2014 News

Read through news from 2014.

  • Creative focus on Māori and Pasifika perspectives

    For the first time, Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) will offer a creative writing course for students to write from or about Māori and Pasifika perspectives.

  • Navigating uncharted waters

    Victoria University’s Pacific Studies programme has notched up a growing number of firsts.

  • Studying ancient landforms using new technology

    Teetering along precarious pathways high in some of Papua New Guinea’s most remote mountains is all part of the job for a pair of Victoria University of Wellington geologists.

  • Use of English in Samoa under the microscope

    The use of English in Samoa today will be the focus of two lectures by Victoria University of Wellington’s 2014 Ian Gordon Fellow Letuimanu’asina Dr Emma Kruse Vaai.

  • Links with Papua New Guinea strengthened

    Victoria’s role in building capability in Papua Guinea continues to grow, with the signing of agreements under which the School of Government will deliver a new professional development programme for staff in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

  • Life imitates arts degree

    When Conor Lui sees his nana, Fane Lui-Fakaotimanava, on the big screen later this year, he’ll be pinching himself. His short film, Mitaki Lahi (which features his nana) was selected to be part of the Down Under Berlin Film Festival this September.