city December aRegistrations of Interest (ROI) develop itspresence inthe city. Inearly people andbusinesses, UCwillcontinue to To establishabetter connection withlocal Ōtautahi Christchurch. strategy isenhanced engagement with andbeyond.anniversary of the Attheheart year theUniversity to towards carry its150th Tangata Tū, Tangata Ora was launchedthis The UCStrategic Vision2020 –2030 – of ŌtautahiChristchurch. community, localbusinessesandthecity resolutions – to better engage withthe ononeofUC isgetting its aheadstart with Ōtautahi greater connection UC’s resolution for

Christchurch’s HealthPrecinct. health research andeducation, in in Manawa, thestate-of-the-art hubfor Antiquities are housed. UCalsoshares space and theTeece Museumof Classical Puoro |Schoolof Music, Classicsdepartment CentreArts where therenowned Te Kura the beautifulheritage Te MatatikiToi Ora | In 2016, UCreturned to itsoriginalhomein positive economic andsocialimpact. for individualsandbusinessesto make a UCwillcreatepartners more opportunities and greater collaboration withbusiness Through anincreased presence inthecity innovative, enterprising andwork-ready. UC graduates are renowned for being achieve their objectives. to with localbusinesses greater collaboration city willallow for inthecentral presence UC’s increased

CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 good food supports mentalgood food wellbeing’. supports talks about ‘Food asmedicine:How Professor JuliaRucklidge, UCScience, Riverside Market UC academicsbringFood for Thoughtto public event. Live music byUCstudentsfrom TuneSoc followed eachtalkinthefree outdoor and exploringlife inspace. era,higher educationinthesmartphone why youth volunteering isimportant, brainwaves aslie-detectors, exploringfood asmedicinefor mentalhealth, provoking mini-lectures touched ondiverse topics, ranging from using With adifferent speaker eachlunchtime, theseries of engagingandthought- by theŌtākaro Avon River, outsidetheRiverside Market onOxford Terrace. shared current thinkingonaninteresting topic inabrief, often interactive talk, At midday, Monday to Friday, speaker from anexpert oneof UC’sfive Colleges while fillingtheirtummies. the University’s thoughtleadersto thepublicsopeoplecould feed theirminds ‘Food for Thought’, afive-day series of 15-minute talksinthecity centre, brought bite-sized publictalks. at thepopularRiverside Market asfive UCacademicsshared theirthoughtsin Over awarm working week inDecember, learningluncheswere onthemenu 29 UC welcomes Kate Sheppard House purchase

Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and UC welcomed the Government purchase of the Category 1 listed Kate Sheppard House in Ōtautahi Christchurch, announced in late 2019. Together Heritage NZ and UC will open the historic place for a range of uses, particularly highlighting Kate Sheppard, the suffrage movement and their relevance today. The house, in a garden setting on Clyde Road bordering UC’s Ilam campus, was purchased for $4.5 million in 2018. Prime Minister and Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern said the purchase recognised all women who had made a difference, and would highlight social change in the country's history. UC Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey says: “In partnership with Heritage New Zealand, UC is delighted that present and future generations will have access to such a significant historic location.” UC Tumu Kaunihera | Chancellor Sue McCormack adds, UC Engineering lecturer Dr Sarah Kessans, who was in the top 1% of applicants shortlisted by NASA to become an astronaut, is seen here during her time in NASA’s Johnson “At the time of this historic announcement, it seems Space Center in Houston, Texas. especially fitting that several female leaders – including the Prime Minister, MPs and the Chair of Heritage New Zealand, along with the University of Canterbury UC partners in city plan to take off in aerospace Vice-Chancellor and the Mayor of Christchurch – have united to protect this important heritage site for New Zealand and the world. It’s a poignant occasion that UC research and facilities have the potential prospectus for aerospace start-ups to enable experimental microbiology rocket launch, perhaps Kate herself would have been justly proud [of].” to make it easier, faster and cheaper to efficient uptake of the city’s resources, and a team of UC students, called UC The Christchurch home was where Kate Sheppard and launch rockets into space, with wide- regulatory pre-approval of flight zones, Aerospace, competed in the inaugural suffrage supporters spent much time working towards ranging benefits for other technology. financial incentives for aerospace businesses Australian Universities Rocket Competition, New Zealand becoming the first self-governing country Working with UC, Ōtautahi Christchurch and scholarship and education programmes. the only Aotearoa New Zealand team in the world to grant women the vote. It was here that Kate Sheppard led the suffrage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. aims to be at the centre of Aotearoa New competing against 19 Australian university As well as supporting aerospace start-ups the 270-metre petition was pasted together before being Zealand’s burgeoning aerospace sector by teams. The UC students were assisted by UC and using UC’s existing testing facilities, presented to Parliament. 