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Index
Notice something different?...................................................................... 03
Woolf Fisher First-in-Family..................................................................... 04
Jordon Milroy scaling the heights........................................................ 05
Vice Chancellors Doctoral Scholarships.............................................. 06
Measuring up on student satisfaction................................................... 07
Educating our young people for the future........................................ 07
Muslims at Work summit opens up an important
conversation...................................................................................................... 08
Law School hosts Public Defence Service workshop...................... 09
Inaugural Entrepreneurship Symposium connects business
and research...................................................................................................... 09
Project15 taking New Zealand innovation global......................... 10
Sports science research delivers fast bowling gains....................... 11
Digital technology lowers cost of Mori language learning........ 12
Knowledge sharing enables indigenous language and
cultural revival.................................................................................................. 13
Discovery and exploration of New Zealand told through
braille: Paul Moons The Voyagers.......................................................... 14
Health and wealth: the argument for investment............................. 14
Study reveals what makes Kiwis awesome.......................................... 15
Choosing the right poems for New Zealanders................................ 15
Sharyn Graham Davies nominated for Ruth Benedict Prize........ 16
Paramedicine team show skill in Baltimore........................................ 16
Waste and recycling audit in Hikuwai Plaza....................................... 17
Plastic bottle kayaks...................................................................................... 18
Professor Paul Moon on Coast............................................................... 18
Climate change, environmental journalism and better
media ethics...................................................................................................... 19
Lifelike trauma simulations give AUT paramedics the edge....... 20
Vietnams Prime Minister visits AUT...................................................... 21
Polyfest 2015..................................................................................................... 22
AUT remembers.............................................................................................. 23
Two waves of
brand monitoring
research indicated
the need to
reposition our brand
to create distance
between AUT and
other competing
universities. The
brand refresh seeks to define and
articulate our point of difference to
increase our first choice ratings and
enrolments in target areas such as postgraduate, first-in-family or the South
Campus community. And, by making
our current students feel proud of and
connected to our brand, we are also
working towards increasing student
success and retention rates.
Jordon Milroy
scaling the heights
Works for the Cerebral Palsy Society
while finishing the last year of his
degree PR major in BCS.
Trains does steps each day for
example 1600 steps around the
Hillsborough coastal walkway. Sky
Tower climb took 25 minutes 1029
steps.
Believes that succeeding in his studies
is his ultimate way to thank his parents
for all their support and the sacrifices
they have made for him.
Has a Facebook page: www.facebook.
com/jordonsclimb
Vice Chancellors
Doctoral Scholarships
AUT has awarded 13 Vice Chancellors Doctoral Scholarships to high calibre students
in the first round for 2015. The students each received scholarships worth $95,000
to support their doctoral study at AUT.
The scholarships are aimed at assisting
high achieving international and
domestic doctoral candidates to
complete their doctoral studies. The
$95,000 covers tuition fees for a
three-year doctoral degree, as well as a
$25,000 annual stipend to cover living
costs.
Vice Chancellor Derek McCormack says,
There is a huge emotional and financial
cost to students completing doctoral
studies. The Vice Chancellors Doctoral
Scholarships aim to help reduce the
stress, not just on the students, but on
their friends and families.
One of the students Shereen Moataz
travelled from Egypt to complete
her doctoral thesis titled Embedded
Systems for Computer-aided diagnosis/
detection of melanoma under the
supervision of Associate Professor Hamid
Gholamhosseini in the Faculty of Design
and Creative Technologies.
Without becoming a recipient of the
Vice Chancellors Doctoral Scholarships,
I would not have been able to come to
New Zealand and study here at AUT, she
said.
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Measuring up on
student satisfaction
Our students satisfaction with
their experience of university
learning is measured each year
by surveys and were heading in
the right direction.
The level of satisfaction students have
with their programmes of study and
with their AUT experience is increasing,
with 88% of students saying they would
recommend AUT to others.
The annual AUT University Experience
Survey (UES) was completed by 29% of
AUTs 26,000 students at the end of 2014
and is intended to ensure the University
for our changing world continues to
listen to those we serve and adapt to
their needs.
Vice Chancellor Derek McCormack
said an exceptional student learning
experience is always top of mind and the
Project15
taking New Zealand innovation global
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor
Rob Allen opened the conference with
reference to AUTs history as a start-up
institution just 15 years ago and that
AUT shared an understanding of the
challenges for modern entrepreneurs.
Day one of Project15 included keynote
speeches from international speakers,
including Dave Schiff of Colorado-based
ad agency Made, Australian start-up
wizard Steve Sammartino, chief tech
evangelist at Microsoft James Whittaker
and David Smith from Silicon Valley
Business School. The programme also
included presentations from Malcolm
Rands of Ecostore, New Zealand
entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds and
Rightway CEO Greg Sheehan.
