P-cubed Newsletters

Contents HeadsUp Last week at the Pacific Postgraduate Students Colloquium we were treated to the rich tapestries of three of our postgrad students’ lives.  Crystal Fa’asolo, Tyler Flanagan and Talia Mather offered fascinating and inspiring narratives of how...

Contents HeadsUp It was both insightful and enjoyable to participate in the Siapo-making workshop led by Doron Semu which ran over the last two Wednesdays. Who thought we’d be applying glue with our fingers and using an iron in the Ontology Lab?  I found satisfaction...

Contents HeadsUp I spent the weekend participating in the Small Island, Big Ideas writers festival on Aotea/Great Barrier. Across three days, there was rich dialogue on the character of island life, the meaning of being surrounded by sea and what being part of an...

Contents HeadsUp Last week was graduation and, given the sparkling spring day, what a celebratory colourful occasion it was. How heartening that so many staff were on stage and so many of our students graduated. So many of our people were in the thick of it: Michael...

Contents HeadsUp My career in high school Latin was brief, but long enough to remember the origins of the word education. It is ‘educare’: to bring out what is within.  Few colleagues I know are as skilled at achieving that goal as Melanie Wall. Hence it was my...

Contents HeadsUp Going the ‘extra mile’ First-up, big thanks to those who go the ‘extra mile’ for our School. Recently I thanked those who joined me in interviewing lectureship candidates until 10 pm on three evenings in a week. This time its thanks to those who...

Contents HeadsUp A full-on time continues in the engine room of the School.  First, My thanks to Murray, Sila, and Tom who joined me and representatives of FSC to interview candidates form the GISci lectureship (and to those of you who generously joined the online...

Contents HeadsUp As employees of the University, we’re used to reading between the lines, but rarely are we colouring between them. At a recent School morning tea celebrating Matariki, we were doing just that (see below for proof). Many thanks to Debbie Larkins...

Contents HeadsUp Two weeks rolls around quickly. Its suddenly the teaching semester again and we have had the second iteration of Matariki as a public holiday. In my community we gathered at 6am to observe the constellation in uncharacteristically clear skies, be...

Contents HeadsUp I write as I dash out the door to Wellington. In my capacity as a Board member of Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZ Geographic Board) I’m going to a launch by the Minister of Land Information at Parliament of new tangata whenua place names maps of our...