by TPM | Sep 16, 2019 | News & Notices
Most high achieving female students studying physics at university choose to discontinue physics as a core subject, not because they aren’t good at physics, but because they pursue further study in the life sciences. This is one of the key findings of a paper...
by TPM | Sep 10, 2019 | News & Notices, Sexism in Science
Te Pūnaha Matatini researchers Alex James (pictured) and Michael Plank co-authored a recently published paper revealing the extent to which women are under-represented in the science field. The data is in and the science gender gap is real, according to Te Pūnaha...
by TPM | Sep 5, 2019 | News & Notices
New research led by Te Pūnaha Matatini Associate Investigator Dr Tara McAllister (shown above fronting for the media) indicates our universities are not meeting their own diversity and equity values. Published in the MAI Journal , the two studies have revealed that...
by TPM | Jul 15, 2019 | News & Notices, Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau
Julie Mugford (pictured), a PhD student at the University of Canterbury and Chair of Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau, is researching and developing statistical tools to improve the accuracy of classification-based crowdsourcing, aka citizen science. Citizen science is the...
by TPM | Jul 10, 2019 | News & Notices
Public health researcher Dr Anna Matheson (pictured above), Te Pūnaha Matatini investigator and senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, specialises in applying complexity theory to aid our understanding of actions that reduce health inequalities,...
