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Ngā Ahurei Hou a Te Apārangi New Fellows 2022

Booklet introducing the new Ngā Ahurei Fellows of Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Jenni Adams: High energy neutrino astrophysics

Particles, with energies over a million times great...
  • Particles, with energies over a million times greater than anything achievable by accelerators on Earth, continuously bombard our atmosphere...

Te Maire Tau FRSNZ: Resources, regulation and rangatiratanga

Historian Te Marie Tau discusses appl...
  • Historian Te Marie Tau discusses applied tribal economics and sovereignty. It is said the ‘Māori economy’ has grown from $16b to $70b in twenty years...

Brendon Bradley FRSNZ: Forecasting the unpredictable

Despite our inability to predict the exact na...
  • Despite our inability to predict the exact nature and timing of earthquakes, scientific understanding has advanced drastically recently...

Virginia Braun FRSNZ: Knowledge matters...

As a critical scholar working at disciplinary margins, ...
  • As a critical scholar working at disciplinary margins, Virginia reflects on the contingencies of choice, opportunity and constraint, highlighting the rewards of operati...

Andrew Allan FRSNZ: Plant Science has huge potential in Aotearoa-NZ’s response to the climate crisis
  • Andrew’s joint roles at Plant & Food Research and University of Auckland provide access to great students and longer-term funding for his study of perennial fruit tre...

Mark Bolland FRSNZ: (Accidentally) disputing dogma

Mark has research results with a common (but un...
  • Mark has research results with a common (but unintentional) theme: they challenge existing guidance. Effectively treated HIV-infected men do not get osteoporosis...

Karin Bryan FRSNZ: Morphodynamic feedbacks and the evolution of our coasts

We now are sure of sea ...
  • We now are sure of sea level rise, more frequent storms and increasing temperatures, but why is it so difficult to predict what life on the coast will look like? Karin ...

Hallie Buckley FRSNZ: A bioarchaeologist’s journey through time and space

The lived experiences ...
  • The lived experiences of people from the past can be explored using multiple osteological, chemical, and molecular methods to address questions of the biosocial adaptat...

Owen Catchpole FRSNZ: Processing of natural materials into high value bioactives

Owen describes so...
  • Owen describes some of the separation science, particularly the application of supercritical CO2 extraction technology, and chemical engineering to process bioactives, ...

Murray Close FRSNZ: Groundwater research - making the invisible visible

The UN World Water Day in ...
  • The UN World Water Day in 2022 focused on groundwater – a critically important hidden water resource...

Gillian Dobbie FRSNZ: From data to machine learning

Gill’s research has focused on getting infor...
  • Gill’s research has focused on getting information from data...

Dorian Garrick FRSNZ: Developments in the nature and role of prediction to improve populations
  • The challenge for informed selection is to obtain the best possible evaluation of a selection candidate’s merit, using all the available information, but this is extr...

Simon Holdaway FRSNZ: From simple to complex, an archaeological antidote to unilineal culture history
  • Histories of humanity often use a progression from hunter gatherers subsisting on wild foods with little social hierarchy to sedentary peoples using domestic crops and ...

Simon Keller FRSNZ: Mental health as an ethical concept

Do you have a healthy mind? Experts in dif...
  • Do you have a healthy mind? Experts in different fields will give you different answers...

Nancy November FRSNZ: Who was listening to what in Vienna around 1800, and why should we care
  • Nancy traces her research journey through four projects, and discusses where ideology critique in conjunction with historical thinking has taken her, including insights...

XiaoQi Chen Hon FRSNZ: Intelligent robots for better commonwealth of humankind

The rapid advances ...
  • The rapid advances of robotics and AI are leading to the emergence of intelligent and autonomous robots that impact every aspect of humankind...

Phil Lyver FRSNZ: He mātai i te taiao

Indigenous knowledge systems shape relationships with the n...
  • Indigenous knowledge systems shape relationships with the natural world; are used to evaluate and interpret ecological state and processes; and guide community action...

Dominic O’Sullivan Hon FRSNZ: Political theory and the rights of indigenous peoples

Exploring re...
  • Exploring relationships among liberal democracy, citizenship, public sovereignty, and indigenous self-determination...

Leonie Pihama FRSNZ: He Waipuna Koropupū: A kaupapa Māori response to epistemic violence

‘He W...
  • ‘He Waipuna Koropupū' is a phrase from a Taranaki Whakawai that reminds us of the ever bubbling pool of potential gifted to us from our tūpuna...

Paul Kilmartin FRSNZ: Research at interfaces – starting with electrochemistry

Using the theme of...
  • Using the theme of “interfaces”, Paul will make links between his varied life experiences...

Gary Evans FRSNZ: Finding the right chemistry

Gary reflects on a career in Aotearoa, that has both...
  • Gary reflects on a career in Aotearoa, that has both literally and figuratively, been about finding the right chemistry...

Lisa Stamp FRSNZ: Stamping out gout

Gout is a form of arthritis particularly relevant in Aotearoa ...
  • Gout is a form of arthritis particularly relevant in Aotearoa because of the high prevalence in Māori and Pasifika peoples...

Helen Sword FRSNZ: Writing with pleasure

Is writing with pleasure a frivolous pastime or an essent...
  • Is writing with pleasure a frivolous pastime or an essential scholarly skill? Helen reflects on how being a literary scholar and poet has influenced her ground-breaking...

Brett Robinson FRSNZ: Towards a circular bioeconomy in Aotearoa

In New Zealand’s linear ‘take-...
  • In New Zealand’s linear ‘take-make-dispose’ bioeconomy, we dispose or under-utilise some 2...

Rachael Taylor FRSNZ: Move, eat, sleep, repeat

Our habits influence how good we feel, both physica...
  • Our habits influence how good we feel, both physically and mentally...

Julia Tolmie FRSNZ: Justice gaps in the criminal law

Because the vast majority of those who are pr...
  • Because the vast majority of those who are processed through the criminal justice system are men, the criminal laws have not been developed with the life experiences of...

Qiao Wang FRSNZ: A life with insects

Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet a...
  • Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet and directly related to our survival through pollination, plant damage and disease transmission...

Klaus Bosselmann FRSNZ: Earth system law

Life on Earth is interconnected and forms a single ecolog...
  • Life on Earth is interconnected and forms a single ecological system...

Christine Rubie-Davis FRSNZ: Raising expectations for all our tamariki

Christine describes how her...
  • Christine describes how her work in high expectation teaching has led to significant improvements in achievement and psychological outcomes for students...

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