Students unhappy over university travel bill
Last night TVNZ One News ran with the story that the University of Auckland spent $24 million last year on travel for staff. It was a pretty emotive bit of journalism: “Our biggest university is...
View ArticleOpen Access Week 2012
As Open Access Week draws to a close for 2012, I thought I would follow the fabulous Dr Fabiana Kubke’s lead and post the slides* I presented at the Stratus Open Access panel discussion on Thursday....
View ArticleGovernment announces new Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs)
The NZ government today announced the country’s next Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs), who between them will receive just under $35 million per year for 6 years starting in January 2015. They...
View ArticlethinkScience day at the Auckland Arts Festival
Saturday the 14th of March sees the debut of thinkScience*, a mini-festival of science being held as part of the Auckland Arts Festival family weekend and White Night. We may be starting small, but we...
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