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Showcasing climate innovation: Cleantech takes the lead in Christchurch

When University of Canterbury Professor Aaron Marshall first heard of the high cost of recycling zinc waste, he didn’t realise…

Modified: 16 Jul 2025, 3:52 pm

Created: 16 Jul 2025, 1:27 pm
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Celebrating Matariki values in our research

Deputy Director Māori, Associate Professor Pauline Harris, explores some of our research that relates to the values of Matariki.

Modified: 15 Jul 2025, 8:49 am

Created: 19 Jun 2025, 6:13 pm
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New horizons for Māori in aerospace - Annual Report 2024

Māori understand voyages into the unknown - with an ancient mastery of astronomy, Māori ancestors charted the vast Pacific.

Modified: 18 Jul 2025, 2:27 am

Created: 14 Jun 2025, 7:29 pm
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Welcome to our Investigators in new roles

We welcome ten new Principal Investigators and ten new Associate Investigators

Modified: 15 Jul 2025, 8:51 am

Created: 2 Apr 2025, 10:15 am
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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. 

Modified: 21 Mar 2025, 8:09 am

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 8:55 pm
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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.

Modified: 30 May 2025, 10:57 am

Created: 10 Jun 2024, 7:39 pm
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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.

Modified: 11 May 2025, 2:19 am

Created: 12 Apr 2024, 11:48 pm
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AMN10 - Annual Report 2023

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

Modified: 5 Jun 2024, 6:30 am

Created: 12 Apr 2024, 9:54 pm
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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.

Modified: 24 Aug 2023, 5:40 pm

Created: 24 Aug 2023, 5:18 pm
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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.

Modified: 19 Apr 2023, 6:33 pm

Created: 18 Apr 2023, 7:41 pm
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Word Clouds - Annual Report 2022

Word clouds drawn from our research plans prepared for TEC.

Modified: 4 Oct 2023, 8:11 pm

Created: 18 Apr 2023, 7:32 pm
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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.

Modified: 18 Apr 2023, 7:01 pm

Created: 14 Apr 2023, 7:24 pm
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