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		<description><![CDATA[Weekly interviews with academics and graduate students on 95bFM, an independent radio station in Auckland, New Zealand.]]></description>
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			<title>Professor Elizabeth Rankin | Distant Thunder: the art of Peter Clarke</title>
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		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Professor Elizabeth Rankin from the Art History Department has curated a major exhibition in South Africa of one of their most acclaimed artists, Peter Clarke.

Distant Thunder: the art of Peter Clarke opened at Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town on October 19.

It is the first major retrospective exhibition for the artist, now 82, who succeeded in pursuing his career as a painter, printmaker and writer in South Africa, despite being denied access to art schools because he was black, force removed from his home, and subjected to many other indignities of the apartheid system. He is widely considered a role model and mentor for young black artists.

Elizabeth has completed extensive research on the artist and co-wrote a book chronicling his work, also titled Distant Thunder: the art of Peter Clarke, together with her South African colleague Philippa Hobbs, who also curated the exhibition.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Elizabeth Rankin from the Art History Department has curated a major exhibition in South Africa of one of their most acclaimed artists, Peter Clarke.

Distant Thunder: the art of Peter Clarke opened at Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town on October 19.

It is the first major retrospective exhibition for the artist, now 82, who succeeded in pursuing his career as a painter, printmaker and writer in South Africa, despite being denied access to art schools because he was black, force removed from his home, and subjected to many other indignities of the apartheid system. He is widely considered a role model and mentor for young black artists.

Elizabeth has completed extensive research on the artist and co-wrote a book chronicling his work, also titled Distant Thunder: the art of Peter Clarke, together with her South African colleague Philippa Hobbs, who also curated the exhibition.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:37:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr Aroha Harris | The Maori Women’s Welfare League</title>
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		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr Aroha Harris belongs to Te Rarawa and Ngapuhi. Her current projects reflect her interest in Māori and iwi histories of Māori policy and community development in the twentieth century. Prior to her university appointment, Aroha variously worked in both historical and social research for Government departments (including the Waitangi Tribunal Division), private organisations, and iwi. She continues to provide research advice to Te Runanga o Te Rarawa on a range of iwi development projects, including the negotiation and settlement of Te Rarawa historical Treaty claims. 

Aroha is a founding member of Te Pouhere Korero, the national organisation of Māori historians, and co-editor of their journal of the same name. She has variously published in edited collections and academic journals, and her first book, Hikoi: Forty Years of Maori Protest, was published in 2004.

She joins Charlotte to talk about the history and importance of the Maori Women’s Welfare League.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr Aroha Harris belongs to Te Rarawa and Ngapuhi. Her current projects reflect her interest in Māori and iwi histories of Māori policy and community development in the twentieth century. Prior to her university appointment, Aroha variously worked in both historical and social research for Government departments (including the Waitangi Tribunal Division), private organisations, and iwi. She continues to provide research advice to Te Runanga o Te Rarawa on a range of iwi development projects, including the negotiation and settlement of Te Rarawa historical Treaty claims. 

Aroha is a founding member of Te Pouhere Korero, the national organisation of Māori historians, and co-editor of their journal of the same name. She has variously published in edited collections and academic journals, and her first book, Hikoi: Forty Years of Maori Protest, was published in 2004.

She joins Charlotte to talk about the history and importance of the Maori Women’s Welfare League.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:31:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Lynda Simmons | Co-founder of Architecture + Women website</title>
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		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Lynda Simmons is a practicing architect and Masters student in the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning. She speaks to Charlotte about her role as one of the co-founders of a new website, Architecture + Women (www.architecturewomen.org.nz).

What happens to New Zealand’s women architects after they graduate? This is the central question behind the launch of a new website, Architecture + Women (www.architecturewomen.org.nz). 

The website seeks to capture the Who, When, Where and How of this country’s women architecture graduates. It has been founded by University of Auckland architecture alumna Sarah Treadwell, who heads the School of Architecture and Planning; along with Lynda  Simmons, a registered architect earning her Masters of Architecture at the University; registered architect Megan Rule and Julie Wilson, a practising graduate of  architecture. 

The information gathered will become part of an “Architecture + Women” exhibition in 2013, a show that will mark the 80th anniversary of NZ’s first female architecture graduate, as well as 120 years of this country’s suffrage movement. 

Perhaps even more importantly, the website will serve as a database for female architecture graduates in New Zealand and abroad, increasing opportunities for professional networking, mentoring and publication opportunities.

The idea for the website was born in early 2011, from a conversation between Lynda Simmons and Julie Wilson- who at the time was a mother of three children under five-years and who was concerned that she would never be able to get registered. 

“It occurred to me that this is how women architects get lost—the registration process just didn’t account for women trying to juggle running a practice, having babies, paying annual fees and keeping up with registration requirements,” says Lynda, who notes that voluntary suspension is now an option for registered architects. “We needed a way to find each other and increase our visibility as female architects and graduates of architecture.”

The website has been developed thanks to support from The University of Auckland, the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) and the Block Foundation. While the immediate goal is to build a database from which to create the Architecture + Women exhibition (which will be mounted during Auckland Architecture Week 2013), the longer-term objective is to create what Lynda describes as an “umbrella structure” that is owned by all the contributors and works “organically” to promote employment, publication and research.

Dr Sarah Treadwell says there is a general sense of “invisibility” around female architecture graduates— despite their prominence in tertiary education.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Lynda Simmons is a practicing architect and Masters student in the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning. She speaks to Charlotte about her role as one of the co-founders of a new website, Architecture + Women (www.architecturewomen.org.nz).

What happens to New Zealand’s women architects after they graduate? This is the central question behind the launch of a new website, Architecture + Women (www.architecturewomen.org.nz). 

The website seeks to capture the Who, When, Where and How of this country’s women architecture graduates. It has been founded by University of Auckland architecture alumna Sarah Treadwell, who heads the School of Architecture and Planning; along with Lynda  Simmons, a registered architect earning her Masters of Architecture at the University; registered architect Megan Rule and Julie Wilson, a practising graduate of  architecture. 

The information gathered will become part of an “Architecture + Women” exhibition in 2013, a show that will mark the 80th anniversary of NZ’s first female architecture graduate, as well as 120 years of this country’s suffrage movement. 

Perhaps even more importantly, the website will serve as a database for female architecture graduates in New Zealand and abroad, increasing opportunities for professional networking, mentoring and publication opportunities.

The idea for the website was born in early 2011, from a conversation between Lynda Simmons and Julie Wilson- who at the time was a mother of three children under five-years and who was concerned that she would never be able to get registered. 

“It occurred to me that this is how women architects get lost—the registration process just didn’t account for women trying to juggle running a practice, having babies, paying annual fees and keeping up with registration requirements,” says Lynda, who notes that voluntary suspension is now an option for registered architects. “We needed a way to find each other and increase our visibility as female architects and graduates of architecture.”

The website has been developed thanks to support from The University of Auckland, the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) and the Block Foundation. While the immediate goal is to build a database from which to create the Architecture + Women exhibition (which will be mounted during Auckland Architecture Week 2013), the longer-term objective is to create what Lynda describes as an “umbrella structure” that is owned by all the contributors and works “organically” to promote employment, publication and research.

Dr Sarah Treadwell says there is a general sense of “invisibility” around female architecture graduates— despite their prominence in tertiary education.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:05:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Miriam Koome | Steroids: A standard clinical treatment for preterms, but is it always safe?</title>
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		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Miriam Koome is a Biomedical Honours student working with The Fetal Physiology and Neuroscience group in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Health Sciences.

Miriam won the best oral presentation and overall Auckland Medical Research Fund (AMRF) Emerging Researcher Award at the University’s HealthEx showcase in September this year.

Her talk was officially entitled: Does dexamethasone increase injury following asphyxia in the preterm fetus? For those not intimately acquainted with the project its lay title is “Steroids: A standard clinical treatment for preterms, but is it always safe?”

Miriam’s research builds on work from the 1970s by New Zealand pioneers such as Professor Mont Liggins showed that steroids can help pre-term babies’ lungs mature and improve their chances of survival. However the other side of this research is that steroids can potentially inhibit some of the baby’s own defence mechanisms such as reducing brain activity to cope with reduced oxygen supply. Miriam’s research set out to find if this was the case with dexamethasone, a reasonably common and powerful steroid.

The Fetal Physiology and Neuroscience group at the University of Auckland have studied the preterm brain extensively. Their research has shown that the unborn baby has an amazing capacity to protect itself during adverse events such as reduced oxygen supply which can happen during labour. Importantly, this fetal defence response requires the baby to dramatically reduce the activity of its brain to conserve energy supplies.

So the team were concerned to observe that in healthy preterm fetuses steroids can increase brain activity and even induce seizures. Reassuringly, this did not lead to injury, but the researchers asked themselves what might happen if the baby had experienced oxygen deprivation. Could steroids impair the ability of some babies to protect their brain and thus cause injury? 

This important question is the focus of Miriam’s study. Her early findings show that there may well be cause for concern with steroids impairing the protective brain activity response, and the amount of blood flow and oxygen to the brain. Miriam is now working to determine if this leads to greater brain injury. 

Steroids will continue to be given clinically because we have no other treatment that comes close to improving the survival of these vulnerable newborns. Thus the importance of Miriam’s studies is to help provide vital knowledge about which babies may be at risk of injury. This will allow clinicians to better target those babies who may need to be more extensively monitored or receive treatments which will help protect organs like the brain from injury.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Miriam Koome is a Biomedical Honours student working with The Fetal Physiology and Neuroscience group in the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Health Sciences.

Miriam won the best oral presentation and overall Auckland Medical Research Fund (AMRF) Emerging Researcher Award at the University’s HealthEx showcase in September this year.

Her talk was officially entitled: Does dexamethasone increase injury following asphyxia in the preterm fetus? For those not intimately acquainted with the project its lay title is “Steroids: A standard clinical treatment for preterms, but is it always safe?”

