Victoria University of Wellington - Podcast

“Globally, not just in New Zealand, we are seeing a very rapid increase in youth anxiety and depression,” says Associate Professor Terry (Theresa) Fleming.

She talks to writer Guy Somerset about her research on youth mental health and her work at the University’s Digital Mental Health Lab. This podcast is part of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Maranga ake ai! Research series.

Discover more of Terry's research: https://wellington.wgtn.ac.nz/addressing-teenage-mental-health/index.html

In this korero, Dr Sam Hassibi talks with Dr Michael Brown about rebellion and music at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Focusing on group singing, they talk about the students’ political and social activities and activism in the mid-20th century. Michael’s article that is mentioned in the podcast, ‘Many happy song-sessions: Kiwi youth sings’, was published in the Labour History Project Newsletter (pp. 14-19). [https://issuu.com/labourhistoryproject/docs/lhp_newsletter_55_aug_2012]

Sam is a Research Fellow at the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies and her research interests are cultural studies, food culture, and media. Dr Michael Brown works as Curator, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library (part of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa). His research interests include folk music, New Zealand popular music and music archiving. In 2023, he takes up the JD Stout Fellowship to work on a study of electronic music and the internet.

The dire consequences of a rapidly warming planet were laid bare at COP27, the global climate change negotiations held in Egypt in November 2022. In this podcast, writer Paul Gorman talks to climate scientists Dr Dave Lowe and Hunter Douglas about their views on what needs to be done to forestall runaway temperatures.

Dave is an atmospheric chemist who first measured southern hemisphere carbon dioxide levels at Baring Head near Wellington in the early 1970s. His memoir The Alarmist: Fifty years of measuring climate change was published in 2020. Hunter Douglas is at the other end of his career. Hunter is a PhD candidate in Geophysics at the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

'Complicating resistance: power, emancipation, and sociology’ examines knowledge, power, and the importance of critical self-reflection as it relates to liberation and democracy. In this kōrero, Dr Sam Hassibi talks with Dr Jennifer de Saxe, Alex Ker, and Danielle Hanna about a course they teach at Te Herenga Waka and the aims to dismantle and undermine racism through education. Highlighting the importance of self-reflection and critical thinking, Jennifer, Alex, and Danielle discuss students’ and own experience with race and racism and explain their efforts to make this course a meaningful experience for all the learners.

Dr Sam Hassibi talks with criminologist Dr Samantha Keene about her ‘rebellious’ work. In this conversation, they delve into Samantha’s ‘dirty work’ and the challenges of teaching and researching about sex and sexuality, pornography, and sexual harm. In remembrance of the rebellious mind of the late Dr Cat Pausé, they briefly discuss issues associated fat, fatness, and fear of fat.

Hear from two intriguing speakers on trends in religious beliefs among Māori and Cook Island Māori in New Zealand in this conversation produced as part of the Stout Research Centre’s Rebellious Minds seminar series.

Historian Dr Steven Loveridge talks with Te Henare, a leading voice in the Māori Atheists and Freethinkers group Atuakore, and Arama Tairea, a postgraduate scholar at Victoria University of Wellington. The conversation considers their insights and private opinions, explores changing patterns in religious and spiritual beliefs and asks what wider implications these changes may hold for communities and cultural identities.

Learn more about the student magazine Salient and its perspectives on the turbulent issues of the 1980s in this podcast, produced as part of the Stout Research Centre’s Rebellious Minds seminar series.

Historian Dr Steven Loveridge talks with Master of Arts alumnus Max Nichol about his Master's research into Salient. The conversation covers the history of student media at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, examines its approach to the issues of the 1980s, reviews the factors and conditions which shaped student media and reflects upon its animating spirit (then and now).

Learn more about the history of the 1972 campaign to end compulsory military service in New Zealand with this podcast, produced as part of the Stout Research Centre's Rebellious Minds seminar series.

Bachelor of Arts with Honours student Arie Faber talks about his original research into OHMS (Organisation to Halt Military Service) and its 1972 campaign to end compulsory military service in New Zealand.

The conversation, led by historian Dr Steven Loveridge, discusses the history and motivations of OHMS’s members, the campaign’s relationship with Victoria University of Wellington and reflections on the campaign five decades later.

Are you thinking of finding a new role this year or next? Perhaps Covid has disrupted your travel plans and a new career adventure is on the horizon instead?

With a very active job market at the moment, this Breakfast with the Experts event will draw on the insights of your fellow alumni working in recruitment and human resources.

Learn more about current recruitment trends in Wellington, career path options, top tips for getting successfully through the recruitment process and their general at-the-coalface advice.

You’ll hear from recruitment specialist Ian Kennedy and in-house human resource manager Julie Mitchell.

“If at times you can’t do it for yourself, think about those you can help and do it for them,” says Stacey Shortall, reflecting on her life of helping others through her legal work.

Hailing from a farming family in the mighty Manawatu, Stacey Shortall is an accomplished lawyer who makes a positive impact everywhere she goes.

She speaks to Professor of Law, Dr Yvette Tinsley, as part of the University's distinguished alumni podcast series.