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From bedrooms to battlefields: Health and conflict in an inter-connected world

Cost
Free
Audience
All University, Public
Event type
Lecture
Organiser
Leading Thinkers Facilitation Group

Leading Thinkers Public Lecture 2026

Explore how sleepless digital lives, infectious diseases, political violence, and manufactured ignorance are reshaping our world.

Chair: Professor Greg Cook, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation

Are phones really keeping our teens up at night?
Professor Rachael Taylor

From feathers to genomes: Tracking disease in hoiho
Professor Jemma Geoghegan

Power and the production of ignorance
Professor Richard Jackson

Political prisoner abuse: From present to past
Professor David Tombs

Contact

Name

Rachael Taylor

Email

rachael.taylor@otago.ac.nz

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