JUNE 2015

The University of Auckland News for Staff Vol 44 / Issue 4 / JUNE 2015

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INSIDE INSPIRATION TO STAFF NEW CORE LAUNCHED JOYS OF GRADUATION The ASPIRE Conference for the University’s The Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE), Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, professional staff was an overwhelmingly Brain Research New Zealand, was able, at its Kean Aw, was among the crowd of proud positive experience, according to those who official launch, through a live link, to involve parents at Autumn Graduation, as twin sons attended. A range of speakers, including academics and leaders from the University of Kyvin and Kyson were awarded bachelor’s industry and tertiary professionals, shared Auckland, University of Otago and Auckland degrees in Chemistry and Geology respectively. their experiences of how to make a difference University of Technology. Among other staff who had family members at a personal, professional and community This CoRE aims to unlock the mysteries of graduating were Professor Marston Conder, Dr level. Graphical recordings of selected the ageing brain to develop treatments that Elizabeth Aitken-Rose and Michael Milojevic. workshops means a memorable record has improve the quality of life of senior New And, as always, there were members of staff been left behind. Zealanders. who graduated themselves.

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A global search to find the planet’s most IN BRIEF ...... 4 outstanding public art will culminate in an COVER STORY ...... 5 awards ceremony and exhibition, and a conference at the University in July. Projects as Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister diverse as a floating school in Nigeria (pictured), officially opened The University of a restaurant serving cuisine from countries USA Auckland’s Newmarket Campus on Wednesday 13 is in conflict with, a sexual politics initiative in May, 2015. India, and a post-earthquake pavilion for the people of Christchurch represent a selection MYSTORY ...... 6 from the rich, challenging, and divergent practice OBITUARY ...... 7 of public art. For the full story, see page 4. Dr Frank Lichtenberk, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, 30 YEARS UNDER THE GRYLLS passed away tragically on Wednesday, 29 April 2015. Tribute from Professor Yan Dr Karen Grylls (School of Music) celebrates 30 Huang on behalf of Frank’s colleagues in the years with the University of Auckland Chamber department. Choir in a concert to be hosted by the School of Music at St Mary’s in Holy Trinity, Parnell, WHAT’S ON CAMPUS ...... 7 corner of St Stephen’s Avenue and Parnell Road. The concert is from 73-9.30 on 7 June. GRADUATION STORIES...... 8 Works include a new commission by Eve de IN THE SPOTLIGHT ...... 9 Castro-Robinson, Leonie Holmes Through Coiled Stillness, Arvo Pärt which was the Son of Douglas FROM THE COLLECTION ...... 10 Mews Ghosts, Fire, Water and other favourites. Performers include staff, students and choir WHAT’S COMING OUT ...... 11 alumni. Contact [email protected] MARAMATANGA ...... 12

RICH DEBATE 6-10 JULY OGG BUILDING COVER PHOTO: From left: Professor Nic Smith, Dean of Engineering; Ian Parton, Chancellor of the The Magna Carta 800 Committee for New University; Auckland Mayor, Len Brown and Hon Zealand seeks to spark a rich debate about the Steven Joyce, Minister of Tertiary Education, Skills rule and role of law in NZ through a five-evening and Employment at the unveiling of the plaque that speaker series under the theme “Magna Carta signalled the official opening of the Newmarket New Zealand: Celebrating the past, reflecting Campus. Photo Steve Molloy on the present, imagining the future”. Organised by Dr Stephen Winter, two or three guest speakers each evening will discuss this, focusing on topics such as Māori, migration and online security, Speakers include Chief Justice and Attorney-General Chris Finlayson. See magnacartanz.wordpress.com/ nt.

HONOURS FOR DAME ANNE

Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond EDITOR: Judy Wilford | [email protected] (Māori Studies and Anthropology) has been PHOTOGRAPHY: Godfrey Boehnke, Steve Molloy elected as an international member of the DESIGN: Justin Marshall and Daniel Holt American Philosophical Society, the oldest PRODUCTION: The University of Auckland learned society in the US. Membership reflects extraordinary accomplishments in all fields of Published by: intellectual endeavour. Members are nominated The University of Auckland Communications, and elected by their peers in the Society. Others Fisher Building, 18 Waterloo Quadrant, elected at the same time as Dame Anne include Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142 Lord Stern, President of the British Academy; and www.auckland.ac.nz/universitynews Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at the École des hautes études in Paris.

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ASPIRE INSPIRES PROFESSIONAL STAFF

The ASPIRE conference, held on 15 April, provided a wonderful opportunity for 350 professional staff to meet and network with colleagues, hear from senior leaders, and increase their University awareness and their understanding of its aspirations. A range of speakers shared their experiences of how to make a difference at a personal, professional and community level. Selected workshops (see example, right) were graphically recorded by Mary Brake from Reflections Graphics in Devonport. These can be accessed through Human Resources on the Staff Intranet. The ASPIRE working group is now looking ahead to the next conference scheduled for 5 July 2016, with the proposed theme of “Wellbeing” and you can visit the ASPIRE website (uoaaspire.org.nz) to register your interest. Save the date now!

