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October 2015

Top teachers recognised nationally

Mosquito assassins Hitting the right note

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E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā karangatanga maha, nei rā te whakamiha o Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha ki a koutou. Nau mai ki ēnei pitopito kōrero.Welcome to the latest edition of Chronicle magazine, a publication that aims to keep staff, students, alumni and the wider community informed about the latest news, developments and events happening on campus.

UC is proud of its quality teaching, and teaching excellence has been demonstrated by two academics who have won the Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards. Dr Herb de Vries (Business and Law) and Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane (Professor Māori Research) received these awards, recognising the outstanding contribution both make to teaching our students. UC has a strong track record of success in the awards, with 10 previous winners. You can read more about Herb and Angus' outstanding achievements on pages 14 and 15.

Our students are also highlighting success with many winning awards — including three students from the College of Arts winning Emerging Artist Awards. Ilam Press

and its publication, Bulletin, have also received significant recognition — winning the top prize from Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards. You can read about these successes on page 26.

I hope you enjoy the magazine and learning more about how UC staff and students are making a difference.

Dr Rod Carr Vice-Chancellor/ Te Tumu Whakarae

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12UC student success continues at Todd Awards.

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5Commute of killer whales revealed. 9Top award for UC academic.

Magazine wins top prize. 26

Samoan culture celebrated. 17

Foundations laid for architectural engineering.

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The University of Canterbury has appointed Sacha McMeeking (Ngāi Tahu) as the new Head of School of Aotahi: Māori and Indigenous Studies.

New appointment to head Aotahi: Māori and Indigenous Studies

McMeeking joined the College of Arts at the end of June as a senior lecturer and Head of School, and said she was “honoured to have the opportunity to contribute to increasing the connectivity and relevance of UC to iwi, hapū and Māori communities”.

She has been at the forefront of iwi, Māori and indigenous development for more than 16 years, both locally and internationally. Domestically, she has led substantive commercial and policy reforms, particularly focused within a post-Treaty settlement environment.

McMeeking holds a ministerial appointment on Te Ture Whenua Māori (Māori land law) reform and has previously been appointed to

ministerial advisory groups on the Resource Management Act, constitutional issues and foreshore and seabed matters.

She was also the recipient of the Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship, which she used to develop tradition-based values-driven commercial decision-making tools for iwi and Māori.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts) Professor Jonathan Le Cocq said he was “delighted with the wealth of skills and experience that Sacha will bring not only to Aotahi — our School of Māori and Indigenous Studies — but also to the management and delivery of arts at UC as a member of our management team”.

“I am especially pleased that, with her appointment, we will continue to develop the links between ourselves and Ngāi Tahu established by our previous, highly respected Head of School, Lynne Harata Te Aika” he said.

Assistant Vice-Chancellor Māori Darryn Russell said McMeeking’s appointment was a wonderful addition to the University and he “looked forward to the contribution and development in the future space that Sacha would bring to Te Aotahi, the College of Arts and the wider University”.

Sacha McMeeking

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University of Canterbury scientists and researchers from Italy have struck “research gold” by uncovering the commuting secrets of Antarctic killer whales.

Gateway Antarctica scientist Dr Regina Eisert led a team at Scott Base during the 2014-2015 Antarctic summer that studied killer whales as part of a larger research programme on the Ross Sea ecosystem involving NIWA, Landcare Research and Lincoln University.

Eisert said most killer whales near Scott Base were found to be Type-C, which are common in the Ross Sea and thought to prefer fish prey, including Antarctic toothfish.

“We wanted to determine whether a reduction in toothfish stocks in the Ross Sea poses a risk to Type-C killer whales, including finding out how many there are in the Ross Sea and where they feed,” Eisert said.

At the same time, about 360km north of Scott Base, Italian whale experts Dr Giancarlo Lauriano (Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) and Dr Simone Panigada (Tethys Research Institute) deployed satellite transmitters on killer whales in Terra Nova Bay to determine the whales’ movements.

Eisert said the teams hit “research gold” when their results independently verified that Type-C killer whales were commuting between Scott Base and the waters off Northland in New Zealand.

UC student Ekaterina Ovsyanikova, whose work is supervised by Eisert and renowned killer whale expert Dr Ingrid Visser from the Orca Research Trust, discovered that the same female Type-C killer whale had been photographed repeatedly in New Zealand and in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

“This suggested that the killer whale had been commuting between Scott Base and Northland,” Eisert said.

Killer commute for Ross Sea whales

“Satellite data received by Dr Lauriano and Dr Panigada showed that the whales swam due north towards New Zealand, confirming beyond doubt the findings suggested by the photo-identification work of Ovsyanikova and Visser.

“If Antarctic killer whales roam all the way from Scott Base to the North Island of New Zealand, rather than stay in a relatively

confined area as some scientists believe, it crucially changes our understanding of the ecology of these key top predators and the potential threats they may face.

“The whales’ long commute would also suggest that there is much greater ecological connectivity between Antarctica and New Zealand than previously thought,” Eisert said.

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Dr Regina Eisert

Honorary doctorates for mathematician and entrepreneurThe University Council will confer a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) on Professor Roy Kerr and a Doctor of Engineering (honoris causa) on John Matthews at its December graduation ceremonies. Both men are UC alumni who went on to major international success.

Mathematician Roy Kerr, Emeritus Professor in UC’s School of Mathematics and Statistics, is best known for discovering the Kerr Vacuum, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. His work ushered in “the Golden Age of Black Hole Physics” and he was the first New Zealander to be honoured with the Albert Einstein Medal.

John Matthews, an engineer, is Managing Director of Technix Industries Ltd and director of many associated companies, which are global leaders in bitumen technologies and heavy engineering. He also worked with world-renowned film-maker and kinetic artist Len Lye, and is the prime champion of the new Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth.

Technix has had a long association with UC and funded many post-graduate students for Masters and PhD projects relating to both Technix and Len Lye in UC’s Mechanical Engineering Department. Four of these students will graduate alongside the duo when they are awarded their honorary doctorates.

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UC leads the way with innovative Council The University of Canterbury Council has led the way in reducing the size of its governing body — from 20 members to 12 — following the gazetting of a new constitution. The change took effect on 1 August.UC Chancellor Dr John Wood said the Council had been through a review process in 2013, which meant it was well placed to move forward after changes to the Education Act aimed at reducing the size of tertiary institutions’ governing bodies were foreshadowed by the Minister of Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Steven Joyce.

“We had come to our own conclusion following the earthquakes that a smaller, more professionally capable council in terms of financial and governance management would be required to steer the University through that difficult time. With the passing of the Education Amendment Act this year, the Council was well placed to submit its revised constitution to the Minister for gazetting.”

UC is the first New Zealand university to make the change.

At its final meeting under the previous constitution held on 29 July, the Chancellor acknowledged the outgoing members who had contributed to a significant number of critical decisions in recent years.

