Read news items from our 2020 archives.
Three Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington postgraduate Museum and Heritage Studies students have received scholarships to pursue their studies this year, helping to preserve taonga and enriching current and future New Zealand museum practice.
When Wellington celebrated Wellington Heritage Week from 26 October to 1 November, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Master of Museum and Heritage Practice (MMHP) students were tasked with developing the Antrim House Open Day..
The Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has once again been ranked among the top 1% of the world’s universities in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The value Māori place on learning te reo Māori is strongly linked with Māori identity and societal attitudes, as well as cultural and community connections, according to research by Dr Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) from Te Kawa a Māui at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
A passion for women’s rights and international law saw Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington graduand Jessica Sutton win a Rhodes scholarship.
The 2020 recipients of the Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Scholarships are postgraduate student Kaitlin Abbott and BA/LLB student Esther Patu. For both young women, these scholarships are giving them the opportunity to focus on their studies without the added stress of how they will manage financially.
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researchers are conducting the New Zealand leg of an international project to analyse how political actors use social media to target, inform, interact with, mobilise and pursue voters in elections.
The Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Science's Centre for Strategic Studies will continue to teach its Master of Strategic Studies to students of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Advanced Command and Staff College. After a successful first three years, the contract has now been renewed for a further two years.
We can't begin to confront the challenges of an uncertain future unless we first try hard to imagine them beyond the comfortable yet dangerous certainties of the past, writes Professor of Ethics Nicholas Agar.
The plight of Thailand’s Shan youth highlights the inadequacies of international borders, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington anthropologist Dr Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul says.
