Breadcrumbs List.
Doctoral
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How can we pollute our land like this?
15 May 2018
Opinion: Water, it was there at the start of all things and it binds us all together, no matter our colour race or creed. But water is also a political issue. There is no question about that; it bridges all realms of politics and crosses all political boundaries. Tragically, there is also no question about the terrible impact we are having on our water in almost every corner of the world.
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Making architecture a more touching experience
11 May 2018
Anthony Brand would like our architectural encounters to be more meaningful. The thirty-three year-old believes that if we prioritised how buildings made us feel instead of how they look, we could create more touching architectural experiences.
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Parent concerns for disabled children drive PhD
10 May 2018
Hoping your child dies before you is a strong sign of how distraught some parents feel PhD graduate Hemant Thakkar found.
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Graduate sets sights on new way of vision screening
8 May 2018
The old eye chart of diminishing-sized letters used for vision screening might soon be a thing of the past, thanks to work by a University of Auckland student graduating this week.
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Artist transforms the space between 'dis' and 'ability'
3 May 2018
You might well have questioned what you were seeing if you'd happened upon a recent performance by Suzanne Cowan: dancer, choreographer, teacher, and wheelchair user.
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Some inconvenient truths about Syria
17 April 2018
Opinion: The air strikes against Syria are not about a moral commitment to just war theory, they are a statement about alliances and enmities in a regional power struggle, writes the University of Auckland's Nicolas Pirsoul.
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Recycling heritage at the Kopu Bridge
6 April 2018
Opinion: To Coromandel holiday-makers the old Kopu bridge was synonymous with long traffic queues - but a determined community group sees it as so much more.
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Bigger waves needed to turn the tide on plastics
15 March 2018
Opinion: There is such a wide scope for reducing our plastic footprint, so where is it? asks the University of Auckland's Emily Joy Frost.
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Volcano research may safeguard communities
8 March 2018
Opinion: Ben Simons (Environment) talks about the passion of volcanologists worldwide, the annual #VolcanoCup and his research on constantly active Mt Yasur in Vanuatu.
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When is our Internet use a problem instead of a pleasure?
25 January 2018
We are all dependent on the internet in our daily lives, but do our levels of surfing the net sometimes get too high, to the detriment of our daily lives?