“These decisions were reached through consensus and, in so doing, have established a strong foundation on which the incoming Council can build.”

The 12 positions on the UC Council will be four ministerial appointments, elected representatives of academic and general staff and students, a Ngāi Tahu appointment, the Vice-Chancellor and three Council appointments, two of whom must be graduates of the University. The Chancellor will continue to be elected from within those members.

Front (from left) Peter Ballantyne, Sue McCormack, Chancellor Dr John Wood, Catherine Drayton and Vice-Chancellor Dr Rod Carr. Back (from left) Warren Poh, Tony Hall, Bruce Gemmell, Malcolm Peterson Scott, Jeff Field, Professor Roger Nokes, Sarah Platt and Sacha McMeeking.

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Art and engineering have joined forces at UC to create a working model of a kinetic sculpture designed by internationally renowned New Zealand artist Len Lye.

Lye died in 1980 after leaving plans and instructions for his unfinished works to be completed by others. Lye made several smaller works as precursors to the much larger, Sun, Land and Sea. A one fifth prototype called Snake God and Snake Goddess, has been developed and built by engineering doctoral candidate Alex O’Keefe as part of his PhD project.

Snake God and Snake Goddess features a nine metre “serpent” of high-tensile stainless steel that undulates and crackles with electricity before rising into the air and discharging a bolt of high voltage electricity. The full-scale work, yet to be built, will also feature “waves” travelling along seven adjacent 50m long strips of polished stainless steel, or sea serpents. An electrical charge travels beneath the central serpent before it rises up and fires a bolt of lightning through a large steel hoop (the Cave Goddess), which strikes a gold sphere (the Sun God). The hoop flips, creating a loud acoustic clashing sound.

O’Keefe said the aim of the project was to determine the feasibility of Lye’s design and ensure the performance and safety aspects of the work could be achieved.

“Having a working model means we can start working on the full-scale model, as Lye originally planned it. This is one of the most challenging projects I think you could ever come across in engineering.

“I stumbled on this without a pre-existing love of art but, through this work, I have come to understand art more. It’s been a fantastic project that mixes pure mechanical engineering with aerodynamics, high voltage electricity and fluid dynamics.”

Snake God and Snake Goddess is the latest instalment in a long-term and ongoing collaborative partnership between UC’s Mechanical Engineering Department and the Len Lye Foundation. The aim of the partnership is to not only bring Lye’s designs to life but to give mechanical engineering students experience of working with professionals and practitioners in other disciplines.

Student brings engineering and art together in Len Lye kinetic sculpture

“Len Lye sculptures are unusual engineering structures, they provide unique opportunities for postgraduate study and an important linkage between engineering and arts,” UC’s Dr Shayne Gooch said.

“Students start with small working models, film, written descriptions and sketches from the Len Lye archives. They must interpret this information to produce an engineering specification — a list of attributes that can be measured. The partnership with the foundation is key. Students produce a real engineering artefact and then work with the foundation to turn this into an artwork.”

The goal is to exhibit Snake God and Snake Goddess locally before the work is installed at the new Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth.

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(From left) Evan Webb Director of the Len Lye Foundation, PhD candidate Alex O'Keefe, John Matthews Managing Director of Technix Industries Limited and Dr Shayne Gooch.

UC is taking a leading role in the professional development of New Zealand’s teachers.

UC’s Education Plus team has enjoyed particular success providing curriculum support for secondary, primary and early childhood teachers in both English medium and Māori medium education across the South Island and into the North Island.

Two Education Plus staff have become national leaders in Accelerating Literacy Learning, which is implemented in 485 schools. Two others have been appointed national directors for Secondary Student Achievement and for Secondary English Language Learning and Home School Partnerships.

Education Plus facilitators work with teachers in a range of ways, focusing on effective leadership, quality teaching, culturally responsive practice and “teaching as inquiry” to raise student achievement. They may be in the classroom modelling new ways of working with learners, or they may work with a teacher one-on-one after school, or with a group of teachers on a teacher-only day, or supporting teachers online. Education Plus also organises symposiums for teachers from different schools to hear keynote speakers and share best practice with each other. An example of this, was the recent Primary Mathematics Symposium, which involved 250 teachers and leaders.

Education Plus inspiring teachers

“It’s about collaborative teaching practice. Bringing teachers together to share ideas and think about or inquire into their practice in order to improve students’ progress and achievement,” Education Plus Director Geoff Moore said.

Education Plus is particularly proud of its work with Te Tapuae o Rehua, which brings together a consortium of Ngāi Tahu, University of Canterbury and University of Otago to deliver Mau ki te Ako — a suite of professional development provisions to foster culturally responsive practice in schools.

“This work is about encouraging schools to build productive relationships with whānau, communities, rūnanga and iwi, particularly for Māori and also for Pasifika students’ success,” Moore said.

“Right now, New Zealand education is in a period of renaissance, revitalisation and growing capacity. I’m glad Education Plus is at the forefront of this and playing a key role in helping fulfil the principles of the New Zealand Curriculum — principles like inclusion, the Treaty of Waitangi, cultural diversity and future focus that help our society prepare for a global world.”

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Mosquito assassins fight malariaUC researchers’ insights about two species of spider that feed preferentially on mosquitoes have been published in the Journal of Arachnology in America.

The article by Dr Fiona Cross and Professor Robert Jackson is the result of reviewing more than 15 years of research at UC and at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Kenya.

“These two spider species are highly specialised mosquito assassins,” said Dr Cross, who is working alongside Professor Jackson on research supported by the Marsden Fund.

One species, Evarcha culicivora, like an eight-legged vampire, is particularly drawn to female mosquitoes whose guts are filled with blood. Another species, Paracyrba wanlessi, preferentially feeds on mosquito larvae lurking in pools of water.

Professor Jackson said that while other spiders may eat mosquitoes, extensive experimental evidence has shown that only these two species are characterised as mosquito specialists.

“E. culicivora has a particular hankering for Anopheles mosquitoes — the very mosquitoes notorious for being malaria vectors,” Professor Jackson said.

“Both are attracted to human odour — particularly the odour of dirty socks — and, by eating blood-filled mosquitoes, this spider acquires a blood perfume that is attractive to members of the opposite sex,” he said.

The two spider species come from very different habitats, with E. culicivora most often seen on walls of buildings occupied by people in East Africa and P. wanlessi most often found in the culms of bamboo in Malaysia.

Education Plus Director Geoff Moore.

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Professor Jennifer Hay

A University of Canterbury academic who specialises in the analysis of words and sounds has been awarded the University’s 2015 Research Medal.

This year’s recipient is Professor Jennifer Hay (Language, Social and Political Sciences) who is Director of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, based at UC.

The Research Medal is awarded annually by UC for excellence in research or in recognition of research of outstanding merit produced over a limited time frame. It is the University’s highest recognition of an outstanding contribution to research.