STRONGER FACULTY LINKS

Brett Berquist (centre above) took up the strategies, and how we can support them.” managers are working directly with the position in April as the University’s new The International Office has introduced six International Office, they are physically Director International.Brett has over 25 years’ new roles for International Managers who are housed most of the week in the faculties. experience in the international sector, based faculty specialists, which means the office is “What this means, is that each faculty now has in Europe and the United States, most recently set to work more closely with the faculties a structured formal advocate for its agenda, at Michigan State University. As head of the than has been possible in the past. inside the International Office.” recently-expanded International Office team The new team of International Managers The expects at Auckland, he will be taking the lead in includes some familiar faces, with Ian Roy, international education to double over the implementing our international strategy. Engineering and Karen Dorrian, Medical and next ten years, becoming a $5 billion industry. The University is setting out to achieve some Health Sciences (above right) continuing to For Brett, revenue is just part of the picture. ambitious goals; it aims to attain five percent support their faculties, but now reporting “International education is about training annual growth in international student centrally to International. Vedika Taunk, all our graduates for their future careers enrolment and to have one in four students who had been on the International Office’s in a fast-changing world. It’s about how graduating with overseas experience. Marketing team for five years is now interconnected our world is. International The key to achieving these goals, says Brett, is International Manager for Education and students enrich our learning community and collaboration. “Each faculty is coming from a Social Work, and Law. The new faces on the help Auckland and NZ attract and retain the different body of work, a different tradition, a team are Raphael Benoist, Arts and NICAI, strong talent we need to be competitive.” different set of academic disciplines, and the (above left), Elle Freestone, Business, and Lee To find out more about the International Office International Office needs to work very closely Hsieh, Science. and the new team members visit www.staff. with them to understand their goals and Brett explains that while the international auckland.ac.nz/international

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FUNDING FOR NGA PAE The labyrinths and cabins of Argelaguer ■■Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE), has won a further five years of funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). This means that Ngā Pae will continue to undertake excellent research across New Zealand, along with the other four CoREs the University hosts: the Maurice

Conflict kitchn, by Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski. Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery; the Medical Technologies CoRE; Te Pūnaha Matatini - The Centre for Complex Systems and Networks; and Brain Research New Zealand - Rangahau Roro PUBLIC ART Aotearoa (co-hosted with the University of Otago).

The 2015 International Award for Public The 2015 conference, titled “Cities Art (IAPA) seeks to promote and advance in a climate of change: Public art and BOOK PRIZED culturally diverse, socially responsive public environmental and social ecologies”, is Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History art. An exhibition of case studies featuring the jointly hosted by Elam School of Fine Arts has won the Royal Society of New Zealand top 32 projects from around the world will be at the University of Auckland and Shandong 2015 Science Book Prize. The book, written on display at the Auckland Art Gallery during University of Art and Design, China. Happening by Dr Aroha Harris (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa), the conference, and the 2015 winner will from 1-4 July, the event will bring together Dr Atholl Anderson (Ngāi Tahu) and the be announced at a prize-giving dinner at the artists, curators, urban planners, architects late Dame Judith Binney, and published by gallery on Wednesday 1 July. and museum directors from around the world Bridget Williams Books, charts the sweep Projects as diverse as a floating school in to discuss art and its relationship to urban of Māori history from its ancient origins Nigeria, a restaurant serving cuisine from development. through to the twenty-first century. Aroha countries the USA is in conflict with, an The conference aims to encourage dialogue is a senior lecturer in History and a member experimental sexual politics initiative in India, about public art and the place-making of the , Atholl Anderson and a post-earthquake pavilion for the people practices contributing to the formation of is Professor Emeritus at the Australian of Christchurch, represent a selection of the ‘liveable cities’. Alongside keynote speakers, National University, and Dame Judith Binney rich, challenging, and divergent practice of creators of six of the finalist projects will was Professor Emeritus in History at the public art. present and discuss their work. University of Auckland. The International Award for Public Art is a Their book is the result of an extended biennial search for the most outstanding co-operation that began in 2007 with socially-engaged art projects. discussions involving the late Dame Judith, the other authors, and the publisher. Judith Binney died in 2011, but her PROUD FIRST FOR NEW ZEALAND scholarship, whose strong focus on Maori history stretched back more than 40 years, Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble Rutherford Medal and was the 2007 L’Oreal- remained central to the project and an (CNZM) has been named as one of this UNESCO Women in Science laureate in inspiration to the other contributors. year’s Distinguished Women in Chemistry or materials science for Asia Pacific. A passionate For an extended story, see the Staff Intranet Chemical Engineering by the International advocate for women in science, she is a Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). regular speaker at events showcasing her work Every second year IUPAC honours outstanding on drug discovery, including development of a BAFTA FOR ALUMNA women chemists from around the world. new drug (trofinetide) to treat Rett Syndrome. University of Auckland Screen Production Margaret is the first New Zealander to be alumna Kimberley Hikaka has won a BAFTA as named, and will receive the honour during the co-producer of the multiple BAFTA winning IUPAC Congress in Busan, South Korea. series The Lost Honour of Christopher Margaret is Chair of Organic Chemistry Jefferies. The two-part ITV drama, based and Director of Medicinal Chemistry in the on events following the murder of Joanna School of Chemical Sciences and of Biological Yeates in 2010, was awarded two Baftas for Sciences. She is a Principal Investigator in best mini-series and best actor. The BAFTA the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular is another addition to a successful career Biodiscovery, Chair of the RSNZ Rutherford that has seen Kimberley work as a Production Foundation and Vice-President of IUPAC Executive across UK scripted productions Organic and Biomolecular Division. including Downton Abbey, Any Human Heart, She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Page Eight and Whitechapel. Chemistry, UK, and the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is also a recipient of the

