The behaviour of business
It’s hardly business as usual at Victoria Business School, where an eagerly awaited behavioural research laboratory is set to open.
It’s hardly business as usual at Victoria Business School, where an eagerly awaited behavioural research laboratory is set to open.
Architecture students and staff are keeping their finger on the pulse with a new digital research laboratory that comes complete with a giant robotic arm.
The key to fighting one of the biggest threats to humanity could be found in your backyard.
A fascination with Old Saint Paul’s has turned creating a history of the church into a labour of love for one Victoria University alumna.
Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) is drawing in a range of students across the University to learn about music in Europe during World War II.
In a first for a New Zealand university, Victoria has partnered with edX, which delivers online courses and classes from some of the world’s best universities.
Launching early 2017, Victoria’s first MOOCs will be available on the global edX platform will be Antarctica Online.
Professor Miriam Meyerhoff first grappled with the intricacies of New Zealand English aged six after migrating from California after her mother married a Kiwi.
People like to think of themselves as complex, but compared with things they are all too predictable.
The New Zealand Men’s University Futsal Team–largely made up of Victoria students–competed against the best at the world university futsal championships.
Detecting complex cancers could become easier with the development of a new device by a Victoria University spin-out company.
Associate Professor Nancy Bertler felt a little like Alice in Wonderland during her first visit to Antarctica.
Professor Rawinia Higgins was a shy, nervous 16-year-old girl straight out of boarding school when she came to Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in 1990.
Dr Azra Moeed says it’s been a lifetime of learning–not a lifetime of teaching–that led to her receiving an Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award (TTEA).
A study which started in 2009 has developed into a tool for measuring all aspects of New Zealanders’ lives.
Pirates, protestors and plunderers—the high seas spawn romantic tales of danger and adventure.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Guilford explores one of Victoria’s eight distinctive academic themes.
Victoria’s innovative capital city-based Victoria Business School is committed as much to “the business of government” as to “the business of business”.
We live in a world where Western consumers are increasingly concerned about the integrity of what they buy.
In a trans–Tasman first, from next year Victoria will offer a new international trade degree that brings together expertise from four faculties.
Doing business in Asia requires time and investment but the potential rewards are well worth it for New Zealand businesses, says Professor Siah Hwee Ang.
Victoria has more than 100,000 alumni living, working and contributing to the social and economic wellbeing of more than 100 countries.
Human rights atrocities and accounting is not a pairing that naturally springs to mind. But for Dr Pala Molisa, the two couldn’t be more entwined.
Victoria’s Asia Pacific Viewpoint climbed to fourth out of 69 Area Studies journals in the latest ranking by the Journal Citation Reports of the Institute for Scientific Information.
With its growing economy and population of well over 600 million people, Latin America is a region of increasing global strategic importance.
Victoria University’s relationship-building English language training for Asian and African public officials is “like a mini-United Nations”.
“The Asian century” is well underway. Two Victoria academics discuss the issues and opportunities for New Zealand in the Asia–Pacific region.
Professor James Crampton explores whether the mountains of Te Urewera be hiding dinosaur fossils and knowledge of ancient New Zealand?
The heavy energy use of Beijing’s subway system could be nearly halved, thanks to high-temperature superconducting (HTS) technology.
It all came down to collaboration when co-writing the screenplay for New Zealand film The Rehearsal, says senior lecturer Emily Perkins.
NewsHub political journalist Patrick (Paddy) Gower returns to his hall of residence Victoria House to meet current resident Jack Lockhart.
An abridged excerpt from Salient—Victoria’s student magazine—volume 17, dated 3 September 1953
Graduates of Victoria University are doing impressive things across the world. We caught up with four alumni who shared their advice, experience and memories.
New Zealand’s original Chinese printing types—used in a traditional printing press—will be the jewel in the crown of a new Chinese Scholars’ Studio at Victoria’s Wai-te-ata Press.
Alumna Catherine Chidgey’s new novel, The Wish Child, tells the story of two German children caught up in World War II.
Sir Geoffrey Palmer believes New Zealand needs a modern written constitution that will keep governments accountable.
A four-metre carved tōtara panel commands the view at the entrance of Kelburn Library.
Almost 50 years after the first seismometer was placed on the Moon, a PhD graduand is heading to NASA to take up a post-doctoral fellowship.
Victoria’s Alumni as Mentors programme connects students in their penultimate or final-year at university with alumni in the workforce.
The work of three women artists of different generations is presented in the Adam Art Gallery’s latest exhibition, Bad Visual Systems.
As a self-professed terrible sailor, Professor Lionel Carter says it’s ironic that he’s spent a large part of his career at sea.
The diplomatic skills of Papua New Guinea’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Immigration will be improved at a programme led by Victoria Business School.
Victoria Business School’s Professorial Chairs’ programme has been showcased as one of the world’s ‘innovations that inspire’ at an international conference.
Victoria’s Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies has helped honour the legacy of social justice advocate Celia Lashlie.
Victoria continues to ‘walk the talk’ in environmental responsibility through an agreement with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA).
Victoria’s status as a champion of the environment has been enhanced with the appointment of an internationally respected ecological economist.
Provost. The word conjures up some arcane, mysterious and unchanging position of authority.