Professor Hay said she was thrilled and honoured by the recognition.

“I enjoy interacting with and learning from all of the incredibly smart, generous and fun people I work with — doctoral students, postdocs and collaborators from around the world,” she said.

“I also enjoy the thrill of new data and the fun of trying to uncover the patterns and secrets it contains.”

Hay is currently working on a diverse range of projects, which all aim to answer questions about the nature of our knowledge about words.

“What we want to know is — what is it that we know about words? How does our knowledge of words shape how we hear and produce speech?

“We’re using a wide range of approaches to answer these questions, including analysing how sound change spreads across words in New Zealand English. We are running experiments on speech production and conducting large-scale online experiments about words and learning words.”

Hay said one of the studies that she’s best known for involved the hearing of vowels in rooms full of soft toys, and how the character of the toys affected vowel perception. This research is part of a study

into how environmental factors affect how we hear speech.

“We found that New Zealanders hear vowels differently if the room they are sitting in contains toy kangaroos and koalas, than if it contains toy kiwis,” she said.

“People like these results because they are so unexpected and crazy. Yet it’s illustrative of an important line of research we have, showing that people automatically use all kinds of environmental information to process speech.”

Top UC accolade for language researcher

Hay is a current Rutherford Discovery Fellow and is running the Wordovators project together with Janet Pierrehumbert of the University of Oxford. The project is funded by a US$2.7 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The Wordovators project is a major international study into how children and adults make new words.

Professor Hay will receive her Research Medal at the 2015 Chancellor’s Awards Dinner and UC Council Awards in November.

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Composer’s entire quake symphony to air at festivalUC academic Dr Patrick Shepherd’s musical gift to Christchurch will be performed in its entirety at this year’s Christchurch Schools’ Music Festival.

Shepherd began writing the earthquake-inspired symphony Ex Tenebris Lux, which translates to “from darkness comes the light”, in 2011 as his way of helping local people through the earthquake recovery.

Each year since the 2012, the children’s orchestra from schools across the region has premiered a new movement at the annual festival. To celebrate the completion of the symphony, about 20 past student players are returning as guest performers.

Although the last to be completed, Shepherd’s dramatic new movement entitled “Magnitude 7.1” is actually the first movement in the symphony. It is followed by the slow, contemplative “The Fallen Cathedrals”, the peppy “The Student Volunteer Army”, which honours students from UC and other tertiary institutions who worked so hard with the clean-up, and finally “Like a Scene from a Movie”.

Shepherd deliberately left “Magnitude 7.1” until last as it is the closest to the period and sound of the earthquakes — featuring banging, rumbling and foot stamping. Now five years on, he thinks Cantabrians are ready for the piece.

“It’s good to expose children to music as sound or ‘sound art’, but I wanted to give the players and audience some space before hearing this movement.”

The completion of the symphony meant Shepherd’s research project exploring how the arts can help children’s mental health has entered its final stage too. During rehearsals, groups of children will be interviewed about their feelings and experiences related to the quakes. The video recordings will then become part of UC’s CEISMIC Digital Archive and add to Shepherd’s research canvassing children about how they interacted with earlier movements.

Shepherd, who works in UC’s College of Education, Health and Human Development, said the collaborative aspects of the work and connecting with the children had been his favourite aspects of the four-year process.

“Some of the children have played a new movement each year and have offered ideas for me to work into each composition.

“In my experience as a teacher, children tend not to see their own progress so this has been a really positive and cathartic experience for the players to recognise how far they’ve come since the quakes — both emotionally and musically.”

Shepherd especially enjoyed giving the students the opportunity to play something no-one else had ever performed. He said he was “proud of the whole thing” but had been surprised at the reaction to the second movement as he didn’t realise the impact it would have on the audience.

“Music is a wonderful vehicle for learning, and sharing the symphony with the community through the festival, which so many Cantabrians have performed in, is very special,” said Shepherd, who has been the event’s musical director since 2013.

The festival brings together more than 4800 primary-aged children from 100 schools around Christchurch and as far afield as Ashburton and the West Coast.

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Dr Patrick Shepherd

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UC civil engineer Professor Andy Buchanan won three awards at the annual KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards for his innovative work on multi-storey timber buildings.The Emeritus Professor of Timber Design received the BNZ Supreme Award for an entry that demonstrated overall excellence in all core areas of research commercialisation. He was also awarded the Researcher Entrepreneur Award and the People’s Choice Award for the presenter voted by their peers as showing research commercialisation excellence that is well presented and inspires others.

Professor Buchanan’s pioneering research has led to a new system of constructing earthquake-resistant, multi-storey buildings using post-tensioned structural timber, referred to as Pres-Lam (pre-stressed laminated timber).

The research by Professor Buchanan and his team at UC has initiated a step-change in the perception of structural timber, allowing direct competition with concrete and steel for large span and multi-storey buildings. He is also involved in commercialising these timber buildings with industry partners Wesbeam, Nelson Pine Industries and Carter Holt Harvey, which invested heavily in the successful R&D programme.

Professor Buchanan said that the research and development would not have been possible without a major team effort. In addition to collaboration with industry and other universities, the UC team included many excellent postgraduate students, who were assisted by UC staff members Professor Stefano Pampanin and Dr Alessandro Palermo.

Professor Buchanan and his UC colleagues have established a UC-spinout company, Prestressed Timber Ltd, which is providing consulting engineering advice to building owners, architects and developers investing in long span and multi-storey timber buildings, throughout New Zealand and overseas, including the rebuild of Christchurch as a green, attractive, sustainable city.

Timber engineering wins innovator top award

businesses in New Zealand through technology licencing, start-up creation or by providing expertise to support business innovation. In conjunction with UC, Professor Butler’s company, MARS Bioimaging, is developing a colour X-ray scanner that could revolutionise medical imaging.

KiwiNet — the Kiwi Innovation Network — is a consortium of 15 universities, Crown Research Institutes and a Crown Entity established to boost commercial outcomes from publicly funded research. The awards are held annually to celebrate commercialisation success.

UC Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Steve Weaver said he was thrilled Professor Buchanan had been recognised for his world-class research.

“Professor Buchanan’s innovative work has led to a resurgence in the use of timber in multi-storey buildings and this award is fitting recognition of the impact his work has had in the field of structural engineering worldwide,” Professor Weaver said.

Fellow UC academic Professor Phil Butler was one of the other four finalists in the Researcher Entrepreneur Award category, which recognises entrepreneurial researchers who made an outstanding contribution to business innovation or created innovative

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Professor Andy Buchanan

Influencing global changeUC student Hannah Duder was one of only two New Zealanders who attended the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, in July. The conference is the brainchild of US President Barack Obama, who was among the 150 international delegates.

Hannah was chosen as one of 10 candidates from the East Asia and Pacific region. She demonstrated a flair for social enterprise by developing a website and smartphone app to engage young people in the political process before New Zealand’s last general election.

