University of Auckland, PhD Candidate, Harry Allard, joins us to talk about his interest in fish. After conducting the same study as one done 40 years ago, Harry looked at the changes of the ecologist environment at Leigh Marine Reserve. Plus, what happened to the Monkey Face Snapper?
Amit Barde from the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute, joins us in the studio to chat about the future of software like Zoom. After a strange year for human contact, Amit's research is moving at a fast pace to put more human-ness into the way we connect virtually.
University of Auckland's lecturer in product design, Gabi Baron, joins us in studio to chat to Rachel about the changes in sustainability within the design sector. Discussing how we view sustainability, what kind of future this might look like whilst fufilling social needs.
From the University of Auckland and the Liggins Institute, Associate Professor Katie Groom, joins us for a chat about corticosteroid injections and childbirth. She chats to Rachel about the C*STEROID Trial, funded by the Health Research Council, is a New Zealand-wide, placebo-controlled, randomised trial to assess the effects of corticosteroids given to the mother prior to a planned caesarean section at or near term on newborn and later childhood health.
The University of Auckland's Dr. Rebecca Meiring chats to Rachel about her research that will explore sleeping habits and general wellbeing both during and after Covid-19. They discuss how exercise changed during our lockdown period and the effect that may have on wellbeing. The survey can be found here.
The University fo Auckland's Professor Merryn Gott from the School of Nursing and Te Ārai Research Group joins us to talk about how their research is investigating the affect of lockdown onolder people. They are calling on people over 70 to get in contact and have their voices heard, more details here.
University of Auckland's Jemaima Taitia-Seath, is the co-head of Māori and Pacific Studies in the Faculty of Arts and she's dialing in to talk with Mitch and Tess about their research with KidsCan about period poverty in Aotearoa.
Cristiano Bellavitis, Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland from the faculty of Management and International Business, teaches Rachel and Tess a little bit about the stock markets. A very helpful conversation, especially given our current economic situation.
PhD candidate, from the Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, Sarah Killick, pops into the studio to chat with Rachel and Tess about Kauri dieback in Aotearoa. A big issue that's on going, Sarah tells us about the research and what kinds of things we can expect to see.
Laura Pedofsky from the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute joins Rachel and Tess to talk about Kegel's and their research into a new device, the 'femfit'. Tune in to learn more about how to strengthen those important muscles.
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