Friday 14th February is Orientation Day and the Library will have a stall in the Undercroft from 9am – 2:30pm. If you would like to help staff the stall please sign up here K:\LIBR-Library\Operations\Marketing\Events&Promotions\Herea tō waka 2020\Orientation-day-roster

There will be a couple of spot prizes and a competition to guess the number of chocolate hearts in a big glass jar (it’s also Valentine’s Day).

Margaret

With the advent of September it’s officially Spring! It’s also the start of SitLess September – Stand up, Sit Less, Move More.

Sit Less September works in very nicely with the 10,000 Steps Challenge which is running until September 29th.

So let’s combine these two excellent initiatives and demonstrate that we are on the move. In your team meetings take a little time to discuss what to you can do to sit less. Document your activites with a photograph and send it to me.

Take a look at these ideas?

You never know, there may be a SitLess award at the end of the year, but, your true reward will be an improvement in your personal and team well-being.

Kia ora koutou,

If you would like to know how much our students value the work that goes into GradFest and what they get out of it, you might like to have a read of the anecdote below.

Insider’s Guide blog post.

Ngā mihi,

Juliet

Kia ora anō koutou.

FYI from Lisa and the Office of the AVC Māori. Enhancement Theme 2018

Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha is being audited as part of the Cycle 6 academic audit for all New Zealand universities.  Part of this audit includes ‘an enhancement topic agreed by all universities that will address an issue that is both a strategic priority for universities and of national importance’. The enhancement theme topic for Cycle 6 is Access, outcomes and opportunity for Māori students and for Pasifika students.

Sheelagh Matear (AQA) and Fiona Johnson-Bell, (Te Pōkai Tara | Universities NZ), will be at UC on Tuesday 15 May and are keen to meet with colleagues to discuss the enhancement theme topic of Access, outcomes and opportunity for Māori students and for Pasifika students in detail.  Sheelagh and Fiona will be available for korero on Tuesday 15 May 2018.  All Maori and Pasifika staff are very welcome to participate in both korero and kai.

Location: Pasifika Lali room / room 208, upstairs, Te Ao Mārama building

Time: 11.30 am-1.30 pm

Tea, coffee and kai will be available

Please feel free to chat with Sheelagh and Fiona during this time – their biographies are attached.  Please also feel free to share this pānui with postgraduate students who might also like to talk with Sheelagh and Fiona.

Please let me know if you will attend – this will help with arranging catering.

Ngā mihi

Lisa

Lisa Beardsley

PA to Darryn Russell, Te Amokapua Māori | Assistant Vice-Chancellor Māori
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha| Private Bag 4800| Ōtautahi Christchurch 8140
Contacts |cell +64 27 742 7406| phone +64 3 369 3873| ext 93873| email lisa.beardsley@canterbury.ac.nz

www.canterbury.ac.nz | www.canterbury.ac.nz/maoristudents/

http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about/leadership/senior-management-team/avc-maori/

The Library’s ‘Canterbury Roll’ has been receiving some media attention this week as a team of researchers have been doing a scientific investigation of the five metre long manuscript:

There will be a public lecture in Poutama on Friday from 3-4pm  by Professa Haida Liang from Nottingham Trent University “A Holistic Approach to the Non-invasive Scientific Examination of HistoricManuscripts”

Media coverage:

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/secrets-britains-royal-rulers-hidden-in-600-year-old-canterbury-roll

https://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=201862812

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5238735/Hidden-writing-Game-Thrones-scroll-revealed.html