Four University of Canterbury postgraduate students are among nine New Zealand university students to receive Todd Foundation Awards for Excellence.

The aim of the awards is to support projects that promote excellence and encourage the development of new concepts, technology or research that will be of benefit to New Zealand.

The UC students who received awards were Regine Morgenstern, Jarrod Cook, Nicholas Lowther and James Hewett.

Morgenstern, who is completing a Master of Science degree in geological sciences, has been awarded $8500 for her research into mineral resources, which aims to help determine their future management or protection. She was delighted when she found out she had won the award.

“It feels great to be recognised at this level and know that the Todd Foundation finds my research valuable and beneficial to New Zealand. I have worked extremely hard over the last four years and it makes me very happy that it has finally paid off,” Morgenstern said.

“I have always put my study first, and with this extra assistance I will be able to continue striving for excellence in both my master’s research and in my future career.”

Cook, who is completing a Master of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering, has been awarded $7000 to develop, test and model a ratcheting,

tension-only device to improve the performance of seismic energy dissipation mechanisms to avoid buckling, and protect buildings and their occupants during earthquakes.

He said that he was very pleased to be selected to receive the Todd Foundation Award.

“It has been a confidence boost to have the merit of my work recognised like this. I am grateful for the opportunity and will do my best to represent them well in my future endeavours,” Cook said.

Lowther, a Master of Science in medical physics student, has been awarded $10,000 and is investigating a real-time cardiac MRI tracking technique based on anatomical matching used for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (which triggers 20 per cent of strokes), with radiosurgery.

Hewett, a PhD student, has been awarded $9000 for his research into computational fluid dynamics. His research will model the accumulation of unwanted fouling or scaling material in pipes and heat exchangers.

The success of UC students in 2015 follows that of the University in 2014, where four of the 10 awardees were from UC.

Meanwhile, UC alumni Anna Sturman and Natalie Jones have been selected for New Zealand’s eight-strong Youth Delegation for the United Nations’ negotiations on climate change in Paris in December. Also known as the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), it features 196 governments and is the supreme decision-making body on matters addressing human-induced climate change.

Jones, currently a legal intern at the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense in Mexico, will be in the communications team. Sturman, who works as a Senior Policy Advisor at UC, will be part of the conference policy team. Both feel strongly that climate change is a phenomenon that should unite people around the globe.

“We need to confront the very real and scary realities of what could lie ahead if we do not act together, fast. It is the challenge that will define our generation,” added Sturman.

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UC students dominate ‘Excellence’ awards

Todd Award winners (from left) Regine Morgenstern, Jarrod Cook, Nick Lowther and James Hewett.

Anna Sturman

The University of Canterbury brought art history to life for more than 60 secondary school students as part of the recent Art History Day.

UC’s Department of Art History and Theory invited Year 12 and 13 students from local schools onto campus to learn more about studying art history at UC.

Contemporary Art lecturer Dr Barbara Garrie said the event provided a “fun taster” and gave the visitors a firsthand experience of resources available at UC.

Day gives high school students taste of art history

“Art History Day provides an opportunity to meet staff and students from the department and in many ways it helps to demystify the university experience,” Garrie said.

The day included a lecture on remembering and forgetting art history, a series of workshops showcasing objects from the UC art collection, viewing the MacMillian Brown archives and rare book collections, as well as a visit to the School of Fine Arts Ilam Campus Gallery.

College of Arts students Chantal Bennett, Bojana Rimbovska and Jose Sanchez spoke with visiting students on the day and showed them what it is like to study the arts at UC.

“The high school students really appreciated being able to talk with undergraduates, as well as take part in the more formal parts of the day,” Garrie said.

Art History Day is a recent initiative that began last year.

Garrie said the department wanted to introduce students to the way art history was taught at UC and showcase some of the career opportunities available to graduates.

“Our students leave UC with critical thinking and visual literacy skills that prepare them for work in a range of different fields.”

“Our students leave UC with critical thinking and visual literacy skills that prepare them for work in a range of different fields,” Garrie said.

“Ultimately, we hope to pass on some of our enthusiasm for art history and to encourage future university students to study with us at UC."

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UC’s Jamie Hanton shows students a selection of the collection.

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Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane and Dr Herb de Vries.

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Two UC academics' dedication has been rewarded in the annual Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards.

The outstanding Canterbury academics are Dr Herb de Vries from UC’s College of Business and Law, and Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane, who is Professor of Māori Research at UC and the University’s first winner in the Kaupapa Māori category.

The UC pair was recognised alongside 10 other recipients from around New Zealand. They receive awards of $20,000 each for their achievement.

The judging panel commented on Professor Macfarlane’s strength in culturally inclusive learning and teaching — in particular his ability to engage with both individuals and groups. They stated that de Vries’ commercial background gave authenticity to his teaching, noting that his willingness to engage with students in a very interactive manner was a particular strength.

De Vries left high school at 17 and overcame learning difficulties to excel in his own successful manufacturing business before deciding at 36 that he wanted to be a university lecturer. De Vries completed an MBA and a Certificate in Adult Teaching, which led to a period of contract lecturing and then a position in the Christchurch College of Education Business School.

De Vries said the outstanding teaching culture there had a positive impact on his development as an educator and, after completing a Masters and PhD in management, he accepted a position in UC’s College of Business and Law.

Long impressed with the difference great teachers can make to students’ lives, de Vries has gone on to inspire others.

“As a youngster I was plagued with reading and writing problems, but fortunately I had inspiring teachers who encouraged me to overcome these problems,” said de Vries.

“Students need to grow as learners and as people, so I encourage them to engage with other students as a learning community. It’s not about me — it’s about inspiring them to set high expectations for themselves. When I walk into a classroom, my students are the centre of my universe — for that period of time, nothing else matters more,” he said.

This philosophy saw de Vries through the obstacles created by the Canterbury earthquakes, when he delivered lectures to more than 400 students in tents and offered support to many via drop-in sessions at UC’s Intent Café.

Professor Angus Macfarlane’s award recognised his contribution and commitment to the professional advancement of kaupapa Māori imperatives for pre-service and in-service teacher education. Macfarlane said that he attempted to adopt an approach to teaching and learning that was culturally grounded, evidence-based, student-focused and committed to advancing awareness and understandings that could be translated into practice.

Educated in Rotorua and Auckland, Macfarlane’s leadership in Māori traditions was fashioned and refined at secondary school where the emphasis was on te reo and tikanga Māori, scholarship, performing arts and sport. A period as head teacher of a school for students with profound behavioural difficulties focused

Two tertiary teaching awards for UC

Macfarlane’s interest in educational and cultural psychology, which became the foundation disciplines of his university teaching and research. He is also Kaihautū (Senior Māori Advisor) for the New Zealand Psychological Society.

“The greatest satisfaction I derive from tertiary teaching is the development of human potential, which must be highly valued and reflected in the content and context of teaching programmes,” said Macfarlane.

