Victoria Metcalf • Aug 10, 2016 •
The assignment from Te Punaha Matatini – to think about how we might reframe innovation in the New Zealand context and to use the available data from Figure.NZ to do so – has given me pause to consider some often overlooked and what I believe are pivotal components to creating a brighter future – diversity (in this piece, focussing … Read More
Victoria Metcalf • Aug 08, 2016 •
The assignment from Te Punaha Matatini – to think about how we might reframe innovation in the New Zealand context and to use the available data from Figure.NZ to do so – has given me pause to consider some often overlooked and what I believe are pivotal components to creating a brighter future – diversity (in this piece, focussing … Read More
Laura Goodall • Apr 29, 2016 •
What has the Māori word for ‘chieftainship’ got to do with a team of scientists looking at obesity in Northland? Answer: the researchers broke the scientific mould by putting the Māori communities — not scientists — in the leading role. Researcher Ricky Bell tells us how they did it. Rangatiratanga is a powerful word. It’s loosely translated to mean chieftainship, authority, leadership. But … Read More
Michelle Dickinson • May 23, 2015 •
As a new columnist for Villainesse, a digital magazine for young women, I have been thinking a lot about the power of influence and who our youth look up to as role models. I remember my teenage years consisted of watching Judith Hann explain technology on Tomorrows world, and Katherine Janeway command the Starship USS […] … Read More
Michelle Dickinson • May 09, 2015 •
I was being interviewed this week about leadership, and asked if I set out to be a leader or it’s something that just came to me later in life. The truth is I was just doing what I loved and felt passionate about, then one day I turned around and realised there were a bunch […] … Read More
Victoria Metcalf • Dec 09, 2014 •
Sexism is rife in academia and leads to many leaving academic careers. Last week I worked my last day as an academic at Lincoln University, the disestablishment of my position in the protracted restructuring process officially complete. It’s time for a new chapter in what has been a pretty ugly year. Now I start on an adventure into an … Read More
Bill Kaye-Blake • Oct 31, 2012 •
One of the keys to economic thinking is models. We are always simplifying the world into models of cause, effect, and interaction. Economists try to do this explicitly, to write down the inputs (causes), outputs (effects), and equations (interactions) in a way that clearly explains our mental models. Then, they ex-sist in a way that [...] … Read More
Michael Edmonds • Jan 23, 2012 •
Imagine that you’ve agreed to take part in a psychology experiment. A distinguished looking man in a white coat leads you into a room and gets you to sit in front of a piece of equipment with a series of switches on it and a microphone. Your job is to read the series of questions over the microphone to a … Read More