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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: And the OSCA goes to…
The University of Waikato has just purchased an industrial composter – the first unit of its kind in New Zealand. The OSCA Bite Size 200 can process 200kg of mixed organic waste per day, significantly reducing the University’s waste to landfill.
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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Building a team in the Bay
Construction of the University’s new home in Tauranga’s CBD is well underway, and behind the scenes we’re also busy building a team to support our growing presence in the Bay of Plenty. The team is comprised of both academic staff who will deliver our programmes to students and also general staff who are integral to supporting our students. Here, we introduce you to some of our key people, starting with Student Recruitment and Student Service team members.
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Source: Massey University – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Memorial bursary continues supporting student success
Hilary Kitt and Bruce Gallie from Colliers International present Scott Larcombe with his award.
This year’s Marcus Kitt Memorial Bursary has been awarded to final-year business student Scott Larcombe at a special presentation at Massey University’s Albany campus.
The former Rangitoto College student, who is studying for a Bachelor of Business with a double major in economics and property valuation, was chosen to receive the $5,000 bursary established by global real estate services company Colliers International.
The firm partnered with the Massey Business School to create the bursary in memory of long-serving staff member and Massey alumnus Marcus Kitt, who died in 2015 after developing a brain tumour. The father of two children had worked for Colliers for eight years in Auckland, London and Jakarta.
The criteria for the bursary included strong academic achievement, good communication and interpersonal skills and the potential to succeed in a real estate career, all characteristics exemplified by Marcus Kitt.
Massey property lecturer Alan Pope said Mr Larcombe was a worthy recipient of the annual prize.
“Scott is an excellent student with a proven academic record in both his property and economics majors,” Mr Pope said. “He also stands out in his class as a great communicator, working well with fellow students and staff alike.”
Mr Larcombe said he was “overjoyed to be recognised for all of the hard work that I have put into my studies”.
“I am currently working nightshifts to cover the cost of my study,” he said. “This bursary will take some of the financial stress off my shoulders. The bursary is also an affirmation of my choice to study property and has really helped to grow my passion for the subject – and I hope that this will show in my future grades.”
Mr Larcombe believes the bursary will also enhance his employability when he graduates.
“I hope the contacts that I have made here at university, and through the bursary, will help me to start a long and successful career,” he said.
Marcus Kitt’s widow, Hilary Kitt, and Colliers’ chief operating officer in New Zealand, Bruce Gallie, were on hand to present Mr Larcombe with his award.
“The bursary is designed to encourage excellence in real estate studies and is an ideal memorial to Marcus,” Mr Gallie said. “We hope it encourages students to consider a commercial property career, assisting them at a financial level to do so.”
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Source: Massey University – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Landscape specialist to give annual photography lecture
One of Professor Jem Southam’s most renowned images The Pig, the Lamb and the Goat
Professor Jem Southam
One of the most respected British photographers of the last 25 years, colour landscape specialist Jem Southam, delivers a public talk organised by Massey University’s Wellington College of Creative Arts on Saturday.
Professor Southam will be delivering the annual Peter Turner Memorial Lecture at Te Papa’s Soundings Theatre on Saturday March 10 at 6.30pm. His lecture titled Landscape Stories: Encounters, Voices and Pictures will address the complexity of the landscape genre in the light of his own career as a photographer, whose work results from the patient observation of singular sites, usually near where he lives, over long periods of time.
Professor Southam’s work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions dating back to the 1980s at venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum and part of international collections featured in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum Folkswang, Dusseldorf and the Yale Centre for British Art at New Haven.
As Professor of Photography at Plymouth University, Professor Southam has developed a method of slow accrual of images, which are then presented in structured narratives revealing a complexity of personal, political, literary, psychological and cultural associations.
While now working digitally, much of Professor Southam’s work has been made using a large format camera to produce 8 x 10 inch colour negatives. This is a slowed-down time-consuming image making process that requires patience and precision. When the resulting large format negatives are then enlarged to create c-type prints, the images reveal an extraordinary level of detail and degrees of tonal subtlety rarely matched by contemporary digital means.
The annual Peter Turner Memorial Lecture is hosted by Massey University, and each year brings to New Zealand an international photographer, theorist or historian, to discuss their work in the expanded field of contemporary documentary photography. The lecture was established in memory of the late Peter Turner, author, editor, curator and former teacher at the Wellington School of Design. Whiti o Rehua – The School of Art also offers a Masters scholarship in documentary photography in Peter Turner’s name.
Distinguished Professor Anne Noble from the School of Art says Professor Southam is a notable addition to the list of photographers who have previously headlined the lecture.
“In a world where our experience of time is shaped by the traffic of instant photographic images on social media, Jem Southam’s slowly accrued photographic narratives of singular places as us to stop still and reflect on environmental change within much larger and longer time frames.”
Professor Southam’s lecture is part of Wellington’s biennial Photobook New Zealand Festival that showcases artists’ photobooks published by New Zealand and international small presses at a photobook fair at Te Papa on Friday and Saturday March 10-11. The New Zealand Photobook of the Year Awards will be announced at the Festival launch on March 10 at 7.30pm.
The Peter Turner Memorial Lecture is on at 6.30pm, Saturday March 10, Soundings Theatre, Te Papa, Wellington. Go to www.photobooknz.com for more details
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Source: Massey University – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Opinion: Transgender guidelines need to be carefully considered
Professor Steve Stannard argues sporting bodies must carefully consider their rules about transgender athletes.
