NZ wants to build a 100% renewable electricity grid
Friday, 31 July 2020
New Zealand wants to build a 100% renewable electricity grid, but massive infrastructure is not the best option.
EQC grant unites earth and social sciences
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Southland could be New Zealand’s largest area of incomplete seismic fault information, but University of Otago researchers can now fill in the gaps after receiving a new EQC grant.
Awakening the taniwha: Unleashing community potential from the rubble of Covid-19
Monday, 15 June 2020
Covid-19 has reset our understanding of the world. From this crisis comes opportunity, and Professor Merata Kawharu (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi), from the Centre for Sustainability, believes it’s a chance to apply traditional principles to our new normal.
COVID-19: Implications for NZ’s energy future
Friday, 12 June 2020
Janet Stephenson discusses the impacts of Covid-19 and its aftermath on energy systems in New Zealand and globally, and the implications for a low-carbon future.
Six new approaches in a world beyond lockdown
Friday, 1 May 2020
Centre Director Associate Professor Janet Stephenson latest opinion piece looks at what she think we’re learning as a society through the COVID-19 experience.
PhD Scholarship available
Thursday, 30 April 2020
The Centre for Sustainability is currently advertising a 3 year PhD Scholarship to study earthquake-related legislation in lower seismic hazard zones.
Redirecting our economy to a more sustainable path
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Centre Director Associate Professor Janet Stephenson says “There are many things we can be doing to be setting our economy and society into a sustainable future.”
COVID-19 has nothing on what’s coming
Monday, 20 April 2020
The current nationwide pause as a result of Covid-19 is an extraordinary opportunity, and probably the only one we will get, to redesign our economy so that it no longer threatens life on this planet.
Reducing Greenhouse Gases on Farms
Monday, 6 April 2020
Britta Hamill and Associate Professor Janet Stephenson have published a summary of options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions on New Zealand livestock farms.
Health and wellbeing in parks and nature in 1800s Aotearoa New Zealand
Friday, 3 April 2020
A recent blog from our colleague Dr James Beattie, University of Victoria.
PhD Scholarships
Thursday, 31 October 2019
We are providing three PhD scholarships and fees to students who are interested in looking at solutions to climate change problems for Māori communities. Students would join in a multi-disciplinary team of academics, private sector and Crown Research Institute individuals, along with recent Māori social science graduates from Otago University.
National research funding for Centre researcher
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Professor Merata Kawharu (Ngāti Whatua, Ngāpuhi) from the Centre for Sustainability, has been awarded NZ$7,248,016 over five years for an initiative aimed at empowering Māori communities to respond to climate change.This innovative research project pioneers the development of marae-based and marae-led platforms and processes to help reduce carbon emissions in the community.
Summer Scholarships available
Friday, 13 September 2019
Are you planning on coming back to university next year? Would you like to carry out an interesting 10-week research project over the holidays? The Centre for Sustainability has several Summer Scholarships for the summer break.
PhD Scholarship available in the area of tourism, emergency management and rural disaster resilience.
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Inviting applications for a three year PhD Scholarship at the Centre for Sustainability.We seek an applied, interdisciplinary research candidate with exceptional communication skills, and prior research knowledge and practical experience of the tourism sector to join our dynamic research team in New Zealand.