2025, according to the city’s new aerospace staff, including Te Rāngai Pūkaha | UC labs and test ranges, the plan contains strategic plan. Engineering lecturer strategic aims. These are, first, to investigate Dr Sarah Kessans, who was a finalist for The five-year plan sets out goals and the establishment of a Space Research NASA’s Astronaut Candidate Class of 2017 associated actions for the city’s aerospace Centre to provide R&D focus and expertise, and was recently granted $500,000 by sector, based around four themes: as well as participate in key space events Hīkina Whakatutuki | MBIE’s Catalyst: and conferences; second, to establish • knowledge sharing Strategic Space 2019 fund to conduct further undergraduate and postgraduate • innovation and test-bed capabilities biological experiments in space. programmes to support both aerospace or • pathways to attract and expand aeronautical engineering and aerospace In 2019, UC students also learnt from businesses science; and, third, and to continue to Manuhiri o Erskine | UC Erskine Fellow and • education and training. strengthen the relationship between NASA Senior Engineer Tim Atkins on the Each of these themes includes working with industry and the tertiary sector by future of deep space exploration, and heard UC to extend the use of the University’s establishing aerospace internships and work from pioneering NASA astronaut Dr Anna existing testing facilities and identify experience programmes at UC. Fisher about her stellar career and why we need more women in STEM. locations in Waitaha Canterbury for further UC is already involved in the field. In 2018, test facilities. This work will create a UC students were involved in an 30 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 31 NZ education at a pivotal moment of change – academics respond

Aotearoa New Zealand is conducting its The editor, most wide-ranging review of education in 30 years. Coinciding with this moment in Dr Annelies Kamp, history, current and former UC researchers have collaborated to explore education says Ōtautahi from different disciplines, and shed light on Christchurch is challenging contemporary issues such as the benefits and risks of digital uniquely placed to technologies in education, the explore current issues development of ‘innovative’ learning environments, working with diversity and in education. teacher education. The resulting book, Education Studies in Aotearoa: Key disciplines and emerging UC’s Te Rāngai Ako me te Hauora | College of directions, published by Rangahau Education, Health and Human Development. Mātauranga o Aotearoa | New Zealand Council of Educational Research, is The book was written to fulfil several available now. purposes, Dr Kamp says. “Firstly it is a critical Chemistry researcher Dr Paula Brooksby is a Senior Research Fellow in UC’s Te Kura Matū | School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. reader in the preparation of education The editor, UC’s Associate Professor in Associate Professor in Leadership and Head of Te Kura professionals and, secondly, it is a resource Ārahi Ako | School of Educational Studies and Leadership and Head of Te Kura Ārahi Ako | for those already engaged in the field as Leadership, Dr Annelies Kamp. School of Educational Studies and practitioners, policy-makers, administrators Towards a greener future with next generation Leadership, Dr Annelies Kamp, says Ōtautahi and other stakeholders.” This is Dr Kamp’s fourth book and reflects Christchurch is uniquely placed to explore her multidisciplinary approach to education, solar cell technology current issues in education. Dr Kamp is sending copies of the book to as well as her own research specialist areas academics and education experts of critical studies of youth transition, the “The idea was to speak to this pivotal internationally. moment in education studies in Aotearoa. teenage parent and education, leadership UC chemistry researcher Dr Paula Brooksby In the vanguard of new solar energy fully investigate graphene as a tool in solar All of the authors at the University of “There is global interest in Aotearoa New and the 'joined-up' policy agenda. is at the forefront of research to refine technology are perovskite solar cells, valued cell design. Their goal is to engineer, for the Canterbury during or since the earthquake Zealand’s education system. In part, this Dr Kamp was instrumental in helping to fast-advancing solar cell technology. for their low production costs and high first time, thin transparent graphene-organic sequence of 2010 – 2011 and, more recently, interest has been generated by the profile of develop the new Bachelor of Youth and Together with Dr Noel Duffy from the efficiency. Recent advances in the field film electrodes and then evaluate their the terror attack of 15 March [2019], already Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and initiatives Community Leadership. See the story on Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial suggest the performance of these cells could potential use in perovskite solar cells. had a unique standpoint from which such as the Wellbeing Budget. However, that Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, be boosted still further if metal-oxide page 15 and read more here about this “We aim to lay