Professor Susanna Trnka, a professor of social and medical anthropology, and leader of the Pandemics Past, Present, and Future Research Hub talks to us about her body of work examining citizen state relationships in the context of political upheaval and health, and how her COVID-19 research was a natural extension from this. We also discuss what led to the formation of the research hub and how this fostered truly transdisciplinary conversation.

Dr Rochelle Menzies and Miriama Aoake discuss the importance and flexibility of indigenous research methods like kaupapa Māori research and the challenges and successes experienced over the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Dr Rochelle Menzies. Te Aitanga-ā-Māhaki, Ngāti Kahungunu. Senior Advisor Māori - Equity, Mental Health and Addiction Directorate, Ministry of Health.

Miriama Aoake. Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi and Waikato-Tainu. Woolf Fisher Scholar, Cambridge University.

In this episode of Pandemics Reflected, Dr Heather Battles joins us to talk about her ongoing research on infectious disease epidemics and pandemics and the correlations she has found with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Maria Armoudian joins us on Pandemics Reflected to talk about retribution for human rights violations, how access to medical care relates directly to who lives and who dies and how her research plans were scuppered due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

Today on Pandemics Reflected Pauline is talking to Dr. Andrew Chen, a former computer systems engineer, current data ethics specialist and Research Fellow at Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, based at the University of Auckland. In this episode we discuss how this huge disciplinary shift came about as a result of the pandemic, the COVID tracker system.

In this episode of Pandemics Reflected, Pauline speaks with Lisa Samuels, Professor of English, poet and author. We delve into her new collection of poetry, breach, written as a visionary text over a five-day period in the 2020 New Zealand lockdown. We talk about Lisa’s process and discuss how pandemic thresholds affect multimodal artforms.

Medical anthropologist Dr Pauline Herbst asks pandemic researchers in the arts how their life, research and the culture of knowledge has changed due since COVID-19.

Music:  “What is Truth?” © Tim Page 2002/2022

Production: Pauline Herbst, Tim Page, Luca Muir

Artwork: Seline McNamee & Luca Muir

Webpage: Luca Muir

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