4 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF COVER STORY

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

The Uninews cover photo for this issue is there for a number of reasons, including the Campus include built environment, structures, an historic one, catching the spirit of an event “crucial importance of science and engineering earthquake, fluids and transport. For described by University Chancellor, Dr Ian research”. postgraduate study, four research themes have Parton, as one of the most significant in the “In 2013 -2014 we have seen an increase been identified, including health technologies, University’s history. of 5.7% in engineering enrolments of fulltime manufacturing and materials, novel technologies The photo shows the unveiling of the plaque students at bachelors level ... This is encouraging in manufacturing and sustainable energy on 13 May by Hon Steven Joyce, Minister of because there is now a very clear path for New systems.A highlight of the opening for the official Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, Zealand students.” guests was a tour of the new facilities. marking the official opening of the University’s He spoke of the University of Auckland’s Photo: Seen on the tour: a student at work. new Newmarket Campus. Also speaking at the significant contributions to advances in ceremony were Dean of Engineering Professor technology - and of the part played by Auckland Nick Smith; Ian Parton; Mayor of Auckland, Len UniServices Ltd in helping commercialise these Brown – and Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart advances. McCutcheon. Len Brown spoke of the importance of the The joint celebration included guests from a campus and its research facilities in supporting wide range of industry and business along with long-term growth “to deliver to our city the full faculty staff and reepresentatives of central and benefits of a multidisciplinary research University local government as an acknowledgement of the ... This is a great moment not just for the part all have played in the establishment of the University but for the city,” he said. new campus. It also recognised the potential Professor Stuart McCutcheon described for the new facilities at Newmarket to have the new campus as “a centre for world-class wide-ranging impacts in industry and business research where our staff and postgraduate and to contribute to the New Zealand economy students will continue to develop and produce through technological advances in earthquake new technologies and science that will help take engineering, yacht research and robotics. New Zealand into the future.” Hon Steven Joyce said he was pleased to be The core themes of research at Newmarket BRAIN RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND LAUNCHED

A national collaboration in brain research was academics and leaders from the University of launched using a live link to the University of Auckland, University of Otago and Auckland Otago from the Centre for Brain Research on University of Technology. the Grafton Campus in May. This CoRE aims to unlock the mysteries of the In keeping with its status as a virtual Centre ageing brain to develop treatments that improve Left to right are Professor John Fraser, Dean of Medical of Research Excellence (CoRE), the launch of the quality of life of senior New Zealanders. and Health Sciens ces, Hon Steven Joyce and Brain Research New Zealand was able to involve Science and Innovation Minister Hon Steven Distinguished Professor Richard Faull. Joyce spoke on the nine-year trajectory the CoRE partners had to go through to obtain the governmental funding of $29.8 million. He also highlighted the importance of CoREs as a meaningful catalyst for increasing the quality of New Zealand-based research through networking and collaboration across the tertiary sector. “Brain Research New Zealand aims to promote innovative and imaginative collaborative research between leading research groups and clinicians and it’s exciting to be here for the official launch” said Mr Joyce. Distinguished Professor Richard Faull from the Centre for Brain Research and Professor Cliffe Left to right are Dr Christine Ilse, Dr Erin Cawston, Associate Professor Bromwyn Connor, Associate Professor Lynette Abrahams from the University of Otago, as co- Tippett, Associate Professor Cathy Stinear, Professor Ngaire Kerse, Sue Giddens (Neurological Foundation of New Zealand), Dr Nicola Kayes (Auckland University of Technology), Kathryn McPherson (Health Research Council) and Dr Malvinder directors of BRNZ, co-hosted the launch. Singh-Bains.

