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Professor Ocean Mercier

Ocean Ripeka Mercier (Ngāti Porou) completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 2002, using optical conductivity to characterise colossal magnetoresistance. During a subsequent postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Sir Paul Callaghan and Dr Mark Hunter, she measured brine diffusion in Antarctic sea ice using Earth's field NMR. Ocean witnessed the birth of the MacDiarmid Institute during this time, and was privileged to give a vote of thanks for Nobel laureate Professor Alan MacDiarmid during his address at Wellington's Town Hall. In Ocean's teaching in Māori studies, she has developed courses in pūtaiao (Māori science), mātauranga taketake (Indigenous knowledge and science) and te taunaha whenua (mapping), contributing to Te Kawa a Māui's Kaitiakitanga major. Her research explores the many social, political and cultural dimensions of science, including intersections of mātauranga Māori and science. 

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Quarterly newsletters

We send newsletters as a quarterly update of what the Institute been up to as well as a way for us to share with you events, and opportunities to stay connected with the MacDiarmid Institute.

Our Alumni Newsletter is a quarterly update of what the Institute been up to as well as a way for us to share with our alumni jobs and events, and opportunities to stay connected with the MacDiarmid Institute whānau.

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Weaving Mātauranga Māori with contemporary science to create sustainable materials for water purification - Annual Report 2023

The structure of harakeke (New Zealand flax) closely mirrors that of polymeric membranes often used in water purification.

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AMN10 - Annual Report 2023

New funding initiatives, biggest ever AMN10 outreach programme and the conference's first ever commercial stream.

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MacDiarmid Institute DiscoveryCamp 2023 Waiata

The MacDiarmid Institute DiscoveryCamp 2023 participants in the Chemical and Process Engineering Labs at University of Canterbury.

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Our research programmes over the years

There has been an evolution to move the focus of applications more towards global challenges of climate change and sustainability.

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Word Clouds - Annual Report 2022

Word clouds drawn from our research plans prepared for TEC.

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Rhodes Trust trip to Oxford

Our Deputy Director Māori Associate Professor Pauline Harris travelled to Oxford in October with Juliet Nelson.

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Discovery Scholarships - Annual Report 2022

We have since 2020 offered our Discovery Scholarship programme for Māori and Pacific Island students in science.

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Whakarewarewa Living Village - Annual Report 2022

Since 2018 we’ve partnered with the Whakarewarewa Village Charitable Trust.

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20 years through a Mātauranga Māori lens

Of all the lenses we could apply to the MacDiarmid Institute’s 20 years, one of the most important to examine is our work in the Mātauranga Māori space.

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The science camp breaking down the barriers for Māori and Pasifika students

Diversity in academia is essential to expanding our knowledge systems and getting better outcomes for communities. Hands-on science programme DiscoveryCamp is helping expose more young people to the possibilities of science.

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