Tag: Pacific research
Pacific media academics slam global research journal model, defend regional niche...
Pacific Media Watch
Pacific media academics have criticised the economics of global research journal publication models and defended independent publications such as Pacific Journalism Review...
‘Call it what it is – climate crisis, not just change,’...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
An Aotearoa New Zealand-based Fijian professor of Pacific studies says the increase in the frequency of natural disasters and...
Pacific distinguished professor Ratuva breaks down socio-political hurdles
By Lee Kenny of Stuff
He has worked as an academic in five different countries and now Dr Steven Ratuva has been made a distinguished...
Steven Ratuva becomes world’s first Pacific distinguished professor
Tagata Pasifika
Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva is the first Pacific person ever to be promoted to the highest professorial status of distinguished professor.
The award-winning Fiji-born...
Future of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre still up in the air
By Justin Wong in Auckland
Auckland University of Technology has denied it is sidelining the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies, but...
Pacific language videos: Kiribati week highlights role of fathers
The AUT video ... first of this year's languags series.
By Simon Smith of AUT News
The Kiribati instalment in the AUT Pacific language video series...
Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues profiled in new publication
By Michael Andrew
Six years of diverse Pacific research by Auckland University of Technology staff and students has been profiled in a new publication.
Presented by...
Pacific ‘smart’ thinking grows creative tension between policy and research
ANALYSIS: By Professor Derrick Armstrong
A traditional view of the tension between research and policy suggests that researchers are poor at communicating their research findings...
Pioneering NZ Pacific research initiative to make ‘reset’ change
By Sri Krishnamurthi
The NZ Institute for Pacific Research will cease to exist in its current form, Emeritus Professor Richard Bedford said in a bombshell...
Pacific’s brightest minds gather for Oceans and Islands research summit
By Blessen Tom
In a bold and innovative move for researchers, the two-day inaugural Oceans and Islands conference today brought together the brightest minds of...
Pacific research strategies get airing on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Operations manager of the NZ Institute for Pacific Research, Dr Evelyn Masters, presented an introduction to regional initiatives and a media...
Strongest climate solutions ‘developed together’, says PaCE-SD chief
Blessen Tom's video interview with PaCE-SD director Professor Elisabeth Holland in Suva. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The University of the South Pacific’s environmental centre...
PMC projects lure doco makers, politics writer and Fiji journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre project students and interns announced for the year this week include two budding documentary makers and a seasoned...
PMC collaboration media project with NZ Institute for Pacific Research
A NZ Institute for Pacific Research profile on researcher Dr Cath Conn and health development by Brandon Ulfsby and Hele Ikimotu of AUT.
Pacific Media...
Pacific-wide study aims to understand how journalists cover climate change
By Kendall Hutt
Climate change is at the heart of a unique regional study into journalism culture in the Pacific.
The study, focusing on journalism’s role...
Pacific journal launched on new research tool
The Auckland University of Technology's new open access publishing platform. Video: Tuwhera
A new online research platform will allow Pacific research to be more accessible...
WJEC16: Editors tell of ‘perils and pitfalls’ of research publishing
By Husain Malvi
Research journal editors and publishers are often faced with a range of challenges when producing publications outside the Northern Hemisphere elite. At...
Images: Celebration over launch of NZ’s Pacific research institute
Dancers of the Ura Tabu group treated guests with a performance of "Yellow Bird" at the launch of the NZ Institute of Pacific Research...
McCully launches new Pacific think-tank for ‘targeted research’
Ura Tabu dancers perform the Calypso medley song "Yellow Bird" at the launch of the New Zealand Institute of Pacific Research last night....