the groundwork for the next to consider the traditional disciplines, interest also reflects our highly-regarded she is exploring the potential of a carbon- electrodes – used to separate photo- exciting new qualification here. generation of solar cell design by providing and emerging issues, of education,” curriculum, and the Treaty [of Waitangi], based material to revolutionise generated charges and channel them out of an entirely new approach for constructing Dr Kamp says. which fundamentally influences why and photovoltaic technology and performance. the cell – were replaced with a new graphene advanced optically transparent thin film how we do things differently in Aotearoa, substitute. The book features the work of 21 academics, while still working within a neoliberal ‘Graphene’ sounds rather like ‘graphite’ used electrode materials,” she says. 19 of whom currently teach and research in in pencils. The two are related, but this Dr Brooksby, a Senior Research Fellow in UC’s context.” The 2019 Marsden Fund standard grant of lesser-known cousin of graphite has Te Kura Matū | School of Physical and $960,000 awarded to this project was the different properties that put it at the leading Chemical Sciences, observes that graphene highest such grant made to a UC-led edge of scientific research geared towards is both more transparent and more research project in the latest funding round. achieving a zero emissions future for energy chemically stable so appears to offer a much It was one of six standard grants issued to production. better choice than metal oxides. the University; another six Fast-Start grants The way towards that future lies in the With the support of a three-year $960,000 were also awarded. These grants support development of efficient electricity grant from the 2019 Marsden Fund Te Pūtea excellence in Aotearoa New Zealand research generation using renewable sources, as well Rangahau a Marsden, Dr Brooksby and in science, engineering, maths, social as large-scale energy storage capacity. co-researcher Dr Noel Duffy (CSIRO) plan to sciences and humanities.

32 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 33 Dr Azadeh Hashemi from UC’s Te Rāngai Pūkaha | College of Engineering. Dr Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni of UC’s Te Rāngai Pūtaiao | College of Science. Sixty Year 13 students from across Aotearoa New Zealand attended UC's Women in Engineering Canterbury event to hear from speakers such as Bella Franks (pictured). Rutherford Foundation Young women encouraged to Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded engineer a career to UC researchers Being a young female engineer in a says engineering offers a varied and exciting She says there is a certain amount of male-dominated field hasn’t stopped Bella career path. She advises young women “proving yourself” as a young, female Two outstanding UC researchers were Royal Society Te Apārangi President and differentiation of stem cells in the lab’, while Franks carving out a successful considering the profession to “go for it”. engineer. Chair of the Rutherford Foundation Trust, Dr Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni of UC’s Te international career. among 10 nationwide to be awarded “It’s such a rewarding career. So many of the “People can be very quick to write you off as Professor Wendy Larner FRSNZ, says the Rāngai Pūtaiao | College of Science will be Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Now working for Aecom, she shared her world’s most pressing issues need smart inexperienced or out of your depth and it Society was pleased to award fellowships researching: ‘Novel and easily-scalable Fellowships in 2019. experience with 60 Year 13 students as a young women to solve them and drive takes time to earn respect. Young males face and scholarships to these outstanding metamaterials for energy and environmental The two-year Rutherford Foundation guest speaker at UC’s Women in Engineering human innovation forward.” this challenge too, but often to a lesser early-career researchers. applications’. (WiE Can) event in January. WiE Can gives extent.” Fellowships seek to build human capability Bella, age 30, spent four years living in New young women from high schools across in research, science and technology by Dr Azadeh Hashemi from UC’s Te Rāngai For more on their research, see UC News York City working on one of the United Aotearoa New Zealand the opportunity to supporting early-career researchers Pūkaha | College of Engineering will be States’ largest private real-estate find out more about engineering. researchers. working on ‘Developing a simple and developments, the Hudson Yards project in effective method for directing the Bella, who graduated from UC with a Manhattan. She is currently working on the Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Hons) in 2010, City Rail Link in Auckland.

34 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 35 UC alumni feature Inspiring Young Alumni in Champion UC Alumni recently hosted two Young Alumni events in Ōtautahi Christchurch and Tuawhenua Auckland. Our guest speakers were all recent graduates who are making a name for themselves around the globe, and they were invited to share their inspiring stories with other alumni. Business Awards Medsalv’s dream run Meet three of our up-and-coming alumni.

