Making Science Work Sir Paul Nurse (Left) with Sir Peter Gluckman
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This issue 2 New professors 4 What's on University of Auckland news for staff | Vol 43 | Issue 1| 14 February MAKING SCIENCE WORK Sir Paul Nurse (left) with Sir Peter Gluckman. “How can we make science work for society well as people from the wider community, Sir Paul and for the public good?”. presented on two topics crucial to science: “how This was the question addressed by Sir Paul good decisions can be made about what scientific Nurse, President of the Royal Society, at his public research should be supported for the public good” lecture at the Grafton Campus on 14 January. and “how good scientific advice can be given to The lecture attracted an eager crowd of more society”. than 200 people, with some choosing to stand at For Sir Paul’s full speech, which ranges widely the back of the lecture theatre rather than forego over the complexities and dilemmas of funding the chance of hearing Sir Paul speak. scientific research, and on the equally complex To an audience comprising many scientists as challenges of communicating science to society, can be found at www.pmcsa.org.nz (the office of Senior Chinese leader visits the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee). Visiting the University in the last weeks of 2012 was Madam Liu Yandong, State Councillor of Highlighted event the People’s Republic of China, the most senior Chinese leader our institution has hosted. Auckland Live - 20/20 Vision architecture, politics, bioscience, and business Madam Liu, who is also Chair of the Council of For fast-forward thinking from six of the - and their insights are not to be missed! The Hanban (the Confucius Institute headquarters), University’s internationally celebrated speakers are Dr Jilly Evans (Science), Norman and who will become a Vice-Premier in March, graduates, come along on 28 February to hear Godden (Arts), Kim Goldwater (Engineering); was in New Zealand to commemorate the 40th the winners of this year’s Distinguished Alumni the Honourable Jim McLay CNZM, QSO anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic Awards discuss their careers, and their vision (Law), Andrew Patterson (National Institute of relations between New Zealand and China. for New Zealand and the world. Creative Arts & Industries), and Young Joining her delegation on 9 December were The event to be held from 6pm at the Alumnus of the Year Simon Denny (National China’s Minister of Education Yuan Guiren, Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) Institute of Creative Arts & Industries). Vice-Minister of Science and Technology Wang Auditorium at Grafton Campus will be hosted The reception is at 6pm, doors open Zhigang, the Director-General of Hanban Madam by alumnus and Qantas Media Award winner 6.15pm, and the show begins at 6.30pm. Xu Lin, the ambassadors of both countries, and Finlay Macdonald. Book tickets at www.iticket.co.nz and for more other eminent Chinese officials. These impressive alumni have excelled in a information visit www.auckland.ac.nz/live For a longer story on Madam Lui’s visit, see the wide variety of industries: winemaking, art, University Staff Intranet News. UNIVERSITY NEWS IS PUBLISHED BY Communications, Fisher Building,18 Waterloo Quadrant, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142. EMAIL [email protected] www.auckland.ac.nz/universitynews EDITOR Judy Wilford, Tess Redgrave PHOTOGRAPHY Godfrey Boehnke, Lydia Arnold, Dean Carruthers DESIGN AND PRODUCTION The University of Auckland Plate (Auckland University Press, 1991). education and development of an appropriate Julie’s current teaching and graduate medical workforce for NZ, which was the topic of New professors supervisions include Medical Anthropology, her MD research and has been a continuing Ethnographic Research Methods, and New theme in her career. Professor Joanne Zealand ethnography. Professor Paul Wilkes Kench (Department of Professor Laurence (Environment) is a English) was Simmons (Film, coastal educated at Sydney Television and Media geomorphologist and Oxford Studies) was and a leading universities and co-founder of the scholar in coral reef specialises in department at the and reef island Romantic and University of geomorphology. Victorian Literature. Auckland in 1992, Internationally, Her 1999 book, Lord Byron and Madame de employed full-time in he has developed a unique research programme Staël: Born for Opposition, won two international the department focused on understanding the environmental prizes. Her most recent critical study, Women 2005, and appointed controls on the formation and future stability of Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain Head of Department in 2010. low-lying coral reef islands located throughout the (Ashgate, 2010) examined how women literary Pacific and Indian oceans. His work has made a He has three main research and publication critics responded to novelists such as Jane Austen, major contribution to global debates concerning interests: contemporary art and film; Italian Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot. the vulnerability and physical stability of small Renaissance culture and Italian film; and critical Joanne