“While my teaching is primarily geared toward kaupapa Māori orientations, I strive to be inclusive of all cultures. The fine examples of excellence that my tipuna [ancestor], Makereti, provides are the qualities that I draw from to guide and inform my tertiary teaching practice,” he said.

Macfarlane recalled and acknowledged the many key people who had inspired him and kept him motivated over the years.

“A real sense of purpose and enjoyment was inspired through working in proximity to tertiary education leaders such as Fred Kana, Waiariki Grace, Tamati Reedy, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Ted Glynn, and others,” Macfarlane said.

The annual awards were established by the Government to recognise and encourage excellence in tertiary teaching and were presented for the first time in 2002. UC has a strong track record of success in the awards, with 10 previous winners, bringing the University’s total to 12 current staff who are members of the Ako Academy.

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Two garden seats will memorialise two historians who played a pivotal role in establishing the discipline at UC.

The seats, installed on the east side of the Karl Popper building, each feature a memorial plaque, in memory of Professor Neville Phillips (1916-2001) and Jim Gardner (1915-2012). They were unveiled at a ceremony organised by the Canterbury History Foundation.

The Canterbury History Foundation President and UC Chancellor Dr John Wood hosted the event while Emeritus Professor John Cookson and Adjunct Professor Geoff Rice spoke about Phillips and Gardner. The Gardner family was represented by Gardner’s daughter, Helen Gardner, while a message from Phillips’ son, Jock, was read out at the ceremony.

Cookson and Rice said the two historians made a significant contribution to the study of New Zealand history at UC by championing the New Zealand experience of the past.

Historians remembered “They were both committed to the University and to the study and teaching of history so we are thrilled that we have been able to memorialise both Neville and Jim in this way,” Rice said.

Phillips, a graduate of UC and Oxford University, took up a position at the then Canterbury College in 1946. An expert in 18th century British history, he became head of the history department in 1948 and was instrumental in expanding the history department’s course offerings to include papers in Asian and American history, and strengthened the position of New Zealand history. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor in 1966 and oversaw the University’s move from the central city to Ilam. He retired in 1977.

Gardner, who studied at UC in the 1930s, began his working life as a school teacher before being appointed to the University’s

history department in 1948. His field of expertise was 19th century New Zealand history and, after his retirement in 1976, he wrote and edited a number of regional histories. He was also involved in the Historic Places Trust, and the Canterbury Historical Association and was the first president of the New Zealand Historical Association. His service to historical research was recognised when he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007.

The University is compiling a database of physical memorials on UC campus sites, which will support UC’s Legacies and Memorials Book. When annotated, the book will be on display in the Matariki building. To access information on known memorials, or to share details of others, please email leonie.partridge@canterbury.ac.nz.

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Emeritus Professor John Cookson, Chancellor Dr John Wood, Helen Gardner and Adjunct Professor Geoffrey Rice unveil the seat.

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UC embraces Pasifika culturePasifika culture has been celebrated on campus in different ways in recent months.In September, UC hosted the biggest-ever gathering of New Zealand’s Samoan university student associations. So’otaga 2015 featured six days of academic, cultural and sporting competitions, a Christian rally and celebration of Samoan culture. The successful 35th Samoan student conference drew 220 students from Victoria University of Wellington, Waikato University, University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and UC, which was host for the first time since the 2010 earthquakes.

University of Canterbury Samoan Students’ Association (CUSSA) President Tumama Tu’ulua said student numbers were nearly double previous years, with many keen to see what Christchurch had to offer post-quakes.

Tu’ulua said assistance from UC was great, with accommodation provided in the Rochester and Rutherford halls of residence and support from the wider campus with fundraising activities during the year.

“The Christchurch community demonstrated wonderful support — with crowds at capacity for most events — but the best part was the students sharing experiences and gaining life-changing respect from their elders,” Tu’ulua said.

UC’s Pacific Development Team has been helping young Pasifika learners excel and reach their full potential through the UCMeXL holiday programme. UCMeXL runs twice a year and helps prepare year 11, 12 and 13 Pasifika learners for their NCEA school exams and for tertiary education.

Pacific Advisor Riki Welsh said the programme allowed students to learn in a Pasifika-friendly environment where it was fun and cool to learn together as part of an “academic family” of Pacific learners.

Qualified tutors, who understand and communicate in ways that work well for

Pasifika learners, provide students with in-depth advice and assistance on a wide range of topics such as enrolling in tertiary education, applying for scholarships and StudyLink, looking at subject choices and gaining career advice.

Run since 2011, some of the tutors are former XL participants themselves, but a major milestone will be achieved this December with the first graduation of a former XL participant.

Liz Keneti, UC’s Director of Pasifika, said “Wider community activities such as these really celebrate Pasifika culture and provide supportive opportunities for our young Pasifika people to nurture and share their heritage and life experiences with other cultures and community groups.”

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UC’s CUSSA group perform at So’otaga.

Hives help typhoon victimsFive UC students helped a poor Filipino community of 2280 people establish hives of stingless bees to aid the community’s recovery from typhoon devastation.

The students helped cultivate 32 native bee hives for organic honey production in Barangay Tarong in Carles, Iloilo during a week-long visit in July. Byproducts from the beekeeping co-operative include pollen, propolis and cosmetic ingredients.

Nicknamed “The Bee Team”, the students — Claire Musson, Kilali Gibson, Victoria Ning, Jessie Weber-Sparrow and Callum Clark — won UC’s 21 Day International Challenge in May. The team worked closely with Project Inspire and experts from the University of the Philippines.

The challenge gave six teams of five students and five business mentors 21 days to develop practical, unique solutions to improve the socio-economic well-being of the local people, whose livelihoods were affected by typhoon Haiyan in November 2013.

“It was a real privilege just to be part of this competition, but to see all the hard work implemented has been the most satisfying thing,” said team member Callum Clark.

Project costs and travel expenses were met by UC’s College of Business and Law, and students were assisted on their trip by UC Associate Professor Sussie Morrish and challenge manager Hannah Rhodes.

Donations will enable the two runner-up teams to also implement their projects in November.

Offering donated to UC’s Logie CollectionThe University’s James Logie Memorial Collection has been enriched by a special donation from the Chancellor, Dr John Wood, and his wife, Rose.

The couple recently donated a miniature votive offering, which is in the shape of a sword or, in Latin, a gladius.

The Roman votive offering dates to about the second century BC, and might have been dedicated in a temple to a god by way of the fulfilment of a vow or in gratitude for divine aid.

Classics Head of Department Dr Victor Parker said the dedication of a weapon “would presumably be for some act involving the weapon — thanks for a deed of valour wrought with the weapon, thanks for riches won with it, or perhaps even just for a safe return from war. There are many reasons why the dedicator of this sword may have left it behind in a temple as an offering”.