MARCH 2014 | UNINEWS 5 MY STORY STAFF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Hamilton. When Great Grandad himself passed TELL ME ABOUT YOUR BEST TEACHER away, there was a procession down the main When I was first here at the University doing street of Hamilton with his coffin on one of his old Architecture Intermediate, I had an Italian coal carts. The business was eventually sold and teacher called Meme who was so passionate became the Waikato arm of Mainfreight. Soon about Italy, about the language, about the after, my parents moved to Auckland. My dad people, that you were taken on a journey. She was in sales and marketing of pharmaceuticals made you feel you were part of her culture. so when my sister and I were at school we had Lecturers like her teach one about the passion great fun answering people when they asked for learning. what he did: “He deals in drugs.” I was lucky both sets of my grandparents were IN JUST ONE SENTENCE DESCRIBE THE alive as I was growing up. One had a large beach PURPOSE OF YOUR PRESENT POSITION. house at Waihi beach and the others had a large My office manages and runs the examination and farm at Tauriko, just outside Tauranga. Mum timetabling process as well as administering the and Dad farmed us off in the holidays to our University’s ad hoc room bookings. grandparents and my uncle and aunts did the same with my cousins, so I spent a lot of time DO YOU BELIEVE THAT WHAT YOU DO playing with them. I was on the farm a lot when CHANGES PEOPLE’S LIVES? I was young, so I like to think of myself as a bit of I love the University and I feel we are doing rural boy. something that is adding to society. I look at these kids who come in here and leave as young WHAT DID YOU LOVE TO LEARN ABOUT IN adults. For us, making a difference as a central DARREN WOODWARD YOUR EARLY LIFE? service is really making sure we have a student Darren Woodward is the University’s Exam I loved books as a child and still do - mainly non- voice in the mix. Last year we introduced a and Timetable Services Manager with fiction. My parents would often find me poring timetable planner tool. We timetable with a very Academic Services. Darren went to Lynfield through encyclopedias. I also loved to draw, strong student voice. If we do it right it makes College and worked for a year before being a bit of a frustrated architect. I would people’s lives easier without them even noticing. beginning tertiary study. He has a Bachelor of spend time drawing houses and buildings as a You know like Downton Abbey: what’s going on Arts majoring in Politics and Art History from kid and then building them out of lego. downstairs needs to be invisible to upstairs. the University of Auckland, and a Graduate Music was a big part of my childhood, mostly as Diploma in Business Administration. More a result of influence from Dad’s side of the famiy. WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT THE recently he completed a Graduate Diploma As a child, Dad had a folk band, doing covers JOB? in Theology and is currently enrolled in a of the Beatles and the Kingston Trio. Grandma The job came out of a change process and we Postgraduate Diploma in Theology. Ruby was a renowned contralto, touring regularly have continued to engage with a continuous After university, Darren worked for AC at Christmas singing in The Messiah. As a family improvement model: not looking at what we do Neilson, Telecom, Ubix and then Renaissance we still go every year in her memory. In spite before joining the staff of the Auckland of Dad’s passion for folk music, my sister and I College of Education in 2000 to work as a data developed a love of jazz, and my eldest niece is Daren with his baby sister Rachel analyst and on special projects. The College named after Ella Fitzgerald. There was always amalgamated with the University in 2004 and music in the house. Dad played the guitar with in 2009 he was seconded to the Automated Mum harmonising. As children my sister and I Timetable Project and eventually became had our own good night songs which Mum and Timetable Services Manager. Two years ago Dad would play and sing to us, and we would go that role was broadened so that he became to sleep hearing them still playing and singing in Timetable and Exams services manager. the living room.

WHAT DID YOU ENJOY DOING WHEN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR FIRST JOB EVER WERE A CHILD? Aside from work on my grandparents’ farm, I was II grew up in a very close-knit old Hamilton probably in the 7th form when I had a holiday family. My great grandfather, Edward J job at Rickett & Colemen where Dad had become Woodward, had a cartage business originally marketing manager. I was working on the carting coal. He was also good friends with process lines, making things like Frend, Cossack, Michael Joseph Savage. When Savage died Coleman’s spongy puds. It was a very old-school in office in 1940, his body was returned to work environment with managers in their part Auckland by train and during the journey the of buildings, with separate dining rooms and cortege stopped at major centres for the public entrances. Working in the factory you were to pay their respects. Great Grandad was one treated differently by the regular staff for being of the pall bearers when the train arrived at one of the holiday army of managers’ children.

