P-cubed Newsletters

Contents HeadSup Welcome back! …which, in the context of today’s Covid lockdown may cause you to reply “back to what?” Unfortunately, we appear to be reliving 2020 all over again and having to work from home. (Own up: how many of you have used...

Contents HeadSup Kia ora koutou Well done everyone getting to the end of 2020. It’s been a heck of a year. I would like to thank everyone for the enormous contributions made to stay operational under extraordinary circumstances. We have some staffing news....

Contents HeadSup Kia ora koutou I am sure that you are all experiencing an’end-year feeling’ and that this will have brought on varying degrees of relief and anxiety (all of the unfinished projects). It’s been an odd year and so I strongly encourage...

Contents HeadSup Kia ora koutou It’s nice to be winding down with only a few key academic activities remaining to tie off Semester 2, and some social events to look forward to in the lead up to the Christmas-New Year break. I hope to see all our PhD cohort and...

Contents HeadSup Kia ora koutou Happy Monday! We’ve reached the end of the teaching year, and what a ‘different’ one it turned out to be. I’m sure we are all looking forward to some rest, recovery and reflection; but it’s also a time for...

Contents HeadSup Mālō ni It’s Tokelau language week and the theme is ‘Apoapo tau foe, i nā tāfea i te galutau. Ke mau mai, ke mau mai’ which in English translates to, ‘Never give up hope, even amidst chaos and much uncertainty. Stay united, stay strong’....

Contents HeadSup Kia ora koutou It was so nice to catch up in 3-D with students in my 700-level course on Friday. I am amazed at the generosity of spirit our students extend to us, and the incredible effort our teaching and supervision teams have made to maintaining a...

Contents Vaiaso o te ‘Gana Tuvalu HeadSup Fakatalofa atu Spring has sprung and it is breezy…too breezy for some! I had a good look at the sheared off strut on the Harbour Bridge before it got swapped out for a pipe…wow!  Hasn’t it been an...

Contents Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori HeadSup Kia ora koutou This is a great week to give te reo a go. Here’s a really simple video on ‘How to pronounce te reo Māori‘. In our School, we often talk about places in our teaching, research and learning....

Contents COVID-19: work from home if you can Say yes to the test HeadSup Kia ora koutou Thanks very much to everyone who contributed feedback on the ENV 2021-2023 Strategic Plan: in total I received >8000 words of feedback, and not just from one author!...