There was plenty of success for UC alumni Oliver Hunt founded multi-award winning at the 2019 Westpac Champion Business sustainable healthcare business Medsalv in Awards, run by Champion Canterbury Ltd. late 2017 as his Master of Engineering The annual awards ceremony has been Management Project at UC. running since 2003 and has evolved into In the two years since its inception Medsalv one of the largest business awards has led the way towards sustainable ceremonies in Aotearoa New Zealand. The healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand, and awards recognise and celebrate the has generated substantial cost and waste excellence, innovation and success of reductions for surgical hospitals through the businesses and not-for-profit organisations reprocessing of single-use medical devices. in Waitaha Canterbury. Reprocessing by Medsalv has diverted Bridget Williams Jackson Rowland Julia Arnott-Neenee Congratulations to all the award-winning UC thousands of devices from landfill, with an (LLB and BA, 2016) (LLB and BSc, 2013) (BA and BCom, 2015) alumni, including: average of over five extra uses per device generating an over 80% reduction in Bridget Williams is the founder of Bead and Jackson Rowland is the Director of Ākina Julia Arnott-Neenee has gained incredible • Medsalv – Oliver Hunt potential waste. Medsalv was recognised for Proceed, a company that aims to educate Invest, the impact investment arm of the global experience in the technology industry • Christchurch Engine Centre – Jonas Aust and its work towards a circular economy and for and inspire action towards the 17 UN Ākina Foundation. Ākina's mission is to over the last few years. Most recently she’s Ben Bainbury its social employment policies in 2019, sustainable development goals (SDGs) transform our economy through the power held the position of Global Social Strategy • Taska Prosthetic – Jamie Cairns taking away the ‘Going Circular’ Award at the through creativity. A former lawyer, Bridget of impact, and Ākina Invest supports this by Lead for technology company HP (Hewlett- • Ethique – Brianne West Sustainable Business Network National wanted a more creative and sustainable building impact investing in New Zealand so Packard), in San Diego, where her role lifestyle, and Bead and Proceed was born out that change making businesses can scale. involved the uncovering of insights, solving • The New Zealand Merino Company Limited Awards, and the ‘Business for Good’ Award – John Brackenridge at the Canterbury Champion awards. of her passion to give back. Her commitment He’s also a World Economic Forum Global business problems and influencing strategic Reprocessing by Medsalv to the SDGs has led Bridget to being Shaper, part of a team who are committed to decisions with Digital Intelligence. She has • Canterbury District Health Board – John Medsalv has recently sponsored a year-long endorsed by the Right Honourable Helen initiating projects to improve Auckland. He’s also worked in Auckland, Sydney and Wood and David Meates has diverted thousands final year project in the Mechanical Clark and selected as a recipient of the recently been named an Obama Leader as London, and is now returning back to NZ for • Anton Matthews (Fush) – Anton Matthews Engineering and also sponsored a Masters of of devices from landfill, Outstanding Young Persons Programme for part of the Obama Foundation, and is a her next challenge after a quick stint in • Special Commendation – Bruce Irvine. Engineering Management student project. 2019. She is passionate about community supporter of Make-a-Wish NZ. Jackson has Ghana, contributing to an entrepreneurial Oliver and his company are also working with an average of over We would also like to acknowledge our UC and Ōtautahi Christchurch, and is one the run a workshop at the Impact Summit, training program, seed fund and incubator with Mechanical Engineering to produce alumni finalists: five extra uses per device. youngest elected Christchurch City Council hosted by the UC Centre for for Africa's next leading software world-class biomedical engineering Community Board members and a world Entrepreneurship, in 2019, and is looking entrepreneurs. She’s a keen supporter and • ENGEO – Greg Martin graduates as part of their new programme. economic forum global shaper. She’s run forward to working more closely with UC mentor of Pasifika students and youth in IT • Berkano Foods – Britteny Bryan “The business and systems components of perspective, but traceable and repeatable,” Bead and Proceed workshops at UC with students and staff in the future. and will be focused growing the next • Totalspan North Canterbury – operated by various groups, including the UC generation of technology leaders in the my Masters in Engineering Management Hunt says. “The ability to start a business as How did your UC experience affect your Jamie and Ellen Petersen under Petersen (MEM) have been hugely helpful, pairing well the capstone element of my MEM course International Summer Programme, and has community. Julia has also been involved Construction Ltd career? with my technical knowledge from my effectively catalysed me into starting been a speaker at the Impact Summit in with mentoring and consulting with student • Jeuneora – Meg Falconer undergraduate Mechanical Engineering to Medsalv, and I was able to get some runs on 2019, hosted by the UC Centre for It transformed it. I went to UC wanting to be a entrepreneurs from UC. Entrepreneurship. lawyer, however the practical experiences UC • Trees for Canterbury – Tim Jenkins ensure that Medsalv processes are not only the board early through the UCE Summer How did your UC experience affect your gave me through both my studies and • Can Do Canterbury – Kathryn Jones correct and safe from a technical Startup Program.” How did your UC experience affect your career? extra-curricular activities such as the Student career? Volunteer Army helped me identify that UC had an environment that encouraged me I was lucky enough to be the President of the supporting others was what I enjoyed, and to step forward and into opportunities they Student Volunteer Army for 2013 and 2014 and what I'm lucky enough to do as a career. offered - entrepreneur competitions, Outward this fostered my passion for the community Bound, courses to visit China - it built up my and active citizenship. UC shaped me to belief that you don't know what you could do, believe that young people can make a unless you apply. I still very much keep this difference and to believe in our strengths and same belief front of mind today. live "all chips in".

