Nicola Gaston

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Dr Nicola Gaston is a professor in the department of physics at The University of Auckland and co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute. She is the author of the BWB text Why Science is Sexist.

Opinion

When downsizing means destroying our universities

When we talk about redundancies like those recently announced at Vic and Otago, we're talking about more than job losses.

By Nicola Gaston | 31st May, 2023

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Opinion

The research sector needs investment now – for the good of our planet and people

The government must stop kicking the can down the road.

By Nicola Gaston | 15th May, 2023

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Climate change commissioner Dr Rod Carr (Getty Images)

Opinion

Do low-value, for-profit tertiary providers really deserve ‘consistent treatment’ from the government?

By Nicola Gaston | 15th June, 2017

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The impersonal is political, too: a report from the frontline of the culture wars

Do we have our priorities right when it comes to the emphasis on economic 'usefulness' of education? Nicola Gaston asks if NZ is in danger of plunging into a culture war of its own.

By Nicola Gaston | 9th February, 2017

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A climate change protest outside Trump Tower in New York in 2016 (Photo: Getty Images)

Why scientists need to go to the barricades against Trump – and for the humanities

Nicola Gaston on the anti-science agenda of the Trump presidency, and why scientists should embrace the arts.

By Nicola Gaston | 31st January, 2017

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Opinion

Helen Clark: running to be UN boss as an accomplished human who is a woman

Believe it or not, it is possible that Helen Clark is both the best option for the job of Secretary General, and that she is an important candidate because she is female

By Nicola Gaston | 20th May, 2016

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The Spinoff

Nicola Gaston

When downsizing means destroying our universities

The research sector needs investment now – for the good of our planet and people

Beware the handbrakes on climate change action

Not-so-modest proposals for Tiwai

2018 was the year I realised that scientists are optimists

Growing up on the DPB: on Metiria Turei, fraud and fear

Do low-value, for-profit tertiary providers really deserve ‘consistent treatment’ from the government?

The impersonal is political, too: a report from the frontline of the culture wars

Why scientists need to go to the barricades against Trump – and for the humanities

Helen Clark: running to be UN boss as an accomplished human who is a woman

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