Miriam’s research builds on work from the 1970s by New Zealand pioneers such as Professor Mont Liggins showed that steroids can help pre-term babies’ lungs mature and improve their chances of survival. However the other side of this research is that steroids can potentially inhibit some of the baby’s own defence mechanisms such as reducing brain activity to cope with reduced oxygen supply. Miriam’s research set out to find if this was the case with dexamethasone, a reasonably common and powerful steroid.

The Fetal Physiology and Neuroscience group at the University of Auckland have studied the preterm brain extensively. Their research has shown that the unborn baby has an amazing capacity to protect itself during adverse events such as reduced oxygen supply which can happen during labour. Importantly, this fetal defence response requires the baby to dramatically reduce the activity of its brain to conserve energy supplies.

So the team were concerned to observe that in healthy preterm fetuses steroids can increase brain activity and even induce seizures. Reassuringly, this did not lead to injury, but the researchers asked themselves what might happen if the baby had experienced oxygen deprivation. Could steroids impair the ability of some babies to protect their brain and thus cause injury? 

This important question is the focus of Miriam’s study. Her early findings show that there may well be cause for concern with steroids impairing the protective brain activity response, and the amount of blood flow and oxygen to the brain. Miriam is now working to determine if this leads to greater brain injury. 

Steroids will continue to be given clinically because we have no other treatment that comes close to improving the survival of these vulnerable newborns. Thus the importance of Miriam’s studies is to help provide vital knowledge about which babies may be at risk of injury. This will allow clinicians to better target those babies who may need to be more extensively monitored or receive treatments which will help protect organs like the brain from injury.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:32:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Cynthia Sharon | Self harm and problem-solving therapy</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,202665,cynthia-sharon-self-harm-and-problem-solving-therapy.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,202665,cynthia-sharon-self-harm-and-problem-solving-therapy.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cynthia Sharon is a Clinical Research Project Manager at the Department of Psychological Medicine at Faculty of Medical Health Sciences.

She originally trained as a comprehensive nurse, and completed my MSc in Health Psychology and the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland and is now a registered Psychologist. In addition to her research work she is also a Health Psychologist for the Auckland Diabetes Service at Auckland District Health Board.

She has been Project Manager for two large randomised controlled trials looking at the effectiveness of psychological interventions for people who have attempted suicide. One of these studies has just been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry and is outlined below.  

Problem-solving therapy may help people who attempt suicide or self-harm according to a study by University of Auckland researchers published in the British Journal of Psychiatry this month. 

The study is the world’s largest trial assessing the efficacy of problem-solving therapy for people who presented to hospital following attempted suicide or an intentional self-harm incident. It showed that patients who received problem-solving therapy were less hopeless, less depressed and had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who did not receive the treatment. 

The randomised controlled trial, funded by ACC, looked at 1094 people who presented to emergency departments between September 2005 and June 2008 at four district health boards (DHBs) in New Zealand. 

Findings showed that all people who received problem-solving therapy reported greater improvements in depression, hopelessness, suicidal thinking and problem-solving skills than people who received usual care alone. (Usual care following self-harm varies and may involve referral to multidisciplinary teams for psychiatric or psychological intervention, referral to mental health crisis teams, recommendations for engagement with alcohol and drug treatment centres or other health and non-health services.)

Although problem-solving therapy did not lead to a lower rates of repeat self-harm incidences for all people, for those who had a previous history of attempted suicide or self harm (around 40% of the group) the therapy significantly lowered their risk of presenting to hospital again with self-harm over the following year.

Lead investigator Associate Professor in Psychological Medicine Dr Simon Hatcher says: “Self-harm is common and those admitted to hospital because of this are an easily identifiable high-risk group so there is an important opportunity for intervention, particularly in relation to suicide prevention. Despite this, there is no generally accepted evidence-based intervention. 

“The findings offer hope for those people who repeated self-harm that something can be done to help them, it shows that the burden of this problem on hospital emergency departments can be reduced and potentially it could help reduce New Zealand’s suicide rate.”

The team at The University of Auckland is currently investigating whether other factors in conjunction with therapy, such as receiving regular postcards, would further improve patients’ wellbeing. 

They are also looking at the effectiveness of similar treatments delivered by Māori for Māori.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Sharon is a Clinical Research Project Manager at the Department of Psychological Medicine at Faculty of Medical Health Sciences.

She originally trained as a comprehensive nurse, and completed my MSc in Health Psychology and the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland and is now a registered Psychologist. In addition to her research work she is also a Health Psychologist for the Auckland Diabetes Service at Auckland District Health Board.

She has been Project Manager for two large randomised controlled trials looking at the effectiveness of psychological interventions for people who have attempted suicide. One of these studies has just been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry and is outlined below.  

Problem-solving therapy may help people who attempt suicide or self-harm according to a study by University of Auckland researchers published in the British Journal of Psychiatry this month. 

The study is the world’s largest trial assessing the efficacy of problem-solving therapy for people who presented to hospital following attempted suicide or an intentional self-harm incident. It showed that patients who received problem-solving therapy were less hopeless, less depressed and had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who did not receive the treatment. 

The randomised controlled trial, funded by ACC, looked at 1094 people who presented to emergency departments between September 2005 and June 2008 at four district health boards (DHBs) in New Zealand. 

Findings showed that all people who received problem-solving therapy reported greater improvements in depression, hopelessness, suicidal thinking and problem-solving skills than people who received usual care alone. (Usual care following self-harm varies and may involve referral to multidisciplinary teams for psychiatric or psychological intervention, referral to mental health crisis teams, recommendations for engagement with alcohol and drug treatment centres or other health and non-health services.)

Although problem-solving therapy did not lead to a lower rates of repeat self-harm incidences for all people, for those who had a previous history of attempted suicide or self harm (around 40% of the group) the therapy significantly lowered their risk of presenting to hospital again with self-harm over the following year.

Lead investigator Associate Professor in Psychological Medicine Dr Simon Hatcher says: “Self-harm is common and those admitted to hospital because of this are an easily identifiable high-risk group so there is an important opportunity for intervention, particularly in relation to suicide prevention. Despite this, there is no generally accepted evidence-based intervention. 

“The findings offer hope for those people who repeated self-harm that something can be done to help them, it shows that the burden of this problem on hospital emergency departments can be reduced and potentially it could help reduce New Zealand’s suicide rate.”

The team at The University of Auckland is currently investigating whether other factors in conjunction with therapy, such as receiving regular postcards, would further improve patients’ wellbeing. 

They are also looking at the effectiveness of similar treatments delivered by Māori for Māori.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:25:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Professor Miriam Meyerhoff | Why we talk the way we do</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,202383,professor-miriam-meyerhoff-why-we-talk-the-way-we-do.sm</link>
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		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Miriam Meyerhoff is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at The University of Auckland.

Her areas of research include:
-	How language use and language users are all situated – historically, socially, and interactionally. 
-	Why different ways of talking have social significance in a particular community or for a particular type of speaker. 
-	How our use of language is an embodied means of expressing individual attitudes towards the people we are talking to and the relationships we desire to have with others.

She joins Charlotte in studio!]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Miriam Meyerhoff is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at The University of Auckland.

Her areas of research include:
-	How language use and language users are all situated – historically, socially, and interactionally. 
-	Why different ways of talking have social significance in a particular community or for a particular type of speaker. 
-	How our use of language is an embodied means of expressing individual attitudes towards the people we are talking to and the relationships we desire to have with others.

She joins Charlotte in studio!]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Elizabeth Broadbent | Relaxation and Surgery</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,202210,elizabeth-broadbent-relaxation-and-surgery.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,202210,elizabeth-broadbent-relaxation-and-surgery.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Elizabeth Broadbent is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology in the area of Psychological Medicine.
Some of her research interests include Stress and wound healing, coping with chronic illness and risk perceptions.

She joins Charlotte to discuss new research which shows that relaxation can speed post surgical healing.

**New research shows relaxation speeds post-surgical healing**

Relaxation can help people recover from surgery more quickly according to a study by researchers at The University of Auckland recently. The study is a world-first showing that relaxation techniques can reduce stress and assist wound healing after abdominal surgery. 

The randomised trial, recently published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity, investigated whether relaxation training could reduce stress levels and increase hydroxyproline deposition, a marker of wound healing, in 60 patients undergoing a laparoscopic gallbladder removal. 

Researchers found that the intervention group showed significantly higher hydroxyproline deposition and a reduction in perceived stress compared to the control group a week after the surgery.  

Principal Investigator Dr Elizabeth Broadbent says: “We knew that psychological stress could affect wound healing after surgery but we did not know whether relaxation could improve wound healing after surgery.” 

“Our results show that even a brief relaxation intervention can reduce patient stress and improve collagen deposition in surgical wounds. This finding extends current scientific knowledge about how psychological interventions may affect wound healing to the stage of collagen synthesis.”

“Interestingly the results showed no association between changes in perceived stress and hydroxyproline deposition. This suggests that the effects are not simply due to stress reduction.” 

During the trial each patient in the intervention group had a 45 minute consultation with a health psychologist who discussed how stress could influence surgical outcomes and how relaxation could help reduce stress. Patients were instructed in deep breathing techniques, progressive muscle relaxation, and guided imagery about the body being relaxed and prepared for surgery. They were also given a CD to listen to each day prior to surgery with quiet background music and a second recording for each day after surgery for seven days. 

The study also found that age was related to reduction in stress, with older people tending to experienced a greater reduction in stress. 

Hydroxyproline deposition, an indicator of the progress of healing, was not significantly associated with age, BMI or days to surgery, nor did it significantly differ by gender.

Elizabeth Broadbent says: “The study could have clinical implications for developing pre and post-surgical relaxation prescriptions for patients, particularly those who are at high risk of poor wound healing.” 

