Sciences media directory

• Systematic scientific evaluation of animal welfare
• Conservation Welfare: Welfare impacts associated with wildlife conservation activities
• Breathlessness in animals
• Humane and Gaseous methods of euthanasia
• Humane vertebrate pest control
• Developmental processes, modulation and alleviation of pain in farm animals
• Novel methods for evaluating pain in farm animals

• Sheep production and management
• Managing multiple bearing and rearing ewes
• Hogget (ewe lamb) breeding
• Improving reproductive performance Reproduction
• Lambs and lamb growth, Lamb survival
• Ewe and lamb behaviour, Farmer learning

• Monitoring animal health for trends indicating emerging farm and industry level disease
• Evaluating potential for disease spread among farms
• Modelling impact of national animal health programmes on disease transmission and farm profitability
• Understanding farmers' decisions to participate in herd health improvement schemes
• Developing software to connect academia and industry

• Dairy cow health and welfare
• Lameness and the key endemic diseases of dairy cattle
• Impact of production and the housed environment on cattle health and welfare

• Sheep production and management
• Managing multiple bearing and rearing ewes (twins and triplets)
• Hogget (ewe lamb) breeding
• Use of alternative herbages
• Improving reproductive performance
• Farmer learning

• Veterinary pathology
• Cancer in animals
• Causes of cancer and ways to predict the behaviour of cancer in animals

• Climate change resilience
• Mitigation issues
• IPCC report

• Volcanology
• Volcanic hazards
• Computational modelling
• Geomorphology
• Emergency management
• Māori environmental participation
• Māori natural resource management
• Treaty of Waitangi historical research

• Sustainable building
• Environmental issues in buildings
• Sustainable environment
• Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality
• Energy saving

• Humanitarian
• Resilience
• Sustainability
• Māoritanga
• Virtual Reality
• 3D Scanning

• Construction and Engineering Management
• Construction Productivity
• Construction Procurement and Contracts
• Construction IT and Advanced Technologies applied in Construction
• Construction Project Management
• Decision Making Modelling/Support
• Knowledge Based Systems and Artificial Intelligence

• Climate change and adaptation
• Disaster management, recovery and reconstruction
• Construction industry procurement, innovation and productivity
• Resilience building
• Smart cities
• Construction law

• Artificial intelligence
• Smart environments
• Internet
• Health informatics
• Expert systems
• Decision support systems
• Knowledge representation
• Spatio-temporal reasoning
• Constraint satisfaction

• IT specialist.
• Technology enhanced learning
• Agile software development

• Industrial refrigeration
• Heat pumping
• Energy efficiency
• Food processing
• Sustainability

• Embedded Systems
• Sensor applications
• Robotics

• Nutrient management
• Phosphorus runoff
• Water quality
• Nutrient mitigations
• Freshwater farm planning

Analytical and environmental chemistry in areas including:

• Human and environmental health risk assessment
• Soil, air and water quality
• Environmental monitoring
• Natural resource management
• Applied toxicology
• Management of contaminated sites and chemical emergencies, guideline development, and aspects of forensic chemistry

• Sustainable landscape management
• Environmental management

• Freshwater
• Farm plans
• Interaction of soil and run offs
• Stream and river preservation

• Environmental chemistry,
• Climate change and natural disasters.
• Volcanic hazards
• Air and water quality

• Evolution of NZ birds and animals

• Food microbiology
• Dairy technology
• Rapid microbiologial methods, biofilms
• Molecular techniques for food analysis
• Bacterial spores
• Thermophilic bacteria
• Foodborne pathogens (especially listeria) food processing
• Traceback analysis for pathogen contamination

• Molecular epidemiology
• Genomic epidemiology
• Pathogen genomics
• Food safety
• Risk assessment and the control of infectious diseases

• Food Safety and Food Microbiology
• Industrial and Medical Biofilms
• Mycotoxins and Food Processing methods
• Thermal processing

• Postharvest physiological responses of fruit to storage conditions
• Creation of predictive models for postharvest fruit behaviour
• Shelf-life extensions of novel crops
• Development of new packaging materials for fruit storage and transport
• Mass and heat transfer in controlled temperature transport
• Development of novel sensing techniques to assess food properties

• Sensory Science
• Consumer Sensory Science
• Individual variation in sensory perception
• Impact of context on sensory perception
• Taste and texture processing
• Loss of sense of smell
• Emotional response

• Food pilot general manager
• Manufacturing and commercialisation

• Food Safety and Food Microbiology
• Industrial and Medical Biofilms
• Mycotoxins and Food Processing methods
• Thermal processing

• Pasture agronomy and physiology
• Grazing management
• Dairy farm systems
• International dairy development

• Sheep production and management
• Managing multiple bearing and rearing ewes (twins and triplets)
• Hogget (ewe lamb) breeding
• Use of alternative herbages
• Improving reproductive performance
• Farmer learning

• Governance and governing of New Zealand agriculture in particular sustainable agriculture
• Farmers knowledge cultures and the influence of this on farmers practice
• The role of regional councils and central government in shaping on-farm decisions by farmers
• Agricultural extension and consultancy as a form of governing
• Systems innovation in the primary sectors

• Statistical models for earthquake interaction.
• Inference and computational methods for stochastic processes.
• Reliability and survival analysis, particularly in complex systems.
• Statistical quality control and acceptance sampling methods.
• Stochastic operations research, including simulation and statistical analysis

• Mathematic modelling
• Computational Sciences

• AI and ChatGPT
• Machine learning
• Data science related matters

• Disease ecology
• Epidemiology
• Molecular epidemiology
• Emerging infectious diseases
• Zoonoses
• Public Health
• Wildlife conservation

• Sensory Science
• Consumer Sensory Science
• Individual variation in sensory perception
• Impact of context on sensory perception
• Taste and texture processing
• Loss of sense of smell
• Emotional response

• Testing for Covid-19
• Chemistry

• Community-based development
• Protected area management
• Conservation
• Indigenous Fijian epistemologies and methodologies
• Development
• Indigenous Fijian micropolitics
• Governance and entrepreneurship
• Socio-cultural analyses of waste minimisation
• Informal economies
• Collective memory work
• Pacific islands waste management

• Computer programming
• Human computer interaction

• Gaming and programming
• Computer simulation
• Software

• Maori history
• Tribal history and colonisation
• Māori privilege

• Zoology of penguins
• Sealions
• Antarctic animals
• Birds

• Zoology
• Ecology