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SOVEREIGN
WELLBEING
INDEX
Choosing the
right poems for
New Zealanders
2015
www.mywellbeing.co.nz
The latest results released in April show Kiwis aged 55+ were
more likely to be awesome (enjoying extremely high levels of
wellbeing) than those under 35 years of age.
According to Professor Grant Schofield who led the study, the
project aims to help New Zealanders live well and experience
quality of life right to the end. Id like to see people live long and
drop dead, however the current reality is most of us will suffer
around 12 years of disability.
This research is about unravelling what makes people well and
what helps people to flourish in other words what produces
awesomeness, he says.
Ten-thousand New Zealanders were surveyed as part of the
project, which was carried out by AUTs Human Potential
Centre in partnership with Sovereign. It is the first survey of its
kind, designed specifically to measure the wellbeing of New
Zealanders.
The research showed that having positive relationships and
living in supportive communities were important to wellbeing.
Other factors associated with higher rates of wellbeing included
income and the ability to live comfortably on your earnings; using
your strengths and being satisfied in your job; and health status
and lifestyle including sleeping well, eating well and exercising.
According to Dr Aaron Jarden, Senior Lecturer in Psychology
and a central member of the research team, Improving our
wellbeing isnt easy; it takes hard work over a period of time, but
it is possible to improve our quality of life. This research gives us
some useful insights into how.
To see the full 2015 Sovereign Wellbeing Index report, and to
take the quiz on your own wellbeing, visit mywellbeing.co.nz.
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Paramedicine team
show skill in Baltimore
Four lecturers from the Department of
Paramedicine Luke Summers, Brendan
Wood, Haydn Drake and Sarah Gordon
recently participated in the 2015
EMSToday Conference/JEMS Games in
Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.
TeamAUT were able to showcase their
skills at the games and gain valuable
insight on the latest research in the world
of paramedicine.
Competing against 26 teams from all
across America, and from as far afield as
London, TeamAUT relished in healthy
collegial dialogue with their overseas
counterparts.
Not routinely accustomed to using CPAP
(a treatment that uses mild pressure to
keep the airways open) or delivering
CPR while moving through a serpentine
course, while being timed, TeamAUT
had agreed before the competition to
not compromise patient care for speed,
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the recycling bins included 25% nonrecyclable and 75% recyclable materials.
These figures show an improvement
when compared with AUTs first audit
of external recycling bins at the North
Shore Campus in 2012 (external recycling
did not exist at the City Campus in 2012).
This revealed a higher amount of nonrecyclables (42%) in the external recycling
bins.
Improvement is still required to further
reduce contamination in recycling
bins; as non-recyclables in recycling
bins jeopardise the recycling process.
Climate change,
environmental journalism
and better media ethics
Conservation issues, loss of land,
enforced location and culture and
language erosion are a few of the worries
troubling low-lying Pacific communities,
and for indigenous communities,
relocation will ultimately lead to culture
and language loss.
A seminar on the ethical reporting of
environmental risks, particularly in
relation to the Pacific, was hosted by the
AUTs Pacific Media Centre, bringing
together students, teaching staff,
members of the public and influential
climate change advocates in a forum of
open dialogue and debate.
The seminar featured Science
communication specialist Dr Jan Sinclair
of Massey University; whose focus is
on analysing science issues and the
challenges of communicating complex
stories and policy and empowerment;
and AUT doctoral candidate and Kiribati
Independent editor Taberannang
Korauaba who has recently conducted
field work researching what it is like
on low-lying atolls and islands of
Micronesia.
Dr Sinclair began reporting on climate
change in 1987 for The Dominion
newspaper, and in the early 1990s for
The Observer and New Scientist in the
United Kingdom.
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Members of the delegation visited AUTs Colab, where Prime Minister Dng
tried out an Oculus Rift brain visualisation part of an ongoing research
project by Dr Stefan Marks.
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Polyfest 2015
For many secondary school students in Auckland the ASB Polyfest is one of the most
important dates in the calendar year, and with it happening right across the road from AUTs
South Campus at the Manukau Sports Bowl, it made sense for AUT to go above and beyond
to make sure those attending knew all about what the university has to offer.
AUT had a strong presence this year,
after a three-year absence from being
a stage sponsor. We proudly sponsored
the Cook Islands Stage, in a significant
year for the Cook Islands with them also
celebrating 50 years of self governance.
Our integration of Cook Islands
Maori Language into our signage and
acknowledgement of the self governance,
was greatly appreciated by the elders and
Cook Islands community.
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AUT remembers
This ANZAC Day, AUT was honoured to remember our alumni, staff and students
who served and to commemorate those who lost their lives and innocence.
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