Australia & NZ News

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 17 December to 13 January

This week: a hearing is adjourned, a health survey is launched and fellowships are awarded

ViewSecurity breached at Health Research Council of New Zealand

Few details given as research grant administrator scrambles to investigate ‘cybersecurity incident’

ViewNZ government told to overhaul environmental research funding

Spending on environmental research is hard to quantify and often misdirected, commissioner finds

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 10-16 December

This week: Massey protests, a call for panellists and a drop in international student numbers

ViewUrgent action needed on health research, government told

New Zealand must start translating research into better health outcomes, says advocacy alliance

ViewPest database to aid biosecurity research

New Zealand launches centralised database of 24,000 pests

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 3-9 December

This week: climate discussions, gene editing and a centre for Massey students in China

ViewScientists ‘shaken’ by White Island charges

New Zealand Association of Scientists calls for debate around free flow of scientific information

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 26 November to 2 December

This week: a glass ceiling, agritech funding and a study on participation in clinical trials

ViewUniversities need extra funds urgently, Hipkins told

NZ institutions ask education minister for help in coping with Covid-19 and an enrolment surge

ViewGeoscience institute taken to court over volcano deaths

New Zealand Crown Research Institute faces charges over White Island disaster

ViewUniversities pin hopes on extra quarantine capacity

New Zealand vice-chancellors look to minister Chris Hipkins for a solution to international student dilemma

ViewInternational students not expected to return in early 2021

New Zealand has only made border exceptions for a small cohort of 250 postgraduate students

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 19-25 November

This week: Covid-19 discussions with US president-elect Joe Biden, cleaner water and national education priorities

ViewNew Zealand researchers expand their work on Covid-19

Border testing strengthened as researchers investigate the pandemic’s unexpected consequences

ViewMāori knowledge not supported by funding systems, study says

Researchers call for New Zealand’s Performance-Based Research Fund to ‘be rethought from an Indigenous perspective’

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 12-18 November

This week: Covid-19 cases, awards for computing and health research and a study of stuttering

ViewGovernment funding for 134 research projects announced

New Zealand’s Marsden Fund backs asthma research and a study of bushfire effects on glaciers

ViewNational research charter aims to raise standards

Royal Society of New Zealand and leading research bodies release guide to best practice

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 5-11 November

This week: health research grants, the Hamilton Award and praise for the national Covid-19 response

ViewNew Zealand ‘has too many PhD holders for too few academic jobs’

Royal Society president warns of mismatch between opportunities and young researchers’ expectations

ViewCovid-19 fight gets a dedicated minister in New Zealand

Ardern’s reshaped ministry set to focus on health and economic recovery

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 29 October to 4 November

This week: opposition to Massey cuts, funding for plant research and referendum results

ViewCollaborate widely, scientists told

Partnerships with people outside academia are crucial to science communication, says leading New Zealand researcher

ViewYoung researchers recognised by Royal Society of New Zealand

Latest Rutherford Discovery Fellowships support astronomy, social sciences and earth sciences

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 22-28 October

This week: PhD pressure, health technology winners and a campaign for international students

ViewNew Zealand ‘has lessons to learn’ from pandemic response

New Zealand could learn from Taiwan despite avoiding high death rates, study suggests

ViewPest control project wins government funding

Department of Conservation in New Zealand provides support for University of Canterbury research

ViewNew Zealand news roundup: 15-21 October

This week: Ardern re-elected, the next Royal Society chief executive and a troubling climate report

ViewFunding announced for 10 collaborative research centres

New Zealand’s Centres of Research Excellence get NZ$350 million over seven years