Tagged: leadership

Why Jacinda Ardern’s ‘clumsy’ leadership response to Delta could still be the right approach - COVID-19

Guest Author • Oct 15, 2021 •

• COVID-19,
• leadership,
• New Zealand stories,
• vaccinations

Suze Wilson, Massey University   Leading people through the pandemic is clearly no easy task. But does the criticism currently directed at New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reveal a major misstep on her part, or something deeper about the nature of leadership itself? Ardern has previously won widespread praise for her COVID-19 response and crisis communication, topping … Read More

Why short ‘unconscious bias’ programs aren’t enough to end racial harassment and discrimination - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 30, 2018 •

• behaviour,
• clarity,
• classrooms,
• diversity training,
• employees,
• feedback,
• immersive,
• leadership,
• Psychology,
• racial discrimination,
• Starbucks,
• streets,
• survey,
• transparency,
• waffle house case,
• white

Victor Sojo, University of Melbourne and Melissa A. Wheeler, University of Melbourne This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. An evaluation of 40 years of research has found that diversity training workshops have only a small effect in reducing bias against members of minority groups. The research also … Read More

Reframing innovation in New Zealand Part 2 - Ice Doctor

Victoria Metcalf • Aug 10, 2016 •

• gender,
• gender equality,
• gender pay gap,
• innovation,
• interdisciplinarity,
• interdisciplinary,
• leadership,
• R&D,
• Science,
• university

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

Reframing innovation in New Zealand Part 1 - Ice Doctor

Victoria Metcalf • Aug 08, 2016 •

• gender,
• gender differences,
• innovation,
• interdisciplinarity,
• leadership,
• Science,
• STEM,
• technology

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

Reshaping the mould for Māori obesity research - Mātau Taiao

Laura Goodall • Apr 29, 2016 •

• community,
• Health,
• indigenous,
• indigenous knowledge,
• leadership,
• Maori,
• mātauranga māori,
• Northland,
• Obesity,
• partnership,
• rangatiratanga,
• research,
• te ao māori,
• te tai tokerau

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

What if scientists were celebrities? - Nano Girl

Michelle Dickinson • May 23, 2015 •

• leadership,
• media,
• Science Communication,
• scientists,
• women in engineering

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

Are you a leader? - Nano Girl

Michelle Dickinson • May 09, 2015 •

• helen clark,
• leadership,
• mentoring,
• richard branson,
• women in tech

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

Sexism, shirts, Sutton and saying goodbye - Ice Doctor

Victoria Metcalf • Dec 09, 2014 •

• #gamergate,
• #shirtstorm,
• academia,
• Antarctica,
• Bill Cosby,
• gender bias,
• gender equality,
• general science,
• leadership,
• polar,
• Roger Sutton,
• sexism,
• women in science

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

Leadership, the economic critique - The Dismal Science

Bill Kaye-Blake • Oct 31, 2012 •

• book reports,
• culture,
• economics,
• leadership,
• management,
• Sciblogs,
• The Leadership Challenge

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

One of the Most Profound Psychology Experiments Ever - Molecular Matters

Michael Edmonds • Jan 23, 2012 •

• Education,
• evil,
• leadership,
• milgram,
• pain,
• profound,
• Psychology

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