“Future research could investigate similar interventions on wound healing in patients undergoing major surgery such solid-organ transplantation and coronary artery bypass grafting.”

The study was funded by the HRC.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Broadbent is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology in the area of Psychological Medicine.
Some of her research interests include Stress and wound healing, coping with chronic illness and risk perceptions.

She joins Charlotte to discuss new research which shows that relaxation can speed post surgical healing.

**New research shows relaxation speeds post-surgical healing**

Relaxation can help people recover from surgery more quickly according to a study by researchers at The University of Auckland recently. The study is a world-first showing that relaxation techniques can reduce stress and assist wound healing after abdominal surgery. 

The randomised trial, recently published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity, investigated whether relaxation training could reduce stress levels and increase hydroxyproline deposition, a marker of wound healing, in 60 patients undergoing a laparoscopic gallbladder removal. 

Researchers found that the intervention group showed significantly higher hydroxyproline deposition and a reduction in perceived stress compared to the control group a week after the surgery.  

Principal Investigator Dr Elizabeth Broadbent says: “We knew that psychological stress could affect wound healing after surgery but we did not know whether relaxation could improve wound healing after surgery.” 

“Our results show that even a brief relaxation intervention can reduce patient stress and improve collagen deposition in surgical wounds. This finding extends current scientific knowledge about how psychological interventions may affect wound healing to the stage of collagen synthesis.”

“Interestingly the results showed no association between changes in perceived stress and hydroxyproline deposition. This suggests that the effects are not simply due to stress reduction.” 

During the trial each patient in the intervention group had a 45 minute consultation with a health psychologist who discussed how stress could influence surgical outcomes and how relaxation could help reduce stress. Patients were instructed in deep breathing techniques, progressive muscle relaxation, and guided imagery about the body being relaxed and prepared for surgery. They were also given a CD to listen to each day prior to surgery with quiet background music and a second recording for each day after surgery for seven days. 

The study also found that age was related to reduction in stress, with older people tending to experienced a greater reduction in stress. 

Hydroxyproline deposition, an indicator of the progress of healing, was not significantly associated with age, BMI or days to surgery, nor did it significantly differ by gender.

Elizabeth Broadbent says: “The study could have clinical implications for developing pre and post-surgical relaxation prescriptions for patients, particularly those who are at high risk of poor wound healing.” 

“Future research could investigate similar interventions on wound healing in patients undergoing major surgery such solid-organ transplantation and coronary artery bypass grafting.”

The study was funded by the HRC.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:08:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Shanthi Ameratunga | Teen drinking in New Zealand</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,202116,shanthi-ameratunga-teen-drinking-in-new-zealand.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,202116,shanthi-ameratunga-teen-drinking-in-new-zealand.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A paediatrician and public health physician by background, Shanthi leads a multi-disciplinary research programme focusing on trauma outcomes, injury prevention, disability and rehabilitation. 

Shanthi talks to Charlotte about the findings on teen drinking that have come out of the Youth ’07 Survey. 

The Young People and Alcohol report, derived from Youth’07 survey data, provides a comparative snapshot of over 9000 secondary school students in 2007.

Full reports and fact sheets are available at:
http://www.youth2000.ac.nz/publications/reports-1142.htm]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[A paediatrician and public health physician by background, Shanthi leads a multi-disciplinary research programme focusing on trauma outcomes, injury prevention, disability and rehabilitation. 

Shanthi talks to Charlotte about the findings on teen drinking that have come out of the Youth ’07 Survey. 

The Young People and Alcohol report, derived from Youth’07 survey data, provides a comparative snapshot of over 9000 secondary school students in 2007.

Full reports and fact sheets are available at:
http://www.youth2000.ac.nz/publications/reports-1142.htm]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:47:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Stephen Matthews | Songwriter of the Year Grand Finale</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201856,stephen-matthews-songwriter-of-the-year-grand-finale.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201856,stephen-matthews-songwriter-of-the-year-grand-finale.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[On Thursday 29 September the 3rd annual Songwriter of the Year Grand Finale will be held at the Maidment Theatre. Not just an evening of fabulous entertainment, the evening is a showcase of the excellent teaching, research and practice that goes on at the School of Music.

Stephen Matthews is the coordinator of the popular music programme at the School and he oversees the competition, from preliminary auditions to the grand finale. 

His research interests include composition, particularly electro-acoustic and instrumental composition. He is also a songwriter, performer and video artist.

His teaching interests include songwriting, arranging and performance.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 29 September the 3rd annual Songwriter of the Year Grand Finale will be held at the Maidment Theatre. Not just an evening of fabulous entertainment, the evening is a showcase of the excellent teaching, research and practice that goes on at the School of Music.

Stephen Matthews is the coordinator of the popular music programme at the School and he oversees the competition, from preliminary auditions to the grand finale. 

His research interests include composition, particularly electro-acoustic and instrumental composition. He is also a songwriter, performer and video artist.

His teaching interests include songwriting, arranging and performance.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:38:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr Adrienne Puckey | ‘Trading Cultures – a History of the Far North’</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201748,dr-adrienne-puckey-trading-cultures-a-history-of-the-far-north.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201748,dr-adrienne-puckey-trading-cultures-a-history-of-the-far-north.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[For a small prosperous country in the nineteenth century, Aotearoa conducted much trade both internally and with foreign countries. Dr Adrienne Puckey, of the Mira Szászy Research Centre, is about to release a book which details the history of the early economy of our northernmost region.

The book, entitled Trading Cultures: A History of the Far North is a fascinating social, economic and political history of Māori trading, from the 1700&apos;s right through to current times.

The book is being launched this Thursday at the Business School.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[For a small prosperous country in the nineteenth century, Aotearoa conducted much trade both internally and with foreign countries. Dr Adrienne Puckey, of the Mira Szászy Research Centre, is about to release a book which details the history of the early economy of our northernmost region.

The book, entitled Trading Cultures: A History of the Far North is a fascinating social, economic and political history of Māori trading, from the 1700&apos;s right through to current times.

The book is being launched this Thursday at the Business School.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:16:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Uwe Rieger | Artistic Director of NICAI’s participation in Auckland’s Fan Trail</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201570,uwe-rieger-artistic-director-of-nicais-participation-in-aucklands-fan-trail.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201570,uwe-rieger-artistic-director-of-nicais-participation-in-aucklands-fan-trail.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Uwe Rieger is the Associate Professor of Architecture here at the University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, and spoke with Charlotte about the School’s involvement and creative association with an unexpected source- the Rugby world cup, and in particular, Auckland’s Fan Trail.

Students from the University’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI) are using the Rugby World Cup as the inspiration for creativity and scholarship. 
 
NICAI architecture students are collaborating with dance, music and fine arts students to create installations and events that will feature as part of Auckland’s Fan Trail – the walking route from the waterfront to Eden Park stadium.

Located in Myer’s Park, the installations are inspired by the theme of “Jack in a box”— they are large-scale, architectural “follies” that will open to release surprises in movement and dance, sound and sonic arts, and visual arts. The park will come alive during the three hours before kick-off on each Eden Park match day.

For more information about NICAI’s installations visit www.amped.auckland.ac.nz

For more information about Auckland’s Fan Trail visit www.auckland2011.com]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Uwe Rieger is the Associate Professor of Architecture here at the University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, and spoke with Charlotte about the School’s involvement and creative association with an unexpected source- the Rugby world cup, and in particular, Auckland’s Fan Trail.

Students from the University’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI) are using the Rugby World Cup as the inspiration for creativity and scholarship. 
 
NICAI architecture students are collaborating with dance, music and fine arts students to create installations and events that will feature as part of Auckland’s Fan Trail – the walking route from the waterfront to Eden Park stadium.

Located in Myer’s Park, the installations are inspired by the theme of “Jack in a box”— they are large-scale, architectural “follies” that will open to release surprises in movement and dance, sound and sonic arts, and visual arts. The park will come alive during the three hours before kick-off on each Eden Park match day.

For more information about NICAI’s installations visit www.amped.auckland.ac.nz

For more information about Auckland’s Fan Trail visit www.auckland2011.com]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:41:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Professor Xun Xu | The University’s new Innovative Manufacturing and Materials Programme</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201458,professor-xun-xu-the-universitys-new-innovative-manufacturing-and-materials-programme.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201458,professor-xun-xu-the-universitys-new-innovative-manufacturing-and-materials-programme.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Professor Xun Xu is from the Faculty of Engineering and his main area of research is smart machining systems and technologies.

The University of Auckland is making it easier for the manufacturing and materials sector to tap into its expertise with the creation of a one-stop shop – the establishment of the Innovative Manufacturing and Materials Programme. 

The programme has three strands - idea generation and discovery, technology development and innovation implementation. It brings together expert researchers from science, technology, engineering, management and other parts of the University.

Specialists and cross-disciplinary teams can help manufacturers in a number of ways, from innovation in new materials, to new product development, renewal of manufacturing systems, enhancement of supply-chain processes, through to business growth strategies and the redesign of work systems.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Xun Xu is from the Faculty of Engineering and his main area of research is smart machining systems and technologies.

The University of Auckland is making it easier for the manufacturing and materials sector to tap into its expertise with the creation of a one-stop shop – the establishment of the Innovative Manufacturing and Materials Programme. 

The programme has three strands - idea generation and discovery, technology development and innovation implementation. It brings together expert researchers from science, technology, engineering, management and other parts of the University.

Specialists and cross-disciplinary teams can help manufacturers in a number of ways, from innovation in new materials, to new product development, renewal of manufacturing systems, enhancement of supply-chain processes, through to business growth strategies and the redesign of work systems.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:00:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Associate Professor Leonard Bell | From Prague to Auckland: The photography of Frank Hofmann</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201317,associate-professor-leonard-bell-from-prague-to-auckland-the-photography-of-frank-hofmann.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,201317,associate-professor-leonard-bell-from-prague-to-auckland-the-photography-of-frank-hofmann.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Leonard Bell is the associate professor of Art History here at Auckland University, has taught here since 1973 and is a highly regarded-scholar both nationally and internationally. 
His writings on cross-cultural interactions and representations in all visual media, and on the works and careers of travelling, migrant, expatriate and refugee artists, photographers and architects have been published in books and periodicals worldwide. 