36 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 37 Scanning the brain to better Shameless thief or good understand stuttering forest citizen?

UC Senior Lecturer Dr Catherine Theys with a stuttering study participant in an UC doctoral student and lead weka study author Jo Carpenter. fMRI scanner. Weka are often portrayed as little more than sandwich-stealing Dr Catherine Theys, a senior lecturer in UC’s Te Kura Mahi scallywags. However, a 2019 study by UC and Te Papa Atawhai | Students develop their big ideas into viable business ventures as part of Te Pokapū Rakahinonga | UC Centre for Entrepreneurship Summer Startup Programme. ā-Hirikapo | School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing, has Department of Conservation researchers has found that these collaborated with researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium, the charismatic flightless birds also perform important services for University of Toronto and Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo | University Aotearoa New Zealand forests. of Otago on a new paper for scientific journalPLOS ONE, Brain activation during non-habitual speech production: Revisiting the Although birds like the kererū (wood pigeon) tend to get credit for Student entrepreneurs pitch their effects of simulated disfluencies in fluent speakers. dispersing seeds, it turns out weka are important seed dispersers for some native plants, with some seeds spread at distances on par Using fMRI scanners, Dr Theys’ studies aim to identify differences at with the kererū. big ideas to Ōtautahi Christchurch the level of the brain that cause stuttering. “You might think that because weka are flightless, they wouldn’t be “This knowledge helps us create better ways to assess and treat very good at moving seeds large distances,” says UC doctoral business leaders speech disorders. This is important because being able to student and lead author Jo Carpenter. “But it turned out they were communicate effectively has a hugely positive effect on health and dispersing a small proportion of seeds over two kilometres – that’s Budding UC student entrepreneurs pitched The scheme is an opportunity for students “The showcase is also a chance for people in wellbeing.” a long way for a seed.” their business ideas live on stage this to fast-track their commercial or social the community to come along and discover For the study, researchers scanned the brains of fluent speakers and By attaching GPS transmitters to over 40 weka, researchers were January, during a Dragons’ Den-style enterprise venture into reality. what the next generation of entrepreneurs in looked at what happened when these speakers were asked to able to determine how long it took seeds to pass through the birds. competition at Pīpīwharauroa Kui-kui our city are up to.” From an initial group of 24, the top 10 took change the way they normally speak. Some seeds stayed inside the birds as long as six weeks, allowing whitiwhiti ora | The Piano Centre for Music part in the showcase on Tuesday 4 February Harvard Business School graduate, founder weka to deposit them far from where they were eaten. and the Arts. “This helped us understand the brain networks that we use to at The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts. of Harpoon Brewery and Chairman of Enjoy produce speech,” Dr Theys says. But researchers also made a worrying discovery. Weka near public The ventures they promoted included a They each had three minutes to present their Beer Holdings, a partnership of independent “The study on the effects of non-habitual speech production is campsites dispersed seeds at distances 35 – 40% shorter than those compostable kelp-based plastic alternative, idea to a panel of industry experts and brewers in the United States, Richard Doyle important as it shows what is happening in our brains when we in nearby forests. The finding provides An example of ‘cryptic a social enterprise providing affordable ball experienced entrepreneurs including Melissa was the Entrepreneur in Residence during produce speech in a novel manner.” function loss’. dresses for high school students, a Davies, Ben Kepes and Peter Montgomery. the Programme. His role involved daily technology to recover zinc from industrial mentoring and coaching with the students. “This is one of the first studies showing that interaction with people UCE Director Rachel Wright said the process Changing someone’s speech pattern is a tool often used during the waste and a company providing data could have a significant effect on the quality of seed dispersal is challenging and exciting for the young “It’s creative and there’s a wide swathe of assessment and treatment of people with speech disorders, services to the blockchain industry. including stuttering, dysarthria and apraxia of speech, Dr Theys performed by an animal. That’s concerning because even our wild people involved, giving them a platform to innovative products,” he says. places are becoming increasingly crowded with people,” says The students developed their ideas over expose their ventures to a wide audience says. “[The students] face a lot of constructive Carpenter. 10 weeks as part of the Te Pokapū including potential investors and supporters. criticism and they take it the right way, “Having speech production problems can have a big impact on the Rakahinonga | UC Centre for “This is a fantastic opportunity for UC without any defensiveness. When they get health and wellbeing of the speaker, but also on their whānau. Entrepreneurship (UCE) Summer Startup students to develop their creative business out into the business world, they will all be Programme with the support of coaches, “Understanding the changes in brain functioning that cause these and social enterprise ideas and make a better for having been in the Programme.” mentors and speakers covering topics speech problems will help us to create more efficacious and efficient positive difference in the world. Through the including intellectual property, product treatment approaches for these people.” Summer Startup they benefit from the skills development, market validation and and expertise of local business leaders and measuring social impact. make valuable connections.”