The gladius was a personal weapon and was used by Roman legionnaires for close quarter fighting.

“It would have been ideal for an underhanded thrust upwards beneath a shield into a belly or groin,” he said.

The donation is the first example of this type of votive offering in the Logie Collection, as well as being the first example of a Roman

sword in the collection, albeit a miniature one. The sword is more than 2000 years old and only 4.5cm long.

The Logie Collection, which comprises antiquities from around the Mediterranean, is housed in the University’s Classics Department. The collection regularly hosts classes for UC students, as well as primary and secondary school classes from throughout Canterbury and New Zealand. The collection is open to the public by appointment.

The Chemistry building at The Arts Centre is being fitted out for the return in mid-2016 of UC Classics and Music Performance to the University’s historic home. As well as providing world-class student learning, the venue will allow for far greater public engagement with the James Logie Memorial Collection of antiquities in a purpose-built museum room, as well as providing access to UC Music recitals.

A fundraising appeal is under way for this major project and contributions to the fund can be made at www.canterbury.ac.nz/back.

This miniature votive offering is only 4.5cm.

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Canterbury Engineering the Future The Canterbury Engineering the Future (CETF) project is a major modernisation and renewal of all engineering facilities at UC including a rebuild or refurbishment of each of the four wings and construction of a new Structural Engineering Laboratory.

Due for completion in February 2017, the project is approaching the midpoint of a two-year programme to provide the state-of-the-art facilities that will revolutionise engineering teaching, learning and research at the University.

Besides creating flexible spaces to allow for modern teaching practices and increased hands-on learning opportunities, a central “Core” will be developed where staff and students can learn and socialise together. The Core is designed to promote learning and research collaborations and to encourage the interactions between the different engineering departments that will inspire and lead to innovative cross-discipline solutions.

The new Chemical and Process Engineering (CAPE) wing will provide a safe and inclusive learning environment, full of natural light with a social heart and a strong academic curriculum. It will incorporate multipurpose rooms, a research laboratory, transparent work stations and centrally located technician rooms for hands-on guidance and safety.

The refurbished Electrical and Computer Engineering wing will display the processes, techniques and teachings of that department, with a cluster of complex technical laboratories located at the entrance. The building will include technical and non-technical spaces that encourage interaction and engage passers-by.

The Mechanical Engineering wing will provide state-of-the-art laboratories to support students who choose to study machine design, new product development, bioengineering and consultancy.

The Civil and Natural Resources Engineering wing will encompass three full-height glazed mezzanines to showcase research, encourage student interactions and host presentations to industry and schools. It is this department that will utilise the new Structural Engineering Laboratory to ensure students are exposed to modern earthquake testing techniques. These will provide first-hand experience of the impact of seismic loadings on structures and soils, and include real-time simulations of buildings undergoing seismic movements.

Artist impression of the new entrance to the Engineering precinct.

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Nurturing UC’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurshipA vision of a world positively affected by the work of University of Canterbury staff and graduates is driving UC's “research commercialisation” focus.

UC makes a difference through its teaching, but can achieve even more through its research, provided this is translated into useful outcomes such as new products, services or policy.

“Universities in the Western world have been embracing commercialisation for more than 30 years, but it’s not just about picking the ideas that will generate the big bucks. It’s about making a positive difference, which is perfectly aligned with UC’s mission,” said Nigel Johnson, Director of UC’s Research & Innovation (R&I).

“Establishing UC’s R&I team is part of developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship — shifting from a sole focus on getting research published to helping UC researchers commercialise the intellectual property they create, as well as bring benefits to New Zealand,” Johnson said.

Integrating UC’s research, consultancy and commercialisation functions ensures research is relevant and is helping build UC’s reputation for doing useful things — for businesses, communities and natural environments.

“At UC, we see opportunity. We are a leader in transferring knowledge, so we support our academic staff and researchers to engage with real-world issues to solve problems, create jobs and establish new businesses to help New Zealand prosper.”

This culture change at UC aligns well with government policy and was supported initially with funding through the Tertiary Education Commission’s Growth and Innovation Pilot Initiative and Enterprise South Island.

A range of new initiatives have been implemented to encourage and support innovation, based on the University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategy. These include the Innovation Medal to

“At UC, we see opportunity. We are a leader in transferring knowledge, so we support our academic staff and researchers to engage with real-world issues to solve problems, create jobs and establish new businesses to help New Zealand prosper.”

Gold medal for UC athleteSix UC athletes represented New Zealand at the World University Games in Gwangiu, South Korea, in July.

Angie Petty, Brad Mathas, Daniel Balchin, Fiona Morrison and Kelsey Berryman all competed in athletics, while Jonathan Wang competed in table tennis.

Angie Petty became the third-ever New Zealand woman to run a sub two minute 800 metres race, winning a gold medal in the process. The New Zealand team equalled its second best effort ever, winning one gold, three silver medals and one bronze.

The World University Games are held every two years for student athletes from around the world. More than 13,000 athletes from 141 countries competed in the 28th biennial event. This compares to about 10,000 competitors from 205 nations at an Olympic Games.

Angie Petty

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recognise excellence, and the Innovation Champions who foster and encourage ideas in their departments, as well as student-focused initiatives such as entré Ltd and the newly established Centre for Entrepreneurship, located in the Foresty building, hosted by the College of Business and Law.

“Entrepreneurship and innovation are becoming an increasingly important part of the world of work, so it’s vital for our students to develop this expertise,” Johnson said.

UC recognised it is part of a regional, national and international ecosystem.

“With such a diverse range of disciplines amongst our faculty and with limited resources, we realised we couldn’t be effective on our own, so our R&I team helps commercialisation by establishing relationships with key players in the value chain,” he said.

The importance of partnerships and relationships is a concept Johnson knows well. Recruited from CSIRO Australia,

Johnson was GM of Client and Partner Relationships — charged with lifting CSIRO’s engagement with industry and end-users of its research.

Vital relationships include working with tech transfer offices, legal and business professionals, incubators and investor groups, as well as KiwiNet — a network of public research organisations with global connections. Through KiwiNet, UC has access to the government’s Pre-Seed Accelerator Fund (PSAF) to leverage its commercialisation activities.

“The financial support from PSAF and the expert input from the KiwiNet staff and Investment Committee members have proved of great benefit to our commercialisation efforts,” Johnson said.

“The scale of KiwiNet also makes it easier to connect with international investor groups and other networks of research commercialisation specialists.”

In the Canterbury region, UC helps build scale through its partnerships with the Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC),

technology incubator Powerhouse Ventures Ltd, and as a member of CDC Innovation’s stakeholder advisory group.

A source of pride is UC’s connections with five of the first seven technology start-ups selected in 2015 to receive repayable grant funding from Callaghan Innovation. UC entries also won Supreme Awards at the annual KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards in both 2014 and 2015.