He talks with Vince about his role as the curator of the exhibition on Frank, which is running at the Gus Fisher Gallery until the 29th of October. 

From Prague to Auckland: The photography of Frank Hofmann (1916-89) will be mounted from 26 August – 29 October at the Gus Fisher Gallery (74 Shortland Street).]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Leonard Bell is the associate professor of Art History here at Auckland University, has taught here since 1973 and is a highly regarded-scholar both nationally and internationally. 
His writings on cross-cultural interactions and representations in all visual media, and on the works and careers of travelling, migrant, expatriate and refugee artists, photographers and architects have been published in books and periodicals worldwide. 

He talks with Vince about his role as the curator of the exhibition on Frank, which is running at the Gus Fisher Gallery until the 29th of October. 

From Prague to Auckland: The photography of Frank Hofmann (1916-89) will be mounted from 26 August – 29 October at the Gus Fisher Gallery (74 Shortland Street).]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:21:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr Guy Warman | Sleep timing disorders of blind New Zealanders</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200987,dr-guy-warman-sleep-timing-disorders-of-blind-new-zealanders.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200987,dr-guy-warman-sleep-timing-disorders-of-blind-new-zealanders.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Guy Warman is the Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesiology here at the University of Auckland. He talks with Charlotte about his recent research into sleep timing disorders of blind New Zealanders, and how processes of human chronobiology and time perception itself are affected by anaesthetics.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr. Guy Warman is the Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesiology here at the University of Auckland. He talks with Charlotte about his recent research into sleep timing disorders of blind New Zealanders, and how processes of human chronobiology and time perception itself are affected by anaesthetics.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:25:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Professor Brad Jackson | Leadership lessons from rugby in NZ</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200784,professor-brad-jackson-leadership-lessons-from-rugby-in-nz.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200784,professor-brad-jackson-leadership-lessons-from-rugby-in-nz.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Professor Brad Jackson is the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership at the University of Auckland’s Business School. He is a prominent Board member of the International Leadership Association, and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. 

He speaks with Charlotte about a public lecture he is giving next Tuesday as a part of the Winter Lecture Series on New Zealand’s Rugby World; how the kiwi attitude towards the All Blacks impacts on our notions of leadership in business, particularly around World Cup time.

2011 Winter Lectures: New Zealand’s Rugby World
19 July 2011 to 23 August 2011
1pm - 2pm
Venue: Maidment Theatre, 8 Alfred Street
Contact info: Everyone welcome. For further information please phone 373 7599 ext 87698
Website: www.auckland.ac.nz/winter

This Winter Lecture series draws from scholars both inside and outside The University of Auckland and from a number of different faculties. The selected speakers will offer a range of historical, cultural and social reflections on the place and future of rugby in New Zealand, exploring the way rugby has an impact on our lives as players, fans and indifferent bystanders; as women, Māori and Pacific Islanders; and, as leaders and professionals engaged in the game.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Brad Jackson is the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership at the University of Auckland’s Business School. He is a prominent Board member of the International Leadership Association, and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. 

He speaks with Charlotte about a public lecture he is giving next Tuesday as a part of the Winter Lecture Series on New Zealand’s Rugby World; how the kiwi attitude towards the All Blacks impacts on our notions of leadership in business, particularly around World Cup time.

2011 Winter Lectures: New Zealand’s Rugby World
19 July 2011 to 23 August 2011
1pm - 2pm
Venue: Maidment Theatre, 8 Alfred Street
Contact info: Everyone welcome. For further information please phone 373 7599 ext 87698
Website: www.auckland.ac.nz/winter

This Winter Lecture series draws from scholars both inside and outside The University of Auckland and from a number of different faculties. The selected speakers will offer a range of historical, cultural and social reflections on the place and future of rugby in New Zealand, exploring the way rugby has an impact on our lives as players, fans and indifferent bystanders; as women, Māori and Pacific Islanders; and, as leaders and professionals engaged in the game.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:45:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Andrew Barrie and Cameron Sinclair | Architecture for Humanity</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200543,andrew-barrie-and-cameron-sinclair-architecture-for-humanity-.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200543,andrew-barrie-and-cameron-sinclair-architecture-for-humanity-.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cameron Sinclair is the founder of the international organisation Architecture for Humanity. He is currently the International Architecture in Residence at the School of Architecture and Planning (SoAP) at NICAI. He is delivering a public lecture on Wednesday evening. 

Andrew Barrie is Professor of Architecture and the coordinator the Residency programme. He is also overseeing the 3rd and 4th years architect students who are involved in studios that focus on the rebuilding of ChCh. The whole of the School’s 3rd and 4th year studio classes (about 200 students) are working on Christchurch recovery projects of some description, with most groups working with Christchurch-based partners (architects, clients, etc). Cameron Sinclair&apos;s studio group fits into this overall effort.

The International Architect in Residence program is a new initiative by the School (started last year), designed to allow students the opportunity for interaction with a globally significant architect to achieve an in-depth understanding of their approach and underlying ideas.  
 
The benefit of a visiting professorship over the usual rapid-fire lecture tour is that the longer term engagement allows students and the wider architecture community to take on both a broader understanding of the architect’s work and a deeper understanding of the underlying ideas.
 
The challenge with attracting a practicing architect as a visiting professor is the difficulty of their taking long periods away from their office. This proposal avoids this difficulty by condensing the architect’s involvement into short periods: two one-week visits by the architect to start and conclude the teaching course, supplemented by a three-day visit by one of the architect’s assistants to participate in the mid-semester crits. The inaugural (2010) IAiR was Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow, and the program outlined above proved very effective.

For more information on Architecture for Humanity visit http://architectureforhumanity.org/]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Cameron Sinclair is the founder of the international organisation Architecture for Humanity. He is currently the International Architecture in Residence at the School of Architecture and Planning (SoAP) at NICAI. He is delivering a public lecture on Wednesday evening. 

Andrew Barrie is Professor of Architecture and the coordinator the Residency programme. He is also overseeing the 3rd and 4th years architect students who are involved in studios that focus on the rebuilding of ChCh. The whole of the School’s 3rd and 4th year studio classes (about 200 students) are working on Christchurch recovery projects of some description, with most groups working with Christchurch-based partners (architects, clients, etc). Cameron Sinclair&apos;s studio group fits into this overall effort.

The International Architect in Residence program is a new initiative by the School (started last year), designed to allow students the opportunity for interaction with a globally significant architect to achieve an in-depth understanding of their approach and underlying ideas.  
 
The benefit of a visiting professorship over the usual rapid-fire lecture tour is that the longer term engagement allows students and the wider architecture community to take on both a broader understanding of the architect’s work and a deeper understanding of the underlying ideas.
 
The challenge with attracting a practicing architect as a visiting professor is the difficulty of their taking long periods away from their office. This proposal avoids this difficulty by condensing the architect’s involvement into short periods: two one-week visits by the architect to start and conclude the teaching course, supplemented by a three-day visit by one of the architect’s assistants to participate in the mid-semester crits. The inaugural (2010) IAiR was Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow, and the program outlined above proved very effective.

For more information on Architecture for Humanity visit http://architectureforhumanity.org/]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:55:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Randy Weaver | Learning to make wine</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200413,randy-weaver-learning-to-make-wine-.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200413,randy-weaver-learning-to-make-wine-.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[**Apologies for the loss of phone line half way through the interview. 

Randy Weaver is the Director of Wine Science at The University of Auckland, and teaches winemaking for the Postgraduate Diploma in Science (PGDipSCi) in wine science. He teaches that making wine is a process that runs from the vine to the mouth, and winemakers must learn about everything from grape production to the components of wine, analytical techniques and the science of winemaking, as well as the realities of the industry.

Thanks to an extremely generous donation by pioneering Waiheke winemakers Kim and Jeanette Goldwater, The University of Auckland is positioned to become the Southern Hemisphere’s premium wine science facility. The Goldwater family have partially gifted their iconic vineyard and winemaking operation to the Wine Science programme. The gift will allow students and researchers to operate in a world-class commercial winemaking environment.

The wine industry will benefit from the supply of high quality graduates as well as the University’s ongoing wine science research. The programme conducts research that provides valuable information to industry. For instance research on native yeasts has led to the commercialisation of a strain that increases fruit notes and complexity in wine, and work on the effects of temperature on the aroma profile is leading to changes in wine storage. Having permanent access to a complete vineyard and winery in which experimental conditions can be closely controlled, will be a huge advantage for research.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[**Apologies for the loss of phone line half way through the interview. 

Randy Weaver is the Director of Wine Science at The University of Auckland, and teaches winemaking for the Postgraduate Diploma in Science (PGDipSCi) in wine science. He teaches that making wine is a process that runs from the vine to the mouth, and winemakers must learn about everything from grape production to the components of wine, analytical techniques and the science of winemaking, as well as the realities of the industry.

Thanks to an extremely generous donation by pioneering Waiheke winemakers Kim and Jeanette Goldwater, The University of Auckland is positioned to become the Southern Hemisphere’s premium wine science facility. The Goldwater family have partially gifted their iconic vineyard and winemaking operation to the Wine Science programme. The gift will allow students and researchers to operate in a world-class commercial winemaking environment.

The wine industry will benefit from the supply of high quality graduates as well as the University’s ongoing wine science research. The programme conducts research that provides valuable information to industry. For instance research on native yeasts has led to the commercialisation of a strain that increases fruit notes and complexity in wine, and work on the effects of temperature on the aroma profile is leading to changes in wine storage. Having permanent access to a complete vineyard and winery in which experimental conditions can be closely controlled, will be a huge advantage for research.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:58:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Annie Goldson | Brother Number One</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200278,annie-goldson-brother-number-one.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200278,annie-goldson-brother-number-one.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Annie Goldson is a professor in the Department of Film, Television &amp; Media Studies. Her research interests include Documentary Production and Documentary Studies, Feminist Film Theory, and the Avant-garde.

