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The changing face of migration in an increasingly diverse society will be the focus of this year’s University of Auckland Winter Lecture series, Nation Transformed: the place of migration in 21st century Aotearoa-New Zealand. Dr. Collins joins Mike in studio to talk about what is increasingly becoming the hot button topic of politics and public debate, but is also so poorly understood in terms of its politics, economics, internal mechanics and implications.

Seeded from a curious Reddit post, Ivan's research into multi-player video game music has taken him to dissertation level and beyond. Was does an 'anthropological' study of game soundtracking entail? Does music affect gamers' behaviour? Do purists switch it off while playing or leave it on?

Mike interviews Dr. Pauline Gulliver of the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse about their new release of truly shocking NZ family violence statistics. 41% of a frontline police officer's time is spent responding to family violence. Family violence investigations are at a record high, rising to 118,910 investigations - a jump of 8,784 from the previous year. What can we do as a country, and as individuals, to confront these numbers?

Jasmine's research involves attempting to break the cycle of gestational diabetes in pregnant women and their unborn children. Possibly linked to the pancreas, gestational diabetes involves high blood sugar in the mother effectively resulting in a pre-birth high sugar diet for their child. A child who is then more likely to not only develop type 2 diabetes in later life, but also develop gestational diabetes themselves - passing it on to the next generation.