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Ngā Ahurei Hou a Te Apārangi New Fellows 2023

Booklet introducing the new Ngā Ahurei Fellows of Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Judy Brown FRSNZ: Democratising accounting and accountability practices

Judy reflects on her resea...
  • Judy reflects on her research on dialogic accounting, pluralism and democracy...

Kevin Davies FRSNZ: The importance of flavonoid pigments to plants and people

Flavonoid production...
  • Flavonoid production arose 500 million years ago to enable plants to screen UVB-light and colonise the land. They are also common pigments in our flowers and fruit...

Kenneth Dodds FRSNZ: Using DNA sequencing for relatedness estimation

Despite rapid advances in DNA...
  • Despite rapid advances in DNA sequencing technology, obtaining accurate whole genome sequence can still be too expensive...

Nicola Gaston FRSNZ: Self-organisation of structure in low-temperature liquid metals

Liquid metals...
  • Liquid metals are fascinating systems that exhibit surprising structural diversity, and that can also interact strongly with other elements...

Michelle Glass FRSNZ: Cannabinoids – more than just cannabis!

This talk will highlight the key m...
  • This talk will highlight the key molecular pharmacology approaches that Prof Glass’ team have used to try and harness and improve the therapeutic potential of cannabi...

Nicholas Golledge FRSNZ: ”An awful place”: Antarctica and its impact on our world

Over the las...
  • Over the last one hundred years Antarctic exploration has increasingly revealed the icy continent to be dynamic, changing, and more vulnerable than we ever imagined...

David Grattan FRSNZ: Hormone-induced adaptations in the maternal brain during pregnancy

Females ex...
  • Females experience dramatic changes in hormones during pregnancy, and the maternal brain is a significant target for these hormonal fluctuations...

Anthony Hōete FRSNZ: 6W: From forest to factory affordable family housing, jobs and wellbeing
  • New Zealand has been living with a housing unaffordability crisis for some time now. My research follows the circular economy of a six-point supply chain...

Rod Jackson FRSNZ: Hypertension is a meaningless diagnosis

Over the past 50 years, the blood press...
  • Over the past 50 years, the blood pressure level defining hypertension has changed radically, classifying between 5% and 50% of middle-aged New Zealanders as hypertensi...

Lynda Johnston FRSNZ: Spatial politics of gender and sexuality

Gender, sexuality, space and place ...
  • Gender, sexuality, space and place are inextricably linked...

Carwyn Jones FRSNZ: He whenua rangatira: New Zealand’s Indigenous constitution

The Supreme Court...
  • The Supreme Court of New Zealand has recognised that tikanga is the first law of Aotearoa...

Joanna Kidman FRSNZ: Māori scholarship in uncertain times

What is the role of Māori academics as...
  • What is the role of Māori academics as critic and conscience in Aotearoa, and how might the transformative potential of our disciplines be realised? Māori comprise 8%...

Martin Manning FRSNZ: Science of the people, by the people, for the people

A paper I got published...
  • A paper I got published in 1978 derived what is still the best theoretical lower bound for the binding energy of a nucleus...

Peter O'Connor FRSNZ: The arts as healing balms

Forty years of making and researching theatre in p...
  • Forty years of making and researching theatre in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, refugee centres, and disaster zones has informed an understanding of the power and the ...

Vincent O'Malley FRSNZ: Defining conflicts? The New Zealand Wars

The nineteenth-century New Zealan...
  • The nineteenth-century New Zealand Wars were transformative events that profoundly influenced the course and directions of the nation’s history and their legacy conti...

Mary Sewell FRSNZ: Larvae are important to understanding anthropogenic change in the ocean

Larvae ...
  • Larvae of marine invertebrates are a critical part of an organism’s life-history, providing the opportunity for dispersal beyond the location of the parents...

Claudine Stirling FRSNZ: It’s elemental: tracking Earth’s environmental history using trace metal isotopes
  • Small variations in the isotopic signatures of trace metals can be used to track the biogeochemical processes at work, both today and in the past...

Shane Xie FRSNZ: Robotics for rehabilitation: challenges and opportunities

This presentation will ...
  • This presentation will discuss the societal challenges and the opportunities in the healthcare industry...

Dan Zhao FRSNZ: CO2-free combustion of ammonia

To support the climate protection, New Zealand Aote...
  • To support the climate protection, New Zealand Aotearoa commits to being carbon neutral by 2050...

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