When broadcaster Stacey Morrison was growing up in Ōtautahi Christchurch, she had one fluent speaker of Te Reo Māori in her life – the grandmother she called Kui-Kui. “I grew up in Ōtautahi Christchurch and I didn’t speak Māori at all, actually. I was too scared to be...
In 2017, 23-year-old Canterbury engineering student Oliver Hunt saw a problem, and threw everything he had at fixing it. It was while hunting around for a research project for his Master of Engineering in Management that Oliver had a fortuitous conversation with an...
When Dr Ellen Joan Ford (Nelson) comes across a situation that annoys her, she goes all-in to make a difference. As a researcher, she discovered working parents were being forced to work as though they didn’t have families to care for – so she committed to normalising...
Every year in this country, a national cervical screening programme saves the lives of at least 100 women. That programme exists partly because of the work of Professor Sir David Skegg, a man who has dedicated his life to fighting cancer and other debilitating...
New Zealanders love fantails, and 99 per cent of a fantail’s diet is insects. Fantails follow us as we go hiking through the forest, snapping away at all the invertebrate protein we’ve stirred up from the branches and soil. What few of us realise, however, is that...