Annie is just about to release her documentary feature work “Brother Number One”, which will launch at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival. Annie has been both Producer and Director of this film, as well has doing considerable editing.

Brother Number One is the personal story of Olympian and Transatlantic rowing champion New Zealander Rob Hamill who travels to Cambodia to appear before a War Crimes Tribunal seeking justice for his eldest brother Kerry who, along with two sailing mates, was tortured and murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. 

The film considers both personal themes as well as global themes of forgiveness, complicity, responsibility.
Annie is also working on a website outreach project to make public much of the archive and historical information unearthed through researching the documentary.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Annie Goldson is a professor in the Department of Film, Television &amp; Media Studies. Her research interests include Documentary Production and Documentary Studies, Feminist Film Theory, and the Avant-garde.

Annie is just about to release her documentary feature work “Brother Number One”, which will launch at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival. Annie has been both Producer and Director of this film, as well has doing considerable editing.

Brother Number One is the personal story of Olympian and Transatlantic rowing champion New Zealander Rob Hamill who travels to Cambodia to appear before a War Crimes Tribunal seeking justice for his eldest brother Kerry who, along with two sailing mates, was tortured and murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. 

The film considers both personal themes as well as global themes of forgiveness, complicity, responsibility.
Annie is also working on a website outreach project to make public much of the archive and historical information unearthed through researching the documentary.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:52:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Professor Charles Royal | Maori Language week &amp; Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200076,professor-charles-royal-maori-language-week-ng%C4%81-pae-o-te-m%C4%81ramatanga.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,200076,professor-charles-royal-maori-language-week-ng%C4%81-pae-o-te-m%C4%81ramatanga.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Professor Charles Royal is the Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, a Centre of Research Excellence hosted by The University of Auckland. 
Late last year, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga launched one of its main research initiatives, Te Pae Tawhiti: Te Reo, a long-term research programme investigating the economic, as well as cultural, value of Te Reo.

Professor Royal discusses the goals and vision of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, as well as his own research at the Centre.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Charles Royal is the Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, a Centre of Research Excellence hosted by The University of Auckland. 
Late last year, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga launched one of its main research initiatives, Te Pae Tawhiti: Te Reo, a long-term research programme investigating the economic, as well as cultural, value of Te Reo.

Professor Royal discusses the goals and vision of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, as well as his own research at the Centre.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:06:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr John Coulter | Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC)</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199982,dr-john-coulter-australasian-computer-music-conference-acmc.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199982,dr-john-coulter-australasian-computer-music-conference-acmc.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The University/School of Music will next month host the Australasian Computer Music Conference. This is an opportunity to not only exchange ideas and innovations with some of the world’s leading electroacoustic musicians, scholars and composers, but also to showcase the University’s own talents to, and alongside, leading practitioners and educators.

Dr John Coulter is a Senior Lecturer, and the Head of Sound and Sonic Arts Programmes at the School of Music, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland. His work within the Composition and Sonic Arts Area focuses on facilitating the needs of the ‘21st-century musician’ – supporting men and women who compose, perform, and make use of technology, who study and research the language of music and sound, and who use their individual and collective heritage as a source of musical inspiration. Dr Coulter is a member of several international organisations that uphold this holistic approach to music making, and has presented both academic papers and creative works in several countries throughout the world including Australia, Canada, China, France, NZ, and the United Kingdom.

The University of Auckland hosts the Australasian Computer Music Conference 6-9 July.For more information and registration visit: www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/nzems 

The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries comprises the School of Architecture and Planning, Elam School of Fine Arts, the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery (CNZARD), the School of Music and the Dance Studies Programme.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[The University/School of Music will next month host the Australasian Computer Music Conference. This is an opportunity to not only exchange ideas and innovations with some of the world’s leading electroacoustic musicians, scholars and composers, but also to showcase the University’s own talents to, and alongside, leading practitioners and educators.

Dr John Coulter is a Senior Lecturer, and the Head of Sound and Sonic Arts Programmes at the School of Music, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland. His work within the Composition and Sonic Arts Area focuses on facilitating the needs of the ‘21st-century musician’ – supporting men and women who compose, perform, and make use of technology, who study and research the language of music and sound, and who use their individual and collective heritage as a source of musical inspiration. Dr Coulter is a member of several international organisations that uphold this holistic approach to music making, and has presented both academic papers and creative works in several countries throughout the world including Australia, Canada, China, France, NZ, and the United Kingdom.

The University of Auckland hosts the Australasian Computer Music Conference 6-9 July.For more information and registration visit: www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/nzems 

The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries comprises the School of Architecture and Planning, Elam School of Fine Arts, the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery (CNZARD), the School of Music and the Dance Studies Programme.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:23:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Jonathan Mane-Wheoki | Discussion about the role of Māori artists who first engaged with international modernism</title>
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		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Professor and Head of Elam School of Fine Arts at NICAI, talks with Charlotte about the roles played by pioneering Maori artists who first engaged with international modernism!]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Professor and Head of Elam School of Fine Arts at NICAI, talks with Charlotte about the roles played by pioneering Maori artists who first engaged with international modernism!]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:04:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Nancy Liu | NZ fencer and a member of the Special Sense Organs team</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199854,nancy-liu-nz-fencer-and-a-member-of-the-special-sense-organs-team.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199854,nancy-liu-nz-fencer-and-a-member-of-the-special-sense-organs-team.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Auckland Bioengineering Institute PhD candidate Nancy Liu is one of eight students from The University of Auckland who is being awarded a NZ University Blue.

She will receive the award at a ceremony in Wellington on July 1.

Nancy has earned the Blue for her achievements in fencing, having represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth Fencing Championships in Melbourne last year. Nancy was part of the women’s epee team that won bronze.

The Blues awards are considered New Zealand’s most prestigious sports awards for university students, recognising an athlete’s commitment and performance in both academic and sporting pursuits. The criterion for the awards requires students to pass national qualifying standards for their sport as well as passing a minimum number of academic classes. 

Nancy is in the Special Sense Organs team led by Professor Peter Hunter and Dr Marc Jacobs.  She is currently writing her thesis entitled “Visualising the internal micro-circulation of the ocular lens in rodents” under the supervision of Professor Paul Donaldson from the Faculty of Science and Dr Marc Jacobs at the ABI.

Her research investigates the role of intercellular communication pathways in the maintenance of lens transparency.  The loss of lens transparency or cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the world today.  Her research will contribute to our growing understanding of lens structure and function, in hoping for the development of alternative medical therapies to prevent or delay the onset of cataract one day.

Nancy discovered fencing in her first year at The University of Auckland, through the Recreation Centre.  She has represented New Zealand for two years ago and has competed at the National Games and the World Cup in Sydney. Until her bronze medal finish, Nancy’s best result was a top eight finish at the Australian National Championship.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Auckland Bioengineering Institute PhD candidate Nancy Liu is one of eight students from The University of Auckland who is being awarded a NZ University Blue.

She will receive the award at a ceremony in Wellington on July 1.

Nancy has earned the Blue for her achievements in fencing, having represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth Fencing Championships in Melbourne last year. Nancy was part of the women’s epee team that won bronze.

The Blues awards are considered New Zealand’s most prestigious sports awards for university students, recognising an athlete’s commitment and performance in both academic and sporting pursuits. The criterion for the awards requires students to pass national qualifying standards for their sport as well as passing a minimum number of academic classes. 

Nancy is in the Special Sense Organs team led by Professor Peter Hunter and Dr Marc Jacobs.  She is currently writing her thesis entitled “Visualising the internal micro-circulation of the ocular lens in rodents” under the supervision of Professor Paul Donaldson from the Faculty of Science and Dr Marc Jacobs at the ABI.

Her research investigates the role of intercellular communication pathways in the maintenance of lens transparency.  The loss of lens transparency or cataract is the leading cause of blindness in the world today.  Her research will contribute to our growing understanding of lens structure and function, in hoping for the development of alternative medical therapies to prevent or delay the onset of cataract one day.

Nancy discovered fencing in her first year at The University of Auckland, through the Recreation Centre.  She has represented New Zealand for two years ago and has competed at the National Games and the World Cup in Sydney. Until her bronze medal finish, Nancy’s best result was a top eight finish at the Australian National Championship.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:25:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Justin Fernandez | Looking at whether low dose fluoride therapy increases bone strength in osteoporosis.</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199831,justin-fernandez-looking-at-whether-low-dose-fluoride-therapy-increases-bone-strength-in-osteoporosis.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199831,justin-fernandez-looking-at-whether-low-dose-fluoride-therapy-increases-bone-strength-in-osteoporosis.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte talks with Justin Fernandez, a Research Fellow in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute’s Musculoskeletal Modelling Group. He is one of 11 up and coming researchers in New Zealand awarded a Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Emerging Research First Grants.

Justin received $139,100 for a three year project looking at whether low dose fluoride therapy increases bone strength in osteoporosis.

He will quantify the impact of low dose fluoride treatment on the fracture susceptibility of the femur and spine of menopausal women with osteopenia, which is a condition where bone mineral density is lower than normal, and considered by many doctors to be a precursor to osteoporosis.

Justin, a graduate of the University of Auckland, has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Melbourne University and a research scientist at The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. 

Justin&apos;s research interests are in computational biomechanics (soft tissue and bone), orthopaedics, and finite element modelling and more recently particulate methods. His aim is to develop diagnostic tools that can better inform the medical field.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte talks with Justin Fernandez, a Research Fellow in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute’s Musculoskeletal Modelling Group. He is one of 11 up and coming researchers in New Zealand awarded a Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Emerging Research First Grants.