6 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF FRANK LICHTENBERK 1945-2015

as best practice, but constantly looking at how he produced a steady stream of meticulously we can do better. It’s one of our strengths and researched, rigorously argued and beautifully I have managed to get my team engaged with presented original articles in linguistic typology that vision. To see their ideas being implemented including grammaticalisation, covering a wide- and making actual improvements is very ranging topics such as reciprocal constructions, empowering. reflexive constructions, possessive constructions, interrogatives, tense, aspect and WHAT HAVE YOU ACHIEVED THAT YOU modality. In addition he also made important ARE VERY PLEASED ABOUT? contributions to Oceanic comparative-historical The implementation of standardised system- linguistics, in both the lexical and phonological based timetabling. We are viewed as institutional domains, and as an extension of this leaders in student timetabling. We are constantly comparative-historical work, he reconstructed asked to speak, to be advisers for other aspects of the culture and society of speakers of universities. We did the project really well and Proto Oceanic utilising linguistic evidence. got things right. Frank was not only an outstanding and Dr Frank Lichtenberk, Associate Professor highly-respected scholar, but also an inspiring WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOING WHEN of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, teacher and a dedicated supervisor for his YOU’RE NOT WORKING? passed away tragically on Wednesday, 29 students. In addition, his contribution to the Everyone who knows me is aware that I am an April 2015. development of linguistics at the University of avid (and unabashed) Anglophile and I’m a After completing his PhD on the Manam Auckland was significant. When the Institute staunch monarchist, so I enjoy English telly and language (spoken in Papua New Guinea) at of Language Teaching and Learning and the Brit-lit. To unwind, I enjoy spending time in my the University of Hawai’i under the guidance of Institute of Linguistics were amalgamated into garden, especially if the cat deigns to grace me Andrew Pawley and George Grace, Frank joined the Department of Applied Language Studies and with her presence. I am also very involved with St the University of Auckland in 1980. Through Linguistics, Frank was enormously supportive Marks Anglican Church in Remuera. I am a Synod an academic career of more than thirty years, and worked hard to ensure that the new Rep and I help with worship and occasionally he made a great contribution mainly to the department proceeded smoothly. His open- teach Sunday school. But for me work is not study of Oceanic languages and linguistics. Of mindedness and ability to work with everyone in one box and my outside life another; one his extensive work on Oceanic languages and was greatly appreciated. needs to have a lifestyle component within one’s linguistics, his most conspicuous monuments Frank was a compassionate but very private working day and enjoy the work one does. I am are two remarkable descriptive grammars: person. He was incredibly self-effacing and even very lucky to have a career at the Univerity that a 634–page grammar of Manam (University shy. With his passing, we have lost not only a gives me both. of Hawai’i Press, 1983) and a 1300-page great scholar but a cherished colleague and grammar of To’aba’ita (spoken in the Solomon a wonderful person as well. He will be greatly Islands) (Walter de Gruyter 2008), and a 395- missed by his friends, colleagues and students. page accompanying dictionary of Ta’aba’ita (Oceanic Linguistics, 2008), based on two Yan Huang, Professor of Linguistics, on behalf decades of fieldwork. Each represents the of all staff in linguistics and applied language most comprehensive grammar of any Oceanic studies at the University of Auckland language to date. During the same period,

WHAT’S ON CAMPUS

FOOD ALLERGIES FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY LEGAL SOLUTIONS 9 JUNE, 1-2PM The University is hosting the following 12 JUNE , 8.15AM-5.45PM O260-310 (Decima Glenn Room) exhibitions as part of the Auckland Festival of University Marae, Waipapa Owen G Glenn Building Photography. This symposium will explore Maori engagement Parenting and a Career Seminars give a chance Fiona Amundsen: The Imperial Body with extractive industry, both off-shore for staff to hear from leading researchers about Gus Fisher Gallery, 2 June-11 July. and on-shore. The speakers will consider topics relevant to those combining parenting and recent developments in international law on a career. In this seminar, Associate Professor John Fields: Signature Series government regulation and business policy Clare Wall from the Department of Nutrition Gus Fisher Gallery, 2 June-11 July. and practice including the United Nations will present an overview of food allergies and Guiding Principles on Business and Human intolerances and discuss their signs and The Simon Devitt Award for Photography Rights, and the UN Declaration on the Rights symptoms. Hear about why they are increasingly Elam Projectspace Gallery, 27 May-6 June of Indigenous Peoples. Those attending will prevalent in New Zealand and learn about include people from the extractive industries, iwi dietary management strategies. RSVP to equity@ Andrew de Freitas: Nothing Anymore and Government. Contact email is lawevents@ auckland.ac.nz Elam Projectspace Gallery, 9 June - 20 June auckland.ac.nz

