Eileen Merriman.
iOU alumni podcast with Eileen Merriman: a double life in medicine and writing
We’re excited to launch our latest iOU alumni podcast episode, featuring best-selling author and haematologist Eileen Merriman.
Eileen manages to combine two successful careers into one working day - she’s a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital and is also one of New Zealand’s most successful authors. In August, Eileen won the NZ Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award for her novel Catch a Falling Star. We ask her about her double life, where she gets her story ideas and how her job in medicine and her writing career work together.
Previously on iOU:
- Steven Renata, CEO of Kiwa Digital
- NASA visualisation scientist and technologist Kim Arcand
- UN International Nutritionist working across the Pacific, Darryl Pupi
- Polar medal recipient and Antarctic runway trainer Agnieszka Fryckowska
Jessica Leong.
iOU - A double life in medicine and writing | RSS.com
Writer 2024 winners reading their work
Listen to the alumni, staff and student winners of the University of Otago’s Writer 2024 creative writing competition read their winning stories and poems on OAR FM.
Shona Geary.
Entrants were given the opportunity to write a short story or a poem inspired by this year’s theme “A place of many firsts”. This year’s judge was current University of Otago Burns Fellow Mikaela Nyman.
"Ka mua, ka muri: Half a century and counting." Inaugural Professorial Lecture from Professor Moana Theodore
Professor Moana Theodore.
Reremoana (Moana) Theodore (Ngāpuhi) is the Director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (the Dunedin Study) and the former Director of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research. Her research is multidisciplinary in nature and she has expertise in lifecourse epidemiology, the development of chronic disease, and Māori health. Moana is passionate about undertaking research that makes a positive difference to children, young people, and their families by informing prevention and intervention efforts as early as possible
Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Moana Theodore
Top rally driver Emma Gilmour talks about being back behind the wheel
In this RNZ Nine to Noon interview, Otago alumna Emma Gilmour talks about coming back from a serious accident in Europe to take overall third place in this year’s New Zealand Rally Championship.
Emma made history two years ago when she became McLaren Racing’s first-ever female racing driver.
Foot firmly on the pedal - top NZ rally driver Emma Gilmour | RNZ