Justin received $139,100 for a three year project looking at whether low dose fluoride therapy increases bone strength in osteoporosis.

He will quantify the impact of low dose fluoride treatment on the fracture susceptibility of the femur and spine of menopausal women with osteopenia, which is a condition where bone mineral density is lower than normal, and considered by many doctors to be a precursor to osteoporosis.

Justin, a graduate of the University of Auckland, has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Melbourne University and a research scientist at The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. 

Justin&apos;s research interests are in computational biomechanics (soft tissue and bone), orthopaedics, and finite element modelling and more recently particulate methods. His aim is to develop diagnostic tools that can better inform the medical field.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:02:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title> Dr. Melenaite Taumoefolau | Pacific linguistics</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199780,dr-melenaite-taumoefolau-pacific-linguistics.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199780,dr-melenaite-taumoefolau-pacific-linguistics.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Our guest today is Dr. Melenaite Taumoefolau, a Senior Lecturer of Pacific Studies and the Director of Pacific Language Studies at the University of Auckland. Her research areas include Pacific linguists, language teaching and learning, and literacy development.

Melenaite is researching words and lexical items in Tongan language for inclusion in a monolingual Tongan dictionary, funded by NZAID under the auspices of the Tonga Ministry of Education. Specifically, she is interested in archaic words, new words, and existing words that have developed or are developing new senses or meanings. Melenaite is also researching topics in Tongan linguistics, such as accentuation, parts of speech, and transitivity. This research will have implications for the kinds of grammatical information to be conveyed in the dictionary. Her research will also help Tongan literacy development and contribute to Pacific linguistics generally. Melenaite spends around eight weeks annually in Tonga working with Tongans on the dictionary, and also works with Tongans in Auckland.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Our guest today is Dr. Melenaite Taumoefolau, a Senior Lecturer of Pacific Studies and the Director of Pacific Language Studies at the University of Auckland. Her research areas include Pacific linguists, language teaching and learning, and literacy development.

Melenaite is researching words and lexical items in Tongan language for inclusion in a monolingual Tongan dictionary, funded by NZAID under the auspices of the Tonga Ministry of Education. Specifically, she is interested in archaic words, new words, and existing words that have developed or are developing new senses or meanings. Melenaite is also researching topics in Tongan linguistics, such as accentuation, parts of speech, and transitivity. This research will have implications for the kinds of grammatical information to be conveyed in the dictionary. Her research will also help Tongan literacy development and contribute to Pacific linguistics generally. Melenaite spends around eight weeks annually in Tonga working with Tongans on the dictionary, and also works with Tongans in Auckland.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:27:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>John Ip | Counterterrorism and human rights</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199675,john-ip-counterterrorism-and-human-rights.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199675,john-ip-counterterrorism-and-human-rights.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte talks with John Ip, a senior lecturer at the Law School. 
His topic is his work on counterterrorism  and human rights. This includes comparative approaches to the detention of terrorist suspects and other legal issues arising out of the &quot;war on terrorism&quot;.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte talks with John Ip, a senior lecturer at the Law School. 
His topic is his work on counterterrorism  and human rights. This includes comparative approaches to the detention of terrorist suspects and other legal issues arising out of the &quot;war on terrorism&quot;.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 15:34:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Edward McDonald | Chinese linguistics, culture and society</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199601,edward-mcdonald-chinese-linguistics-culture-and-society.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199601,edward-mcdonald-chinese-linguistics-culture-and-society.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr Edward McDonald is a lecturer in the School of Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts. His research interests include Chinese linguistics, culture and society. 

He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney, majoring in Chinese and linguistics, and then went to Peking University (in Beijing, the old spelling of the Uni marks its pre-1949 status) to do a Masters combining the two. It was there that he began to experience the real challenges of the cross-cultural journey that he&apos;s been engaged in ever since.

It was not just realising that the linguistics of Chinese in Chinese was a very different thing from the English brand. It was not even having to get used to the ways of a Chinese institution itself – as he used to joke, he was getting a Masters in Chinese Bureaucracy as much as anything else. It was that he found himself becoming partly Chinese - living, eating, speaking, thinking in Chinese ways. The implications of this transformation are something he&apos;s been worrying away at ever since.

His latest book Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese: Challenges to becoming sinophone in a globalsised world, comes back at these issues with the benefit of almost thirty years studying and working in the field of Chinese studies, including teaching the language. And he&apos;s come to the paradoxical realisation that, Chinese studies, the academic enterprise that is supposed to introduce foreigners to China is in some ways dedicated to keeping the foreigners out. Although ordinary people with personal and professional connections with China are more and more moving across the boundary between &quot;the Chinese&quot; and &quot;the Foreign&quot; and transforming it in the process, the Academy has been a bit slow to catch up. His book explores some of the reasons for this paradoxical situation.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr Edward McDonald is a lecturer in the School of Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts. His research interests include Chinese linguistics, culture and society. 

He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney, majoring in Chinese and linguistics, and then went to Peking University (in Beijing, the old spelling of the Uni marks its pre-1949 status) to do a Masters combining the two. It was there that he began to experience the real challenges of the cross-cultural journey that he&apos;s been engaged in ever since.

It was not just realising that the linguistics of Chinese in Chinese was a very different thing from the English brand. It was not even having to get used to the ways of a Chinese institution itself – as he used to joke, he was getting a Masters in Chinese Bureaucracy as much as anything else. It was that he found himself becoming partly Chinese - living, eating, speaking, thinking in Chinese ways. The implications of this transformation are something he&apos;s been worrying away at ever since.

His latest book Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese: Challenges to becoming sinophone in a globalsised world, comes back at these issues with the benefit of almost thirty years studying and working in the field of Chinese studies, including teaching the language. And he&apos;s come to the paradoxical realisation that, Chinese studies, the academic enterprise that is supposed to introduce foreigners to China is in some ways dedicated to keeping the foreigners out. Although ordinary people with personal and professional connections with China are more and more moving across the boundary between &quot;the Chinese&quot; and &quot;the Foreign&quot; and transforming it in the process, the Academy has been a bit slow to catch up. His book explores some of the reasons for this paradoxical situation.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 11:04:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr Cassy Dittman | Parents of children aged 3-6 required for a parenting study</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199541,dr-cassy-dittman-parents-of-children-aged-3-6-required-for-a-parenting-study.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199541,dr-cassy-dittman-parents-of-children-aged-3-6-required-for-a-parenting-study.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr Cassy Dittman, deputy director of the Triple P Research Group, talks about her latest study involving parents who have young children with behaviour problems.

The aim of the study is to test whether a well-established parenting programme, Group Triple P, has pervasive effects on young children with behaviour difficulties in terms of their developmental skills or whether a new specifically-tailored programme is necessary for improvements to occur.

Dr Dittman is seeking 56 parents with children aged three to six years-old from Wellington and Auckland to take part in the study. The study, partly funded by Victoria University, is being run in Auckland and Wellington.  

Behaviour difficulties in young children have been found to have a significant impact on a child’s social functioning and adjustment,” she says.

Research shows that the early onset of behaviour and conduct problems in young children is later in life associated with substance abuse, suicide, mental health problems, ill-health, educational underachievement and poor quality relationships, she says.

Young children displaying behavioural problems, such as difficulties following instructions and house rules, being defiant, talking back or arguing with adults, or being verbally or physically aggressive with others, typically show deficits in other areas of development. This includes their knowledge and regulation of emotions, and their ability to inhibit, control, and regulate their own behaviour, she says.

To volunteer for the research project contact Cassy Dittman on (09) 623 8899 ext 48778 or email tprg@auckland.ac.nz.

About Triple P

The Triple P - Positive Parenting Program runs internationally recognised parenting programmes developed on 30 years of research.

Fifty-six parents are needed for the study, 28 for the Auckland based study and 28 for the Wellington based study.

As part of the study the child’s vocabulary, ability to regulate their behaviour, and their understanding of emotions will be assessed before and after the study. The assessments are designed especially for young children and involve looking at pictures, playing with puppets and playing games.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Dr Cassy Dittman, deputy director of the Triple P Research Group, talks about her latest study involving parents who have young children with behaviour problems.

The aim of the study is to test whether a well-established parenting programme, Group Triple P, has pervasive effects on young children with behaviour difficulties in terms of their developmental skills or whether a new specifically-tailored programme is necessary for improvements to occur.

Dr Dittman is seeking 56 parents with children aged three to six years-old from Wellington and Auckland to take part in the study. The study, partly funded by Victoria University, is being run in Auckland and Wellington.  

Behaviour difficulties in young children have been found to have a significant impact on a child’s social functioning and adjustment,” she says.

Research shows that the early onset of behaviour and conduct problems in young children is later in life associated with substance abuse, suicide, mental health problems, ill-health, educational underachievement and poor quality relationships, she says.

Young children displaying behavioural problems, such as difficulties following instructions and house rules, being defiant, talking back or arguing with adults, or being verbally or physically aggressive with others, typically show deficits in other areas of development. This includes their knowledge and regulation of emotions, and their ability to inhibit, control, and regulate their own behaviour, she says.

To volunteer for the research project contact Cassy Dittman on (09) 623 8899 ext 48778 or email tprg@auckland.ac.nz.

About Triple P

The Triple P - Positive Parenting Program runs internationally recognised parenting programmes developed on 30 years of research.

Fifty-six parents are needed for the study, 28 for the Auckland based study and 28 for the Wellington based study.

As part of the study the child’s vocabulary, ability to regulate their behaviour, and their understanding of emotions will be assessed before and after the study. The assessments are designed especially for young children and involve looking at pictures, playing with puppets and playing games.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 10:51:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd | Shakespeare’s sonnets</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199444,distinguished-professor-brian-boyd-shakespeares-sonnets.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199444,distinguished-professor-brian-boyd-shakespeares-sonnets.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Brian Boyd is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English. 

