2019 Salon Sessions

Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) was proud to host the fifth annual NZ-China Early Childhood Education (ECE) Symposium this week.

A long-running education initiative that has given hundreds of Kiwi teachers the chance to experience life in a Samoan village is now the subject of new research.

Research on how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect hate speech on social media has landed a PhD student a prestigious international scholarship.

Tourists’ irresponsible behaviour around kea, such as feeding the birds, poses a potential threat to the species’ survival, new UC research has found. 

Spend an evening with Canterbury Distinguished Professor Roy Kerr, renowned for his influential work in astrophysics, solving Einstein’s equation of relativity relating to rotating black holes 60 years ago. (These are now called Kerr Black Holes.)

If we want New Zealanders to be better with money, we need to start at home suggests UC Senior Lecturer Steve Agnew on The Conversation.

Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders can recognise more than 1000 te reo Māori words or part-words, but only understand meanings of about 70, a new University of Canterbury study shows.

Misleading research findings in Clinical Psychology can perpetuate social myths and create social inequities, according to UC PhD graduate, Nadia Summers.

Sensitive subjects such as trolling or other difficult topics require a careful approach at all points – from examining your motivation before you begin and setting up support to sharing findings, writes Professor Ekant Veer.