Read news items from our 2018 archives.
Dr Arini Loader has been awarded the new Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award for pushing the boundaries of māori studies by incorporating history, te reo Māori and literary studies into her research.
Nina Mingya-Powles, an Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences graduate with both an MA in Creative Writing and a BA with Honours in English Literature, is one of three recipients of the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize in the UK.
Congratulations to Professor John Psathas who has been awarded the status of Emeritus Professor at the New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Ground-breaking research from Schools across FHSS was highlighted at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) Research Showcase on 25 July.
Two Master’s students from Te Kawa a Māui (School of Māori Studies) recently presented at two international conferences.
Professor Jon Fraenkel from the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations was interviewed for World Politics Review on the results of the recent election in Fiji.
Rory McKenzie, PhD candidate in Literary Translation Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures, has recently been awarded the 2018 Jo-Anne Duggan Prize for Best Essay by the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), competing with students throughout New Zealand and across the Tasman.
Three New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī voice alumni have been cast in the London Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming performance of Bernstein’s operetta Candide.
Internationally acclaimed London-based New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson will open his first major solo exhibition in this country tomorrow at Victoria University of Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery.
Ground-breaking playwright and poet Lynda Chanwai-Earle has been appointed as the Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence for 2019.