By Professor Steve Stannard
It’s better watching some sports played by women – a slightly slower-paced game can emphasise the importance of skill over power.
Field hockey is a great example, sevens rugby too, but if you like the “slap” of colliding flesh, then men’s rugby league might float your boat more than the women’s version.
Some sports are a little mind-numbing to watch on TV regardless of which gender is competing, golf for example. And in other sports, you’d not know, or perhaps care, which sex was in the drivers’ seat or pulling the trigger.
But when it comes to sport, competition and a level playing field, should we be talking about gender or sex?
The word “sex” in noun form is used most often to partition the male or female division of a species in relation to reproductive function and the physiological characteristics that generally accompany that.
The word “gender”, on the other hand, describes whether a person feels they are male or female, man or woman. Gender identification is an internal recognition that mostly, but not always, aligns with a person’s sex. When sex and gender don’t match, a person may be described as “transgender”.
In many sports, competitive success comes to the person who is the strongest and most powerful. Weightlifting is one such example. Sure, there is a good deal of technique involved in getting and holding a barbell above one’s head, but perfect technique is useless without the requisite physical strength.
To lift a heavy weight requires a strong skeleton and strong joints over which a large volume of muscle can safely do its work. Big muscles and small joints pushed hard will result in injury, like what would happen if you put a Ford Ranger engine into a Corolla and then try to pull a 3.5-tonne trailer.
Conversely, having big joints and small muscles would be akin to having the big strong Ranger’s chassis, but an engine barely capable of lugging the 2-tonne vehicle up a hill, let alone pulling a horse float.
The physiological characteristics that accompany the male sex include bigger muscles, thicker bones and wider stronger joints that provide a mechanical advantage. These develop in adolescence and are even more pronounced if worked hard during this important period of development. While muscle mass can come and go to some extent, the size of the skeleton and the structure of joints at maturity then remain the same throughout adult life.
Thus, an adult whose sex is male is generally going to outperform a female in strength and power sports tasks such as weightlifting, and almost certainly so if they are in similar body weight categories. This is regardless of self-identified gender.
The current situation regarding a transgender New Zealand weightlifter competing as a woman in the Commonwealth Games has raised some eyebrows across the ditch, where some have called for her to be banned. The Olympic Committee has a set of rules that govern the ability of transgender athletes to compete so the “playing field” is level. The Kiwi athlete appears to satisfy these.
So, should we just ignore the whining Aussies and let the athlete get on with going for gold?
The transgender rules that pertain to a wide range of sports do not take into account the ongoing physical advantages in pure strength that a person will have if they went through puberty as a male, and they certainly do not take into account the further advantage an athlete would have if they had previously competed as a male. The sport of weightlifting is much about strength.
Levelling the playing field properly would mean that a transgender athlete could not compete as a woman – it will almost never be the other way around – if they have previously competed as a post-pubertal male in the same sport.
The enjoyment of watching or participating in a sport, whether it be men or women competing, is underpinned by the knowledge that there is a set of rules that enable either side, be it through fitness, skill, or even luck, to come out as the winner. This is indeed why the sexes generally don’t compete against one another.
But when gender and sex collide transgender guidelines need to be carefully considered to ensure a level playing field or else participation in strength and power sports, particularly by women, will suffer.
Steve Stannard is a professor of exercise physiology from Massey University’s School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition.
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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: UOW hosts Tauranga Study Options Fair
On Friday 16 March, the University is hosting the Tauranga Study Options Fair to introduce our new Tauranga city campus, the academic programmes that will be offered and the student experience that will be unique to the beautiful Bay of Plenty.
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Source: Tertiary Education Union – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Students, staff and tertiary education sector leaders call for change
Students, staff, and institutional leaders represented at the Voices from Tertiary Education forum on 1 March 2018 at Manukau Institute of Technology, have called on the Minister for Education, Chris Hipkins, to develop a new funding model for vocational education and training that meets the needs of all New Zealanders. Representatives at the forum called for […]
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Source: Massey University – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Synlait welcomed to Manawatū campus
Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith, cutting the ribbon to open Synlait Palmerston North, alongside Massey University Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas.
Synlait Palmerston North was officially opened last week on Massey University’s Manawatū campus.
Synlait is a dairy processing company which employs more than 550 people in Canterbury, Auckland, and now Palmerston North.
The Palmerston North team, based in the Riddet Complex, will primarily concentrate on innovative dairy liquid product development, as well as supporting processes and technology.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas opened the facility and highlighted the important new relationship between Synlait and the University.
“The establishment of Synlait’s new Research and Development Centre at Massey’s Manawatū campus is an excellent example of industry and the University collaborating closely to achieve real, tangible outcomes,” Professor Thomas said.
“Strategic partnerships like these are vital if we are to start and grow new industries, create new jobs, and remain competitive in the global marketplace. Massey University is New Zealand’s premier provider of food research and education, and at the forefront of pioneering such partnerships with the food industry,” she said.
Synlait managing director and chief executive officer John Penno said, “We’re very excited to be opening Synlait Palmerston North today, which is home to our new Research and Development Centre.
“We have some major opportunities in front of us. With the strong team and partnerships we’ve got in place to lead liquid innovation within our business, we won’t miss a beat,” Mr Penno said.
The team of 35 staff members will work within the Research and Development Team, but this will continue to grow as Synlait Palmerston North ramps-up its operations.
Among attendees were Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith, FoodHQ chief executive officer Dr Abby Thompson, and Distinguished Professors Harjinder Singh and Paul Moughan of the Riddet Institute.
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