Course organiser:Peter Moody
Presenter:Various
7 Mar:
Justin Brown, B.A.Sc in Civil Engineering, University of British Colombia on 'Mass Timber – Efficient Solutions and the Future of Building.'The talk will cover a brief history of timber construction, introduced engineering products and projects around the world and New Zealand that use engineered timber. He will touch on mass timber buildings and where they could best fit in our future cities.
14 Mar:
Corinne Bataille, MSc in Applied (Industrial/Organisational) Psychology, UC, on 'Opening Locked Gates: Identifying Land Owners’ Attitudes to Kaitiakitanga.'Corinne will discuss psychological factors that influence people’s attitudes towards kaitiakitanga (i.e. Māori environmental guardianship).
21 Mar:
Prof. Katie Pickles, History, UC on 'Why was Aotearoa New Zealand the First in the World to Grant Women the Right to Vote in 1893 but Took Till 1919 to Allow Them to Stand for Parliament?'This talk concerns research that is part of her fellowship on changes in women’s status over the past 200 years in New Zealand and globally, with a particular focus on heroines in history.
28 Mar:
Prof. Susan Krumdieck, College of Engineering, UC on 'Antimicrobial Ceramic Coatings.'Hospital acquired infections in the United States of America cause more deaths than auto-accidents, breast cancer and AIDS combined. Working in a multidisciplinary collaborative approach Prof Krumdiek is researching titanium dioxide, a photocatalytic ceramic, as a possible coating for hospital fixtures using novel nanoengineering. It is a solid coating with visible light antimicrobial activity.
4 Apr:
Dr. Ann Brower, Senior Lecturer in Geography, UC on 'What Drives Environmental Decisions in a Contested, but Loved, Landscape?'Her research examines current debates regarding environmental decisions in the McKenzie Basin. Science, economics, party politics, public pressure and the law each have a role to play, but none are as influential as we might expect.