Genetics a game changer in getting Kiwis fitter
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Christchurch – The role of genetics, and how it relates to people’s nutrition, exercise and health is an absolute game changer when it comes to Kiwis improving their lives, a leading New Zealand exercise expert says. ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie says the science of genetics has been around for […]
Read More →Waikato DHB welcomes $3 million plus in grants for important Waikato health research projects
MIL OSI – Source: Waikato District Health Board – Release/Statement Headline: Waikato DHB welcomes $3 million plus in grants for important Waikato health research projects Photo: Prof Ross Lawrenson Waikato District Health Board (DHB) is proud that three research projects it has strong links with are recipients of major grants from the last Health Research […]
Read More →Impassioned plea for rural health research funding
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Mystery Creek – The head of the national rural health group today made an impassioned plea for the government to consider much-needed rural research. Michelle Thompson, chief executive of the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ) says there is a strong feeling that rural health outcomes are poorer than […]
Read More →Research needed for more women get into tech careers
MIL OSI – Wellington – New Zealand needs more research on why younger generations of women are not considering a career in Tech and why we see a high dropout of women dropout of the workforce, a NZTech leader says. Eva Sherwood, an Oracle account executive and NZTech board member, says greater collaborative efforts need […]
Read More →Amanda Watson: Does PNG rank highly for internet porn searches?
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Dr Amanda Watson In Papua New Guinea, the Post-Courier featured a front-page story with the headline “PNG tops world in ‘porn’ search” on January 17. In previous years, there have also been similar stories asserting that PNG beats all other countries when it comes to internet searches […]
Read More →Pacific ‘cyberbullying’, PNG student protests, ‘free’ media featured in PJR
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz A mini-documentary about 20 years of publication of the research journal Pacific Journalism Review, produced by AUT University screen production and television student Sasya Wreksono to mark the publishing milestone. Video: PMC on YouTube Student protests at the University of Papua New Guinea that led to police opening […]
Read More →Shifting demographics in West Papua highlight conflict, says academic
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz A “Melanesia not Indonesia” solidarity demonstration with the banned Morning Star flag for West Papua in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Image: Vanuatu govt New statistics show indigenous Melanesians are not yet the minority they were previously thought to be in West Papua, reports Radio New Zealand International’s Dateline Pacific. […]
Read More →NZ ‘relentlessly Pākehā’ newsrooms improving, says researcher
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Journalists find there is a tension between honouring tikanga and needing to file stories to a deadline, says Julie Middleton. Image: 123RF There are still too few Māori in New Zealand’s newsrooms, media researcher Julie Middleton says. Middleton, who has worked for the New Zealand Herald, the Listener, […]
Read More →Out-of-date textbooks put sustainable development at risk, says report
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The cover image of the GEM gender report. Image: Kate Holt/UNESCO By Kate Redman in Paris A new study by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report shows secondary school textbooks from the 1950s until 2011 missed or misrepresented key priorities now shown as crucial to achieve sustainable […]
Read More →Arab Spring opened some media freedoms in spite of the overall clampdowns, shows researcher
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The Arab Spring opened the door to some greater freedoms in Middle East news media and some social change in spite of reverses from the political upheaval in the region. In a study of four countries in the Middle East in the period immediately following the Arab Spring […]
Read More →Aus ban on refugees goes against international law, says NGO
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz “They must know that the door to Australia is closed to those who seek to come here by boat with a people smuggler,” Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, announced this week. Image: ABC News The Australian government’s recent announcement to ban Manus Island and Nauru refugees arriving to […]
Read More →Competitive funding for research fails NZ again
MIL OSI – Source: Tertiary Education Union – Release/Statement Headline: Competitive funding for research fails NZ again Cutting funding to longitudinal research shows the government has a basic misunderstanding of the role of tertiary education, says TEU national president Sandra Grey. Grey says by cutting 5000 children from the Growing Up in NZ longitudinal study […]
Read More →New report details human rights abuses in West Papua
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz A new report detailing the human rights abuses in West Papua has been published this week. The research aims to convince Pacific leaders on providing full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). A Historic Choice: West Papua, Human […]
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