38 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 39 Finance students to represent Students optimise Ōtautahi Aotearoa New Zealand in Christchurch Airport’s parking South Korea

Pictured (left to right) are UC students Chris Wakefield (team advisor and coach), Masters of Applied Data Science students teamed up to work with Christchurch Jack Skerman, Caitlin Hendren, Jonathan Manickam (Captain), Nicholas Steyn and International Airport to explore passengers’ carpark usage. Nicolas Adams. Five teams of UC students participated in a 48-hour data In late 2019, UC’s top finance students won Aotearoa hackathon in September 2019, which involved using data to New Zealand’s biggest finance competition. explore the impact of passenger journeys on the use of Ōtautahi The team competed against seven other universities in the Christchurch Airport’s car parks. Chartered Financial Analyst Institute’s Research Challenge in The teams of Masters of Applied Data Science students were given Tāmaki-makaurau Auckland before being chosen to represent access to general operational data from the airport covering the Aotearoa New Zealand at the Asia Pacific Regional Finals in Seoul, arrival and departure of passengers, the number of vehicles using South Korea. parking facilities, and the use of ridesharing and public transport. UC Motorsport students with their custom-built electric car, UCM19. The global competition involves 6,200 students and 4,000 They explored how different passenger profiles change the way volunteers (coaches, advisors, judges) from more than 1,100 airport car parks are used, and how the use of different types of car universities representing over 90 countries. parks (long-stay versus short-stay) shifts hourly, weekly and Ahead of the national competition, the team of five UC students monthly. Custom-built electric car brings spent 11 weeks preparing a professional valuation report on Ahead Following the 48-hour challenge, the teams pitched their ideas to a of the national competition, which involved a presentation in panel of judges. Team Fly away and Team Wheako were placed first international success for UC Motorsport Tāmaki-makaurau Auckland, the team had access to Z Energy’s equal, taking home $2,000 in prizes between them, and the investor relations team, submitted questions to Z Energy possibility of landing an internship at Ōtautahi Christchurch management and used the support, resources and advice from their Airport. faculty and industry advisors. Formula Student is a 20-year-old UCM designed and custom-built their Robertson believes the UCM team and the Judges said the winning teams’ creativity and innovative analysis competition in which university students electric race car, UCM19, which came second products they design and build are Team captain Jonathan Manickam, a Bachelor of Commerce student are what set them apart. They also commended the teams’ insight design, construct and race a single-seat in three out of four race events. They were exceptional. in Finance and Economics, says: “The success of our team is due to into the impact that the arrival of large international flights has on race car. the only team able to really challenge the the unique and diverse skillset that each member possessed. We “I overheard a spectator comment to his the use of The Loop (passenger pick-up/drop-off). dominant pace of the team from Monash learnt so many new skills and techniques during this competition UC Motorsport (UCM) teams have been rated friend that our car looks similar to one of the University, UC Design Engineer Bruce and enjoyed the opportunities to question company staff and “The data challenge gives students a unique opportunity to get among the best in the world in Formula top competitors from Europe. His friend's Robertson says. receive guidance.” hands-on with operational data from Christchurch International Student motorsport. That status was reply was ‘No, Canterbury don’t build anyone Airport … with tangible benefits for both the airport and reaffirmed at the December 2019 "It’s incredibly satisfying to see young else’s car. Canterbury builds Canterbury Coach-advisor Chris Wakefield adds: “This experience provides the passengers,” Te Pokapū Rakahinonga | UC Centre for competition in which students from across engineers in action, taking an opportunity cars’." students incredible exposure to potential future employers in the Entrepreneurship Business Manager James Carr says. Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, India and and absolutely going for it. I’m very excited financial industry and we are looking forward to representing The UCM team earned the following awards Japan competed in various race events. to see what comes next," Robertson says. Aotearoa New Zealand in South Korea.” During the challenge, students received coaching and mentoring for individual events: from UC and Ōtautahi Christchurch Airport staff. UCM was the top-performing university The project is shared equally between UC's Representing UC were Jonathan Manickam, Nicolas Adams (MCom • 2nd place in acceleration team from Aotearoa New Zealand, finishing Electrical & Computer Engineering and Economics), Caitlin Hendren (BCom Accounting and Finance), Jack “I have never been exposed to such a real, complex data set,” Athira • 2nd place in autocross third overall and bringing home five trophies Mechanical Engineering departments, and Skerman (BSc Hons Mathematics) and Nicholas Steyn (BSc Hons Nair, a student from Team Data Brewers, says. nd for individual events. It was a great result for many hard-working staff members in both • 2 place in endurance Applied Mathematics). Chris Wakefield (Master of Applied Finance “It was brilliant to be able to apply things from my classes to the the students and staff involved in the departments go the extra mile to encourage • 3rd place overall for the EV class and Economics) coached the team with industry advice from UC real world and actually add value to a business.” project. and enable our students to achieve • 3rd place in engineering design. alumnus Nick Webb, a credit trader with Westpac. so highly.

40 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 41 UC Registrar announces retirement, looks back on 32-year university career

Change and evolution has transformed UC “I met my wife [Robyn Stewart] in my first year “It was a very intense time for everyone - my over the past three decades. UC Pouroki | at university and we had three daughters, all wife and I also lost our house in Huntsbury Registrar Jeff Field has actively led and of whom are now UC graduates too!” – but we were successful in negotiating a managed much of this change, through settlement of $637 million for the university. It Jeff put his tertiary qualifications to good use, times of both growth and adversity. Now he was Aotearoa New Zealand’s biggest firstly by teaching maths at Aranui High is preparing to retire, bringing to a close a settlement at that time.” School for four years, before embarking on a remarkable career of distinguished service to successful media career in print and Along with the challenges have come many the university. television. positives. Jeff has enjoyed showing VIPs around ‘Fortunate’ is a word often used by Jeff Field the campus over the years including prime In retrospect, this was all just preparation for to describe his life and career, which has been ministers and governor generals. He has been the pivotal opportunity that came along in centred so strongly on UC. The description Pouroki | Registrar at 116 graduation 1988 to work in a sole-charge encompasses both the academic ceremonies and is signatory to some 60,000 communications role at UC, marking the start opportunities he was able to pursue as a UC degrees. Jeff is also a JP and has met many of Jeff’s university career. It was a busy young man at UC, but also the varied and thousands of student requests in that role. position, putting out fortnightly editions of stimulating governance and leadership roles Chronicle, weekly bulletins and media “I’m grateful to have been so well resourced he has held at the university over many years. releases. and empowered by the university throughout Jeff has served as UC Pouroki | Registrar since my career and am fortunate to have had great Legislative reforms to education the following 2005, with responsibilities for governance, staff and teams who have worked well year ushered in a new framework of risk management and compliance. He has together.” competition, deregulation and fees. “It worked closely with five Tumu Whakarae | changed the world and also created new It has been a satisfying full circle for Jeff to see Vice-Chancellors and eight Tumu Kaunihera | opportunities,” Jeff recalls. UC return to its roots at the Arts Centre with Chancellors and, through his service, has Classics and Music students now based out of made a lasting contribution to the university Making the most of these opportunities, he buildings there. He also chaired the trust that and its community. set up and developed the university’s Alumni was formed to set up Rutherford’s Den at the Association in the early 1990s before leading Jeff grew up in Riccarton, the son of a grocer, Arts Centre. UC’s first scholarship endowment fundraising just as the current UC campus