When we last checked in with Dr Justine Camp (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha), she was in the middle of her PhD, conducting trials, collecting data and refining her whānau health compass. Now her project – which was supervised by Assoc Prof Anne-Marie Jackson...
In her PhD at Brain Research New Zealand, Alehandrea Manuel is looking at how older Māori and whānau experience hearing loss and hearing services in New Zealand.
At Brain Research New Zealand, we invest heavily in the training and support of our early career researchers (ECRs) – our future neuroscience and clinical workforce. Throughout the year, we offer our emerging leaders training, outreach and networking opportunities,...
February 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science – a day established by the United Nations to recognise the critical role women and girls play in science and technology, and to promote full and equal access to and participation in science for women and...
Tell us a little bit about your research, what do you do? I have created a health compass, and I am creating a new sleep programme for babies. How did you get interested in (neuro)science? I really fell into science, because my PhD supervisor is in science....
Tell us a little bit about your research, what do you do? I work with rat models of memory impairment. The lab that I am a part of looks at localised damage to structures within the memory circuit and how that presents behaviourally. My project has been exploring...
Tell us a little bit about your research, what do you do? What do you enjoy most about your work? I am very interested in multi-scale research, examining the effects of disease and treatment from the level of individual connections between brain...
A Brain Research New Zealand funded collaboration - Prof Ruth Empson, Prof Mike Dragunow, Assoc Prof Stephanie Hughes and Dr Andrew Clarkson PhD student Manju Ganesh (University of Otago) recently won the Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith Poster Award at the 2019 Australasian...
Dr Meg Spriggs wasn’t always interested in science. “At school I was very much an arts kid,” she says, “and I dropped science in fifth form.” But during her psychology undergraduate at the University of Otago everything changed. Meg was introduced to EEG...
“When you read my CV, I look a bit nuts,” Justine Camp (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha) says. And indeed, the path that lead her to do a PhD at BRNZ is more diverse than most: Justine has taught te reo Māori since she was 16, studied social work, managed an art gallery...
“I can’t really remember a time that I wasn’t interested in science,” Sophie Mathiesen (Ngāpuhi) says. “My dad has a background in engineering and mum in chemistry, so they were always keen to help with the elaborate projects I designed.” In high school, Sophie...
Chris Heinrich is a PhD candidate based at the University of Otago. With his supervisors, Professor Holger Regenbrecht and Dr Tobias Langlotz, Chris is examining the use of virtual reality to aid stroke rehabilitation. “I’m developing an augmented reality system that...