His research interests include: Narrative, evolution and cognition; the novel (especially Austen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Nabokov); Shakespeare; Spiegelman; literature and science; biography.

His most recent solo book, On the Origin of Stories, linked evolution, Darwinian evolution, and our compulsion as humans to engross ourselves in fiction.

His initial intention was to follow it up with another book, On the Ends of Stories, covering Shakespeare tragedy and comedy, Austen, Joyce’s Ulysses, Spiegelman’s brilliant Maus. 

He started writing a chapter on poetry focusing on Shakespeare’s Sonnets as his example—and ended up writing a whole book on them: on poetry, on lyric poetry, on Shakespeare’s Sonnets as the most famous collection of lyric poems. It will be called On the Absence of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Lyric Verse. 

Brian says: “Shakespeare’s Sonnets outsell very other one of his works. More critical articles are published about the Sonnets than about any other Shakespeare work except the famously problematic Hamlet. They have a reputation as being the ideal handbook for lovers, and they do include some of the most spell-binding love poetry (sonnet 116, “Let me not to the mairrage of true minds,” is repeatedly recited at weddings). But most people who start reading the whole collection of 154 sonnets give up, puzzled—especially most lovers! Editors have tried to rearrange them to make the story they think they see in them clearer, but nobody else ever agrees with their rearrangements. I think an evolutionary take helps explain what’s going on. But the key to the sonnets is that Shakespeare is trying to show what he can do without stories. He’d already proved himself in that line, in his plays and his narrative poems, wildly successful at the time, and now he wants to conquer new territory.”]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Brian Boyd is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English. 

His research interests include: Narrative, evolution and cognition; the novel (especially Austen, Tolstoy, Joyce, Nabokov); Shakespeare; Spiegelman; literature and science; biography.

His most recent solo book, On the Origin of Stories, linked evolution, Darwinian evolution, and our compulsion as humans to engross ourselves in fiction.

His initial intention was to follow it up with another book, On the Ends of Stories, covering Shakespeare tragedy and comedy, Austen, Joyce’s Ulysses, Spiegelman’s brilliant Maus. 

He started writing a chapter on poetry focusing on Shakespeare’s Sonnets as his example—and ended up writing a whole book on them: on poetry, on lyric poetry, on Shakespeare’s Sonnets as the most famous collection of lyric poems. It will be called On the Absence of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Lyric Verse. 

Brian says: “Shakespeare’s Sonnets outsell very other one of his works. More critical articles are published about the Sonnets than about any other Shakespeare work except the famously problematic Hamlet. They have a reputation as being the ideal handbook for lovers, and they do include some of the most spell-binding love poetry (sonnet 116, “Let me not to the mairrage of true minds,” is repeatedly recited at weddings). But most people who start reading the whole collection of 154 sonnets give up, puzzled—especially most lovers! Editors have tried to rearrange them to make the story they think they see in them clearer, but nobody else ever agrees with their rearrangements. I think an evolutionary take helps explain what’s going on. But the key to the sonnets is that Shakespeare is trying to show what he can do without stories. He’d already proved himself in that line, in his plays and his narrative poems, wildly successful at the time, and now he wants to conquer new territory.”]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:21:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr Iain Anderson | Innovations at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199323,dr-iain-anderson-innovations-at-the-auckland-bioengineering-institute.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199323,dr-iain-anderson-innovations-at-the-auckland-bioengineering-institute.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Faculty of Engineering Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Dr Iain Anderson talks about the artificial muscle motor, created in the Biomimetics Laboratory, which is attracting overseas interest.

The innovation is a soft, bearing-free artificial muscle motor that can move a shaft in five different ways.
While other groups have worked on membrane devices where they can make a shaft tip-up, go side-to-side or back to front the University is the first to make the membrane turn the shaft.

The new design of flexible motors could in the future be used for microsurgery and because they are non-magnetic, can be used around MRI scanners.

Dr Anderson has also recently been named the Benjamin Meaker visiting Professor to the University of Bristol.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Faculty of Engineering Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Dr Iain Anderson talks about the artificial muscle motor, created in the Biomimetics Laboratory, which is attracting overseas interest.

The innovation is a soft, bearing-free artificial muscle motor that can move a shaft in five different ways.
While other groups have worked on membrane devices where they can make a shaft tip-up, go side-to-side or back to front the University is the first to make the membrane turn the shaft.

The new design of flexible motors could in the future be used for microsurgery and because they are non-magnetic, can be used around MRI scanners.

Dr Anderson has also recently been named the Benjamin Meaker visiting Professor to the University of Bristol.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:38:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Wendy Yu on surgery and children’s health.</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199271,wendy-yu-on-surgery-and-childrens-health.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199271,wendy-yu-on-surgery-and-childrens-health.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Wendy Yu is a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate from the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. After graduating from the University of Auckland in 2008, she worked at Middlemore Hospital for two years and has now returned to the University to pursue doctoral studies. She is passionate about surgery and children’s health.

Wendy is currently in the 2nd year of her PhD studies and under the supervisor of Associate Professor Andrew Hill from the Department of Surgery. Her thesis is focused around the surgical and medical management of children with acute appendicitis and intra-abdominal infections. She has recently completed the recruitment of patients for a large randomised-controlled clinical trial at Starship Children’s Hospital. This trial is looking at ways to reduce the surgical impact of laparoscopic (key-hole) surgery in children. Wendy is currently designing a second clinical trial which will look at alternative treatment strategies for administering antibiotics to children with intra-abdominal infections as a result of advanced appendicitis.    

Wendy’s other research passion is medical education. She is particularly interested in teaching medical students and understanding their clinical learning environment. She has conducted research in medical education in the past two years focused around medical student learning and evaluation. Another area of Wendy’s research has been the use of formal “teach-the-teacher” training workshops to improve clinical teaching skills of New Zealand junior doctors.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Wendy Yu is a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate from the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. After graduating from the University of Auckland in 2008, she worked at Middlemore Hospital for two years and has now returned to the University to pursue doctoral studies. She is passionate about surgery and children’s health.

Wendy is currently in the 2nd year of her PhD studies and under the supervisor of Associate Professor Andrew Hill from the Department of Surgery. Her thesis is focused around the surgical and medical management of children with acute appendicitis and intra-abdominal infections. She has recently completed the recruitment of patients for a large randomised-controlled clinical trial at Starship Children’s Hospital. This trial is looking at ways to reduce the surgical impact of laparoscopic (key-hole) surgery in children. Wendy is currently designing a second clinical trial which will look at alternative treatment strategies for administering antibiotics to children with intra-abdominal infections as a result of advanced appendicitis.    

Wendy’s other research passion is medical education. She is particularly interested in teaching medical students and understanding their clinical learning environment. She has conducted research in medical education in the past two years focused around medical student learning and evaluation. Another area of Wendy’s research has been the use of formal “teach-the-teacher” training workshops to improve clinical teaching skills of New Zealand junior doctors.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:17:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Professor Stuart Roper on Branding and Litter</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199186,professor-stuart-roper-on-branding-and-litter.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199186,professor-stuart-roper-on-branding-and-litter.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Stuart Roper - a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK. His area of research is brands and branding. 

He is working on two major themes in his current research - branded litter and the impact of branding to low income groups including the use and importance of brands amongst children.

Much of the existing research into branding looks at building positive influences for brand image and considers the brand to be something that is controllable by management. His research looks at possible negative associations with the brand, uncontrollable factors of brand management and their impact upon the brand.

Stuart will be conducting a free public seminar on this topic at the Business School on April 7.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Stuart Roper - a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK. His area of research is brands and branding. 

He is working on two major themes in his current research - branded litter and the impact of branding to low income groups including the use and importance of brands amongst children.

Much of the existing research into branding looks at building positive influences for brand image and considers the brand to be something that is controllable by management. His research looks at possible negative associations with the brand, uncontrollable factors of brand management and their impact upon the brand.

Stuart will be conducting a free public seminar on this topic at the Business School on April 7.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:12:00 +1200</pubDate>
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			<title>Nina Tonga, Professional Teaching Fellow, on ethnic identity in digital art</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199120,nina-tonga-professional-teaching-fellow-on-ethnic-identity-in-digital-art.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199120,nina-tonga-professional-teaching-fellow-on-ethnic-identity-in-digital-art.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte chats with Nina Tonga, a Professional Teaching Fellow lecturing part time in Art History and Pacific Studies teaching Pasifika Art Traditional &amp; Comtemporary. Nina is currently also a PhD student in Art History, investigating ethnic identity in digital art - a new and fascinating genre at the forefront of 21st century art. She is specifically interested in the artistic use of avatars. To this end, Nina is exploring the work of two contemporary artists, New Zealand artist Janet Lilo, who uses Youtube, Facebook and other social media to create her work for later exhibition in conventional galleries, and Chinese artist Cao Fei, who creates documentaries of her engagement with “Second Life” and presents these films (or “machinima”) by projecting them in a gallery space.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte chats with Nina Tonga, a Professional Teaching Fellow lecturing part time in Art History and Pacific Studies teaching Pasifika Art Traditional &amp; Comtemporary. Nina is currently also a PhD student in Art History, investigating ethnic identity in digital art - a new and fascinating genre at the forefront of 21st century art. She is specifically interested in the artistic use of avatars. To this end, Nina is exploring the work of two contemporary artists, New Zealand artist Janet Lilo, who uses Youtube, Facebook and other social media to create her work for later exhibition in conventional galleries, and Chinese artist Cao Fei, who creates documentaries of her engagement with “Second Life” and presents these films (or “machinima”) by projecting them in a gallery space.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:28:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr. Nicholas Rowe on using performing arts to help traumatized communities</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199064,dr-nicholas-rowe-on-using-performing-arts-to-help-traumatized-communities.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,199064,dr-nicholas-rowe-on-using-performing-arts-to-help-traumatized-communities.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Dr. Nicholas Rowe, a Senior Lecturer in the Dance Studies Programme at Auckland University&apos;s National Institute of Creative Arts &amp; Industries, about providing drama and dance workshops to teachers and students in Christchurch to help a traumatized community return to the classrooms they were in when the earthquake struck.