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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER CELEBRATE TOGETHER Melissa Ansell-Bridges and her mother Judith Ansell (seen in the photo below) both graduated at the Autumn ceremonies: Melissa with a BA/ LLB (Hons) and Judith with a PhD in Biomedical Science. Melissa works in the Office of the Vice- Chancellor as the Policy and Compliance Officer. She completed her dissertation on police pursuit policy in New Zealand while working part-time on the University’s policy project and at one stage took a year off and went to Zambia where she worked in development – sex education and SHARING THE PLEASURE collaborated on projects, including a design for HIV education. Her mother, Judith, after working There was plenty of reason to celebrate at the Brickbay Sculpture Trust Folly Contest, which in a research position at the Liggins Institute the School of Architecture and Planning as was one of five finalists for the prize, and an with Distinguished Professor Jane Harding, teaching staff were on hand to see their offspring installation for Urbis Design Day. then began work as a psychologist collecting graduate. Sacha now joins both his parents in the data for two Australasian studies. This work Head of School Dr Elizabeth Aitken Rose joined profession – his mother is a conservation eventually led to her PhD, which was supervised the audience at Graduation to see her daughter architect as well as teaching part time at the by Jane Harding and co-supervised by Associate Raphaela Rose receive her degree, alongside University. Raphaela, whose mother Elizabeth Professor Trecia Wouldes (Psychological Sacha Milojevic, the son of Senior Lecturer is an urban planner says she was influenced by Medicine). Michael Milojevic. Both received Masters of discussions at home about how the environment Architecture (Professional) degrees. shapes and forms society. As well as progressing through Architecture Above from left to right are Elizabeth and School together, Raphaela and Sacha also Raphaela, Sacha and Michael.

DOUBLE THE PRIDE Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Kean Aw, was among the crowd of proud parents at Autumn Graduation, as twin sons Kyvin and Kyson were awarded bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Geology respectively. The fact both boys chose science over engineering is fine by him. “I was happy for them to choose whatever they were interested in and while I like the applied nature of engineering, I realise that without science, engineers would have nothing to apply,” says Kean.

ALL IN THE FAMILY For Distinguished Professor Marston Conder this year’s Autumn Graduation ceremony marked the moment both his sons formally follow in his footsteps. Marston (far left) is a pioneering mathematician, an internationally-renowned Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, who was last year awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Hector Medal. Younger son Matthew (seen with Marston) graduated in April with a BSc in Maths and Chemistry, following older brother Jonathan who is already studying towards a PhD in Maths at the University of California, San Diego. Matthew is now an honours student.

8 THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND NEWS FOR STAFF IN THE SPOTLIGHT

UNINEWS highlights some of the University research milestones that have hit the headlines in the past month. INDIGENOUS EDUCATION The Financial Times (UK) interviewed Associate Professor Manuka Henare (Mira Szaszy Research Centre) and Senior Lecturer Dr Chellie Spiller (Management & International Business) for a story on indigenous education in New Zealand. The article explains the values taught in the ONE OF FOUR Postgraduate Diploma in Māori Development Nursing honours graduate, Tori Prendergast, at the Business School. The article, written is one of four who were the first to qualify at this by a London-based New Zealand journalist, year’s Autumn Graduation in an innovative two- was four years in the making. The title was year programme that combines postgraduate “Ancient wisdom helps Mäori students study with a leadership programme. navigate business”. Tori and her peers (Michelle Cameron, Kimberley McAuley, and Sara Hablous) achieved COUGHS AND COLDS the Nursing Honours degree based at Waikato Lecturer Dr Andrea Braakhuis (Nutrition) Hospital and will graduate with first class had widespread coverage of her research honours. that shows eating flavonoids found in lots of This postgraduate nursing honours fruit and vegetables plus green tea and red qualification is the first of its kind internationally wine, helps to stave off cold and cough bugs. and was developed to increase the number of This achieved media hits in the UK’s Daily nursing leaders in the Waikato. Mail, in India on the World News Network, in Australia in the Herald Sun and on many online sites and in New Zealand in the NZ Herald, the NBR Food Industry weekly and in regional newspapers. A FIRST FOR PACIFIC STUDIES Dr Falaniko Tominiko, who graduated with a SINGLE WOMEN PhD in April, is the not the first to graduate with a The launch of a study on the attitudes and PhD from the Department of Pacific Studies. experiences of young single women in New However he is the first to have gone right Zealand gained wide media coverage as through in Pacific Studies, starting with a BA, it coincided with the end of reality show then completing a BA (Hons) and an MA, both The Bachelor. Associate Professor Ginny with first class honours, followed by a PhD – Braun (Psychology) was interviewed by TV3, and is therefore a source of great pride for the Morning Report, and also featured in the department. print media. For his PhD study, Falaniko examined the changing roles of the traditional paramount HOME OWNERSHIP chiefs of Polynesia, interviewing such figures as A cross-faculty research project on rates of Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi (Head of State of Māori home ownership was covered widely Samoa), Lord Tu’ivakano (former Prime Minister by broadcast media with interviews by of Tonga), Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi (Former Vice SHARING A MILESTONE Associate Professor Chris Sibley (Psychology) President of Fiji), Pa Ariki Marie Peyroux (Former New Zealand’s first home-grown data and Dr Carla Houkamau from the Faculty of President of the Cook Islands House of Ariki) scientists graduated in April – along with the Business (Management and International and Sir Tumu Te Heuheu (Arikinui of the Ngati lecturer who founded the programme they are Business) on NewstalkZB, RadioLIVE, Radio Tuwharetoa Iwi). graduating from. Waatea and Radio NZ. While currently at Unitec as Principal Associate Professor Sebastian Link Academic Adviser, Pacific, Falaniko is also (Computer Science), received the Doctor of working with Dr Melani Anae (Pacific Studies) Science degree in recognition of his work to as a Research Fellow on her Marsden-funded set up the “Master of Professional Studies – Project. Data Science” programme, the first of its type With Falaniko in the photo is his son, Marques in New Zealand. Tominiko, his “PhD baby”, born in the first year of Sebastian is pictured (centre) with the first his doctoral studies. two graduates from the programme: Jeeva Gunesan (left) and Pieta Brown.

