1313,0707,20202020 | COVID-19, Policy Commons Blog
By Collin Tukitonga – Dr Collin Tukuitonga draws on New Zealand’s response to Covid-19 to argue for a designated population health agency An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed major shortcomings in the funding...
1313,0707,20202020 | COVID-19, Policy Commons Blog
By Anne Salmond – Michael Woodhouse still can’t provide evidence of his apocryphal ‘homeless man’ staying for free in quarantine. Dame Anne Salmond argues the Opposition and media need to be better in throwing around such claims. It is now 12...
0606,0707,20202020 | Policy Commons Blog, Policy Pod
Recorded 1 July 2020, University of Auckland. As Aotearoa New Zealand began to control its COVID-19 cases, calls began to grow for the creation of a Pacific—and Trans-Tasman—travel bubble. The general concept would see tourism and other travel to resume between...
0303,0707,20202020 | Events
Thursday 23 July 2020, 19:00 NZST, Online Register here Speakers: Prof. Laura Bear (LSE) Assoc. Prof. Nick Long (LSE) Assoc. Prof. Susanna Trnka (Auckland) Assoc. Prof. Sharyn Davies (Monash) Chaired by: Prof. Alan France (Auckland) On M arch 23 2020, the UK...
3030,0606,20202020 | Policy Commons Blog
Crown options for Māori media have a colonial “feel and smell” to them, writes the University of Auckland’s Dr Claire Charters Are the Government’s Options for Māori Media unconstitutional, contrary to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, international Indigenous peoples’...
3030,0606,20202020 | Policy Commons Blog
How we come out of this crisis will depend on how well we are able to imagine new futures, and turn those visions into reality. In this first part of a two-part series on vision-making, Jess Berentson-Shaw looks at what sets apart an effective vision that can lead to...
3030,0606,20202020 | Policy Commons Blog
After the lockdown, it is now clear to many that “work” has been conceptualised and operationalised in a way that excludes many people and causes avoidable stress. So how do we deconstruct those ideas? asks Jess Berentson-Shaw This week public servants in...
2929,0606,20202020 | Policy Commons Blog
A type of artificial intelligence is being used to research Covid-19, but the experts behind it must consider the social implications of their work – and participation from diverse voices Machine learning is a kind of artificial intelligence where algorithms are...
2929,0606,20202020 | Uncategorised
Parliamentarians and their staff want to use evidence to support their decisions, but they can often feel ‘bombarded’ with the sheer amount of material that is sent their way. Drawing on the findings of a wide ranging study looking at the use of evidence by UK...
2929,0606,20202020 | Policy Commons Blog
Being in lockdown revealed, worsened or even created inequities that we now must address, writes Dr Karen V. Fernandez And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and...
