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A Knowledge Rich Curriculum for New Zealand

Fear and Loathing in the National Library

Design principles for constitutional hijack – or how we got those Treaty principles in the first place

Democracy Briefing: Foundations of a constitutional crisis?

Ideological Illogic – Facts Not Feels, Please

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A Knowledge Rich Curriculum for New Zealand

A Knowledge Rich Curriculum for New Zealand

  • Elizabeth Rata
  • March 1, 2025
Fear and Loathing in the National Library

Fear and Loathing in the National Library

  • Natasha Hamilton-Hart
  • February 5, 2025
Design principles for constitutional hijack – or how we got those Treaty principles in the first place

Design principles for constitutional hijack – or how we got those Treaty principles in the first place

  • Natasha Hamilton-Hart
  • December 19, 2024
Democracy Briefing: Foundations of a constitutional crisis?

Democracy Briefing: Foundations of a constitutional crisis?

  • Bryce Edwards
  • November 28, 2024
Ideological Illogic – Facts Not Feels, Please

Ideological Illogic – Facts Not Feels, Please

  • John Raine
  • September 9, 2024
University of Auckland faculty restructures

University of Auckland faculty restructures

  • admin
  • September 3, 2024
Is Tertiary Education for Learning or for Indoctrination?

Is Tertiary Education for Learning or for Indoctrination?

  • David Lillis
  • September 3, 2024
Under pressure at the University of Auckland

Under pressure at the University of Auckland

  • admin
  • August 8, 2024
Teaching science ‘alongside’ indigenous knowledge?

Teaching science ‘alongside’ indigenous knowledge?

  • Kendall Clements
  • July 18, 2024
VUW free speech event shows why government intervention is now necessary

VUW free speech event shows why government intervention is now necessary

  • James Kierstead
  • June 28, 2024

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  • A Knowledge Rich Curriculum for New Zealand
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  • Ideological Illogic – Facts Not Feels, Please

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Anthony PooleAnthony Poole

Anthony is a scientist interested in the evolution of molecules, genomes and cells. He holds a PhD in molecular bioscience and has worked and studied in New Zealand, Japan and Sweden.

Brian BoydBrian Boyd

Brian Boyd, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, has long worked at the intersection of the arts, the humanities, and the sciences. He has written much on novelist and scientist Vladimir Nabokov, taught a Literature and Science course, pioneered the study of literature and art in the light of evolution, and is working on a biography of philosopher of science Karl Popper. He has written on language, storytelling, religion, reason and science, and on art around the world and literature in many languages.

Elizabeth RataElizabeth Rata

Professor Elizabeth Rata is a sociologist of education at the University of Auckland. Her research interests include education and democracy, curriculum knowledge, and ethnic politics with a focus on the emergence of neotribal capitalist elites. She was a founding member of kura kaupapa Māori.

Garth CooperGarth Cooper

Professor Garth Cooper is one of New Zealand’s foremost biological scientists and biotechnology entrepreneurs.

James KiersteadJames Kierstead

James Kierstead is a Research Fellow at the New Zealand Initiative and former Senior Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington. Together with Michael Johnston he co-hosts Free Kiwis!, a podcast dedicated to issues to do with freedom and free speech in a New Zealand context. He tweets @Kleisthenes2

Melissa DerbyMelissa Derby

Dr Melissa Derby is a Senior Lecturer whose research focuses primarily on early literacy development. She also has an interest in Maori education.

Michael JohnstonMichael Johnston

Dr Michael Johnston is a Senior Fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. Dr Johnston held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington from 2011-2022 and was the Associate Dean (Academic) in the University’s Faculty of Education from 2020 to 2022. Prior to his time at Victoria, he was the Senior Statistician at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Dr Johnston holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Melbourne.

Natasha Hamilton-HartNatasha Hamilton-Hart

Natasha Hamilton-Hart has a PhD in Government from Cornell University and a BA (Hons) from the University of Otago. She publishes in the field of political economy, with a focus on state and private sector institutions, property rights and business-government relations.

Paul MoonPaul Moon

Paul Moon is Professor of History at Auckland University of Technology, and specialises in the colonial period of New Zealand history.

Robert NolaRobert Nola

Emeritus Professor Robert Nola's work has focussed on the philosophy and history of science, on epistemology and on metaphysics.

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