Research, teaching and talking about science
We become familiar with the periodic table of elements in school. The shape and layout is instantly recognisable. How often though do we stop to think about what the table represents? Or its history? Dmitry Mendeleev organised the chemical elements into this structure 150 years ago. Now, Courtney Addison from the Centre for Science in […]
Dr Pauline Harris is our astronomy expert here at the Centre for Science in Society. Pauline’s research focuses on mātauranga Māori associated with Māori astronomy and Maramataka. Over the next couple of months Pauline will be giving talks around the country from Auckland to the Bluff on the Māori moon calendar called the Maramataka. We will […]
Cafe Scientifique is a chance to hear about a scientist’s latest work and ask them questions for the price of a coffee or a glass of wine, taking science out of the academic setting. Our first Wellington Cafe Scientifique speaker for 2019 was Upulie Divisekera. We gathered at the Arborist in Wellington to hear Upulie […]
Laura Kranz, an Assistant Lecturer in the Centre for Science in Society, received a Te Rautaki Maruko Tutor Excellence Award at the Victoria University Staff Excellence Awards in March 2019. Laura is also a PhD student in Psychology and Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington. Recipients of the Te Rautaki Maruako Tutor Excellence […]
Since this blog was last updated, the staff and students at the Centre for Science and Society have been busy sharing their work. Courtney Addison and her colleagues wrote ‘Persuasive bodies: Testimonies of deep brain stimulation and Parkinson’s on YouTube’, published in Social Science and Medicine. Read it here. “In this paper, we examine amateur YouTube videos featuring […]
Seeing as our blog has been on hiatus, here is a summary of some of the recent travel of our staff. James Beattie In December 2018, James was a visiting professor at Sun Yat-sen University, where he taught a class on Pacific environmental history. In April 2019, James was a guest of the Poon Fah […]