MARCH 2014 | UNINEWS 9 FROM THE COLLECTION ART COLLECTION

sculpture was the impetus given to reviving Toka (Ngāti Whatua), who had been a temporary customary crafts through the Adult Education captain in the Māori Battalion, and his wife Mere initiatives at Auckland University College in the Toka (Ngati Ruanui from Hawera). 1950s. This couple recruited students from the A Māori advisory committee was established Auckland University College Māori Club and for Adult Education in 1945, tasked with pupils from Māori secondary schools to decorate mitigating Māori urban alienation through the the entrance hall of Ellesmere House, (the teaching of Māori arts and cultural history to Edwardian house at 21 Princes Street which is establish what was described as “pride of race now a childcare centre), with kowhaiwhai and and cultural achievement”. In 1949, the first tukutuku to make it a total environment for study tutor, Maharaia Winiata (1912-1960), was of Māori art. A newspaper article announced appointed. “Ancient Maori Arts Practised in City” in the Maharaia was responsible for setting up Auckland Star on 21 July 1954, and featured classes and learning centres from North a photograph of Fay Reid, Judy Ruha, Grace Auckland to Christchurch and he was joined in Henare and Julia Ngare posing with some 1954 by the educator and urban leader Matiu tukutuku that they have made. Te Hau (1912-1978), the tutor-organiser in These tukutuku panels have been preserved North Auckland. A grant from the Māori Purposes by Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori Jim Peters in Alfred Fund, made by the then National Government’s Nathan House and will soon be reinstalled in the Minister of Māori Affairs, Hon. E. B. Corbett paid Clocktower. They were cleaned and exhibited their salaries. Material and equipment were at Gus Fisher Gallery in January in an exhibition In writing the history of art in Aotearoa/New supplied by the Waitemata Tribal Executive from curated by Museums and Cultural Heritage Zealand, much attention has been focused on monies it had gathered from functions held at postgraduate student Taarati Taiaroa. She the exhibitions and activities of painters and the Māori Community Centre. These men were researched the materials and methods used to sculptors of the Māori Renaissance in the 1950s. followed by a graduate of the Rotorua School make the tukutuku, discovering that they were Equally important to the revival of painting and of Māori Arts and Crafts, master carver Henare woven with black and white kiekie and yellow

WHAT’S COMING OUT

AFTERLIVES PRAGMATICS The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum: Recycling Concepts, Sites and Memories is, in the words of Michael Dear from the University of California Berkeley, a fascinating piece of academic detection [that] traces what happens to psychiatric asylums after they are closed. Who would have guessed that these forbidding monoliths would someday be reinvented as WHAT’Scollege campuses, housing COMING estates and theme OUT parks?” Written by geographer Professor Robin Kearns (Environment) with Graham Moon from the University of Southampton in the UK and Alun A fully revised and updated second edition Linguistics), which was placed 36th in the Joseph from the University of Guelph in Canada of Professor Yan Huang’s highly successful QS World University Rankings by subject for

Afterlives.PPC_1296 10/02/2015 09:42 Page 1 SPINE ASHGATE SERIES 1296 and published by Ashgate,xxmm thisAUTHOR Moon book PPC BOARD 240X156MM focusescmyk textbook on pragmatics – the study of language 2013-2014. Pragmatics, first published in The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum on the GEOGRAPHIES“recycling” OF HEALTH of in use – has been released by Oxford University 2006, is being translated into a number of Series Editors: Allison Williams, McMaster University, Canada and Susan Elliott, University of Waterloo, Canada

bothThe Afterlives the of the Psychiatric idea Asylum of the Press. languages, with Korean, Malaysian and Chinese The Recycling of Concepts, Sites and Memories Graham Moon, University of Southampton, UK, Robin Kearns, University of The Afterlives of the Auckland, New Zealand and Alun Joseph, University of Guelph, Canada

