Compete to cooperate
The first conference I attended as a PhD student was held at a postcard-perfect alpine château up in the Canadian Rockies. The organisers had brought together particle physics, the physics of the very...
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No turning back
What a week! It was nearly two years ago that I sat down with Dion O’Neale to first discuss about the possibility of establishing a Centre of Research Excellence in complex systems over a beer in...
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The 2014 Marsden round
I have been keeping track of the Marsden fund for a few years now over on A Measure of Science at Sciblogs New Zealand. As we wait for the results from the first round in 2015, let’s reflect on last...
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Should the Marsden Fund be restructured?
By Shaun HendyThe MacDiarmid Institute’s Kate McGrath created a bit of a stir on Friday with a blog post that took a critical look at the Marsden Fund’s decision to invite 15% fewer proposals into the...
View ArticleSome thoughts on Going Public
An abridged version of this blog post appeared in the University of Auckland’s Uninews on June 4th 2015.Two years ago, towards the end of my term as President of the New Zealand Association of...
View ArticleJaffe on Marsden Fund
Back in May, after some criticism of the Marsden Fund processes made it into the media, I wrote about Te Pūnaha Matatini investigator Adam Jaffe’s study of the Marsden Fund. Adam presented his...
View ArticleTe Pūnaha Matatini Call for Associate Investigators
Te Pūnaha Matatini – the meeting place of many faces – is a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence that carries out interdisciplinary research into complex systems and networks. We have a particular...
View ArticleScience for Policy: Part I
A good deal of the research we do at Te Pūnaha Matatini is intended to inform government policy. But it is one thing to do the research, and quite another to have that research influence policy. This...
View ArticleTaking a stand for science and society
The world has taken a horrible turn for the worse in the last few weeks. Following a rather bizarre inauguration weekend that featured a running dispute over the size of Trump’s crowd and then the...
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