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28 Mar 2025
‘Caring, passionate and dedicated’ teachers awarded
Five of Otago’s academic staff have received Excellence in Teaching awards for being ‘caring, passionate and dedicated t...
14 Mar 2025
History 'quite a sobering force'
Some of the anti-queer views being currently voiced loudly are sounding scarily similar to views expressed during the 19...
13 Mar 2025
Otago success in QS World Rankings
The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka is home to New Zealand’s highest ranked subject area in the latest QS Wor...
12 Aug 2024
Depths of tomboy trauma revealed in study
‘Tomboyism’ is often fondly celebrated by society as an accepted form of gender nonconformity but is not commonly associ...
26 Jun 2024
A show of courage and skill
Something that started as a way of “decompressing from life” has turned into so much more for Otago tauira Holly Aitchis...
20 Mar 2024
Older adults' input needed in transition to residential care
New University of Otago research into the process of older adults transitioning to residential care calls for improved o...
28 Aug 2023
Introducing postgraduate SGSC: Erin Silver
Could Aotearoa New Zealand’s social service NGOs play a role within transformative change of the criminal justice system...
22 Jun 2023
Introducing postgraduate SGSC: Sandhiya Gounder
Cultural and traditional approaches to achieving national unity in Fiji would be a far more effective than some of the c...
12 May 2023
Introducing postgraduate SGSC: Sonja Bohn
A potential silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic could be the changes taking place within Aotearoa New Zealand’s touri...
26 Apr 2023
Introducing postgraduate SGSC: Jordan Dougherty
Are we really educating people the best way about how to prevent sexual violence?
04 Apr 2023
Introducing postgraduate SGSC: Joshua James
Queer people aligning themselves with the far-right can be doing it out of fear and are, in many cases, committed, quite...
04 Apr 2023
Exploring vegan burgers and Te Ao Māori
Brent Paehua reckons that if his dad, “a Māori guy born in the ‘50s”, can accidently buy alternative meat burgers and en...