Drawing from his experiences training teachers in the use of arts education within the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip and West Bank in the second intifada, Dr. Rowe sees clear parallels between political conflict in the Middle East and the earthquakes in Canterbury. Foremost amongst these is the idea that the trauma is not related to a singular past, but is instead an ongoing, volatile feature of both private and communal life. Arts can be used to effectively reflect on a tragedy, invoke its stories and reveal a distance between now-and-then within post-traumatic contexts.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Dr. Nicholas Rowe, a Senior Lecturer in the Dance Studies Programme at Auckland University&apos;s National Institute of Creative Arts &amp; Industries, about providing drama and dance workshops to teachers and students in Christchurch to help a traumatized community return to the classrooms they were in when the earthquake struck.

Drawing from his experiences training teachers in the use of arts education within the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip and West Bank in the second intifada, Dr. Rowe sees clear parallels between political conflict in the Middle East and the earthquakes in Canterbury. Foremost amongst these is the idea that the trauma is not related to a singular past, but is instead an ongoing, volatile feature of both private and communal life. Arts can be used to effectively reflect on a tragedy, invoke its stories and reveal a distance between now-and-then within post-traumatic contexts.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:09:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Jane Evans on the interaction of stress and the birth of new brain cells</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198972,jane-evans-on-the-interaction-of-stress-and-the-birth-of-new-brain-cells.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198972,jane-evans-on-the-interaction-of-stress-and-the-birth-of-new-brain-cells.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte chats with Jane Evans, a PhD candidate in the School of Medical Sciences, who is currently researching the interaction of stress and neurogenesis (or the birth of new brain cells) in adults. Jane is particularly interested in the cellular and molecular changes that happen in depression.  Both stress (a precursor to depression) and depression are associated with a reduction in new brain cells being born. Her project is looking at a neurosteroid, called allopregnanolone (Allo for short) which is decreased in stress, and in depression. She is interested in the mechanism by which Allo works, and whether maintaining Allo at normal levels could prevent changes, both in neurogenesis and behavior, that are seen in association with chronic stress.  
Jane will also be involved in the upcoming Brain Day on Saturday 19 March where she will be helping out in the area for children - because it is never too early to learn fun facts about the brain and what you can do to keep it healthy!]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte chats with Jane Evans, a PhD candidate in the School of Medical Sciences, who is currently researching the interaction of stress and neurogenesis (or the birth of new brain cells) in adults. Jane is particularly interested in the cellular and molecular changes that happen in depression.  Both stress (a precursor to depression) and depression are associated with a reduction in new brain cells being born. Her project is looking at a neurosteroid, called allopregnanolone (Allo for short) which is decreased in stress, and in depression. She is interested in the mechanism by which Allo works, and whether maintaining Allo at normal levels could prevent changes, both in neurogenesis and behavior, that are seen in association with chronic stress.  
Jane will also be involved in the upcoming Brain Day on Saturday 19 March where she will be helping out in the area for children - because it is never too early to learn fun facts about the brain and what you can do to keep it healthy!]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:26:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Professor Michael Pender and Associate Professor Charles Clifton talk about building assessments in Christchurch after the earthquake</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198901,professor-michael-pender-and-associate-professor-charles-clifton-talk-about-building-assessments-in-christchurch-after-the-earthquake.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198901,professor-michael-pender-and-associate-professor-charles-clifton-talk-about-building-assessments-in-christchurch-after-the-earthquake.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Professor Michael Pender and Associate Professor Charles Clifton, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, speak to Charlotte about their role on the official building assessment team in Christchurch after the recent earthquake. The pair were in Christchurch preparing to give a seminar on making older brick buildings more earthquake resistant when the February 22 earthquake struck.

Although they were due to leave the city that day they stayed on for several days to help as part of the team investigating the city’s structural damage and to conduct research.

Dr Pender, a geotechnical engineer, is an expert on liquefaction while Dr Charles Clifton, a structural engineer, is interested in the behaviour and design of steel during seismic events.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Professor Michael Pender and Associate Professor Charles Clifton, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, speak to Charlotte about their role on the official building assessment team in Christchurch after the recent earthquake. The pair were in Christchurch preparing to give a seminar on making older brick buildings more earthquake resistant when the February 22 earthquake struck.

Although they were due to leave the city that day they stayed on for several days to help as part of the team investigating the city’s structural damage and to conduct research.

Dr Pender, a geotechnical engineer, is an expert on liquefaction while Dr Charles Clifton, a structural engineer, is interested in the behaviour and design of steel during seismic events.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:27:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Alfio Leotta on Film Tourism in New Zealand</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198788,alfio-leotta-on-film-tourism-in-new-zealand.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198788,alfio-leotta-on-film-tourism-in-new-zealand.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Alfio Leotta, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, about film tourism in New Zealand. His research has focused on three films - The Lord of the Rings, The Piano and Whale Rider - and his research looks closely at the relationship between film producers and organizations such as Tourism NZ and how Tourism NZ actively capitalizes on film production in New Zealand.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Alfio Leotta, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, about film tourism in New Zealand. His research has focused on three films - The Lord of the Rings, The Piano and Whale Rider - and his research looks closely at the relationship between film producers and organizations such as Tourism NZ and how Tourism NZ actively capitalizes on film production in New Zealand.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:55:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Dr Ken Palmer on local authority law</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198648,dr-ken-palmer-on-local-authority-law.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198648,dr-ken-palmer-on-local-authority-law.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Dr Ken Palmer, an Associate Professor at the Law School and an expert on local authority law, about the controversy surrounding the establishment of the independent Maori Statutory Board for Auckland City and Maori representation on DHBs and other local boards.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Dr Ken Palmer, an Associate Professor at the Law School and an expert on local authority law, about the controversy surrounding the establishment of the independent Maori Statutory Board for Auckland City and Maori representation on DHBs and other local boards.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:42:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Joanna Chu &amp; the Triple P Parenting Program</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198578,joanna-chu-the-triple-p-parenting-program.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198578,joanna-chu-the-triple-p-parenting-program.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte &amp; Ellen talk to Doctoral student Joanna Chu from the Faculty of Education about the Triple P Parenting Program and the large-scale parenting study she is running through the Triple P-Positive Parenting Research Group.
Anyone interested in taking part in the study can find out more about it here.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte &amp; Ellen talk to Doctoral student Joanna Chu from the Faculty of Education about the Triple P Parenting Program and the large-scale parenting study she is running through the Triple P-Positive Parenting Research Group.
Anyone interested in taking part in the study can find out more about it here.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:04:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Jenny Holzhaider from the Department of Psychology: Clever crows and the evolution of tool use</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198489,jenny-holzhaider-from-the-department-of-psychology-clever-crows-and-the-evolution-of-tool-use.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198489,jenny-holzhaider-from-the-department-of-psychology-clever-crows-and-the-evolution-of-tool-use.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte &amp; Ellen chat with PhD student Jenny Holzhaider about her research with crows to explore the evolution of tool use. 

Jenny is working with Professor Russell Gray and Dr Gavin Hunt to New Caledonian crows. The birds make tools to catch invertebrates and are the most sophisticated tool-manufacturers aside from humans. They are considered an ideal model species to examine the links between tool manufacture, social learning and cognition.  

The University of Auckland research team has shown that tools made by the crows have features previously thought to be unique to hominids and that they acquire cumulative changes over time. Some of the team’s research aims are to investigate whether and how crows socially transmit tool knowledge, and how juvenile birds develop tool skills. Jenny is the lead author of two recent papers discussing the crows&apos; social structure and the extent to which juveniles learn tool manufacture from their parents.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte &amp; Ellen chat with PhD student Jenny Holzhaider about her research with crows to explore the evolution of tool use. 

Jenny is working with Professor Russell Gray and Dr Gavin Hunt to New Caledonian crows. The birds make tools to catch invertebrates and are the most sophisticated tool-manufacturers aside from humans. They are considered an ideal model species to examine the links between tool manufacture, social learning and cognition.  

The University of Auckland research team has shown that tools made by the crows have features previously thought to be unique to hominids and that they acquire cumulative changes over time. Some of the team’s research aims are to investigate whether and how crows socially transmit tool knowledge, and how juvenile birds develop tool skills. Jenny is the lead author of two recent papers discussing the crows&apos; social structure and the extent to which juveniles learn tool manufacture from their parents.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:42:00 +1300</pubDate>
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			<title>Associate Professor Peter O&#039;Connor on applied drama in the youth justice system</title>
			<link>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198341,associate-professor-peter-oconnor-on-applied-drama-in-the-youth-justice-system.sm</link>
			<guid>http://www.95bfm.com/default,198341,associate-professor-peter-oconnor-on-applied-drama-in-the-youth-justice-system.sm</guid>
		    <itunes:author>95bFM</itunes:author>
		    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Associate Professor Peter O’Connor, an applied drama expert from the School of Critical Studies in the Faculty of Education, who uses drama to help people dealing with trauma.
 
His latest project involved working with about 30 young people locked up in a Auckland Youth Justice secure residence. Peter ran the project which involved dancers, actors and artists. At the end of the six week project the students invited family and friends to a performance of Romeo and Juliet.]]></itunes:summary>
			<description><![CDATA[Charlotte talks to Associate Professor Peter O’Connor, an applied drama expert from the School of Critical Studies in the Faculty of Education, who uses drama to help people dealing with trauma.
 
His latest project involved working with about 30 young people locked up in a Auckland Youth Justice secure residence. Peter ran the project which involved dancers, actors and artists. At the end of the six week project the students invited family and friends to a performance of Romeo and Juliet.]]></description>
		
		
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:56:00 +1300</pubDate>
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