was starting to campaign in 1993-94. (It laid the groundwork Jeff advised UC Tumu Whakarae | Vice- be built. It was enough to plant the seeds for for the UC Foundation, dedicated to securing Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey of his his future career. donations and bequests to support UC intention to retire at the start of her tenure last “I used to play on Ilam Fields every day after students, teachers and researchers). year so as to support her induction and allow a school and would see the university going up. smooth transition. “Over my time, we raised $80 million for It created an awareness of the possibilities; in scholarship endowments. Today, 10 of our Sadly, Jeff’s wife died last year. They had 1971, as a 16-year-old, I became the first in my million dollar donors are ones that I originally planned to travel together to visit two of their family to go to university.” initiated.” daughters and partners in the UK and the US. He completed BA and MA degrees at UC, Jeff still plans to do so, once travel movements In the early 1990s, Jeff also spearheaded the graduating in psychology with first class begin to normalise after the global COVID-19 establishment of UC’s first international honours, before training as a secondary pandemic. office, out of which grew UC’s Study Abroad school teacher at the Christchurch College of and Exchange programmes. As well, he ran In terms of how UC is placed to cope with the Education. Later in 1983, after returning to Canterbury University Press as publisher in current crisis, Jeff says the university is New Zealand from his O.E., he enrolled in a the 1990s and has long been involved with the well-prepared having had such a focus on postgraduate diploma in journalism at UC. university’s arts acquisitions programme. emergency planning in recent years. In his first four years at university, Jeff was Emergency management and response was Jeff formally retires as UC Pouroki | Registrar on based at the old town site (that later became part of Jeff’s portfolio of duties as UC 17 April 2020. the Arts Centre). As a teaching fellow in Registrar and, following the 2010/11 psychology in 1974, he worked out of an office earthquakes, he led UC’s insurance claim. in a villa opposite the Clock Tower. Pouroki | Registrar Jeff Field

42 CHRONICLE No.59, Autumn/Winter 2020 43 Postgraduate Diploma Bachelors of Sport Master of Architectural Shaun Richard Palmer Pierre Etienne Gil- Bachelors of Engineering in Health Sciences Coaching Engineering Emily Jane Peebles Goldsbrough with Second Class Bhyravee Jeyathiswaran Alexandra Bianca Sean Doig Zachary Sosich Blakely Samuel Tom Pell Samuel David Gillespie Honours (Division Two) Angelo Fox Gray Harry James Kermode Oscar Niko Gittings Isaac Colin Abbot-Martin Master of Specialist Postgraduate Certificates Teaching with Merit Sejoong Hong in Engineering Petterson Alastair Hamish Gloyn Ahmad Danish Bin Ahmad E rere atu ngā mihi! Zulkiflee Laidin Emma Kate Rees Katelyn Immink Goldsmith Philippa Gaye Williams Alexander William Lodge Aswathy Prakash Simon John Reid Thomas John Goodman Cameron Ray Arvidson Jacob Brian Nicholls Basil Sabu Postgraduate Harry Le page Unsworth Cameron Rhys Gwyn Richards Tex Carbines Graham Gregory Selwyn Tunstall Bates The University of Canterbury congratulates Diplomas in Specialist Bachelors of Engineering Shawn Simon Richards Taylor Scott Green Jesse Ivan Baxter Teaching with Merit Graduate Diploma in with First Class Honours Nicholas Timothy Blair Teaching and Learning Hamish Keith Grimmer Peter John Griffiths Aiman Hakim Supee Della Marie Carr Gregory Liam Alheit Robertson all students who have successfully completed (Secondary) Jennifer Reneé Halvorsen Maysen Les Bloemen Farhanah Taib Sarah Kathleen Harvey Braden John Alsford Adam Ashton Rundle Isaac David Wilkes Liam Thomas Joseph Hawley Ruari Michael Levi Borgstrom Nathan Kenneth Walker Nathan Thomas Arscott Sean Alexander Ryan their studies and graduated on 7/04/2020. Our Bachelors of Health Christopher Peter Hendrickson Jordan Michael Richardson Timothy Mark Wilson Sciences Graduate Certificate Rino Joshua Bumalay Atienza Rick Sanders Breen Hamish Robert Hendry Drew Alexander Win- in Sport Coaching Cameron Graham Auld UC graduates are engaged, empowered and are Hayley Anne Bennett Benjamin Daniel Paul Schmidt Matthew David Hill Thomas Robert Brokenshire Hewetson Vipin George Isabella Ruby Barbalich Adelaide Rebecca Gwynne Rachel Beth Schultz Malachi James Rhys Hill Christopher Phillip Bull Matthew Robert Withers Joshua Steven Bernasconi making a difference in a changing world. 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