UC’s strong performance in research and innovation continued in April 2015 when UC had the highest success rate (20.4%) in the preliminary round of funding applications to the Marsden Fund for excellence in science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanities.

This success is all helping to build UC’s reputation as a place where top students and academic researchers want to study and work, and where research funders, whether government or private sector, will want to invest.

(From left) Research and Innovation Director Dr Nigel Johnson with Bill Lee, Adrian Bush and Sandeep George.

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Helping Māori reach their potentialEncouraging young Māori to reach their potential is the aim of University of Canterbury’s Te Ara: Māori Pathway events.

More than 80 Year 12 Māori students spent the day on the UC campus recently and were given the opportunity to see how their current school subjects relate and progress into degree programmes at university.

University of Canterbury Māori Liaison Officer Ariana Johansson said the day was about encouraging Māori students to look at their long-term education options.

“Te Ara means the road, and building a pathway for students into tertiary education or higher education is the main goal,” Johansson said.

“There are a lot of problems for students in high school knowing what is out there and what they can do long term. What we need is more Māori students in the industry sectors and we want them to stay in school and get excited about what options there are long term.”

Te Ara began last year with Year 12 students from 21 schools around Christchurch attending the day. Students are invited to

come along to the event by their schools, based on those who the school feels would benefit most from the opportunity.

Johansson said that one of the main benefits for students was just being able to see what was available to them in tertiary education.

“Another big thing is being able to see what the campus is like, seeing that this place will be home for them so that it is not a big scary thing. It is also really important for them to see other Māori students getting involved and on campus and seeing young Māori already at UC. They find that quite inspiring,” Johansson said.

“The students see that other young Māori also have higher education aspirations too and hopefully they feel like we are here to help them fulfil these at UC.”

Johansson said that it had been great going to schools this year and seeing students thrive and make decisions based on what they learnt at Te Ara the previous year.

“What has been really great is that I have seen some of the students who were involved in Te Ara in the first year, and I’ve been back to their school and started planning their courses to come to UC next year,” she said.

“The most rewarding thing is knowing that these students have found something that they are going to focus on after they leave school. They will be great students and will, in the long term, contribute to society, especially in the Māori space because we need it.”

Te Ara: Māori Pathways for Year 10 is being held in November and will provide a discovery day for Year 10 students as they start to think about education following school.

Students learn more about what UC has to offer at the Te Ara event.

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UC lays foundations for architectural and engineering collaboration UC initiatives to expand the awareness, teaching, research and dissemination of architectural engineering are gathering momentum.In August, UC introduced a new postgraduate course for engineers to develop an understanding of architecture and architectural design principles. The “Integrated Design” course was established by UC’s Architect-in-Residence, Tim Nees, to encourage a collaborative model of professional engineering design. The Architect-in-Residence within UC’s College of Engineering is funded by the Warren Education Trust and the Ada Rutherford Trust.

Strengthening links between engineers and architects is a topic of special significance to Christchurch following the 2010/11 earthquakes. The Royal Commission’s subsequent report identified the need for architects and engineers to collaborate more effectively, right from the concept design stages of a building project.

UC’s next step is to establish the Ada Rutherford Professorship in architectural engineering, which it hopes to fill early next year. This is being made possible with the help of a significant endowment from the estate of Jim Rutherford in memory of his mother.

Tim Nees said collaboration between architects and engineers would result in better and safer buildings, a richer built environment, more efficient design and delivery processes, and greater professional satisfaction. It would also improve the quality of New Zealand’s commercial and public buildings, and housing.

“Support from the Ada Rutherford Trust is helping us create a new generation of structural engineers who can come together with architects and other building consultants to share information before any

design assumptions are made. This means an appropriate design concept will emerge more quickly, one that will require less redesign and less refinement,” Nees said.

UC’s Senior Development Consultant, Peter Smeele, said “We wouldn’t be able to do what we are doing without the generous bequest from Jim Rutherford’s estate.”

“It is supporting our collaboration with a wide range of partners, both nationally and internationally.”

Jim Rutherford was a UC alumnus whose professional engineering and business career spanned more than 60 years in New Zealand and around the world.

Rutherford's passion for the collaboration of architecture and engineering evolved during his involvement in the design of the Sydney Opera House and throughout his extensive engineering career as a senior engineer in the world renowned Arup engineering group.

UC’s Architect-in-Residence Tim Nees.

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Skills, agility and speed with the CrusadersThree secondary school rugby teams who competed in the UC Championship learnt some valuable lessons when they were given the chance to train with Crusaders players Andy Ellis and Luke Romano.The training sessions were organised by the University of Canterbury, who sponsors the UC Cup and UC Championship competitions.

The First XV teams at Burnside High School, St Andrew's College and Lincoln High School trained with the two Crusaders, running through drills as well as trying out high-tech equipment provided by UC Sport.

UC Sport and the UC Sport Science Centre offer experienced sports scientists, strength and conditioning coaches, and performance and technique analysts who can help individuals and teams achieve their athletic potential and goals in their chosen sport.

The rugby teams tested their agility with a reactive test, pitted themselves against the Crusaders team with 20 metre sprint races, and worked on developing their skills with Crusaders’ coaches and players.

Ellis, the Crusaders halfback, said he hoped the players picked up some skills and drills during the training sessions.

“I think it is nice for these young players to see the guys that are on TV come down and train with them and realise that we are just normal guys who love rugby and that we also played in these competitions when we were their age,” Ellis said.

“By setting goals and putting in some hard work we were able to push on and become professionals. These guys can, hopefully, do the same and see that there is a real pathway for them as well.”

Romano, a Crusaders lock, said it was great to give the players some coaching.

“If we can give back to the sport, promote the game and help young players coming through it’s a real bonus.”

Ellis said his memories of playing in the First XV at Burnside High School were some of his best.

“It’s great that I can come back and help at the school I played for.

“Coming into the schools at this level has reminded me of how cool playing for the First XV at school can be.

“Seeing the friendships and relationships these boys have is great. Being able to have a good laugh with them and seeing them turn into young men is pretty cool.”

The University of Canterbury supports community engagement in Christchurch through key partnerships with the Crusaders, Tactix, Student Volunteer Army and the Christchurch School of Music.

UC Sport Manager Grant Robertson and Crusader Andy Ellis show students from St Andrew's College their training results.

Musical partnership hits right noteUC has announced a key partnership with the Christchurch School of Music (CSM) as part of a wider community engagement initiative, which already includes partnerships with the Crusaders, Tactix and the Student Volunteer Army (SVA).

Vice-Chancellor Dr Rod Carr said the partnership with the CSM and the Christchurch Youth Orchestra (CYO) would see the organisations work together to develop key projects to help UC engage with music students around Christchurch and throughout the South Island.

The partnership, which is supported by funds from the University of Canterbury Foundation, would see the orchestra renamed the University of Canterbury Christchurch Youth Orchestra.