also has a long record as an editor of island nations. In New Zealand, his research theory (including film, media and television women’s writing, beginning with Geraldine focuses on coastal morphodynamics and theory) and visual culture. Jewsbury’s 1848 novel, The Half Sisters (1994, processes on gravel beach systems, shore His publications include a book on revised 1998). She went on to edit for Pickering & platform processes and medium-scale coastal contemporary New Zealand painting and Chatto Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton in 2005, change. photography, The Image Always Has the Last and has recently been involved in editing / Paul completed his BA and MA at The Word (Dunmore, 2002), a volume on Freud’s co-editing for the same publisher, three volumes University of Auckland, and earned his PhD from papers on aesthetics, Freud’s Italian Journey of the literary criticism of Margaret Oliphant the University of New South Wales. He has held (Rodopi, 2005), Rethinking New Zealand: Essays (1828-97). academic positions at the Universities of and Interviews on Intellectuals and Public Culture She has been active in service at departmental, Melbourne, Waikato and Auckland and this (Auckland University Press, 2006) and Tuhituhi, faculty and University levels, and is currently year will take up the role of Head of School William Hodges Cook’s Painter in the South Pacific Head of the English Department. of Environment. (Otago University Press, 2011). Laurence has been awarded two Creative New Professor Professor Julie Park Zealand grants, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and Michael Graduating from Visiting Scholar awards at the universities of Parekowhai (Elam the University of UCLA Santa Barbara, Australian National School of Fine Arts) Otago with BA, MA University and the University of Cambridge. is one of New First Class Hons, and Zealand's most PhD in Anthropology Professor important in the 1970s, Phillippa Poole contemporary art Professor Julie Park (Department of practitioners. received academic Medicine) has a BSc His work is held appointment to the in Mathematics and in all significant University of MBChB from The public and private collections throughout New Auckland in 1993. University of Zealand and Australia, as well as in permanent Her research interests include medical Auckland and is a collections across the Asia-Pacific region and anthropology in New Zealand and Polynesia, Fellow of the Royal Europe. transnationalism, and New Zealand anthropology. Australasian He has an extensive exhibition history, including She is currently working with colleagues on College of the Venice Biennale (2011); the Asia Pacific projects funded by the Health Research Council of Physicians. She gained an MD (Auckland) in 2012. Triennial (2006-2007); the Gwangju Biennale NZ (HRC) and Marsden Fund respectively, on (2004); and the Sydney Biennale (2002). Pacific health, and on moral reasoning at the As a staff member of the Faculty of Medical Michael received an Arts Foundation Laureate intersection of reproductive technologies and on and Health Sciences and through her many Award in 2001 and was awarded the Premier of genetic difference in New Zealand. international activities, Phillippa has contributed Queensland Sculpture Commission in 2012. A book, co-edited with Dr Susanna Trnka and strongly to the development of medical education throughout Australia and New Zealand. She is Dr Christine Dureau (Anthropology), Senses and Professor James now Head of the Department of Medicine, and Citizenship: Embodying Political Life (Routledge) is Curran combines her clinical academic position in the due out in April. Amongst significant publication (Department of department with her work as a specialist general of journal articles, books and monographs, Julie’s Statistics) is a world physician with Auckland District Health Board. publications include “Whakapapa in leading researcher Phillippa’s strong and continuing commitment Anthropological Research on Tuberculosis in the in forensic statistics, to the health of New Zealanders is shown in her Pacific” (Sites, 2011); “Tuberculosis and Syndemics: in particular research interests, which span two distinct areas. Implications for Pacific Health in New Zealand” statistical analysis One is in the management of chronic obstructive (Social Science & Medicine, 2009); and Ladies a of trace evidence, pulmonary disease and the other is in medical 2 14 February 2013 forensic genetics and expert systems for evidence completing a book on language and pretence. Andrew earned his BSc and MSc in Zoology evaluation. For the past 15 years he has also been an and his PhD in Marine Biology from The He consults with forensic agencies in New editor (more recently an author) for the Stanford University of Auckland. Before joining the Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom and Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Frederick has served University as a member of academic staff, he was is involved with the production of expert systems as Head of the Philosophy Department, and has General Manager for Aquaculture and Marine software for the interpretation of evidence. His chaired the University’s Human Participants Biotechnology at NIWA.