psychiatricThe last 40 years has seen a significant shift fromasylum state commitment to asylum-based mental The second edition of Pragmatics includes translations already published. health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this Psychiatric Asylum deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care. The consequences for the idea and fabric of the psychiatric asylum have remained 'stones unturned'. This book address an enduring yet under-examined question: what has become of the asylum? The Recycling of Concepts, Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and andlandscapes, its this book makessites, theoretical connections to currentbuildings trends in mental health care and a brand new chapter on reference, a major Drawing on data from English and a wide to ideas in cultural/urban geography. The process of closing asylums and how asylums have Sites and Memories survived in specific contexts and markets is assessed and consideration given to the enduring attraction of asylum and its repackaging as well as to retained mental health uses on former asylum sites, new uses on former sites, and interpretations of the derelict psychiatric asylum. The key questions examined are the challenges posed in seeking new uses for former asylums, the extent to which re-use can transcend stigma yet sustain memory and how location is critical in andshaping thelandscapes, future of asylum and asylum sites. topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of range of the world's languages, it shows

This fascinating piece of academic detection traces what happens to psychiatric asylums after they are closed. Who’d have guessed that these forbidding monoliths would someday be reinvented as college campuses, housing estates and theme parks? Using case studies from around the world, the authors reveal how the imposing ruins of past good intentions are transformed into a mundane present. GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALTH making theoreticalMichael Dear, University of California, Berkeley, USA language. It has been labelled a best-seller by how pragmatics is related to the study of Graham Moon, Robin Kearns Graham Moon, Robin Kearns connections to current OUP, which describes Yan Huang as “one of the semantics, syntax, and sociolinguistics and trends in mental health and Alun Joseph leading scholars in the field”. to such fields as the philosophy of language, and to ideas in cultural Yan Huang is co-ordinator of Linguistics linguistic anthropology, and artificial Graham Moon, Robin Kearns and Alun Joseph and urban geography. (within the School of Cultures, Languages and intelligence.

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TALKING SCIENCE

Two years ago, towards the end of my term very few scientific perspectives on the story and skills and those who have put the sustained effort as President of the New Zealand Association debunked some of the wilder theories being needed to build relationships with journalists. of Scientists, a journalist asked me an aired in the media. With this, Dr Wiles quickly It is difficult work, made more difficult at times astonishing question. News of the possible became the go to person for the media, and by the lack of recognition by colleagues or detection of harmful bacteria in a batch finally, some sound science started appearing in institutions. of Fonterra’s milk powder had just broken, news reports. It is also important to understand that the but the media was struggling to find any Like many researchers who have stepped media has changed. The business model experts who would speak about the tests. up in a crisis, Dr Wiles asked herself that if she that supported public interest journalism for The journalist who called me wanted to know didn’t do it, who would? Yet, as she noted in centuries is on the brink of collapse. Only Radio whether scientists had gone quiet because the her address to the New Zealand Association of New Zealand can support specialist science government was muzzling them. Scientists Conference, Going Public, in April, the reporters these days. If you are not pro-active in I was surprised. The government has no ability reaction from many of her colleagues was far working with the media, they will often not have to silence the science community. Although the from positive. To some, it seemed that she had the time or resources to come knocking. As Fiona government owns the Crown Research Institutes, spoken out of turn. And sadly, as we learned from Fox, head of the UK Science Media Centre, puts it they are not subject to the restrictions that other delegates at the conference in April, her “the media will do science better when scientists the public service face on communicating with experiences are far from unique. It seems that learn to do the media better”. the media. And the responsibility of academic the scientific community can be its own worst If we want a better informed public in New scientists to speak out is spelled out in the enemy. Zealand – and dare I say it, a public prepared Section 162 of the Education Act, where it is Communicating with the public, whether to put more tax dollars into university research made clear that we have a role as the “critic through the media or otherwise, is often seen – then the least we can do is support our and conscience of society”. For the most part, as a less than serious pursuit for scientists – colleagues who are working hard to bring this scientists are free to speak out as they choose. something best left for the twilight of one’s about. In practice, things are not so simple. In the career, or to be attempted in the lead up to ■■ case of the milk powder scare, many scientists that crucial funding round. Time on twitter is who did have the expertise felt conflicted time away from the lab, a trade-off that no true Shaun Hendy is Professor of Physics and through their relationships with Fonterra, the scientist – god forbid, one early in their career Director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries, or AgResearch. - should be prepared to make. And when an Centre of Research Excellence focused on the The silence that resulted meant that uninformed, articulate young scientist upstages us in the study of complex systems and networks. He is fringe voices began to get airtime. media, it can ruffle our greying feathers. a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand One of the few experts who did speak out Yet communication is a skill, and working with and a past winner of the Prime Minister’s was University of Auckland microbiologist Dr the media requires a great deal of commitment. Science Media Communication Prize. Siouxsie Wiles. Writing on her well-known blog, The scientists who we hear from in public are Infectious Thoughts, she provided one of the those that have chosen to work hard at these