Ready Steady Learn

Uni News has a special 32-page suffrage issue this week, and Bahareh Madadkhahsalmassi joins us to celebrate her successes here in New Zealand and at the University of Auckland. Bahareh moved to little New Zealand in 2015 from Iran and her research aids the development of better tools for people with diabetes; she catches up with Tess about the new found freedom she's found here.

Mike gets a lesson from the University of Auckland's Business School's Dr. Ramona Zharfpeykan in what companies do and don't have to report on in the wonderful world of sustainbility. So they don't _have_ to report on their sustainability levels and what are all these different indicators? Yay for sustainable businesses! (Right?)

University of Auckland's Head of Social Sciences, Professor Simon Holdaway enlightens us with rock-hard evidence of a different way of life using apples. It's about the journey, not the destination, right?

Dr. Marama's taking a look at New Zealand's freshwater landscapes - rivers, lakes, wetlands - and is finding their intrinsic values are not only not being utilised to the best of their abilities by communities, but they're under ever-increasing threat. As our freshwater spaces are impacted by species loss, pollution, introduced predators... how do we create a future in which we regenerate and enhance such spaces?