Thursday 1 June 2023
Bashing through the bush on one Aotearoa New Zealand’s lesser-known walking routes was an opportunity for Otago Master’s candidate Liam Hewson to connect two of his primary interests.
Thursday 1 June 2023
Otago’s resident “Elsa” embodied the spirit of Disney’s ‘Let it go’, jumping into a freezing lake with wild abandon for the shot that took top prize at the 2023 Bulletin Photo Competition.
Wednesday 31 May 2023
Aliesha Kemp likes to keep busy. And pausing part-way through a medical degree to take on a PhD in neuroscience is one way she is fulfilling this need.
Tuesday 23 May 2023
What is time? It is a question people often struggle to answer, says Jean Campos, who is working on a PhD on the philosophy of time.
Monday 22 May 2023
Otago medical student Josiah Edwin believes that sometimes you must stumble to succeed.
Friday 19 May 2023
Saane Fakapulia, a Master of Science (Anatomy), student has been awarded the 2022 Richard Kammann Well-Being Prize for her PGDipSci thesis, ‘An in-depth look into the education experiences of Pasifika Anatomy Students’.
Wednesday 17 May 2023
For one University of Otago honours student, music is a creative outlet that allows her to shift her focus from her multiple disabilities.
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Increasing the iodine content in table salt or diversifying the sources of food iodised salt is added to could help prevent iodine deficiency in Aotearoa New Zealand’s population, especially among women of reproductive age, an Otago PhD graduand says.
Friday 12 May 2023
A potential silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic could be the changes taking place within Aotearoa New Zealand’s tourism industry, says an Otago PhD candidate studying the relationship between humans and nature.
Thursday 11 May 2023
An innovative research project at the University of Otago, Wellington, is using photography to help men open up about their experiences of living with depression, suicidal thoughts and anxiety.
Wednesday 10 May 2023
When something goes wrong, we intuitively want to hold someone accountable and have them pay for, and learn from, their mistake. But what happens when the thing that goes wrong is the result of artificial intelligence (AI)?
Wednesday 10 May 2023
Autistic students are three times more likely to be stood down or suspended from school than non-autistic students, but that rate decreases significantly when they have good support such as a teacher’s aid, an Otago University researcher has found.
Thursday 27 April 2023
A Master of Science student is conducting ground-breaking research into the forces exerted on the heads of elite snow sports athletes successfully going about their day-to-day training.
Wednesday 26 April 2023
Are we really educating people the best way about how to prevent sexual violence?
Monday 17 April 2023
Lucy Davidson is likely to be one of few people who can claim they celebrated their 21st birthday in Antarctica.
Monday 17 April 2023
Tenaya Brown (Te Aitanga a Hauiti ki Uawa) has received a Ngarimu VC and 28th Māori Battalion Memorial Scholarship.
Thursday 6 April 2023
From the Caribbean to the High Arctic, since leaving Otago Millie has travelled the globe as an Our World Underwater scholar, exploring scientific research, communication and conservation pathways.
Wednesday 5 April 2023
Preserving a language is crucial because it’s not just language, but the preservation of a culture as well, says PhD candidate Eleanor Scoon.
Tuesday 4 April 2023
Queer people aligning themselves with the far-right can be doing it out of fear and are, in many cases, committed, quite violently, to national socialism, says Joshua James.
Friday 31 March 2023
Even just knowing you could walk around the area you in live in if you want to can improve your mental health, new research by a University of Otago master’s candidate suggests.
