Ready Steady Learn

Associate Professor, Tim Kuhner, from the University of Auckland's Faculty of Law pops in to talk about the latest with the US Election. After recently publishing his book, Tyranny of Greed: Trump, Corruption, and the Revolution to Come, Tim's got some insights to what we're seeing in US politics. If you want to hear more, you can head along to a panel discussion here.

Dr. Veronika Sander from the University of Auckland's Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, is growing kidneys in a petri dish. Rachel and Tess chat to Veronika about this process, whilst learning a few new phrases along the way.

From the University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning, Masters student Rosemary Li joins us to talk about the upcoming event as part of Artweek 2020. Rosemary’s piece, the Wish Tree, is a large-scale walk-in structure constructed using traditional Chinese joinery called Dou Gong, one of the Chinese joinery techniques she is studying for her masters thesis research topic. You can check out more here.

Kiara Miller, from the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute, chats to Rachel about developing a training app for healthcare workers for particular medical equipment after travelling to Uganda on an Engineering World Health (EWH) internship for three months.