Dr Carr said UC’s partnerships would help drive student recruitment and retention and help the University develop stronger community engagement with Christchurch and the wider Canterbury community.

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Springing forward with CUPTongan history and settlement, the importance of sociocultural context in teaching and learning, and the life and work of a well-loved New Zealand artist are all covered in upcoming books from Canterbury University Press (CUP). CUP is producing a revised edition of a popular book on Tongan history. First published in 1992, Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern by Ian C. Campbell is the only comprehensive treatment of its subject and is widely acknowledged as the authoritative history of Tonga. This third edition is updated and revised in accordance with recent research, and new chapters bring the story up to the end of 2014. Island Kingdom will be published in October.

Sociocultural Realities: Exploring new horizons edited by UC academics Professor Angus Macfarlane and Dr Sonja Macfarlane and University of Auckland academic Dr Melinda Webber, is also due for publication in October. The book examines sociocultural approaches in the education sector, from early childhood to tertiary level.

It aims to encourage the discussion and application of sociocultural theory and practice by researchers, policy-makers and teacher educators in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and elsewhere. Sociocultural Realities is a reference for teachers, special education advisors, psychologists, university lecturers and paraprofessionals.

CUP will also publish a book on one of New Zealand’s finest and best-loved artists. Olivia Spencer Bower: Making her own discoveries is the first book to consider her life and work. Art historian Julie King offers lively and impeccably researched text and a section of watercolours, paintings, drawings, prints and illustrations of one the most engaging and vital artists this country has produced. Olivia Spencer Bower book is due to be published in November.

Other titles CUP has published this year include Mt John — The first 50 years: A celebration of half a century of optical astronomy at the University of Canterbury by John Hearnshaw and Alan Gilmore; The People’s University: A Centennial History of the Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association 1915-2015 by Ian Dougherty; There are no horses in heaven by poet Frankie McMillan; Fish Stories by poet Mary Cresswell; and Cricketing Colonists: The Brittan brothers in early Canterbury by Geoffrey Rice and Frances Ryman.

You can find out more about these titles, and order online at www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz.

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School of Fine Arts wins top awardIlam Press and the Christchurch Art Gallery are celebrating the award of the top prize for Bulletin, an art gallery magazine at this year’s Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA).Director of the UC School of Fine Arts, Aaron Kreisler, said the magazine was a smart piece of design.

“It is great to see the team, both lecturers and students, receiving notable accolades for a publication that marries art, teaching and critical discourse.

“We are all very proud of what Ilam Press is creating in the world of publishing, but even more than that, what it is contributing as a vital graphic design and unique collaborative studio model,” Kreisler said.

Ilam Press is a boutique publishing house operating out of the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury.

Started in 2011 by fine arts lecturers Luke Wood and Aaron Beehre, Ilam Press has quickly garnered a significant following among artists, designers, curators and a wide-ranging readership.

UC graphic design students Narelle Denmead, Jose Sanchez, Gemma Banks, Alice Bush, Klaudia Krupa, Sarah Jones and Lisa Maloney have all worked on the Bulletin project.

Alongside this success, three UC Ilam School of Fine Arts students have been recognised at this year’s New Zealand Art Show’s Emerging Artist Awards.

UC students Anna-Belle Graham, Hannah Watkins and Sam Clague all won $2500, as well as an opportunity to exhibit their work at the New Zealand Art Show.

Established in 2012, the New Zealand Art Show’s Emerging Artist Awards recognise and encourage emerging artists and the role of New Zealand art schools. The awards are open to students studying towards a visual arts degree or diploma at an established New Zealand art school.

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UC academics to lead Turing Centre In the wake of the recent blockbuster The Imitation Game about Alan Turing, Christchurch has acquired a new Turing-inspired connection with Europe.

UC Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland and UC Associate Professor Diane Proudfoot have been appointed co-directors of the Turing Centre Zurich (TCZ), created by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) in July.

Turing was a mathematician and pioneering computer scientist who played a pivotal role in cracking Nazi codes in World War 2, contributing to the Allied victory.

The idea for a centre dedicated to cutting edge multidisciplinary research in Turing Studies originated from a collaboration between Copeland and Dr Giovanni Sommaruga of ETH.

“ETH Zurich is very pleased to have succeeded in establishing a Turing institute involving the two internationally outstanding researchers in Turing Studies, Diane Proudfoot and Jack Copeland,” said Dr Sommaruga, who will be managing director of the TCZ.

“Turing was one of computer science’s early visionaries and the first prophet of artificial intelligence,” Copeland said.

Copeland and Proudfoot are excited about the prospect of closer collaboration with leading European researchers and will work towards the establishment of postgraduate student exchanges between UC and TCZ. TCZ will also serve as a springboard for UC academic staff to pursue European research opportunities.

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Te Ara: Year 10 Māori Pathways Day11 November 2015, Undercroft, University of Canterbury

Te Ara is an opportunity for Year 10 students to come onto campus and explore the opportunities available to them after they finish high school. This exciting workshop will allow these students an insight into life on campus and the fun and educational facilities available at UC.

Pacific Regional Security Symposium25–26 November 2015, University of Canterbury

The two-day symposium will provide a forum where researchers, experts, policy makers and key community representatives from around the region will engage in critical examination of a range of “hard”, human, and environmental security issues in the Pacific, identifying links between them and providing possible approaches and mechanisms for addressing them. Find out more at: www.pacs.canterbury.ac.nz/symposium.shtml

Rotorua Graduation Ceremony

10 December, 1.30–3.30pm, Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre, 1170 Fenton Street, Rotorua

Graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Education graduands based in the North Island.

December Graduation Ceremony15 December, 10am–12pm, Horncastle Arena, AddingtonGraduation ceremony for the Faculties of Engineering and Forestry, and Science.

December Graduation Ceremony 15 December, 2pm–4pm, Horncastle Arena, AddingtonGraduation ceremony for the Faculty of Education.

December Graduation Ceremony

17 December, 10am–12pm, Horncastle Arena, AddingtonGraduation ceremony for the Faculties of Law, Commerce, and Arts.

Alumni Events Late 2015 — Early 2016Keep an eye out for upcoming events on the Alumni website: www.canterbury.ac.nz/alumni

• Guest lecture — UC Centre for Entrepreneurship • Young alumni event • International Graduation Morning Tea • Golden Graduates Afternoon Tea

Orientation Day 19 February 2016 University of CanterburyThe start of year orientation is filled with information, introductions, advice and fun to help students feel confident about starting at UC. UC Orientation Day also kicks off a week of gigs, concerts, club activities, and all kinds of social events organised by the University of Canterbury Student’s Association (UCSA).

Year 12 Discovery Day

12 April 2016, University of CanterburyDiscovery Day involves a series of fun and interesting lectures that will give prospective students an insight into the vast range of offerings available.

Careers Fairs 2016Keep an eye out for upcoming careers fairs events at: www.canterbury.ac.nz/careers

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UC Open Day 2015