Victoria’s new chief operating officer Mark Loveard believes in getting to the coalface to see how the University ticks—including peeling potatoes and mopping floors if need be.
Cancel the plane tickets and put away the safari hat. You now need just one thing to learn about wildlife—an internet connection.
Victoria Landscape Architecture students have taken out the top spot in an international competition for their re-imagining of the idea of urban hangouts.
Victoria’s Pacific Climate Change Conference organisers say the region needs to weave together and act now to fight the devastating effects of global warming.
Victoria Chancellor Sir Neville Jordan is excited about the knowledge, skill and mana members of Victoria’s revamped Council will bring to the University.
Alumnus Professor Roger Clark, a 2014 Victoria honorary doctorate recipient, is part of an international legal team nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
An endowment to the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies (IGPS) will build research into New Zealand’s public policy and the transparency of government.
A Victoria academic will use a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to build the University’s expertise in micro-organisms for antibiotics.
What do the rules set for building houses in the United States just after World War I have to tell us about how to build in New Zealand today?
Staff and students weren’t the only ones needing a new home when Victoria’s Faculty of Education moved from Karori to the Kelburn campus at the start of this year.
A major painting by Wellington artist Séraphine Pick has found a new home at Victoria University.
Victoria alumnus, geophysicist and astronaut, Dr Alexander Gerst, returned to Victoria in early 2016 to share his experience in space.
In February, the Governor-General, Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae visited Victoria as part of his nationwide tour.
Wellington’s status as a technology hub will be enhanced with the opening of the Wellington ICT Graduate School, in which Victoria is playing a key role.
With cameras on phones and drones, and ever-growing media platforms, anyone’s privacy can be invaded any time.
Two academics from ostensibly disparate disciplines discuss how their areas of expertise intersect when it comes to cultivating creative capital.
Having more questions than answers feels just right for a group focused on creativity, says Professor Jennifer Windsor.
The artistic abilities of some of Victoria’s current and former staff and students were on display during the 2016 New Zealand Festival.
“They could forgive—that’s an important message,” says a John Paul College of Rotorua student when reflecting on the translation of a Victor Hugo poem.
Dr Marco Sonzogni was “entranced” the first time he met Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney in 1993.
As a teen in the 1970s, Nick Bollinger yearned to discover more about Wellington’s burgeoning music scene.
A collection of musicians—including a Jewish rabbi and a Moroccan soul singer—came together on World War I’s battlegrounds as part of an epic global orchestra.
Being involved in the epic No Man’s Land project turned into a once in a lifetime opportunity for three Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) Master’s students.
Danyl McLauchlan rises early every day to write before he heads off to his day job as a computational biologist at Victoria University. His early-morning discipline has paid off.
The 2015 Katherine Mansfield Fellow, Dr Anna Jackson, will be taking up residence at Menton in France this year for three months.
This year marks 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, and what better way to commemorate the famous writer than to showcase his work to the public?
Anyone dreaming of following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Taylor can get a step closer to achieving their goals through a new programme offered by Victoria.
Sitting in a prison cell at Wellington’s Mt Crawford Prison in 1941, A.C. (Archie) Barrington scrawled in the margins of two books on religion and history.
In this ongoing series, we ask an outstanding Victoria student to return to their old room at their former hall of residence and share stories with the current resident.
Many New Zealand businesses experienced a cyberattack at least once last year, and the number of security breaches is rising.
Understanding how singing in the classroom can increase wellbeing is the focus of an innovative research project at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM).
The top ten skills organisations are looking for when hiring university graduates or students are revealed in a Victoria Business School-commissioned survey.
A state-of-the-art building is taking shape in Kelburn, to be ready for science research and teaching in 2017.
Lecturers Kevin Sweet and Michael Dudding are turning the architecture classroom upside down by doing away with lectures and implementing a different approach to learning.
Bachelor of Arts graduate and now London-based portrait painter, Sarah Jane Moon shares her favourite memories of Victoria and of Wellington.
Chief Ombudsman Judge Peter Boshier reflects on his student days and his varied career in law since graduating from Victoria.
The office of Emeritus Professor George Baird speaks volumes about the long and distinguished career he has had at Victoria’s School of Architecture.
Victoria’s Auckland premises have been a hive of activity since opening last year and are set to get even busier.
Risk it all—the advice to current students from Victoria alumnus Richard Shirtcliffe.
Victoria’s School of Biological Sciences is partnering with the Wellington City Council to establish an urban field station.
Otago and Victoria University researchers use a fat simulation suit to help healthcare workers better understand and care for their patients.
Many people are interested in language issues, particularly when they involve things they don’t agree with.
Members of the Samoan Students’ Association performed at the Welcome Festival in February for first-year Victoria students.
Kōhanga reo, Samoan kindergartens and schools around the country have access to a rich online audio teaching resource, thanks to restoration work by staff of Victoria’s Language Learning Centre.
In celebration of New Zealand Seaweek, the Victoria University Coastal Ecology Laboratory (VUCEL) in Island Bay opened its doors to the public on Saturday 5 March.
A unique collection of more than seventy late-Roman antiquities is a treasured addition to Victoria’s School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies and the University’s Classics Museum.