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Many Balinese believe COVID-19 cannot be fought with health measures alone, and requires ritual offerings and prayer. But collective ritual places people at more risk.
Afghanistan has been a gravy train for private security companies, but their local employees now find themselves in a dangerous no-man’s-land.
How we read messages is as important as what we write when it comes to happy workplace relations – especially in lockdowns or when working from home.
As more genomes are sequenced, it will become clearer when and how the Delta variant slipped through the New Zealand border. The greater the diversity in genomes, the older and larger the outbreak.
With COVID-19 surging and the state resisting a lockdown, Fijians turn to ‘solesolevaki’ — working together for a common cause — to fill the gaps.
This year marks 140 years since Parihaka pā was sacked. As He Puapua reignites the debate about the impacts of colonisation, how do the descendants of early European settlers respond?
It will take another 67 years to close the gender gap in news, according to the latest global survey of women in the media.
The latest survey shows COVID-19 vaccine acceptance is at 81%, but it suggests low reach for the government’s vaccination ads, with only four in ten people saying they’ve seen them on television.
A proposed global plan to close cross-border tax loopholes compares poorly to a digital services tax imposed by individual countries.
Consider Ireland. Like New Zealand, it has high agricultural emissions and a poor climate track record so far, but it has adopted much stronger targets to cut emissions by 51% between 2018 and 2030.
Recent allegations of cheating by university students in online exams suggest the students are adapting faster than the education system itself – and that should change.
Researchers are using mixed reality technologies to investigate how people behave in in emergency situations. The findings are helping shape disaster responses.
The Māori world view provides a viable framework for building a new tourism model that prioritises quality over quantity.
New research found lots of incentives to chuck out working solar panels and replace them with new ones. This may be creating huge amounts of unnecessary waste.
About half of New Zealand’s Māori, Pasifika and Asian populations reported experiencing more racism and discrimination since the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to about a third of European New Zealanders.
Natural gas may still be cheaper than electricity in some cases, but the price of gas is likely to rise if New Zealand follows the Climate Change Commission’s advice to shift to electrification.
Kiwi are often moved between fragmented populations to limit inbreeding, but without sufficient genetic screening, this risks doing more harm than good.
Researchers have explored many factors that affect iron levels, including diet and exercise, but we don’t yet fully understand the role women’s reproductive hormones play in regulating iron uptake.
When Antarctica’s land-based ice melts, the land bounces up slightly as the weight of the ice lifts. This affects sea levels across the world, but not enough to offset sea-level rise.
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Massey University
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Professor of Maori & Public Health, Massey University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer, Massey University
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Dean's Chair in Management and Māori Business, Massey University
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Professor of Social and Health Psychology, Massey University
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Associate Professor and Senior Clinical Psychologist, Massey University
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Research Associate in Public Health, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Massey University
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Research Officer, Riddet Institute, Massey University
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Professor of Politics, Massey University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Massey University
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PhD candidate, College of Health, Massey University
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Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Massey University
